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Limited to 420. Ships early 2017. Made possible by Dirty Needle Records. Features this single as a bonus track.
The bottom line is this: Axeslasher write capital-E Evil riffs... They are the real deal. Get on board with ‘em now, or be forced to eat pizza ’til you puke.
In The Woods There Is No Law
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Axeslasher Sics a Homicidal Maniac on the Police in New Single
It’s easy to forget that thrash is super political, especially given the genre’s obsession with pizza, beer, and thrashing good times. But thrash has always courted punk’s political outrage and disillusionment. For example, Municipal Waste may be old masters at the art of partying, but they’re also happy to tell Donald Trump to eat a bullet.
Similarly, though they’re a bunch of horror hounds whose official symbol is the pizzagram, the dudes in Denver’s Axeslasher are not happy with the police following the shootings of Alton Sterlin in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Yesterday the band released a new track titled “In the Woods There is No Law,” about a group of thrashers leading some cops into the woods where they’re slaughtered by a chainsaw-wielding woodland psychopath.
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