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How can artists and musicians respond to an era when jackbooted thugs descend on U.S. cities, tech billionaires blithely deploy technologies calculated to wipe out the livelihoods of millions, and misinformation controls the rage of the masses? For Chicago’s grinding metallic hardcore misfits NEQUIENT, the answer is to get even angrier and weirder.

Avarice is the quartet’s third full-length album, the culmination of more than a decade spent evolving their unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore in the depths of the aggressive music underground. Honing the adventurous songwriting and lyrical venom exhibited on previous releases like 2018’s Wolves At The Door and 2022’s Darker Than Death Or Night, the unrelenting assault of Avarice blasts listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.

Produced by Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Yob, Wovenhand) and mastered by Collin Jordan (Harm’s Way, Windhand, Voivod), Avarice is the recorded debut of bassist/backing vocalist Aaron Roemig (Arbogast, Mine Collapse) who joins the band’s mainstays Chris Avgerin (drums), Patrick Conahan (guitar), and Jason Kolkey (vocals). The grotesquely intricate artwork by Arifullah Ali, design by Scott Shellhamer (American Heritage, Buried at Sea, Coffinworm), and guest appearances on synth from Kevin Kalay and Circa Tapes all contribute to an atmosphere of existential horror.

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