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XTRMST TO RELEASE SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM MONDAY NOVEMBER 17 VIA DIM MAK RECORDS
AFI lead vocalist Davey Havok and guitarist Jade Puget have released the first music video for their straight edge hardcore band XTRMST. Making its debut on NOISEY, the video is for their first single "Conformist" - watch it here. The track is off the duo's self-titled debut album, which NOISEY boasts as "...dark, frantic, and moody, tinged with electronics and very slick." The LP is set for release next week on Monday November 17 via Steve Aoki's Dim Mak Records. Pre-orders are now live for the album on iTunes, and you can grab the "Conformist" single HERE.
"Jade
and I have been talking about starting a straight edge hardcore band
for years," says Havok. "We started writing and recording in early 2012
and chose the name XTRMST because it expresses the messages
represented on the record. The straight edge movement is not one of
moderation. It's based in undeniable objective truths."
"The
straight edge philosophy is something that Davey and I gravitated
towards at a young age, drawn by concepts and ideals that seem almost
foreign in modern society," says Puget. "Like much of the other
subcultures we were a part of growing up, it put us at odds with 99% of
the people around us, which was something we embraced. Being sXe for
over 20 years and being musicians, it seemed natural that this crucial
ideology would find a musical expression."
The 14-track XTRMST album was produced and mixed by Puget at his home studio and at The Treehouse in Los Angeles, and its November 17 release will come via Dim Mak Records, the indie label founded by DJ/producer (and former member of hardcore band This Machine Kills) Steve Aoki.
Although Aoki and Dim Mak are most often seen as leaders in the
electronic dance music space, the release of the XTRMST album marks a
return to Aoki and Dim Mak's hardcore roots. "I met Davey a while back
and we bonded over our shared experiences in straight-edge
culture. We found a lot of kinship there, and so it made sense for us
to release an album that represents the spirit of what originally
birthed Dim Mak," states Aoki.
"These songs are the purest expression of emotion, with no thought towards commerce or accessibility," says Puget. "And the album was made with the amount of money you have in your pocket right now - just 2 people expressing their love and hate into microphones in a tiny room."
"XTRMST" track listing:
1. Words For the Unwanted
2. Conformist
3. Social Deathplay
4. Merciless
5. Exterminate
6. Sharper
7. Extremist
8. The Breed
9. Humanity
10. The Way
11. Swallow Your God
12. Dirty Nails
13. Juliets
14. Coward Bow Your Head
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