HOLD ME DOWN | Devour
HOLD ME DOWN | Devour
Release date: September 5 2025
Catalog: SRUIN246
Genre: Industrial Metal
Format: full-length album
Versions: LP | CD | MC | Digital
Band Info
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Professional DTG front and back print on black classic Gildan 5000 tee.
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Professional DTG full color print on black Gildan Soft Style Tee.
This item and the others in our BAND MERCH & LABEL MERCH menus are Merch on Demand products (unless noted otherwise) prepared/printed especially for you as soon as you place an order. The item is not stored and shipped to you by Sentient Ruin, but ships directly from our merch supplier’s fulfillment center connected to our shop. If you order Merch on Demand items from the MERCH menus and other items from the RELEASES menu (Vinyl, CD, MC etc. shipped by us), you will be charged two separate shipping costs.
Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction and is a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way of producing merchandising. Thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions today
All sales are final and non refundable, and items’ looks may be subject to change or update any time, with or without notice, per our Shipping Infos, Terms & Conditions. Thank you for your understanding.
VINYL: limited clear orange vinyl (100 units worldwide - direct label retail item not wholesaled or distributed) or standard black vinyl inside a matte-laminated sleeve printed black inside, and download card.
EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTED 2X LP VINYL BUNDLE: get all the band’s vinyl releases so far - the brand new album“Devour”on clear orange or black vinyl, and we’ll throw in the band’s 2022 debut album “Powerless” on clear or black vinyl for just $7 extra.
CD: limited edition matte digipak CD with clear tray.
CASSETTE TAPE: limited edition cassette tape with full color j-card and download card.
Virginia-based industrial metal nihilists Hold Me Down reach the milestone of the second full-length album, christened under the name “Devour” and designed as further progression of their dismal exploration into the outer realms of synthetic sonic abandon. What unfolds on this second mechanized auditory assault from the Richmond voidscapers is an all-corroding synthesis of industrialized terror harkening back to formative years of extreme industrial music when bands like Swans, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy and Godflesh were looking for new pathways to transform their times’ confusion and alienation into an oppressive audial dehumanization. A torrential onslaught of pounding drum machines and atonal guitars creating a physical and mental cage of submission, within which the listener is trapped and cornered, only to be further punished by a white, colorless, and sterile burden of noise. The only human thing toiling within the ashen framework of this stark and dystopian cyberscape is vocalist Jim Gullickson’s devastated voice, the last spasm of humanity disintegrating within the aseptic turbulence of a paranoid, life-draining contraption. The way the album is built and conceived is intended to mimic human sensory dismantlement, or its destruction from within, similarly to how our digitalized society erases individuals leaving only empty shells. The senses are used as sensors to gain access to the listener’s humanity, into which an injection of sterilizing sequences and nerve-eating samples are inserted to scrape the consciousness clean. A new era of post-industrial enslavement and banishment of any human thrive has just cast its purifying shadow across the organic frailty and insignificance of man.
Digital download included with the purchase of analog physical copies.
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