Creator-Destructor Records
On the three year anniversary of the band’s debut LP, “Domestic Extremity”, Southern California’s SCALP have announced a surprise release, “Live Extremity”, featuring 6 tracks from “Domestic Extremity”, re-recorded live at The Pit Studios by Taylor Young.
Guitarist Devan Fuentes states:
“We’ve been playing these songs over the years as our sound has changed. We wanted to revisit them to document how they’ve changed with our new tone and structure for our live sets. Luckily it got to be one of the last few releases at the current location for The Pit in Van Nuys….the same studio we recorded the debut LP. Celebrating the 3rd Anniversary of the release with this live session.”
The release is currently streaming everywhere, and preorders for the 500pc limited 12” LP are now available in our online store.
Recorded and Mixed By Taylor Young at The Pit in September 2023. Mastered by Brad Boatright Art by Jett McLennan
Check out the live video for “Flesh Fed” by 197 Media HERE!
We’re super excited to announce the Partycrasher 10th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition, streaming everywhere now!
Guitarist/Vocalist Trevor Reilly states, “Partycrasher will always be special to us. It’s the first full length that we recorded ourselves and it’s a flagship of our catalog. Just in time for its 10 year birthday, we are proud to have acquired the full rights to the album and given it the full remaster treatment to celebrate and holy mackerel it sounds like a vicious fucking flamethrower now more than ever. We also included two acoustic demos for The Last Laugh and Devil Don’t Know from the writing sessions, and the real gem of the bonus material is the full band song Swallowed The Sea, which we recorded the instrumentals for during the original Partycrasher recording sessions and never finished until now. It’s a nice exclamation point for that chapter of the band’s lineup, and we are stoked to finally let it out into the world today on its ten year birthday. Much love, T”
Preorder the limited 12” vinyl pressing by heading to our store!
A WILHELM SCREAM have announced a bunch of new tour dates to close out an epic year! The band will hit the road for headlining dates in the Northeast and Midwest, as well as three shows in Canada supporting THE FLATLINERS and GOB, and finishing with a hometown show in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Furthermore, the band have previously announced 4 shows out west as part of their ‘California/Colorado World Tour’, which kicks off next Friday in Denver, CO! Check out the dates and info below, and grab your tickets HERE:
11/2 Denver, CO @ The Globe
11/3 San Francisco, CA @ Neck of the Woods
11/4 Los Angeles, CA @ Punk in the Park Fest
11/5 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
If that wasn’t enough, the band has also announced a UK tour in March in support of Hot Water Music from March 22-30! Check out those dates here!
A Wilhelm Scream continue to support their incredible 2022 full-length release, “Lose Your Delusion”, hot off the heels of a successful year and a half of touring. While the first pressing of vinyl has been sold out for a while, the 2nd pressing is available now, so get grab yourself a copy by heading to our online store. Three different color variants, 1000pcs each made.
Oakland, California-based metallic hardcore/thrash outfit DOOMSDAY have announced a blistering new 5 track self-titled EP! Give it a listen HERE!
Preorders have officially launched for the 7″ and cassette in our Online Store HERE. Vinyl will ship in October, and cassettes in mid September. Vinyl is limited to 250pcs, so don’t sleep!
Formed in 2018, DOOMSDAY includes members from different parts of the Bay Area metal and hardcore scene. Drawing influence from the likes of Sepultura, Slayer, Iron Age, Metallica, and Power Trip, the band boasts a triple-guitar threat within their lineup. Following several demos and singles and heavy live attacks throughout the Bay Area and beyond, the band bulldozed into the international spotlight with the 2022 release of their Depictions Of Chaos EP
Doomsday was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios, and completed with artwork by Ridge Rhine. The EP drops three new tracks and a cover of the Metallica classic “Trapped Under Ice” on the digital version.
SNUFFED ON SIGHT debilitatingly brutal LP “Smoke” is out now and streaming everywhere! A cross-label release between Maggot Stomp, Creator-Destructor, and Barbaric Brutality.
Since their 2020 formation, SNUFFED ON SIGHT has polluted the planet with a suffocating array of material both independently and through Barbaric Brutality including demos, singles, EPs, a split with Corpse Pile, and more. The band has wasted no time the past few years in touring around North America multiple times, garnering more and more fans of the band’s intentionally ignorant approach to death metal, slam, and hardcore.
SNUFFED ON SIGHT’s Smoke dispatches eight tracks in fifteen minutes: an extremely dense and crushing experience. Recorded by the band, the album was mixed and mastered by Hunter Young and Brandon Lopez at The Swamp Sound and completed with artwork by Johan Aberg/Cybernoseratu, lettering by Pyst, and photography by Kevin Burleigh.
“Smoke” LPs/CDs ship early next month, get your preorders in HERE!
Creator-Destructor Records and Maggot Stomp unite for our first cross-label co-release, presenting Bay Area brutal death metal/hardcore outfit SNUFFED ON SIGHT, and their impending debut LP, Smoke. The first precursor of the album’s disgustingly violent beatdown, “Time 2 Dip,” is playing through a video premiered today at Slam Worldwide. Check it out HERE!
Since their 2020 formation, SNUFFED ON SIGHT has polluted the planet with a suffocating array of material both independently and through Barbaric Brutality including demos, singles, EPs, a split with Corpse Pile, and more. Smoke dispatches listeners with eight slamming tracks in fifteen minutes; an extremely dense and crushing experience. Recorded by the band, the album was mixed and mastered by Hunter Young and Brandon Lopez at The Swamp Sound and completed with artwork by Johan Aberg/Cybernoseratu, lettering by Pyst, and photography by Kevin Burleigh, who also filmed the “Time 2 Dip” video.
Vocalist Seven Kane states with the “Time 2 Dip” video, “Gutturals and breakdowns for big boys, bad bitches, and TikTok punks to fuck shit up and smoke fat doinks to. Shoutout Dying Fetus.”
Bay Area melodic death metal act DARKNESS EVERYWHERE have released a new stand-alone digital single “The Glow Of Haunted Existence,” streaming everywhere now! Check it out HERE.
DARKNESS EVERYWHERE unites vocalist/guitarist Ben Murray (Light This City, Creator-Destructor Records), guitarist Cameron Stucky (Crepuscle), and renowned producer engineer Zack Ohren on bass. “The Glow Of Haunted Existence” follows the February 2022 release of their debut EP, The Seventh Circle. The new track was recorded by the band’s own Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, in January of 2023, with artwork by Samuel Nelson.
The glory years of early In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity are what largely inform the sound and aesthetic of DARKNESS EVERYWHERE. The core of the band is built on the feel of those legendary records, while offering a refreshing take on the no frills melodic death metal sound akin to the output of modern outfits The Black Dahlia Murder, Darkest Hour, and The Haunted. The band wastes no time in getting to the point of melodic death metal riffing and driving, thrashing tempos.
SPINEBREAKER have announced their upcoming EP
“Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition”, now set for a May 5th release! Listen to the first single “Spectral Forge” HERE.
SPINEBREAKER’s released their crushing debut LP, Ice Grave, in 2016, and in 2019 released a promo tape featuring the single “The Cost Of Innocent Life” as well as a cover of Agnostic Front’s “Power.” The band now returns in 2023 with the monstrous “Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition”, which sees the band leaning heavily into their death metal influences. The record delivers six tracks of absolute violent riffs, pummeling blastbeats, and apocalyptic overtones, recorded, mixed, and mastered by the Evil Wizard Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California (Vastum, Mortuous, Necrot), and completed with logo by Alex Herrera, artwork by Brad Moore, and layout by Rachel Deering
Creator-Destructor Records will issue “Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition” May 5th on LP, CD, Cassette, and digital formats, the first pressing of vinyl limited to 500 copies featuring two color vinyl variants and an embossed cover. Find preorders for all versions HERE
A Wilhelm Scream kicked off a few months of touring last night. The more shows in Canada, followed by two Northeast shows in NJ and their hometown of New Bedford, MA. The band then heads to Australia and New Zealand for a few weeks of dates down under.
The “Lose Your Delusion” world tour rolls on after that with a few weeks of Midwest US dates alongside Anti-Flag and the Bouncing Souls. Plenty more exciting announcements will be unveiled soon, so stay tuned!
A Wilhelm Scream continue to support their incredible 2022 full-length release, hot off the heels of a successful year of touring. While the first pressing of vinyl has been sold out for a while, the 2nd pressing is available now, so get grab yourself a copy by heading to our online store. Three different color variants, 1000pcs each made.
A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-length offering in nine years, finds the band at its most daring, experimental and cohesive. Guitarist Trevor Reilly states, “This is our most unapologetically earnest album to date. It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
Richmond, Virginia’s BLAZING TOMB have joined Creator-Destructor Records! Their absolutely crushing debut self-titled EP is now available on 12” ‘Evergreen w/ Black Splatter” vinyl, with a screen-printed B-side. Head over to our online store to grab one now! This first pressing is limited to 250pcs, with a digital download included.
Fans of Bolt Thrower & Merauder will surely enjoy the massively heavy six tracks that comprise the band’s debut offering. BLAZING TOMB started in 2020, inspired by their favorite 90’s old school death metal bands, the band quickly finalized their lineup as a five-piece in 2021 and recorded their self-titled EP. BLAZING TOMB is currently working on a full-length release, and has plans to tour the country in 2023. If you’re in the Richmond area, catch the band on December 16th @ The Warehouse w/ Killing Pace & Downfall. They’ll have records in hand!
Stream BLAZING TOMB’s Self-Titled EP on Bandcamp HERE.
We’re thrilled to announce the “Depictions Of Chaos” EP, the upcoming release from Oakland’s DOOMSDAY, confirmed for a 11/18 release date!
DOOMSDAY is a crossover/thrash band that draws influence from the likes of Sepultura, Slayer, Iron Age, Metallica, and Power Trip, boasting a triple-guitar threat within their lineup. Formed in 2018, DOOMSDAY has previously released several singles which have been re-recorded for Depictions Of Chaos, as well as the 2022 promo tape Riff City (Slam Records) which featured an Iron Age cover.
The drums and guitars for “Depictions Of Chaos” were tracked and edited by Charles Toshio at The Panda Studios with additional vocals, guitars, and bass tracked at Nu Tone Studios by Marc Etabillo. All tracks were mastered by Zack Ohren at Sharkbite Studios and the EP’s cover art was created by Selena Rodriguez.
Stream the first single “Mask of Sanity” HERE!
Preorders for the Vinyl, CDs, and Merch are now live in our webstore by clicking HERE!
San Francisco-based gore metal outfit CARTILAGE has announced a Fall tour across the Western US, supporting Gruesome with additional support provided by Immortal Bird. The tour begins September 29th in Portland and ends October 15th in Sacramento. Tickets are on sale now!
Whether you call them deathgrind, goregrind, or gore metal, some things are certain: the Bay Area’s CARTILAGE bleeds in blastbeats, rips out gut-twisting riffs, and spews idiomatic viscera with delight. Spawned from original members featuring sibling duo, guitarist/vocalist Ria and vocalist Mark Wallace along with guitarist Michael Flory (Logistic Slaughter) and drummer Adam Houmam (Terrorizer LA), came one that delighted in the flesh-searing death metal that the likes of Impaled and General Surgery claim as their own.
“CARTILAGE also discharge songs that slash like serial killers, convulse in seizures, sear like an acetylene torch, maul like bulldozers, and lurch like zombies (the slow ones, not the fast ones), and as crazed and kaleidoscopic as the songs usually are, they’re cleverly embedded with hook-y melodies. and head-moving grooves.” – No Clean Singing“…the group festers this admiration into punctual death grind. They adore gore-drenched theatrics, which is obvious with song titles like “Mallet Wielding Maniac” and ‘Cellar Full Of Stiffs.’” – Heavy Music Headquarters
“…this is an album that is happy to bask in its own bile. And for added festering fun and freakish frolic of gore, then get yourself on the list for the splatter vinyl release for extra kaleidoscopic horror.” – Metal Forces
If you haven’t yet, you can order “The Deader the Better” LPs/Cassettes/Merch RIGHT HERE.
A Wilhelm Scream aren’t slowing down anytime soon on their “Lose Your Delusion” touring cycle, with the next stop being a European summer tour featuring a handful of festival appearances, some headline club shows, as well as select dates with Descendents, The Bouncing Souls, and The Flatliners! This is sure to be a banger of a tour, so don’t miss the band in your city if you live in Europe – You can get your tickets right HERE.
A Wilhelm Scream continue to support their incredible new full-length release, hot off the heels of a successful month long North American Tour. While the first pressing of vinyl has been sold out for a while, the 2nd pressing is just about ready to ship in a few weeks, so make sure to secure your copy NOW by heading to our online store HERE. Three different color variants, 1000pcs each made. Don’t miss out!
“A body of work that culls from various styles weaved together into what the band appropriately calls “A Wilhelm Sampler,” Lose Your Delusion, A Wilhelm Scream’s first full-length offering in nine years, finds the band at its most daring, experimental and cohesive. Guitarist Trevor Reilly states, “This is our most unapologetically earnest album to date. It’s our fifth full-length record and it feels like our first in that we feel we have so much more to say and energy to put out into the world.”
Stream “Lose Your Delusion” HERE.
Preorders have been going strong for OUTTA POCKET’s crushing debut vinyl release, “Purest Pain / D.E.M.O.” on 7″ vinyl, featuring all six tracks that the band have recorded to date. We made 400 copies of the “Blood Red w/ Black Splatter” version of the 7″ available in North America through our online store, but don’t sleep! These are going very fast, and we’re already under 100 copies from being sold out. Get your copy HERE.
If you’re in Europe or the UK, our friends over at Nuclear Family Records have you covered! 100 copies on “Piss Yellow w/ Black Splatter” vinyl are available through their webstore by clickingHERE!
The Bay Area’s own OUTTA POCKET have been making waves spreading their special brand of beatdown hardcore along the west coast, including an appearance at the Creator-Destructor “2 Nights of Terror” last month. The band have two shows this weekend with labelmates in SUNAMI – Los Angeles at The Midnight Hour on 5/28, and Cupertino at the X Bar on 5/29. If you’re in California, don’t miss out on these. More OUTTA POCKET news soon!
Decibel Magazine is hosting the premiere of “I Skin You,” the latest single from San Francisco gore-grind warriors CARTILAGE and their impending second LP, The Deader The Better – Produced under the watchful eyes of Exhumed’s Matt Harvey, The Deader The Better was recorded by Alejandro Corredor (Pounder, ex-Nausea) in January 2020 at Darker Corners Studio in San Luis Obispo. The album all at once features friends, peers, and gore metal grandmasters Ross Sewage (Impaled, Exhumed), Leon del Muerte (Murder Construct, Terrorizer LA), and Tom Draper (Pounder, ex-Carcass) who all make guest appearances, sharpening CARTILAGE’s hemorrhaging stabs of grind for the masses. The Deader The Better is completed with cover art by Matt Slime, and includes a cover of Impetigo’s “Boneyard.”
With the new premiere of the LP’s “I Skin You,” the CARTILAGE faction collectively offers, “Grit your teeth and hold onto your flesh. ‘I Skin You’ is exactly what the title suggests. You can’t spell ‘degloving’ without ‘loving!’” Decibel writes in part, “‘I Skin You’ delivers all it promises — 2:45 of blast beats, sideways riffs, and horrific descriptions of human depravity.” Listen to the single HERE!
Creator-Destructor will release The Deader The Better on LP – 200 on Doublemint/Purple Swirl, 200 on Bone w/ Blood Red Splatter, and 100 on Mustard w/ Magenta Splatter – as well as cassette and digital formats on May 13th. Preorders HERE!