I&II

by Friendship

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warren barton This is so so heavy it should come with a WARNING! Brutal sound that drives home a violent sound that only Friendship can create. Favorite track: €ompton.
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mɛlədi nɔɪz Utter joyous brutality, had to purchase cus I binged da fook out of it! ALL THE METALS. ALL THE NOISE. BEAUTIFULLY BLEAK. THE ONLY FRIENDSHIP, ONE NEEDS. Favorite track: €ompton.
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Christian Molenaar Totally uncompromising hardcore/sludge from one of the heaviest bands around. Favorite track: €ompton.
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    Minimalistic design in the proudest noise/PV tradition, and pro-dubbed for maximum sonic destruction. No pleasure at all, only torture.

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    The most devastating hardcore album of 2016 finally on vinyl. Snow white 180gr wax, for 45RMP of total grinding terror.

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One of the most vile, antagonist, and visionary powerviolence masterpieces to ever emerge from Japan, Friendship's "I&II" is a compilation of tracks previously self-released by the band as two separate EPs (the "I EP" and the "II EP”) now both condensed into a single castigating long player of maximum auditive torture. This release masterfully showcases the full extent of the band’s absurd formula: a maelstrom of bleak and punishing powerviolence/grind ferocity in the vein of Column of Heaven and Hatred Surge, colliding with the suffocating weight of the most abject sludge-doom of bands like Godflesh, Swans, and Corrupted, and further enhanced by the iconic and completely mindless approach to extreme metal and punk which has always characterized Japanese bands as being the most absurd and visionary out there. Friendship's stark and austere sound, paired with the crippling and lawless cruelty with which they play, has yielded twelve tracks of absolutely unfathomable violence, that will ​plunge the listener ​into​ an authentic plight for survival​,​ as they desperately try to survive the utterly senseless chaos unleashed upon them by these masters of complete sonic terror.​

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released February 17, 2017

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