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 the brand new album“Devour”on clear orange or black vinyl and we’ll throw in the band’s 2022 debut album “Powerless” on black vinyl for just $9 extra.

DIE-HARD TEST PRESSING PACKAGE: one of only five made - available for sale here. Comes in a custom made black fold-over cover silkscreened with metallic gold ink. Hand-numbered and with all release info hand-written with metallic gold felt-tip pen, signed and stamped with the SR sigil in gold ink. Includes secret mystery silkscreened graphic inside.

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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