Life Is Abuse is back; and being the fine gentlemen that they are, they have chosen an absolutely first class album release to commemorate their return. That album being the most recent and most devastating missive from Oakland heavyweights Laudanum, presented now on a limited double vinyl edition. Any metal album with Nathan from Graves at Sea contributing vocals can easily find it’s way into my cold and blackened heart, but this album offers even so much more than that – punishing doom riffs interspersed with deathly and suffocating ambience. It truly is: a beast. 300 copies on black vinyl, 200 on clear vinyl available exclusively through mail-order and on tour; this also comes with a 3-color silk-screened poster and lyric sheet insert. All that for $18 shipped. Like I said: absolute class. Get your copy immediately from lifeisabuse.com.

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