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FEAR OF GOD – 21 song 7″ deluxe picture disc gatefold EP – preorders starting NOW!!!

Posted in Fear Of God, Pre Orders, Releases on July 2nd, 2012 by foadmaster2022

Even if we’re hyper-busy working at summer festivals and many of our upcoming releases seem to be bad fated being delayed over and over for reasons we couldn’t expect, we are finally taking a breathe to announce that the longly awaited pre-sales for FEAR OF GOD “s/t” EP are finally open… The official release date for this is set to July 17th 2012 but the actual release-party date is the Obscene Extreme Festival in Trutnov, Czech Republic, so if you’re coming there and want to grab this record without wasting cash on postage, make sure to visit our FOAD stand and ask for it.  By the way, we’ll only have the regular picture disc EP version (ltd to 300) on sale at the festival, while the ultra-limited die hard bundle (ONLY 30 COPIES!) will be only available through our mailorder/webstore.

So, secure your copy of this Noisecore milestone PRE-ORDERING NOW…

REGULAR EDITION (picture disc EP in deluxe gatefold sleeve w/ diecut + sticker)

DIE-HARD COLLECTOR’S BUNDLE (picture disc EP in deluxe gatefold sleeve w/ diecut + tshirt + patch + sticker + some extra surprises that will be announced later!

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FEAR OF GOD, LETHAL AGGRESSION and HELLWITCH coming out soon on FOAD Records!!!

Posted in Fear Of God, Hellwitch, Lethal Aggression, Releases on May 29th, 2012 by foadmaster2022

Things have been stuck for a while at the FOAD headquarters as we recently moved tons of records to a new (bigger) warehouse and because the upcoming releases in the works are taking more time to be sent to production than what was expected. Anyway, we can finally announce what’s brewing in our cauldron of ear-smashing noise. We are about to send to the pressing plants the following 3 gems:

– FEAR OF GOD “1st EP” : a Picture disc 7″ housed in a thick ultra-elegant gatefold die cut sleeve.  This is the official reissue of the devastating 21 song EP that originally came out on Temple Of Love Records in 1988 and was later repressed on MCD by Giulio The Bastard’s E.U. ’91 Produzioni. The main difference to the CD reissue is that this EP is taken from the original reels and it’s not a vinyl rip, it comes from the 1st generation master with no vinyl crackles. It would be a joke to say that it sounds “cleaner”, it just gives more power and rawness to the punch-in-the-face effect that this Noisecore milestone delivers to the listener. Strictly limited to 300 copies.. will there be an even more ltd die hard version among those? wait and see. Pre-orders starting soon.  Temptative release date mid of July in time for the Obscene Extreme Festival but nothing confirmed yet.

– LETHAL AGGRESSION “Life is hard… but that’s no excuse at all!” LP : gatefold LP with inner sleeve, first 100 copies in splatter fluo green vinyl. Official reissue of this incredible ballistic Thrashcore classic with a handful of bonus tracks. Never reissued on vinyl since the original Funhouse pressing in 1988, this new edition is coming in a high glossy laminated gatefold including photos and tons of lyrics. This record will introduce a 5 disc boxset CD collection – coming out later this year – including tons of demos, rarities and outtakes from these New Jersey’s drug-core dealers. Pre-orders starting soon, temptative release date mid of July.

– HELLWITCH “Syzygial miscreancy + early demos” Double LP: officially licenced by Displeased Records. Re-issue of Florida’s technical Thrashing Death pioneers’ most popular recordings. “Syzigial miscreancy” recorded at Morrisound Studios by Scott Burns originally came out in 1990 on Wild Rags and hasn’t been repressed on vinyl since then. This double LP is also adding all the extra demo material (1984-1989) featured on the latter CD remaster on Displeased and some rare unreleased live tracks from the Syzigial days. Totally repackaged in a high glossy laminated gatefold with photos, liner notes and a detailed biography. Hellwitch, along with Atheist and Death, among several others, stumbled onto a new (for 1990) style of extreme metal…with brilliant results. “Syzigial miscreancy” is just so far-out and well-made for 1990, and even by today’s standards, that it deserves to be held in the highest regard and treated with the utmost respect, as it was bands like Hellwitch who truly advanced the development of extreme (and technical) death metal. First 100 copies in splatter vinyl. Pre-orders starting soon, temptative release date mid of July.

RAW POWER “Birth” OUT NOW – an interview with Mauro Codeluppi

Posted in Interviews, Raw Power, Releases on April 2nd, 2012 by admin

FOAD Records is proud to announce the release of RAW POWER’s “Birth”, a totally remastered version of the band’s first ever demo tape (1983) and a live from Kentucky, USA 1984 recorded during their first American legendary tour!
This album comes to celebrate RAW POWER’s 30th anniversary; we reached singer Mauro Codeluppi to conduct an exclusive interview regarding this release and the glorious past times of Italian hardcore… please read on, and place your order clicking this button

You are the only Italian hardcore band that has continued playing live and recording albums from 1980 until today. The easy question is… why?|

And the answer is another very easy one: we have been very lucky to have fans that have supported us all the time and are still doing it after so many years. You see, we have to carry on for them, as well as for my brother and for ourselves too… we would be lost without Raw Power. Read more »

NECRODEATH “Into the Macabre” CD/DVD 25th Year Anniversary Edition OUT NOW

Posted in Necrodeath, Releases on March 27th, 2012 by Giulio Foad

FOAD Records is proud to announce the official release of NECRODEATH “Into the Macabre” CD/DVD Deluxe 25th Year anniversary boxset!!

This edition is a tribute to the greatness of one of the best album to have ever come out of the Italian ’80s thrash metal underground. We went beyond the call of duty providing you with a double CD plus DVD disc boxset containing:
– Totally reacquired audio from the original and seriously damaged 1/4″ analog reels, which have been restored, de-oxidized and cleaned for maximum thrashing assault / totally remastered to annihilate all of the previous existing editions -including our own FOAD previous reissues, making this the definitive pressing
– Special CD/DVD 8 panel deluxe digipak edition with a booklet filled to the brim with rare pictures from the era
– Region free DVD containing a full live from 1988 with a cult songlist from “Into the Macabre” played at raging speeds… video quality has been restored from the original Video8 tapes!!

BUY YOUR COPY NOW!!!

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EXCRUCIATION “The Last Judgment” 2xLP is OUT NOW!!! Interview with Eugenio Meccariello

Posted in Excruciation, Releases on March 24th, 2012 by Giulio Foad

EXCRUCIATION is hands down the missing name to complete the unholy trinity that forged the best of Swiss 80s Thrash Metal… easy to realize that the other 2 are HELLHAMMER and MESSIAH. FOAD Records has put together a special edition double LP, a deadly retrospective nightmare into the band’s rawest and earliest recording. You can purchase a copy using the Buy Now button below:

To celebrate the release, Marco FOAD reached original – and still active – member Eugenio Maccariello, who has sung for this Swiss powerhouse of Thrash since the very beginning… discover some of the great stories hidden in the vaults of Swiss 80s metal!!!

The reissue of your wonderful “The Last Judgment” MLP and “First Assault” demo is finally out in a gatefold double LP version. What do you remember from those times? Tell us something about Excruciation in the ’80s …
Well you know, who is remembering the 80s today did not live them… 🙂 Seriously, it has been a nice time: in that period many new things have come out in our music genre. New stuff, something people had never heard before. It was the birth of a scene which we felt like a family, with relatives scattered all around the world… I remember that releasing a tape with your music, and hearing the positive reactions from the people, to me was much more satisfactory than releasing a CD today. Read more »

RAW POWER “Birth” Gatefold LP Pre-Orders OPEN NOW!!!

Posted in Pre Orders, Raw Power, Releases on March 21st, 2012 by Giulio Foad

WE’LL START TO SHIP ON APRIL 1st 2012.

FOAD Records has prepared another great album you will not want to miss:  a collection of very early RAW POWER material, 31 songs of pure energetic Italian Hardcore fury! Side A contains an official re-issue of the band’s debut Demotape from 1983 remastered from the 1st generation sources/tapes provided by the band, now for the very first time on vinyl!!

On the B Side, you get the Live at “Jockey Club” (Newport / KY / USA, Sept. 4th 1984), 15 songs (many of which completely unreleased and appearing for the first time ever on vinyl) re-equalized and remastered from a 2 channel master found by an old RAW POWER‘s  roadie.  Highly influential Italian Hardcore at its top: fast blistering drums, inhuman 6 string execution and rabid vocals combined with the screaming mad assault of songs such as “Fuck authority”, “Raw power” and “Don’t let me see it” that gave a vital input to tons of other like minded speed/HC maniacs to come in later years. They were the first Italian HC band touring the USA, and  the one that brought Italian Hardcore on the international music map. This records testifies the energy and the compromised “raw power” they had on stage back then! Read more »