standard silkscreened single-sided black vinyl inside a matte laminated sleeve with black flood inside the pocket, matte xeroxed insert, and download card.
SRUIN210
East Coast raw death metal/punk savages Kontusion finally release their pulverizing debut self-tiled demo on vinyl, CD and cassette (reissue) via Sentient Ruin, in the wake of its original 2022 self-release on tape and digital formats. Upon release the four-track, seventeen-minute slab of necrotized terror saw the duo of drummer Chris Moore (Repulsion, Coke Bust) and of vocalist, guitarist and bassist Mark Bronzino (ANS, Mammoth Grinder) revel into a gore-splattered, chaos-torn disfiguration of lo-fi, blown out primitive death metal and punk-infused carnage reminiscent of (and influenced by) 80's and 90's bands like Terrorizer, Napalm Death, Discharge, and Convulse. The four skull-crushing tracks see Kontusion regress to a state of demented, feral abandon, incorporating influences from raw punk and hardcore to deconstruct death metal and reduce it to a mangled and scattered pulp reeking of terror and shrouded in destruction.
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released September 29, 2023
KONTUSION is:
Mark Bronzino - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Chris Moore - Drums, Synth
All songs written and performed by KONTUSION
Recorded and mixed at Volume IV Studios in New Brunswick, NJ
Additional Tracking done at Damaged City Studios in Washington, DC
Mastered by Nick Townsend at Townsend Mastering
Cover art by Matt Plunkett
Logo by Rio Oka
Layout by Logan Neubauten