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Total Annihilation will celebrate the band's 20th anniversary year with the of their fourth full-length InchMountains of MadnessInch. This album delivers all the Swiss precision and trademark elements their following has come to expect of them but also with more of everything more tempo and serious speed, more brutality, more power, more thrash, more death but also more harmonies, more melodies, and more musicality! There are also more tentacles, more jaws, more razor-sharp teeth, more twisted mutation, and definitely more evil! InchMountains of MadnessInch is conceived as an echo of and a bold manifesto about the state of the world as well as an artistic sign of our time. Back in the year 2006 things looked less bleak when a bunch of young musicians were just looking for some good times. Vocalist Daniel Altwegg had joined forces with three of his friends and a hot desire to simply form the hardest, loudest, and rawest metal band of their Swiss home, the City of Basel. After a phase of stylistic experiments, the band settled for an aggressive yet melodic course that combined elements of death and thrash metal. For all of those who are sick and tired of hearing the same stuff all over again, Total Annihilation offer the perfect cure with InchMountains of MadnessInch simply more of everything!

UK features four bonus tracks, not included in the original US version, which reached number three on the Billboard 200.

With their sixth full-length InchDread EmperorInch, Slaughterday deliver everything that they excel in, which is also precisely what their fans want from the duo perfectly executed old school death metal with a wicked twist. From crushing doom-ridden ultra-heavy parts to calculated outbreaks of utter brutality, this record offers everything a still beating death metal heart could ask for. And of course, those cosmic horrors of the Great Old Ones, forbidden sounds, and tentacled death metal are still rising. The German band has also added more deeper meaning to their tales of cosmic terrors as a healthy antidote to stereotypes. Lyrically, Slaughterday have always built on the well-established foundations of their genre by taking inspiration from American author H. P. Lovecraft and other masters of horror. And while sinister things crawl and creep through the duo's timeless brutality, they have always portrayed them with a sinister flair of their own. These days, the band has repurposed those monstrous creatures as metaphorical ciphers for relevant contemporary topics. Slaughterday present new horrors and more brutal madness than ever that make InchDread EmperorInch essential listening for any self-respecting old school death metal afficionado!