News: Sludge/Powerviolence Trio Backslider Release Savage New Single

Philadelphia genre-bending extremists Backslider announced their sophomore full-lengthalbum, titled Psychic Rot, set to be released on February 11, 2022 via To Live A Lie Records. The unrelenting, high-energy, and riff-packed album shows the band masterfully fusing thrashy swagger with mangled hardcore punk, jarring powerviolence, occasional dark melodicism, and the grit and grime of sludgy, sonic devastation. With Psychic Rot, Backslider shows blatant disregard for the conventions of conformity, resulting in ferocious anthems of adrenaline pumping, mutated mayhem. Backslider’s brand new single “Corpseflower,” taken from Psychic Rot, comes in the form of one tripped-out music video, full of dizzying and psychedelic visuals created by NYC video artist Frank Huang. Vocalist...

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