A Violent Dread EP

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MW I absolutely love 'Hope Attrition' and I continue to listen to it regularly, but to my ears this song is miles better than any from that record. I'm waiting in anticipation for what Woe do next. Favorite track: A Violent Dread.

Corvus Veis Violent Dread is the single best death metal song ever made. It's easy to abuse blast beating but this nails every single melody and knows when to blast and to change to complement melody. Even the climax at the end doesn't blast because it wouldn't sound nearly as good.

Compare to Knell. It starts off as another masterpiece w/ melody and knowing how to complement it with drums, but most of the song is abusing the blast, tempo, and melodies, and could've been cut in half w/out losing anything. Favorite track: A Violent Dread.

Sabrina-the-sticker-hoarder Bleakness personified with anger, power and melody. The slowing isn’t really softness -it becomes sharper and more pointed as it transforms to utter blackness -all with a sense of rhythm. Rock on black hearts. Favorite track: A Violent Dread.

Brutalist_Receptacle Wrong was I! Forgive me! We are punks not worth your pity! Your riffs reprehensible! Razor brow drips on clawed guitars. The stars, your eyes! I endorse your occult dialect of darkness in its drapery of Chaos, adorning me, like my favorite embroidered baby blanket? Hegel, Kierkegaard, Les Paul: all skin and dirt!

Solkaz both the lyrics and riffs inspired a violent dread inside me. Favorite track: A Violent Dread.

Helgon Wonderful band. Minsantrophic as F with tons of hatred fuzzed into their songs.

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"Following their blistering and critically acclaimed 2017 release, Hope Attrition, New York black metal band Woe crawl out of the dismal dregs of winter to deliver A Violent Dread. The EP contains two new tracks; the first titled, "A Violent Dread" features Woe's thoroughly thoughtful and dynamic songwriting, full-speed and merciless drumming, jagged webs of riffs, and visceral howls." The second is a cover of the classic song by Dawn (SWE), "The Knell and the World," a longtime influence on Woe.

"A Violent Dread" music by Woe, words by Chris Grigg
Synth and backup vocals by Nolan Voss
"The Knell and the World" written and originally performed by Dawn (SWE)
Recorded May and August 2018 by Nolan Voss in Brooklyn, NY
Mastered September 2018 by Chris Kelly
Artwork by Alex Eckman-Lawn

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released March 15, 2019

Chris Grigg - guitar and vocals
Grzesiek Czapla - bass
Lev Weinstein - drums
Matt Mewton - guitar

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Woe Brooklyn, New York

Uncompromising American black metal. Absolute emptiness since 2007.

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Track Name: A Violent Dread: war and horror
the incessant march of terror
forever exalting
the hemorrhaging wounds of culture

the pageantry of slaughter sanctified
by statute, by scripture
by capital incentivized
roaring with the pleasure of stocks' continued rise
the dead-eyed bless the dying
signum crucis, aim, fire

cowards who swill
the rancid trough of dogma
the piss of their masters
and blood of their children
limbs blasted off
and mounted high as freedom
every body, a tribute that's due
the triflings of power

prayers rush to smother every victim
whose lives are gone, their names, their purpose
every absence nuclear and fervid
mutates survivors, jeered in their recourse
by brazen propagandists
blood-drunk profiteers of violence
scourging captives raw till hoarse voices creak to silence
turn pain abstract
like that of flies or cattle

death, defeat, the fear, the anger
existence undone, ceaseless in rancor
mourn for the lost and fear for the future
a violent dread

and still they prattle on about god and guts and heroes
while we rage in congregation, we cry in swarming rooms
a sea of platitudes bereft of meaning for bereaved
who suffer every nightfall, who dread each waking day
whose haggard voices fall to distant pleas

a violent dread

they hope for a crowded tomb
the powerful pray for profit
full of contempt
for the tired pleas
of our violent dread

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