NEQUIENT RELEASE "AVARICE" AND VIDEO FOR "OBSOLETE MACHINES"

 

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Chicago’s politically motivated grindcore faction NEQUIENT has just issued a new video for "Obsolete Machines." The song can be found on the band’s ultra-mangling third LP, Avarice, out now on Nefarious Industries. 

How can artists and musicians respond to an era when jackbooted thugs descend on U.S. cities, tech billionaires blithely deploy technologies calculated to wipe out the livelihoods of millions, and misinformation controls the rage of the masses? For Chicago’s grinding metallic hardcore misfits NEQUIENT, the answer is to get even angrier and weirder. Avarice is the culmination of NEQUIENT having spent more than a decade evolving their unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore in the depths of the aggressive music underground. Honing the adventurous songwriting and lyrical venom exhibited on previous releases, the unrelenting assault of Avarice blasts listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.

Produced by Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Yob, Lair Of The Minotaur) and mastered by Collin Jordan (Harm’s Way, Windhand, Voivod), the album features intricate artwork by Arifullah Ali, design by Scott Shellhamer (American Heritage, Buried At Sea, Coffinworm), and guest synth contributions from Kevin Kalay and Circa Tapes all contribute to an atmosphere of existential horror.

Watch NEQUIENT’s brutally direct "Obsolete Machines" video now playing RIGHT HERE.

The "Obsolete Machines" video infuses live footage from NEQUIENT’s hometown release show for Avarice. The entire set is also now playing HERE.

Avarice is out now on gatefold splatter vinyl LP, cassette, CD, and digital formats at Nefarious Industries where the videos for “Mad King / Fool” and “Christofascist Zombie Brigade” are playing HERE.

Following their Midwest tour with Black Cross Hotel and hometown release show, NEQUIENT is about to hit the road again with shows in Madison and Appleton in Wisconsin June 5th and 6th, followed by their Summer tour, running from July 9th out to the East Coast and back, ending July 18th. See all currently confirmed dates below and watch for additional dates to be added in the days ahead.

NEQUIENT Tour Dates:

6/05/2026 Mickey's Tavern – Madison, WI w/ Corridoré, Garden Scars

6/06/2026 Missfits Tavern – Appleton, WI w/ Corridoré, Drillbit

7/09/2026 Dunlap's Corner Bar – Cleveland, OH w/ Atomic Witch, RST, Casket Splinter

7/10/2026 The Wood Shop – Brooklyn, NY

7/11/2026 TBA

7/12/2026 The Camel – Richmond, VA w/ Sploot, Pyramid Mass

7/13/2026 The Den – Winston-Salem, NC

7/15/2026 27 Club – Asheville, NC w/ Graven Lore, Normal American, Feral Wretch

7/16/2026 Ormsby Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Passing Bell, Terminal Intensity, Leech Forward

7/17/2026 The Hidden Gem – Dayton, OH

7/18/2026 North End Pub – Lafayette, IN

7/25/2026 Reed's Local – Chicago, IL

 

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VERTIGINOUS RELEASE "INCESSANT AFFLICTION"

 

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VERTIGINOUS – INCESSANT AFFLICTION

LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC

RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 7th 2026

Through the long, cold hours of night, in that darkness which seems to stretch into forever, I gaze upon the countless wounds that disfigure my skin; the long, jagged scars, the deep, never healing cuts – infected and pustulent – a tracery of torments unending. And beneath the skin, within the cage of bone and flesh that imprisons me, the voices scream, unceasing howls of rage and hatred, agony and terror, sneering spite and abject ruin. I am a construct of madness, plagued by memory and steeped in blood, haunted and beset by devils. There is no end in sight, no hope for respite from the ravages of horror. I am trapped in this eternal nightmare, this incessant affliction…

Having left the brutal death metal scene battered and broken with their 2024 debut album, Reek Of Putrefaction On Excruciating Lust, Indonesian duo Vertiginous have returned with a sickening second serving of mind warping malice – Incessant Affliction! Ten new tracks delivered with a breathless intensity, each one a fresh wave of dread and terror, another injection of adrenaline straight into the chambers of the heart. It all begins with ‘Suffering, Misery And Slaughtering’, a furious assault of bewildering savagery, monstrous riffs, frantic drumming and a voice from the darkest recesses of the dreams you try to forget, the blistering pace slipping into an agonised crawl through the detritus of death. The superb riffs in tracks like ‘Engraved Loathing’ are realised with surgical precision and the levels of performance from multi-instrumentalist Hendika Dwi Prasetyo are off the scale, as he invokes the sound of a body torn apart. The vocal performance from Jossi Bima is equally impressive, his bestial exhortations like drowning in blood on the deeply unsettling ‘Chaotic In The Weakened Reason’. From the vicious jabs and sick bass tones of ‘Tortured With Endless Despair’ through the violent rampage of ‘Incubated Inquietude’ – shocking in its force and velocity, intensely satisfying in its single minded purpose, its absolute need to destroy absolutely – to the remorseless ‘Unclear Misery’, a final demand for no mercy, no quarter asked or given, just wholesale slaughter to the last gasping breath, Incessant Affliction towers above the average brutal death metal fare. These acts of torture have been meticulously crafted and steeped in the very essence of rot, decay and carnage.

Mixed and mastered at Endless Gruesome Studio, where the likes of Vile Desolation and Analtopsy have spawned their cruel creations, Incessant Affliction has a sound that conjures visions of bodies raked by methodical bursts of machine gun fire, the vicious disassembling of the human form. With its entrails and organs adorned in the unnerving artwork of the renowned Timbul Cahyono, aka Bvllmetalart (Avulsed, Defeated Sanity, Massacre etc), Incessant Affliction will be unleashed upon the world by Comatose Music on August 7th. Vertiginous are coming and there is no place you can hide.

Line-up:

Hendika Dwi Prasetyo – Guitars/Bass/Drums

Jossi Bima – Vocals

Genre: Brutal Death Metal

For fans of: Indecent Excision | Embodied Torment | Disgorge | Gorgasm

Further Information:

https://www.facebook.com/vertiginousbrutal

https://vertiginousbrutal.bandcamp.com

https://www.instagram.com/vertiginousbrutal

https://www.comatosemusic.com/