RIPPED TO SHREDS return with their highly anticipated new album, Sanshi. The band explodes out of the underground with all the blood-soaked hallmarks of the hellacious RIPPED TO SHREDS sound - an onslaught of frenetic dueling solos, blasting drums, and van Drunen-esque vocals that further fuse the grit and grime of old school Death Metal and Grind with the here and now. Helmed by guitarist and frontman Andrew Lee, RIPPED TO SHREDS are as fierce and focused as they've ever been. Conceptually, Sanshi sees the band dig into a morbid fixation on death and the afterlife in the context of traditional Chinese folklore. Tracks like the lead single “Perverting the Funeral Rites,” is a song inspired by obscure funeral rites in Taiwan, wherein exotic dancers perform lithe rituals for living and dead alike. Elsewhere, “Force Fed” delves into the legend of Meng Po’s "Elixir of Forgetfulness", which when drunk by the dead wipes their memories clean before they are reborn into their next incarnation. “Living In Effigy” was inspired by real life tales of photographers traversing remote rural China, taking funeral portraits of the elderly who died in solitude. Sanshi's cover art comes courtesy of Lee’s long-term collaborator, artist Guang Yang, and depicts a scene of Yan Luo Wang, The God of Hell, and the dead who must face his judgment in his demonic court.

Grindcore band from Los Angeles

CORRUPT was formed in 2012 in Southern California, San Fernando Valley with the founding members being Efren Cardona (pictured above in center), Felipe Medina, Ron (pictured above on left) and Eduardo Chavez (not pictured) after being connected through a mutual high school friend. They would go-on to release a demo in 2012and play  Death-Thrash at live gigs where ever they could in Southern California keeping active even with numerous line-up changes that ultimately, in early 2021 resulted in the band getting it's current line up with Cesar Ramirez. On the Drums, and Ira Black IV  as a second guitarist. With this line-up in  place they would go on to record their First Album in 2022 as a full band. In 2019 Cesar Ramirez formerly of San Fernando Thrash metal band "Savage "  Would join as a Drummer for the band leading to their first Single getting released in December of 2020 "Thrown into the Woodchipper"  .During late 2021 Ira black IV officially joined Corrupt after leaving the band "Seizure ", resulting in a full four piece line-up.

Eruptive ripping death crust from North Hollywood and Echo Park