The Earsplit Compound’s DIY label faction, The Compound Recs., and mailorder sect, Earsplit Distro, have both been incredibly busy in recent months. Enclosed in this communique you’ll be informed on new label releases from DIE CHOKING, CLASSHOLE, GRIDFAILURE, and more, Read More …
[photo by Yannick Grandmont] This week, Break The Clasp, the debut album from LAE — the Montreal-based psychedelic post-hardcore quintet fronted by Steve Austin of Today Is The Day — is finally available in its deluxe double-12″ vinyl format via Read More …
Next week, Philadelphia-based underground music, arts and activism webzine, Blow The Scene, will host its annual benefit show for PAWS — the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society — with a wide array of artists set to perform and a wealth of Read More …
THE EARSPLIT COMPOUND continues to infiltrate the populous with quality non-mainstream music through its three subdivided branches of public propaganda — EARSPLIT PR, THE COMPOUND RECS, and EARSPLIT DISTRO — and here declares the latest actions on behalf of its Read More …
The official debut recordings from Montreal-based LAE are out this week in the form of the collective’s Break The Clasp full-length — a monumentally dejected yet inspiring nearly hour-long psychedelic journey through thirteen dynamic movements — and the entire record Read More …
Since coming together in the fourth quarter of 2013, Earsplit’s label division, THE COMPOUND, has been slaving away with new releases from an array of incredible, hard-working artists within the American underground. Following our first release, with ENABLER‘s Flies CDEP Read More …
The promoters of Tucson, Arizona’s SOUTHWEST TERROR FEST have finalized the massive lineup for the 2014 installment of the event, unveiling an incredible listing of bands that takes this now annual extreme metal gathering up to an entirely new level. Read More …
GODHUNTER‘s City Of Dust, the monolithic debut full-length release from these antagonistic protesters, is now officially out today. A cooperatively released album, City Of Dust is the second title for both Earsplit’s new label, The Compound, and Godhunter’s own Battleground Read More …
Milwaukee’s morose hardcore/punk outfit, ENABLER, and Philly’s activism-driven hardcore d-beaters, COP PROBLEM, have both been added to the opening night of this year’s installment of the massive New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, with a regional run of live dates Read More …
Earsplit’s new label faction, The Compound, today exposes the entire new Flies EP, from Milwaukee’s spiteful sect, ENABLER, the first in an upcoming line of releases from killer underground acts who prefer to skulk in the shadows rather than bathe Read More …