Massa Nera "The Emptiness of All Things"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 10/31/25
CAT#: VIS028
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Our present moment sees us grappling with the rise of end-times fascism, the annihilation of collective, shared meaning, and the looming threat of climate catastrophe. It is within this landscape that Massa Nera release their urgent, genre-defying 3rd LP, "The Emptiness of All Things."

Having been given a commission by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music to create a work that addresses the climate crisis, Massa Nera embraced experimentation, confrontation, and musical malfeasance in an attempt to capture the hellish inanity that defines our reality. Where once their songs bounced, they now alternately lumber and convulse. Their former impulse towards dance has mutated into a desire for destruction.

Lyrically, Massa Nera has shunned autobiography in favor of something more character-driven, more literary, more speculative. They offer a snapshot of capitalistic delusion and existential paralysis, rooted in the anxieties and fractured psychologies of the here and now. In short, "The Emptiness of All Things" is a lyrical call to arms, delivered not as a rallying cry but as an obituary. It is a mirror held up to the abyss, reflected back at the listener without pity or mawkish sentiment.

Despite this, the band has not abandoned melody. The predominant mood of ugliness is counterbalanced by passages of beauty, longing, and even undisguised gentleness. This gentleness, however, is not in service of an unearned, misplaced optimism. It is offered in the spirit of reflection, allowing listener and band alike to take a breath as they stare into the void.

"The Emptiness of All Things" was recorded and mixed by Matt Michael (No Man, Majority Rule) and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate). The LP comes packaged in a gatefold jacket with newsprint poster insert and limited colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. A Body
02. Pelerin
03. Avalon Cove
04. The Best is Over
05. Mechanical Sunrise
06. City of Mines
07. Lavender
08. Death Shall Flee From Them
09. The Emptiness of All Things
10. New Animism

MARKETING POINTS:

• New genre bending album from New Jersey experimental screamo / post-hardcore collective, MASSA NERA.
• Past releases include their split 12" with Quiet Fear, the Secret Voice compilation "Balladeers Redefined", and 2022 album "Derramar | Querer | Borrar".
• Recorded and mixed by Matt Michael (No Man, Majority Rule) and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate).
• Touring history with Pageninetynine, City of Caterpillar, Infant Island and others.

FOR FANS OF:
Frail Body, Converge, Jeromes Dream, Pg.99

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Deaf Club "Contemporary Sickness (2025 Reissue)"

7" EP - $8.75
STREET DATE: 10/31/25
CAT#: 31G107
LABEL: Three One G

Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channeling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace and sharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort of nasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos. Fueled by the onslaught of society’s insanity and driven mad by tinnitus, Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross, Planet B), Brian Amalfitano (ACxDC), Scott Osment (Weak Flesh), and Jason Klein (Run With The Hunted) approach music as an opportunity to confront our collective sicknesses. We’ve got to try to listen, lest we all frolic headfirst towards the bright side of death, dragging this pillaged planet down with us. So whether you think the music is a radical disruption to the airwaves or just headache-inducing noise, you can feel free to tell them the brutal truth-- they can't hear you anyway.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Boyfriends of Christ
02. Bright Side of Death
03. Lofi Mono Tombstone
04. Bounced Reality Check
05. Days Of Amusement Are Over

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Some Girls, Swing Kids

Marketing Points:

• Double sided printed vinyl (Music only on one side)

Spiritiste "Excommunication Hymns"

LP - $15.95
STREET DATE: 10/31/25
CAT#: PRO-106
LABEL: Protagonist Music

From Louisiana’s capital city of Baton Rouge come Spiritiste, an occult-influenced emotional hardcore band. Spiritiste's politically charged debut album, Excommunication Hymns, is a rage-filled effort that rallies against religious and political oppression, and reflects on the emotional trauma of trying to survive in the current fetid political climate/environment. Still, across these ten very expressive, cathartic tracks, the band does ultimately retain hope for a better world.

Sonically, Spiritiste have crafted a fresh, but identifiable, sound with dynamics that shift between steady and composed to chaotic sonic bedlam. Spiritiste draw upon core influences that include '90s hardcore bands like Shotmaker and Portraits of Past, but also salute noise rock mainstays Jesus Lizard and Chat Pile, and contemporary screamo acts like State Faults, Habak, and Frail Body.

Recorded and produced by Matt Bear, and mastered by Alan Douches, Excommunication Hymns presents a fully realized vision out-of-the-gate and establishes a musical call-to-arms for those marginalized and traumatized by a deeply rooted authoritarian culture.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Tumor
02. Sympathetic Resonance
03. Now I Am Become...
04. The Dead Travel Fast
05. Children of Kali
06. Transagion Prayer
07. Samsara Would Be Easier
08. Throwing Stones
09. In Memory of the Occultural Engineers
10. A Sheep's Last Defense

MARKETING POINTS:

• Packaged in matte board covers with silver embossed lettering.
• Members of With Arms Still Empty, Heavy Mantle, Shipwrecked, Hey Thanks!

FOR FANS OF:
Saetia, Portraits of Past, Habak, Shotmaker, Frail Body

Believe in Nothing "Rot"

LP - $20.65 / CD - $12.00
STREET DATE: 10/31/25
CAT#: CRR254
LABEL: Church Road

Due for release on 31st October 2025 via Church Road Records, Rot is Believe In Nothing’s full-length debut and the culmination of their bleak creative vision. It chisels into granite their counter-intuitive approach to heaviness: equal parts chaos and control, volume and restraint, with layered textures collapsing under their own weight. Where earlier singles hinted at suffocating tension, Rot dives headlong into the abyss, using pressure, space, and psychological decay to conjure a world that feels like it’s been burning for years. The title track, “Rot”, already a staple in their live set, appears at the end of shows for a reason: a final, devastating statement that refuses to comfort. A cracked mirror held up to the slow, grinding death of the familiar which leaves no closure, only aftermath.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Complete Desolation
02. What Would You Do?
03. Fist Full of Worms
04. Gut
05. Meth
06. Boiling Stone
07. Deserts Are Glass
08. The Children Are Cattle
09. Rot

FOR FANS OF:
Chat Pile, Full of Hell, Primative Man, Eyehategod, Thou

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