BRAT – Social Grace – LP – White & Pink Splatter Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition

Straight out of the Crescent City, BRAT are set to release their forthcoming debut album, Social Grace, via Prosthetic Records on March 15. Since their 2021 inception, the New Orleans deathgrind / hardcore bands journey to date has been one of blistering ascension both on the road and in-studio with relentless US touring and two head turning EPs already under their belt. Enter 2024 and BRAT are ready to give extreme music the pink pill. Between an intense live schedule over the last three years, which saw BRAT share the stage with the likes of Eyehategod, Cro-Mags and contemporaries in grind such as ACxDC and No/Mas, the band recorded Social Grace over the course of a year and a half at HighTower Recording studio (Thou, A Wilhelm Scream, Eyehategod). Recording songs in batches helped BRAT finetune and focus their songcraft in condensed bursts, resulting in a coalescence of death metal, thrash, and powerviolence brutality. Social Grace follows extreme musics well trodden themes of futility and distaste for humankinds ruling classes throughout its 10 tracks, with the bands reverence for psychological horror fiction and admiration for Stephen King genre classics evident on songs such as Hesitation Wound and Truncheon, as well as the title-tracks scathing rebuttal of aristocracy. BRATs self-described barbiegrind / bimboviolence aesthetic is one of intentional dichotomy to their sound, with a keen focus to allow space and inclusivity for outsiders that shirks the traditional in favor of jubilant authenticity. Feral and ferocious in content and anti-purist in nature, BRATs Social Grace is a cataclysmically heavy party that everyones invited to.

Tracklist:

1. Ego Death
2. Hesitation Wound
3. Slow Heat
4. Truncheon
5. Human Offense
6. Rope Drag
7. Blood Diamond
8. Snifter
9. Sugar Bastard
10. Social Grace