The punk-rooted/death-metal trio is happy to present their newest release. Available from now on via Strange Mono Records, a charity-record-label.
Spesimin came into being in 2019, when Punk-rooted Ian (Vocals/Drums) and Jazz inflected Alejandro (Guitar) joined forces after bonding over their shared appreciation for old-school Thrash and Death Metal. Ian’s former bandmate Jeff (Bass) joined in 2020, bringing his love of Florida Death Metal and New York Hardcore to perfectly round out the band’s unique brand of melodic evil Metalpunk.
While fusing elements of Punk, Hardcore, Thrash and Death Metal, Spesimin often defers to Rock grooves and melody over blasts and brutality. The musically adventurous trio has recently refined their approach, transporting their precision riffing and primitive rhythms into slightly Doomier territory, incorporating its long-form technical elements, while continuing to explore deadly serious subjects. They are an anthemic anomaly of their own extreme genre.
In the formation of Spesimin, Ian drew from his lifelong love of gothic and psychological horror, penning lyrics for the first time since his teenage punk band. A more mature viewpoint now drives the approach, as the lens of reality opens a path to scrutinize the world in its fundamentally horrifying state. But the love of horror still brings in the right touch of fun, a flagrant indulgence never shying away from the grotesque. Horror literature fuels tracks like “Spesimin”, which epitomizes the existential dread of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. “Stubborn Beast Flesh”, which draws from H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau, vilifies colonialism and prescriptive social norms, reveling in a bloodthirsty vision of radical self-acceptance.
The songs are personal and political, probing subjects like addiction, religious mania, the insidious violence of capitalism and genocide. The result is something cerebral and classic, with gore-soaked imagery that grabs the senses, confronting the darker side of the human experience and evoking a story to be experienced by both musician and listener.
From DIY demos to reel-to-reel TASCAM 8-tracks, Spesimin’s journey has been multifaceted and exploratory. On their newest release, engineer and album cover artist Dan Angel created unique setups and scenarios for the band to experiment like mad scientists, their operations polished with mastering by accomplished producer ArthurRizk. Present all along, but fully realized by one of Dan’s drawings, the mascot in their mind was “Spesi”–a primordial fiend without a face, a disembodied brain with diabolical powers, ravenous for revenge against an uncaring world.
Tracklist:
1.Spesimin
2.Mentally Mutilated
3.Violent Sanctification
4.Sycophant Slaughter
5.Born In The Crypt
6.Rotting In The Vine7.Severed Ties8.Nest Of Nightmares
9.Violent World
10.Mouth Of Hell
11.Stobborn Beast Flesh
12.Skull Worship
13.Recovered Abduction Memory
14.Barren Night(Jersey Devil’s Fight)
From 2020’s Born In The Crypt and 2022’s Rotting In The Vine, Spesimin’s path of evolution has been clear, but 2025 holds a new chapter with a self-titled discography LP, which compiles their previous releases with their newest EP, entitled Skull Worship. Spesimin generates a pivotal new incarnation as the band’s first vinyl release.