As COVID-19, the coronavirus, continues to upset everything we know about our way of life, artists and those in the music industry have been forced to re-evaluate how to live life for the foreseeable future. For their part, the folks at Bandcamp will once again waive their cut of purchases made today, May 1, as well as on June 5 and July 3, the first Friday of each month.
Decibel has assembled a small list of artists affected by the COVID-19 pandemic who have music on Bandcamp, but any artist could use the support and today is a particularly good day to make a purchase.
No/Más – Last Laugh
No/Más is an aggressive grind band from Washington DC. Dig into this and scare your family by starting your one person circle pit to these gnarly ass breakdowns. —Blake Harrison
Internal Rot – Grieving Birth
Ozzuario – Existence is Pain
Solstice – White Thane
URSA – Mother Bear, Father Toad
Caskets Open – Concrete Realms of Pain
Sweven – The Eternal Resonance
Visionary Morbus Chron vocalist/guitarist Robert Andersson returns with conspirators from Speglas in a new project continuing the mind-bending brilliance of Morbus Chron’s terminal record Sweven. While the band Sweven reference sprawling prog more than the Stockholm buzzsaw, it’s a singular union of whispered introspection and unorthodox aggression that will still delight adventurous Swedeath fans.—Sean Frasier
Paralysis – Mob Justice
New Jersey crossover crew Paralysis are on the road to the release of their second full-length, a vicious 10-track ripper called Mob Justice. Whether you got here from Bay Area classics or the recent wave led by Power Trip has brought you back to the pit, you can get down to Mob Justice. You can stream two tracks, “Oblivious” and “Cut Short,” now and the whole album is out later this month.—Vince Bellino
Thin – Dawn
Dawn, the first full-length from New York math grind outfit Thin (formed from the ashes of the criminally-underrated Mary Todd), is a cover-to-cover assault on the brain. Firing off one jagged, spastic riff after another, Thin do a lot with a little: despite Dawn‘s relatively-short run time, the trio fit in a remarkable amount of riffs, blasts, breakdowns and barely-coherent shrieks.—Vince Bellino
Many Blessings/Pulsatile Tinnitus – Split
The split tape from Many Blessings (Primitive Man‘s Ethan Lee McCarthy) and Pulsatile Tinnitus (Bleed the Pigs‘ Kayla Phillips) is an unsettling, cinematic work of noise. Featuring two individual tracks from each artist and a collaboration piece, their split focuses more on creating a sense of unease and tension than on destroying the senses through unrestrained harshness.—Vince Bellino
