⋘The 6th release from New York's NERVE ALTAR RECORDS features Buffalo's WATER TORTURE teaming up with Australia's thedowngoing to provide 18 tracks of harsh powerviolence and grindcore, released to coincide with the WATER TORTURE/THEDOWNGOING North American Tour of 2012.

Printed covers with a screened obi strip, pressed on Black Vinyl.
Ltd 500. Available now through Bandcamp; grab one before they're gone!

ALBUM REVIEW (from GRIND & PUNISHMENT):

"If I had my shit together (I know, I know; just pretend, ok?), somebody would have gotten bumped from my best splits of 2012 list because this violent and violenter pairing towers over the landscape like a classic Godzilla/King Ghidorah smackdown. No matter who wins, Tokyo's ass is getting leveled. Water Torture and thedowngoing are two bands at the peak of their abilities arbitrarily laying waste to the landscape.

If you haven't jumped on the Water Torture bandwagon yet (and seriously, what more does VII need to do to get your attention?), this is a perfect entry point because the bass/drum neo-violence duo have never been tighter or more abrasive. This is a bad mood, morning after hangover, waking up with your skanky ex kind of bummer trip, drool faced, red eyed and pissed off at the world. The secret to Water Torture's downtrodden groove is their blend of Iron Lung stumble getting electro shocked to the balls courtesy of The Endless Blockade.

It's a devastating, thoroughly modern combination that nods to masters old and new while still leaving its own indelible mark.
Flipside, Aussie dervishes thedowngoing play a cold eyed game of chicken, piling all seven of their songs into a single, unrelenting five minute track. There is no off ramp, no exit and they dare you to blink.

Musically, the duo are picking right up from where the awesome ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS and their contribution to Monomaniac left off. In Water Torture, thedowngoing have finally found a band that can match their auditory killing spree. These are two of the most hostile, abrasive and uncompromising bands working today and each need only two members to drown out every other band that fancies themselves extreme. So yeah, I was too slow to get this one lined up for 2012, but 2013 isn't so old that we can't fondly look back one more time before we step forward."

grindandpunishment.blogspot.com/2013/01/g-review-water-torturethedowngoing.html

...if that doesn't make you want to hear the whole thing, nothing can!⋙

◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ BAND BIOGRAPHY & INFORMATION ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊

"...very few bands earn adjectives like 'brutal' and 'violent' and 'unrelenting' the way this band does. There are only a handful of bands working right now that deserve to be mentioned in conjunction with what thedowngoing are bringing to the table."
- Grind & Punishment

"...a must for fans of truly insane experimental grindcore."
- Hipness as a Second Language

"This music is the soundtrack to ear rape, and bath salt induced face eating"
- Operation Grindcore

"Its a serpentine orgy of grind, noise and bedlam that gives no quarter, only pure unadulterated, unrelenting and unforgiving aural punishment in the most iron fisted manner conceivable. It is the very definition of musical sado-masochism..."
- Grind to Death

"...an unadulterated wall of high craze all-abrasive Noise Grind that knows no equal..."
- Undergrind


...thedowngoing are a two-piece chaotic, spastic grindcore act hailing from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2008 by Mathias Huxley ("throats, strings, samples") & Muzz ('blasts"), the duo has taken the extreme metal world by storm with their relentless brand of sheer brutality and chaos. Their music is, honestly speaking, otherworldly at times - to the point where even many fans of crazy grind/death metal/etc. may find the output of these lunatics a bit too much to handle.

Alas, thedowngoing is the type of band who a person either immediately falls in love with or is instantly repelled from; either way, it's inarguable their sound makes a very fucking LOUD statement - and neither of these dudes would have it any other way.


DISCOGRAPHY:

9-Track Demo (2009)
I Am Become (2010)
Untitled EP (2011)
ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS (2012)
MONOMANIAC 7" COMP by Blastbeat Prod. (2012)
thedowngoing/Water Torture Split (2012/2013)


BAND CONTACT INFO: thedowngoing@gmail.com