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"Gathering parisians with an already strong pedigree in dark and heavy music, COWARDS regurgitates gutter hardcore, unhealthy sludge/doom and nauseous black metal in “Shooting Blanks And Pills”, their deeply raw and anxiogenic debut release. Only six months were needed to give birth to this full-length, monstrosity with a desperate urban feeling, bridge between the knife-in-the-heart crudeness of Eyehategod or Kickback and the majestic darkness of bands like Deathspell Omega or Thou. With a sound carrying smells of pissy streets and the dry blood you get for a sidelong glance, producer Francis Caste have perfectly catched the gist of these 38 minutes, recreating this forced apnea in a bile tank with a no frills approach."

Cowards features current and ex-members of Sickbag, Death Mercedes, Hangman’s Chair, Eibon, Glorior Belli, Dacast, Colossus of Destiny…

Now available for free download, pre-order and full streaming - all orders should ship within 3/4 weeks.
Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies on 12" black vinyl (comes in a matt, reverse white-board printed jacket and with printed innersleeve) as well as some merch.

Full streaming & free download • http://throatruinerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shooting-blanks-and-pills or http://tiny.cc/throatruinerdownloads
Pre-orders • http://store.throatruinerrecords.com/categories/cowards

(This post was last edited on June 7, 2012 at 7:52 PM ET.)