⋘"Used Food" is from the pending sophomore full length by HIVESMASHER, entitled "Gutter Choir" (Black Market Activities; 2012), their first album since the debut "Ascension Into Dismal Stages" was released in 2008. The track also features vocalist Jake Burns of Pathogenic. Pre-order packages are now available through Indie Merch; links to said pre-orders available in the section below. The album will see an October 23 street date. Some additional details follow:

From Massachusetts, Hivesmasher represent "a giant middle finger waved in the world's general direction", in the band's own words. An all-out destructive force, rooted in grindcore but freely veering off into hardcore, death metal, or thrash at will, Hivesmasher proudly revel in a distinctly "New England" brand of bad vibes. Over hyper-rhythmic, fifth-gear bursts of aggression, frontman Aaron Heinold spits pure, hysterical disgust in humanity's eye. (One of the most visible, hardworking bands in the Northeast today, Hivesmasher are, despite their misanthropy, proof that the altruistic DIY ethic is alive and well in the underground!)

A true-to-life depiction of Hivesmasher's technical yet raw sound, the band's second album (and BMA debut) Gutter Choir was recorded entirely in "living rooms, closets, and basements" and is devoid of studio trickery. The album was engineered by Eric Braunschweiger and Hivesmasher guitarist Tyler Kingsland, mixed by Braunschweiger, and mastered by Brian Redmond. The album contains guest vocals from The Red Chord frontman and Black Market Activities boss Guy Kozowyk, as well as Fit for an Autopsy/Premonitions of War vocalist Nate Johnson and others.

For fans of: Pig Destroyer, Rotten Sound, Trap Them

Lineup:
Aaron Heinold - vocals
Tyler Kingsland - guitar
Julius Hayden - guitar
Ali Ghorashi - bass
Tim Brault - drums
Dan Bolton - keys

Guests:
Guy Kozowyk (The Red Chord) - vocals on "Can of Awesometism"
Nate Johnson (Fit for an Autopsy) - vocals on "Vomitouch" and "No Structure, Total Violence"
Jake Burns (Pathogenic) - vocals on "Used Food"
Eric Taranto (Dysentery) - vocals on "Ugly Cat"

Recorded by Eric Braunschweiger and Tyler Kingsland
Additional Tracking by Tim Brault

Mixed by Eric Braunschweiger
Mastered by Brian Redmond at The Space, Lowell, MA
Produced by Tyler Kingsland, Tim Brault, and Hivesmasher

Track Listing:
1. Bye Bye Baby
2. Vomitouch
3. Strangled Beings and Vice Versa
4. Can of Awesometism
5. Shooting at Apparitions
6. En Route to Meatland
7. Used Food
8. The Shit Waltz
9. Damaged P(inc)
10. The Dirty Black Cloud
11. No Structure Total Violence
12. Ugly Cat
13. Lust in Creation's Wake
14. And They Thought We'd Forget
15. Save the Magic for Tomorrow
16. Vulture Assassin
17. Send Me to Satan⋙

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

Hailing from Massachusetts, Hivesmasher are a grindcore/technical death metal/deathgrind band who formed between 2006 and 2007; their first release "Ascension Into Dismal Stages" (Vacant Sea Records) came out in 2008. After several years of touring in support of the record, the band sort of dropped off the map and hadn't been heard from in some time.

But then, in 2011 the six-piece grinders came back with a vengeance in 2011; creating an all-new Facebook profile to coincide with their new Bandcamp site - on the latter of those, they posted the first new song in four years ("Used Food"), which at the time had some ridiculously silly release date attached to it - "January 1, 2034" or something to that extent - and of course no name for the album it would appear on.

But, in late August, it was announced the band had inked a record deal with BLACK MARKET ACTIVITIES; announcing "Gutter Choir" as the name of the new record, along with the Oct. 23, 2012 release date. This is a band who can rival essentially any grind act on the planet, and from what we're thus far heard from the new album, it will be one of the finest pieces of grind to grace the extreme metal community in many years. Seeing as how it comes out the same day as "BOOK BURNER" by the all-mighty PIG DESTROYER, hopefully Hivesmasher's new record doesn't become overlooked or lost in the sea of excitement and chaos surrounding Pig Destroyer's first new album in 5+ years.

<Band Members>
Aaron Heinold - vocals
Tyler Kingsland - guitar
Julius Hayden - guitar
Ali Ghorashi - bass
Tim Brault - drums
Dan Bolton - keys

<Press Contact>
aaron.heinold@gmail.com

<Booking Agent>
Brodown.Booking@gmail.com