NJ hardcore band Gel have announced that they’ll follow last year’s great Only Constant LP with a new EP, Persona, on August 16 via Blue Grape Music, the new-ish label launched by former Roadrunner Records executives Dave Rath and Cees Wessels that’s also home to Code Orange and Spiritual Cramp. It’s their first release for the label, following releases on Convulse. Pre-orders are up now, and we’ve got an exclusive violet vinyl variant, limited to 300 copies. As you can see in the mock-up below, it matches the purple EP artwork pretty nicely. Get yours in the BV shop while they last. The new 5-song EP was produced and engineered by Jon Markson (Drug Church, Drain, Koyo, etc), and vocalist Sami Kaiser says the band “really wanted to fill out the songs mor...