Bindrune Recordings has a new compilation out, as of yesterday, featuring material from Woe, Fall of Rauros, Cloud Rat, Panopticon, Krallics, and more. The extreme music collection is titled Overgrow to Overthrow and is available digitally to raise awareness of systematic racism across the planet.
Check out a full listing of participating artists below, along with an artist statement.
Aerial Ruin
Agathocles
Alda
Chaos Moon
Chat Pile
Cloud Rat
Dawn Ray’d
Detractors
Deviated Instinct
Doom
Falls of Rauros
Hag Graef
Hornet Murmuration
Human Failure
Inexorum
Krallice
Krieg
Mania
Nori
Obsequiae
Outlaw Order
Panopticon
Ripped to Shreds
Thou
Throne of Blood
Tired of Everything
Tvær
Uprising
Vukari
Woe
From the label:
The following was provided by one of the artists featured on Overgrow to Overthrow, and clearly outlines why we are doing this:
I am a person of color who lives in Minneapolis and a featured musician on this compilation.I love this city and its culture, but it would be dishonest not to acknowledge the segregation that still permeates this city. I see it in a geopolitical sense, but also in the hearts and minds of people I speak to here. The death of George Floyd has filled us all with grief; everyone other than those with the most extreme racist beliefs can watch the video and immediately recognize it as a comprehensive moral failing.With that in mind, I want to emphasize that George Floyd's death is not an anomaly, and that the problem exists on a larger scale than whether four particular Minneapolis police officers are convicted. This same incident plays out at least once a week somewhere in the United States, and it is usually not brought to national attention like this. The outrage is usually less vocal because there is some plausible deniability: the video shakes or wavers for a second and we can't quite see what happened, or the victim yelled something threatening, or the police told the bystanders to stop filming, or sometimes the body cameras are turned off, or sometimes there simply isn't footage at all. But it is happening in our world all the same, and what we all saw transpire on May 25, 2020 is an uncensored vision of the culture we have created.If I could ask one thing to everyone who would listen, I would say: the next time this happens (and it will happen again), will we allow our friends and colleagues to follow the beaten path of preying on the deniability, steering the conversation toward the deceased's criminal history and asking whether they were on drugs or trespassing or didn't put their hands up fast enough? Will we play that role of devil's advocate ourselves, even while knowing that we are defending an institution of immense power, whose labor union will all but guarantee its officers stay out of jail, keep their jobs and receive back pay regardless of whether they have committed a wrong? Or will we dare to question the status quo, even when the cameras aren't rolling, and lend a voice to our fallen fellow man who no longer has a voice to tell his story?How we answer this question will shape our communities for generations. If we don't answer correctly, I believe the worst may be yet to come.
