Having already toured with the likes of Knocked Loose and Harms Way, hardcore upstarts Year Of The Knife have announced their upcoming debut full-length, Internal Incarceration, drops August 7th via Pure Noise Records. The Delaware-based band excels at crafting unrelentingly heavy, metal-influenced hardcore with deeply human and socially-conscious lyrics, and Internal Incarceration takes these strengths to new heights. Recorded by Kurt Ballou (Converge, Code Orange, Nails), the album sounds as raw and visceral as the subjects of its songs, which often find vocalist Tyler Mullen working through the challenges of loss, grief, and addiction with compassion to match the furor of the music. The album’s first single “Virtual Narcotic” captures so much of what makes Year Of The Knife impossible to ignore. Opening with a vicious metallic riff, the song launches into a blistering lament of modern over-reliance on social media that culminates in an undeniably crushing breakdown. The band also shared a second song from Internal Incarceration, “Sick Statistic” a new version of a previously released compilation track that takes an empathetic view of the opioid crisis in America.
