The Convictions

Formed by Sioux City Pete and the Beggars’ frontman Peter Philips, drummer Joe Ross and Same Sex Dictator’s Lee Cizek, the legendary underground vocalist, hardcore drummer and psych-punk guitarist had already begun to establish their places within the ranks of transgressive music when they joined forces to establish an even more radical project in 2015. Drawing additional members from the ranks of Seattle’s punk and metal scene, the band’s initially changing line-up has solidified in recent years around bassist Ana Baez, and the guitarists Nick Paul (former Wolves In the Throne Room) and Casey Dickson. Veterans of the underground scene, and representing its various backgrounds and influences, the band is an amalgam of the cities’ more extreme sonic bent.

On This Eager Heart of Violence, The Convictions’ transgressive vision is frighteningly vivid. Songs like “A Violent Life,” “I am the Other,” and “Slitting My Wrists,” find them standing in direct opposition to any sanitized version of reality that would whitewash the brutal facts of living on the margin. This is extreme music, an affront to a reactionary culture of values that seeks our conformity at every turn. Taking aim at an existential malaise that runs deep into the heart of the human experience, ultimately this is a cathartic music that can’t afford you the luxury of indifference

This Eager Violence Of The Heart will be released upon the public March 18th, 2022 on Leprotic Limb & Breaking Hands Records.