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FOR PETE'S SAKE "In Faith And Loyalty"

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FOR PETE'S SAKE "In Faith And Loyalty"
12"LP - $9.60
REACT / RXR051v

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OK. Pyramid Sound; Ithaca, NY; Anthrax-SOD-Testament; trying to draw like Pushead; Guav putting out that first Earth Crisis 7"; tattoos and GED's; Ronny James Dio down the road, halfway to Syracuse; late night punk radio on Thursdays; hating Boston for no good reason. All of the things that add up to one particular and specific moment in time, which in hindsight seems like endless good times. Sorta happily skips over the common denominator running straight down the line: life sorta sucked. Fuck your parents. Fuck cops. Fuck your teachers. And on. And on... 

Nostalgia—nostos algos—literally translates as "our pain" which always seems the part the endless reunion show cycle/spirit of 88 seems to ignore. FOR PETE’S SAKE is a sorta magic trick: it sounds like the Hardcore you remember, but (even better) sounds like WHY you listened to Hardcore in the first place. And there's just nothing better than that, even when then there's nothing worse. ‘Cause, God knows (my God; the one with the horns) that's what all the good music does and did, then and now: got you through the worst shit. 

—Banks Violette, visual artist, dna 

Track Listing: 
01. In Faith and Loyalty 
02. Sail Away 
03. This Is War 
04. Deeper Praise 
05. Train of Thought 
06. In Search of The Truth 
07. Why Did We Run Away 
08. This Time 
09. To Die 
10. We'll Change The World

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BRACEWAR "Discography"

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BRACEWAR "Discography"
12"LP - $10.70
SIX FEET UNDER / SFU101v

Richmond's BRACEWAR has been a hardcore mainstay for 10 years now. This contains everything the band has recorded, 30 tracks on one 12". Some of them have been remixed, everything has been remastered. 

Track Listing: 
01. Intro/Friends Like You 
02. Get Sick 
03. A.P.S. 
04. Money Maker 
05. Watch It Burn 
06. Unresolved Issues 
07. In A Rut 
08. Overexposed 
09. Get Sick (remix) 
10. Intro 
11. You're Just A Lie 
12. Afterthought 
13. Empty Promises 
14. On Your Own 
15. One In The Same 
16. No Redemption 
17. Plague Me 
18. Intro 
19. Calling Out 
20.Unresolved Issues 
21.Empty Promises 
22.You're Just A Lie 
23.Where Will You Be 
24.Afterthought 
25.Wake Up 
26.Watch It Burn 
27.Complex 
28.Spirals 
29.Familiarity 
30.The Race

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SUPER UNISON "Auto"

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SUPER UNISON "Auto"
12"LP - $11.00 / CD - $7.00 / CASSETTE - $6.00
DEATHWISH / DW195

**INDIE EXCLUSIVE COLOR STILL AVAILABLE**

Oakland, CA trio Super Unison features Meghan O’Neil Pennie (formerly of PUNCH) on bass and vocals, Justin Renninger (formerly of Snowing) on drums, and Kevin DeFranco on guitar. Formed in 2014, they released a self-titled EP on vinyl and cassette formats soon after. The EP was incredibly well-received and praised by publications far and wide, from Rolling Stone to Brooklyn Vegan. The band toured the western portion of the USA following the EP’s release, which included shows with Shook Ones, Self Defense Family, Coliseum, Dogs on Acid and more. As veterans of the Bay Area scene and beyond, Super Unison have become known for their incendiary live show in their relatively short time as a band thus far. 

Super Unison have partnered with Deathwish to release their new album, “Auto”. The album was recorded at Atomic Garden Studios by Jack Shirley (Oathbreaker, Deafheaven, Loma Prieta). Like their self-titled EP, Super Unison’s latest offering is concise and intense with most frantic songs coming in at the two minute mark. Within “Auto”, Super Unison introduce a wash of discordant melody and texture into the fray. Keeping things fast paced and smartly aggressive at every twist and turn. 

Track Listing: 
01. Prove Yourself 
02. Keeper 
03. Losing You 
04. You Don't Tell Me 
05. Luxury 
06. Time & Distance 
07. Muted 
08. Broken 
09. What Are You Going To Do 
10. Don't Look Up 
11. Everything 
12. Auto

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PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS "Prey"

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PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS "Prey"
12"LP - $10.70 / CASSETTE - $6.00 / CD - $7.00
DEATHWISH / DW193

**INDIE EXCLUSIVE COLOR STILL AVAILABLE**

Planes Mistaken For Stars formed in Peoria, Illinois in 1997, and relocated to Denver Colorado in 1999. From the outset, they were an artistic anomaly; carrying both a worn rust belt heart and a warm midwestern soul. Collectively they combined different kinds of musical rebellion; hardcore aggression, punk energy, and gritty rock n’ roll spirit into their own special noise. Ultimately laying the blueprint for today’s emotional punk rock resurgence.

"Prey" is the long awaited new album from Planes Mistaken For Stars. Produced and engineered by Sanford Parker (Wovenhand, Leviathan, Yob), "Prey" is a beautifully haunting return to form. In need of isolation to finish writing the album, founder Gared O’Donnell took to the road alone. Instead of finding a predictable muse, he found himself driving deep into the crumbling heart of middle America. There, Gared took up residence in decrepit motels, finding inspiration in the descending darkness surrounding him.

Chaotic opener "Dementia Americana" serves as a rude awakening with the lyrical crescendo of "Wake Up!" being shouted over and over again. It's as if the creators are fighting to emerge from the eternal tumble of a nightmare. From there, the next five songs are seemingly instant Planes Mistaken For Stars classics; "Til' It Clicks", "Riot Season", "F*cking Tenderness", "She Who Steps", and "Clean Up Mean". All of them are multi-layered, melodic, and infectious in a way that only they can be. These lead to the touching "Black Rabbit"; a stark acoustic number that shows Gared at his most vulnerable. "Pan In Flames" and "Enemy Blinds" then creep into view. Two powerful songs explore almost apocalyptic musical territory. These usher in the jaw dropping closer "Alabaster Cello" which ends with the lyrical mantra of "Now We Wake...". Signaling that the figurative slumber is over for this off kilter and brilliant cult status band.

Track Listing:

01. Dementia Americana 

02. Til' It Clicks 

03. Riot Season 

04. Fucking Tenderness

05. She Who Steps 

06. Clean Up Mean 

07. Black Rabbit 

08. Pan In Flames 

09. Enemy Blinds 

10. Alabaster Cello

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COLD CAVE "Full Cold Moon"

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COLD CAVE "Full Cold Moon"
12"LP - $8.75
DEATHWISH / DW179v

**REPRESSED ON GREY VINYL**

Cold Cave is the creative rebirth of acclaimed musician and writer Wesley Eisold. Cutting his teeth in underground bands American Nightmare (Give Up The Ghost) and Some Girls, Eisold's body of work has truly effected a generation of listeners. Through constant cross-pollination Eisold has gained mass appeal, influencing underground and popular culture with his ever evolving artistic vision. 

With an already prolific number of releases, Cold Cave has become a name synonymous with the contemporary resurgence of Darkwave and Synth Pop sub-genres. Propelling Cold Cave to perform at world class museums The Getty and the Guggenheim, as well as performances with legends Sonic Youth, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails, among others. 

Deathwish are proud to announce “Full Cold Moon” from Cold Cave, now for the first time on 12”LP vinyl format (a CD collection was released on Eisold’s Heartworm imprint in 2014). 

“Full Cold Moon” is a compilation of EP recordings originally individually released in 2013, now presented as one collection; “A Little Death to Laugh”, “Oceans With No End”, “God Made the World”, “Black Boots”, and “Nausea, the Earth and Me”. Notably this is also the first vinyl appearance of the song “Dandelion” as well as the entire “Nausea, the Earth and Me” EP (previously only available on limited CD and Digital formats). This is Cold Cave at it’s most artistically skeletal, similar to the celebrated “Cremations” and “Love Comes Close” releases. Twelve minimal compositions driven by Eisold’s synth derived hooks, alluring vocals, and compelling character. 

Track Listing: 
01. A Little Death To Laugh 
02. Young Prisoner Dreams of Romance 
03. Tristan Corbiére 
04. Oceans With No End 
05. People Are Poison 
06. God Made the World 
07. Dandelion 
08. Black Boots 
09. Meaningful Life 
10. Nausea, the Earth and Me 
11. Don't Blow Up the Moon 
12. Beaten 1979

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CONCEALED BLADE "Self Titled"
12"LP - $11.70
BEACH IMPEDIMENT / BIR025v

All the way from the city of champions, CONCEALED BLADE follow up their massive 2015 demo with thirteen more tracks of the pummeling hardcore punk that those aligned with the Braddock Hit Factory have been churning out for many moons now; keeping the emphasis on quality over commonplace, riffs over a complete lack of riffs, and really just hardcore over horse shit. This 12" platter is evidence that THE BLADE still ain't for the weak and is just as precise and cutting in the execution of their songs as they've ever been. As a sage like man of wisdom probably once bellowed over a lukewarm bottle of Straubs and a half eaten pizza boat at the Rock Room, "YINZ WANTED DA BEST WELL YINZ GOT DA BEST!" 

Track Listing:  
1. Intro / Marked for Death  
2. Blame Game  
3. Bought and Sold  
4. Euthanize Me 
5. Future Killers  
6. Fuck to Survive  
7. Never Heard  
8. The Cruiser  
9. Active Shooter / Web of Lies 
10. World of Hurt / Social Suicidal 
11. Bend the Steel

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WARTHOG "Self Titled"
7"EP - $5.20
BEACH IMPEDIMENT / BIR024v

NYC hardcore punks WARTHOG return with what could possibly be their best recorded output yet. It's been a couple years since their EP's on Katorga Works and Iron Lung Records were unleashed upon us all and in that time the members of the Hog have perfected their particular formula and have finally delivered four more tracks of pounding hardcore savagery that stands out ten fold from most of the bullshit that fans of the genre are bombarded with on a regular basis. Are you a functioning human in a functioning world? Each record comes in a glue pocket sleeve along with a two color risograph printed insert. 

Track Listing:  
01. Culture?  
02. Functioning World  
03. Tightrope  
04. Coward

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DARK BLUE "Start Of The World"
12"LP - $12.50
ADAGIO / ADAGIO145v

Dark Blue follow up their debut LP, ‘Pure Reality’, with ‘Start Of The World’ (12XU) – a soundtrack of a decaying United States. Each song drips with the realities of atrocities happening all around us ; John Sharkey III (Vocals, Guitar) pushes Dark Blue far beyond the post-punk meets oi sound they perfected on their earlier releases, and adds elements of brit-pop and shoegaze. Recorded by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, Nothing), ‘Start Of The World’ is a pop album that makes no apologies. 

Boot stomping opener “Union of Buffoons,” sets the political tone for this album with an anthem for workers’ rights. Sharkey’s biting lyrics: “You can’t fight this, you can’t win…screw you once, they’ll screw you twice,” is a reference to human expendability in the face of deregulation and the stagnancy of labor rights. “Never Wanted to Hurt You” is a pop song in the highest order with guts and an undeniable chorus that would make Noel Gallagher jealous even at his most jaded. 

The 50′s doo-woop and surf rock sound of “Bombs on the Beach” initially feels like a left turn for the band, evoking a playful innocence against a sunny backdrop. But the lyrics prove this is truly a Dark Blue song, tearing through any cheerfulness as jarring and abrupt as words can be to describe the reality of dropping missiles on a beach of unsuspecting Palestinian children. Sharkey’s voice is heavy with the despair of survivor’s guilt: “Now I’m holding my baby’s hand, as he lies bleeding to death in the sand.” This is another pointed song full of sentiment as much as it is an impassioned call for accountability for the crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. 

While this album shows off new and varying degrees of Sharkey’s vocal intensity, Andrew Mackie Nelson (Bass, Ceremony) and Michael Sneeringer (Drums, Strand of Oaks) shine, guiding the songs in ways other releases haven’t shown before . Tracks such as “Be Gone Everyone” and “Western Front” underscore just how comfortable the band has gotten. 

‘Start Of The World’ is the kind of record that Dark Blue has always promised: a collection of smart, fully realized songs that tell real stories. With the world falling apart around us, Dark Blue continues to give voice to neglected perspectives, many unnerving but all necessary to hear. We need a defiant record like this to remind us that just as there was start to all of this destruction, there can also be an end. 

Track Listing:  
01. Union Of Buffoons  
02. Be Gone Everyone  
03. I Never Wanted To Hurt You 
04. Paralyzed By Fear  
05. You Know Who  
06. Bombs On The Beach  
07. Tired Of The Poor  
08. Western Front Academy

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RUINED FAMILIES "Education"
12"LP - $12.50
ADAGIO / ADAGIO141v

Formed in 2010, Ruined Families is a hardcore punk band based in Athens, Greece. Following two acclaimed LPs and a 7", their new release is called 'Education' and features 10 songs spanning just over 17 minutes. Drawing elements from their previous work, 'Education' touches on 90s screamo, fast hardcore and post-punk. 

Unavoidably marked by the lasting turbulence of the Greek condition, Ruined Families attempt to make the most out of a precarious present by putting frustration into words that speak the mind of contemporary youth. 

Likely to appeal to fans of: Union of Uranus, Reversal of Man, Sonic Youth. 

Track Listing:  
01. The Future of Electronic Music  
02. Image of an Image  
03. Naked Life  
04. Underground Resistance  
05. Demolition  
06. Rothko  
07. Use Your Hands  
08. whole car  
09. Meta Anthem  
10. We Want Everything

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WOE "A Spell For The Death Of Man"
12"LP - $12.50
VENDETTA / VENDETTA123v

"The realization strikes quickly; A Spell For The Death of Man is an atypical force. The haunting, oddly naked guitar that opens the record--perfectly painted in the "Solitude" referenced in the track's title-- is stark. Desolate. Profound, even. Mostly, it's real. A single guitar. Two minutes of truth or consequences. That's all that Woe needs to bury the seed. 
The seed grows. That solitary guitar morphs into a fiery wall of blasting and trem--nothing special--but halfway in, man...the violent revolution begins. Woe's manipulator, Xos, breaks the song open, driving it into a storm of dust with thick riffage and insane drumming. This is full-on, fuck-you hitting, turning the tide into a headbanging, jawbreaking tsunami of blackness. A Spell... is absolutely massive, wreaking havoc in a manner that few (if any) USBM bands have previous. 

Thrusting mightly, like a craggy Nightside Eclipse encrusted in crumbling punk nihilism, this album rarely relents. As the work of a single man, A Spell... is a nearly-obsessive vision of destruction (as well as its cathartic wake), but is devoid of theatrics and posturing. Xos' screams of vitriol fully embace the human/animal primalism that condemns our very existence, and his command of the riff is as organic as it is supreme. The ballsy, blackpunk sneer that climaxes "Longing Is All That Will Remain" (the album's true landmark) again spews nothing but honesty, albeit through mouthfuls of strained sinew and shards of bone. The nonstop venom that volcanoes from the core of "I See No Civilization" is of unmatched potency, instigating volume cranks and neck fractures with ease. 

Woe takes the "depressive" tag that has been glued to Stateside blackness for the past few years and turns its head on an axis. Forcefully. While the deliberate torture of the closing track,"Memento Mori," sludges things up (down), it sounds almost anti-climactic when stacked against the rest of this white-hot tome. By comparision, however, so do the wares of those scrambling for the vacant USBM throne. Woe does not scramble; Woe lays stake. A Spell For The Death of Man is easily 2008's most criminally overlooked album, and is quite simply the most important black metal release in years--not by virtue of perfection, but of relevance. 
A new dawn is upon us. Adjust accordingly." yourlastrites 

Track Listing:  
01. Solitude  
02. Alone with our failures  
03. Longing is all that will remain  
04. Condemned as prey  
05. I see no civilization  
06. Wake in mourning  
07. Memento mori

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