METH DRINKER – “Oil” + Discography VINYL LP + 2xCD PRE-ORDER LAUNCHED TODAY!
If there has to be just one band in the new millenium which could compare to the 90’s forefathers and creators of misanthropic Sludge (GRIEF, DYSTOPIA, NOOTHGRUSH, CORRUPTED…) it has undoubtely to be New Zealand’s METH DRINKER. The level of NOISE and HATE created by these three sociopaths remains unmatched.
You can also download digitally (name your price) both releases since today.
Throne Records proudly announces two releases which have taken almost two years of work and dedication:
TR88 – METH DRINKER – Oil + Discography 2xCD
TR89 – METH DRINKER – Oil LP reissue
These contain unmissable recordings which keep hundreds of people worldwide hunting for them even a few years after the band ceased to exist.
→ “OIL” COLLECTOR’S EDITION LP: Translucid meth-purple with blue speckles.
• 140gr. vinyl
• Limited to 75 hand-numbered copies worldwide
• 350gr. sleeve
• 12×10″ size full color booklet printed on 220gr. paper
• Polylined black-inked paper bag
• Outer plastic bag
• Download code by request
No limit of copies per buyer.
Release is already in production. Test-pressings have been approved. To be out and shipping in January 2020.
This edition is exclusive for Throne Records mailorder.
→ PRE-ORDER HERE
→ “OIL” BLACK VINYL EDITION
• 140gr. vinyl
• Limited to 200 copies worldwide
• 350gr. sleeve
• 12×10″ size full color booklet printed on 220gr. paper
• Polylined black-inked paper bag
• Outer plastic bag
• Download code by request
No limit of copies per buyer.
Release is already in production. Test-pressings have been approved. To be out and shipping in January 2020.
→ PRE-ORDER HERE
→ “OIL” + DISCOGRAPHY 2xCD Digipak: All Meth Drinker’s vinyl-only releases for the first time compiled on CD + “Oil” album for the first time on professional CD format. Limited to 500 copies worldwide.
• 6 panel full color digipak
• 28 pages full color booklet
• Download code by request
• CD 1 / Discography contains the complete studio, re-mastered in 2019, vinyl-only recordings, for the first time ever on CD:
– Split LP with Open Tomb (2012)
– “Meth Drinker” EP (2013)
– Split LP with Moloch (2013)
– Split LP with Leechfeast (2015)
– Split EP with Dead instrument (2016)
– Compilation tracks
Total running time: 60 minutes.
• CD 2 / Oil contains the “Oil” album re-mastered in 2019, presented as its first “official” CD release ever (original 2014 release was limited to a tour-only CDr of 100 copies) + a banned-in-YouTube 3 video clip tracks.
Release is already in production. To be out and shipping in January 2020.
→ PRE-ORDER HERE
→ 2xCD Digipak + Collector’s Ed. LP BUNDLE:
• Get both Meth Drinker releases in a reduced price bundle. This is for the Collector’s Edition LP option.
No limit of copies per buyer.
Release is already in production. Test-pressings have been approved. To be out and shipping in January 2020.
→ PRE-ORDER HERE
→ 2xCD Digipak + Black LP BUNDLE:
• Get both Meth Drinker releases in a reduced price bundle. This is for the black vinyl LP option.
No limit of copies per buyer.
Release is already in production. Test-pressings have been approved. To be out and shipping in January 2020.
→ PRE-ORDER HERE
→ TEST PRESSING EDITION
There are also just 3 copies for sale worldwide of the “OIL” LP TEST-PRESSING EDITION.
→ PRE-ORDER HERE
“These three sonic sociopaths from New Zealand are the authors of some of the most hateful, evil and fucking malignant sludge ever to reach human ear.”
(Cvlt Nation)
“Meth Drinker is so visceral it’s painful at points.
Be prepared, as the heavy atmosphere can become overbearing and downright oppressive, but isn’t that what we want from Meth Drinker, anyway?”
(Sputnikmusic)
“Have you ever put a record on and thought to yourself, “Since when did people inside insane asylums get to use instruments and why does it sound so fucking great?”.
→ LISTEN / ORDER DIGITAL “OIL”:
→ LISTEN / ORDER DIGITAL “DISCOGRAPHY”: