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Split LP

by Burial Rot / Eyeteeth

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition of 200 copies on black vinyl.
    Reverse board print sleeve with artwork by Andy Morgan and lyric insert.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Split LP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited edition DIEHARD SPLATTER vinyl LP + extras
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition of 100 copies on red/black/white splatter vinyl.
    Comes with two of each of the following (one for each band: heavy-duty A4 art prints, screen-printed canvas patches, metallic foiled stickers, metallic badges, lyric insert
    Reverse board print sleeve with artwork by Andy Morgan.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Split LP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

The easiest thing in the world right now - particularly given I'm in a death metal band - would be to release nowt but death metal records. Become a death metal label. I daresay there's merit - and most certainly business sense - in that, but it's never been how I roll. At War With False Noise has been going longer than most of these fly-by-night labels, and will be going when the trend has passed. It might sell less records than most of them, but that's never been my primary concern eh!

So anyway....is this a death metal record? Aye and no. Tangentially. I think it's more interesting than most death metal records. It's safe to just stick some zombies on the cover, write some lyrics about hacked-up bodies, sound like Autopsy. That's not even meant as a swipe at anyone, and I often enjoy that kinda thing. But, like the Penny Coffin record, I want something that's a wee bit different.

Burial Rot from Nottingham have been going for a few years now and I met them playing with them at guitarist Boulty's legendary studio, Stuck On A Name. I'd known Jeremie for years and was struck by what cool guys they were, and with a very similar DIY ethic to myself. I knew we'd be doing something together at some point.

These four tracks represent their first non-demo release and they are - to use some trite vocab - CRUSHING. There's no doubt this is death metal, but it's processed through a lens of punks who absolutely have been listening to sludge, grindcore and crust. The production is ballistic: dense but with a heavy clarity that hits so hard. There are plenty of speedy moments, but there's an underpinning groove and real musical sensibility that makes this one for repeated listens something I struggle with from a lot of modern DM. The energy of the performance of these tunes is just amazing: this is case-in-point of metal played by punks being waaaaaay better than punk played by metal guys!

Eyeteeth play "anti-state straight edge violence". Well, if there was ever a made-up sub-genre tailor-made for me, that's it! I can't express how much love and admiration I have for these guys' attitude, and I feel a total affinity with their mission. Straight edge isn't a kinda elitist clique to them; it represents an attitude of standing against the norm, non-conformity and bloody-minded resilience. They are entirely what I am about on a very personal level.

Musically these are 10 shot, sharp stabs of utterly intense metal-tinged power violence, informed strongly by death and black metal. I hear some Gehenna going on here, definitely some 90s Bremen sound (ACME for sure!), with the fast hardcore of maybe Crossed Out. Lyrically they are something else, screeds of invective packed into the sub-minute blasts. I think they really have to be experienced as a force live, but this recording is the next best thing. As with the Burial Rot side, it packs and absolute fuckin punch. To the face. Repeatedly.

I'm so proud of this release and I hope the death metal crowd have an open enough mind to check both these bands out, cos they're just the fuckin best.

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released March 15, 2024

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