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Seems a shame to think there are uncontacted tribespeople, isolated and deep in the equatorial rainforests who will never hear this masterpiece. Hopefully they will at least cannibalise a missionary who has heard it. Doing so will certainly give them unrivalled spiritual powers. Wasted Death - an incurable disease worthy of spreading.
Favorite track: Stratofortress.
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Strictly limited edition of 100. Wasted Death's Season of Evil on 140gsm yellow vinyl in spined sleeve with printed insert, cello-wrapped.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Strictly limited edition of 100 vinyl. Wasted Death's Season of Evil on 140gsm yellow vinyl in spined sleeve with printed insert, cello-wrapped. Plus Wasted Death's Season Of Evil tee, with pink print on black heavy cotton t-shirt.
** Non-UK buyers: as this is a limited edition item, the vinyl will be shipped with tracking, hence shipping charges. If you would like your LP sent using cheaper standard non-tracked shipping, at your own risk, please email info@apfrecords.co.uk before placing your order. **
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Brace yourselves, metalheads, as Wasted Death unleash their sonic onslaught upon the world with their full-length debut album, "Season Of Evil".
Infused with horror, and with zombies everywhere eating into your brain through sledgehammer rifferama, Wasted Death bring their influences ranging from thrash and grindcore to hardcore punk and d-beat metal into an album which redefines what it means to be heavy in 2024.
Comprising the formidable lineup of Charlie Davis (Beggar) on bass and vocals, Wayne Adams (Big Lad and Petbrick (with Igor Cavalera) on guitar, and Tom Brewins (USA Nails) on drums, Wasted Death embodies the very essence of raw, visceral, and gleeful celebration. Their music pays homage to the raw punk-inspired, down-and-dirty metal sound of their influences, including legendary acts like Converge, Sepultura, Motorhead, Melvins, Extreme Noise Terror, and High On Fire.
Drummer Tom Brewins plays like a crazed east London Dave Lombardo; bassist and vocalist Charlie Davis spews an uncontrollable amount of bile at only the slightest provocation; guitarist Wayne Adams clings on for the ride like a pissed-up equestrian with one foot stuck in the saddle of a bolting horse. The trio’s sound ranges from blasting grind to manic thrash to frosty grimness, and whether the influence is Terrorizer, Municipal Waste or Slayer, listeners are going to feel the full weight of the Wasted Death sceptic tank crushing their skulls.
Fans got a tantalizing glimpse into the madness that awaited with the release of the first single, "Stratofortress," on February 2nd, 2024. "Stratofortress is your first taste of Wasted Death’s debut album and it is a straight-up anti-war thrash galloper”, says Charlie Davis. “We wrote this song in disgust at today’s war-mongering dog-whistlers pushing their nostalgia for an old black-and-white world order built on bloodshed, power and greed. Musically this one is all about the golden era of Sepultura with its dotted-rhythm chugging before a guest dive-bomb from Green Lung’s Scott Black signals a switch to some NOLA-style groove thuggery.”
"Season Of Evil" is a groundbreaking addition to the heavy metal landscape. With an unrelenting drive to push musical boundaries and explore dark, often rancid themes, Wasted Death invites fans on a sonic journey that will leave them breathless and yearning for more.
“This record sounds like the undead”, says Charlie. “There’s zombies everywhere: zombies pouring in your window, zombies on your social media feed, zombies shuffling past you on their way to work. They’re a symbol of our mindlessness, our flattened affects, our brain-dead listlessness. They’re lurching towards you, hungry for a taste of brain, and the slightest contact can turn you into one of them. It’s not a coincidence that the zombie is so ubiquitous in pop culture given its apathy, its empty-eyed violence, its contagion; it’s a version of ourselves stripped down to the basest impulses. The greatest horror is that we recognise ourselves in it. Plus all its guts are spilling out unmanageably and it doesn’t smell great.”
Season of Evil is the sound of the trio giving it some proper welly. Tom Brewins is straight out of the gate with some of the fastest and most brutal drumming he’s ever committed to tape. Charlie Davis barks and shrieks with all the urgency of man fleeing a horde of undead and all the despondency of a man that knows he doesn’t have long before he turns into one of them. Wayne Adams is responsible not only for his trademark ‘Poundland Dimebag Darrell’ guitar manoeuvres but has also given the record its jaw-dropping production, including its churning modular synth interludes. Not even the guest guitar spots from Green Lung’s Scott Black, with his virtuoso solo on ‘Wasted Death by Wasted Death’, can make this album less stomach-upsetting. Welcome to the Season of Evil.
credits
released March 15, 2024
Wayne Adams - guitars
Tom Brewins - drums
Charlie Davis - vocals and bass
Scott Black - shredding and dive bombs
Additional vocals on Wasted Death By Wasted Death by USA Nails, Sophia Petit and Irene Lydon
Recorded and mixed at Bear Bites Horse by Wayne Adams and Wasted Death
Artwork by James Wilson
Wasted Death logo by Tom Lacey
CD layout by Dominic Sohor
