Insecticide | Raid

Description

Insecticide emerged from the friendship and mutual interest in modern grind between singer Jon Egan and guitarist Ethan Kedem, metastasizing into a fully-gassed vehicle accelerating toward musical devastation. Having spent the four years since their formation in 2022 clawing their way through consistent lineup shifts, the Philadelphia quartet is now rounded out by bassist Perrin Bauder and drummer Jeff Malt. With Egan going deeper than ever into the conceptual world that finds endless ties between humanity and insects, Insecticide are now poised to deliver their newest offering of simultaneously crushing and cerebrally themed grindcore on their new EP Raid. On Raid, Insecticide has pressed 10 tracks into 12 minutes of music as they expand upon their forever-influence of Dirge-era Wormrot to include bits of the lyrical yet brutal vocals of a band like Whoresnation, the riffage and tempos of further Eurogrind like Death Toll 80K, as well as that of Australian bands like Internal Rot and Meth Leppard. Recorded and mixed by Armen Koroghlian at Red Mausoleum Recording and mastered by Jamie King, Insecticide’s new work is their highest fidelity performance to date, capturing a specific urgency that leaps out of the speakers from track one, even when the sonic onslaught is interrupted by irreverent but no less on theme samples. Raid will soon be available through Strange Mono Records, with all the money made going to Juntos, an organization providing aid for and defending the rights of Latine immigrants in Philadelphia.

Track Listing

1. Intro (Killed on Contact) (1:07)
2. Bedroom Infestation (1:04)
3. Meter Maid Mother Fucker (1:15)
4. Dead & Shitting (0:57)
5. Good Bug (0:59)
6. Swarm Former (1:02)
7. Still Twitching (0:17)
8. Guzzlord (0:53)
9. A War With Wasps (0:39)
10. Sex Pest (1:11)