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Bristol’s Getdown Services have been unleashing acerbic post-punk tunes since 2021. The band is made up of childhood best friends Josh Law and Ben Sadler, and they have two albums under their belt: 2023’s Crisps and 2025’s Crumbs 2. Today they’re sharing a new track called “The Radiator.” “This song is about only picking fights…

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Finnish death-grind provocateurs SEWER ALTAR are set to unleash their debut full-length album, Fever Dreams of Vengeance, on April 24th, 2026.

The first single “Landfill Sky Burial” is now streaming HERE.

Following the critical acclaim of their 2024 demo, the band returns with a record that expands upon their earlier vision, delivering a relentless surge of death-grind sharpened with hardcore intensity.

Fever Dreams of Vengeance is both punishing and playful, balancing ferocious riffs and blastbeats with a sense of dynamism that keeps listeners engaged from start to finish. The album’s compact, high-octane tracks are crafted for impact, combining the brutality of grindcore with the groove and energy of hardcore, creating moments that are as likely to trigger moshing as they are to impress with precision and creativity.

Serrated and tight, yet bursting with infectious hooks, the songs on Fever Dreams of Vengeance are a testament to SEWER ALTAR’s command of their sound. The record thrives on immediacy, offering short, sharp bursts of aggression that translate perfectly to the live stage, where the band’s intensity and charisma can be fully felt. Every track is meticulously arranged to balance chaos and cohesion, ensuring that the listener is swept up in the energy without ever losing clarity or direction.

Lyrically, SEWER ALTAR delves into death metal themes of defilement and horror, intertwining them with the pervasive malaise of sociopolitical inequality. The band reclaims the societal irreverence and paranoia aimed at the lower classes, embracing it as a spiritual totem that guides the album’s dark and uncompromising vision.

Track-list:

01. Landfill Sky Burial
02. Tachanka Drive-by
03. Altar in the Sewers
04. Fencewalkin Cheetah
05. 18 and Death
06. Deadw8
07. Cryonaut Sludge
08. Resilient Like a Disease
09. Outnumbered
10. Slave Driver Smile
11. Writing on the Wall

SEWER ALTAR‘s debut album Fever Dreams of Vengeance will be released this spring on multiple formats: CD via 783Labeland Hecatombe Records, LP via 783Label, Hecatombe Recordsand 7Degrees Records, and tape via Iron Corpse Productions.

Recorded with an emphasis on raw power and clarity, Fever Dreams of Vengeance presents SEWER ALTAR as a band capable of fusing grindcore ferocity with hardcore accessibility, producing music that is punishing yet irresistibly fun. The album marks a bold step forward from the demo, establishing the band as one of Finland’s most exciting new extreme acts and promising to leave an indelible mark on fans of uncompromising underground death-grind.

For fans of: Terrorizer, Bolt Thrower, Weekend Nachos, Spazz

Line-up:

Vermis Animus – Bass, Lead Vocals
Deströyer 161 – Guitars, Vocals
R. Charon – Drums

SEWER ALTAR:

https://seweraltar.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/sewer_altar/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559579033698

7Degrees Records (D):

https://www.7degrees-records.de/

https://www.7degreesrecords.bandcamp.com/

Hecatombe Records (ES):

https://www.instagram.com/hecatombe_records

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063571814325

783 Label (UK);

https://www.783label.com/

https://www.instagram.com/783label/

Iron Corpse (FI):

https://www.ironcorpse.com/

https://ironcorpse.bandcamp.com/

My new book Heaviness in Metal Music was recently released online by Oxford University Press, and the folks at Occidental College’s Center for Research and Scholarship have helped me put together a short video summarizing the book’s main ideas. It’s part of their OxyTalks video series which features professors at the college explaining their research. Check it out below, or at the college’s YouTube channel!

Coming soon—an official book playlist, a book launch event, and a discount code if you want to purchase a physical copy. I’ll post updates here.

Thanks to Jasmine Teran, Laura Paisley, and Sasha Sherman for their help editing the script, filming, and producing the video.

The book was published open-access, which means that the full text can be read online for free through Oxford Academic: https://academic.oup.com/book/62310

The book is also available for pre-order in paperback, hardback, or E-book editions, and it is scheduled to be released April 10—in just a week and a half!

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The Catskills rise like an afterthought of God, blue with distance and old weather, their ridges holding the hush of vanished sermons, folk memory, and dream. In those eerie mountains, Washington Irving found a young nation teaching itself to haunt and be haunted. Later, the area’s numerous artist colonies came for the lush scenery, as well as that sly disturbance the mountains offer: the sense that the visible world is only half the arrangement. In that way, they anticipated surrealist thought, where landscape opens into symbol, omen, and desire, much like the woods that haunted David Lynch’s imagination: beautiful, secretive, and never entirely innocent.

New York City duo of Russ Marshalek and Laura Hajek, aka a place both wonderful and strange, work the seam where darkwave, art damage, dance-floor ache, and film-fed dread rub shoulders in a very cramped elevator. Ten years is long enough for a lot of things to rot, ripen, or get rediscovered in a shoebox. In the case of a place both wonderful and strange and their album Matter and Desire, that long gestation seems to have done something stranger and better: they let the music sit in its own fumes until it came out lean, mean, and a little bug-eyed, like it had spent a decade staring at the flowers on the wall, ‘smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo.’ Perhaps those ancient mountains still have a few tricks up their sleeve, after all.

On their new single It’s Not That Bad, Muffin, they take that sensibility to the hamlet of Catskill, NY, and send it skidding into a bad-day loop, both musically and in their visuals.  The fuzzed out trip-hop instrumental, channeling the heavier offerings of Ladytron, Massive Attack, Portishead, and Björk, moves like somebody trying to keep their chin up while the universe keeps slipping banana peels under their boots…then a mournful sax comes out of nowhere with a siren’s call. You can practically hear fate coughing politely into its sleeve.

The eerie video, made with Lucy Swope and Sean Dack (aka Ghost Cop), shows that any truly rotten day has its own rhythm. It folds in on itself, repeats, and mocks your attempts at dignity. The band takes cues from Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, especially that marvelous ability to make time feel bent, bruised, and paranoid, with a little David Lynch in the air and tossed with a dash of Groundhog Day and the DIY rawness of The Blair Witch Project.  (But who is really the dreamer?)

Watch the video for “It’s Not That Bad, Muffin” below:

The title of a place both wonderful and strange’s Matter and Desire comes from Andreas Weber’s Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology. The band’s own account of the album’s slow formation is one of the best things about the project, because it carries that mix of fatigue, faith, and accidental stubbornness that often leads to records worth keeping: “We kept collecting sounds and lyrics, and at times even full songs, like our version of “I am stretched on your grave”, but there was never a reason, or really a desire, to finish this album,” they say.

Life, friendship, and the rude fact of performance kicked it back into motion. They describe finally hauling the material onstage and feeling it snap alive: “We took the stuff we’d been noodling on for half a decade and mustered up a live performance, and it stunned us how fierce, visceral and vital that show felt.”

Matter and Desire lives in the instant before change. Apocalypse appears in personal, political, and natural forms, and the band treats each one less like a grand abstract theme than a nasty practical problem. One song steps toward the light, the next eyes the ditch again. That back-and-forth gives the album its bite. People alter course only when circumstance corners them, and this record knows it.

After years of side projects, performances, Twin Peaks invocations, and the sort of artistic cross-pollination that tends to keep musicians weird in the healthiest possible way, a place both wonderful and strange have returned with a full-length that feels lived in, singed at the edges, and smart enough to keep a crooked grin on its face. It is a record for the dance floor, the dead-end street, the stalled car, the cracked mirror, and anybody who has ever muttered what the hell now and kept moving anyway.

Matter and Desire comes out April 24th on Re:Mission Entertainment. Order Here

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Jersey season.

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