Today Virginia-based crossover maniacs ENFORCED drop a nine-song cluster-bomb of thrashing death on apathetic times with the release of their new album, “Kill Grid”. In time for the release they are also unleashing a band new video clip for the menacing “UXO”: https://youtu.be/J1loT9DadlI
ENFORCED are keeping an important tradition of thrash and punk/hardcore alive though: While their brutal tunes are going to wreck your neck there is more to the band than just entertainment: “This song is lyrically self explanatory”, says singer Knox Colby. “It’s about the cluster bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War. The main focus of the lyrics are about the cultural impact that the unexploded ordnance (abbreviated UXO) has had over the last 50 years. Over 20,000 people have died accidentally from stepping on these bombs that are the size of a softball and scattered over the entire country, which is predominantly covered in dense jungle (last I checked, 35% of the country is still contaminated with UXO). It’s an issue the United States has only recently owned up to, but the government won’t apologize for; it’s shameful.” Guitarist Will Wagstaff on the music: “ When this song was written I was listening to 2 specific songs on repeat. ‘Dying’ by Obituary and ‘Corporal Jigsore Quandary’ by Carcass. Both tracks are just so driving with the double bass and grooviness and I wanted to try to write something somewhat in that vein.”
Get your copy of “Kill Grid” under the following link: https://enforced.lnk.to/KillGridID
The following formats are available:
100 x olive green LP+CD via CM Distro onlineshop (almost sold out!)
200 x clear LP+CD via CM Distro wholesale and onlineshop
200 x bright gold LP+CD via EMP and Coretex Records
200 x red LP+CD via the Band
black LP+CD
In the US the black LP comes without a CD
Digital Album
“Kill Grid” came together over a two-year period while ENFORCED were marauding halls and dive bars across the East Coast and Canada. Indeed, inspiration came from different directions, but playing live with bands like Sacred Reich, Red Death, Iron Reagan, All Out War, and Integrity shaped what was to come out of the Richmonders. While it was the previous output that attracted the attention of Century Media, it’s “Kill Grid”, that’s going to put ENFORCED on top-lists of circle pit lunatics around the globe. To track their sophomore full-length, ENFORCED enlisted long-time friend and studio maven Bob Quirk (Iron Reagan) to engineer, as well as Philadelphia-based studio whiz Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Pissed Jeans, Eternal Champion, Ghostemane, Code Orange) to mix and master.
Formed in Richmond in 2017 out of shreds of disbanded hardcore and punk bands, ENFORCED quickly found their calling between the undying support of regional punk/hardcore scenes and their respective record collections. Whether it’s Sacred Reich and Integrity or Bolt Thrower and Amebix, “Pure Crossover Death,” as ENFORCED call their devastating din, devastatingly speared its way through two demos (“Demo 2017” and “Retaliation”) and their no-holds-barred debut, “At the Walls”.
Make sure to check out the raw and positive energy of an ENFORCED live show by viewing the video clip for “Malignance”: https://youtu.be/qRbJSmKjgww
Watch the striking artwork from Joe Petagno (Motörhead, Vitriol) of “Kill Grid” come to life in the visualizer video for “Hemorrhage”: https://youtu.be/cLh5Cyy-KAY
And click on the the following, because of… fire – “Curtain Fire (Visualizer)”: https://youtu.be/iZuAPqj90cc
Line-Up:
Knox Colby – vocals
Will Wagstaff – guitar
Zach Monahan – guitar
Ethan Gensurowsky – bass
Alex Bishop – drums
ENFORCED online:
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www.instagram.com/enforcedrva
