Spread The Disease The Darkness The Dread The Suffering Review

July 12, 2026
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Spread The Disease

The Darkness. The Dread. The Suffering.

Hypaethral Revords

2026

 

Canadian blackened hardcore progenitors SPREAD THE DISEASE return with their first new full-length in twenty-seven years! Titled The Darkness. The Dread. The Suffering., the eight-track offering will see release on July 10th via Hypaethral Records.

 

This is a long-running band in the scene, having come out in 1997. So, they’re definitely front runners in the genre. The music is what you’d expect from a black metal/post hardcore band. It’s heavy, fast and brutal. The vocals are very much the same. These goblinesque style vocals that are vicious. Paired together, it’s almost unstoppable.

 

A word of warning though, if you’re listening with headphones, the shock of screeching and discombobulating noises is almost enough to make you throw your headphones off. It absolutely caught me off guard each time it happened. It’s not all the time, but frequent enough to be an issue for your eardrums.

 

Other than that, it’s a solid installment of music for the band.


~Rook

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