THY ART IS MURDER Hate Vinyl (2012)

Before deathcore became a punchline, Thy Art Is Murder were busy making the case for why it never should have been. Hate landed in 2012 like a breakdown with a body count, and it remains the record that put Australian extreme metal on the international map in a way that couldn't be ignored.

This is the album that has CJ McMahon howling over riffs so dense they could collapse a building. From the mechanised brutality of "Reign of Darkness" to the suffocating low-end of "Infinite Forms", Hate doesn't ask for your attention, it takes it. Limited to 450 copies on yellow with green splatter vinyl, this is the kind of pressing that ends up framed on walls in Melbourne share houses next to Repulsion posters and Integrity patches. Australian made, Australian heavy.

Format: 12" LP. Yellow with green splatter vinyl, limited to 450 copies. Full-length album, 2012 pressing. Country of origin: Australia.

Fans of: Whitechapel, Aversions Crown, Fit For An Autopsy, The Acacia Strain