NASTY INSECTS RELEASE "BITE ´TIL THEY BLEED"

 

PRESS RELEASE:

Australian electro-industrial thrash metal band NASTY INSECTS released their debut album "Bite 'Til They Bleed" on September 17th, 2026 through Grindhead Records. The eight-track album will be available digitally, on CD and LP.

Formed in Wollongong in early 2024, NASTY INSECTS quickly began taking their synth-laced thrash across venues throughout the Illawarra and Australia's East Coast. A subsequent tour of New Zealand helped tighten the band's chemistry and fed into the material that became their debut album.

"Bite 'Til They Bleed" combines the attack of 1980s thrash with abrasive electronics, mechanical rhythms and frantic guitars. The band cite Power Trip, Sacred Reich, Metallica, Exodus and The Prodigy among the reference points for their sound.

Lyrically, the album turns towards anxiety, paranoia, depression, trauma and fractured identity. Rather than external monsters, the songs focus on what happens inside the mind, moving through intrusive thoughts, psychological wounds, delusion and a gradually distorted sense of reality.

The album artwork was created by Cal Sinadinovic and follows the same psychological themes, using tangled forms and claustrophobic imagery to reflect the confusion and paranoia running through the record.

Tracklist:

Now Eat

I'm Sick

Depressed

Trauma Dreams

Dead Soul

Not My Ray

Admit It

Adidas

Line-up:

Declan O'Driscoll - Guitars, vocals

Riley Jackson - Bass

Mitch Fanning - Drums

Blake Bartlett - Vocals

Recording info:

Recorded at SLM Studio

Recorded and mixed by Riley Jackson

Drum engineering by Darcy Gervaise

Mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound

Violin on "Adidas" by Amber Newell

Artwork by Cal Sinadinovic

For fans of:

Power Trip, Sacred Reich, The Prodigy, Metallica, Exodus

Links:

Bandcamp: https://nastyinsects.bandcamp.com

Nasty Insects: https://linktr.ee/nastyinsects

Grindhead Records: https://linktr.ee/grindheadrecords