Saint Louis, Missouri-based crossover bandits, CROSS EXAMINATION, have completed the next chapter in their lethal, party-down lineage, and are ready to blast you in the face with their Dawn Of The Dude EP.

Having founded a brutalizing, high-octane thrash/hardcore crossover sound derived of the masters, Cryptic Slaughter, Destruction, Nuclear Assault, Excel, D.R.I. and the like, through a pile of recorded output and face-erasing touring/partying since their 2004 inception, CROSS EXAMINATION produces shredding metal of the highest caliber, right in line with contemporary kingpins Ramming Speed, SSS and Power Trip. In their first four years together, the squad wasted the masses with a plethora of auditory evidence, including their initial demo, a split with Spring Break!, their raging 2006 The Hung Jury EP and their 2008 debut full-length, Menace II Sobriety, the latter two titles via Chicago-based Organized Crime Records.

In this putrid Summer of 2014, Organized Crime will close the six-year gap in releases with CROSS EXAMINATION’s first new output since their LP, with possibly their most scathing, grey-matter-reducing sonic beating yet, with the Dawn Of The Dude EP. The seven new tracks contained on this newly-completed beastkiller barely tops thirteen lucky minutes of mayhem, yet still pack more balls and bong-rips than virtually any comparable contemporary groups. Your brains will simply leak from your blown-open ear canals as you bang your head’s filler into fluid to the perpetually rabid beats, the material featuring even more rasping, schizoid/hyper vocals and a pummeling crusty edge with more of an edge of West Coast crushers like Spazz, Infest and Capitalist Casualties molesting their gnat’s-ass-tight thrash velocity. Poseurs steer fucking clear.

Dawn Of The Dude is out now on 7” vinyl and digital download via Chicago-based Organized Crime Records.

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CROSS EXAMINATION "The Dawn of the Dude"

In this interview recorded in Nashville TN on July 10, 2015, we talk with L. Ben Falgoust from the American blackened death metal band Goatwhore.  Ben gives insight into what the band has been up to since the 2014 release of 'Constricting Rage Of The Merciless', their current tour with Ringworm, Black Breath, and Theories, as well as their plans for the future.  Credits: Excerpts from the song 'In Deathless Tradition'(Blood For The Master, 2012) from fan-filmed footage performed live by Goatwhore.

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Ben Falgoust of Goatwhore (07-10-2015) Interview

The Compound Recs, in conjunction with Terror Cult Records, is very pleased to unveil the debut release from New Orleans-based hardcore punk collective CLASSHOLE.

Featuring a varied cast of miscreants hailing from such acts as Eyehategod, Hawg Jaw, Outlaw Order, The Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight, Mountain Of Wizard, Mangina, Tire Fire, haarp and more, CLASSHOLE will unleash their self-titled full-length next month, just in time to ruin the New Year.

Leaving poetics to the wayside, CLASSHOLE spews forth a corrosive blast of combative angst with every enraged second of the production. The band’s venomous output is the product of its surroundings in more ways than one. The riotous ways of the members’ collective output and the bustling, diverse New Orleans metal underworld being fueled by societal corruption on every level makes for fifteen mutinous tracks of filthy hardcore punk revolt.

Already released in a limited vinyl run as the maiden release for the band’s own Terror Cult Records, Classhole will now see a full-on CD release through The Compound Recs., with a four-panel digipak version featuring an alternate layout and a lyric liner, and bonus video of the band performing five vicious tunes from the record live in NOLA.

Classhole will be officially unveiled on January 1st, 2016.

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CLASSHOLE "Whole Lot Of Nothing"

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"Woodlands Of Self-Impalement" is from GRIDFAILURE's Further Layers Of Societal Collapse EP set for free digital release via Bandcamp and Soundcloud 10/30/2016

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GRIDFAILURE "Woodlands Of Self-Impalement"

Hold you to the fire is a song about betrayal and retribution.

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Nightmare Logic has taken Power Trip’s classic Exodus-meets-Cro-Mags sound to new places. With hooks and tightness rivaling greats like Pantera or Pentagram and production by the esteemed Arthur Rizk, Nightmare Logic punishes fans not only sonically but with pure songwriting skill. The sophomore release and second on Southern Lord Records, raises the bar and pushes Power Trip to new extremes. 

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Goatwhore "Vengeful Ascension" from the album "Vengeful Ascension"

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Goatwhore "Vengeful Ascension"

Jimmy Cabbs interviews Mike IX Williams of Eyehategod!

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