The Bay Area’s favorite grindcore fanatics DEATHGRAVE will unleash their unique and unmistakable third full-length album, Hell Is Evil, on August 21st via Tankcrimes.

Spawned in 2013, DEATHGRAVE began to weave its own breed of metal out of San Jose, California. The band initially grabbed elements from punk and metal bands like Siege, Rudimentary Peni, Napalm Death, Impetigo, Godflesh, and Zeni Geva, as well as their own previous bands, and many others, yet their actual musical output never shared a similar sound to the aforementioned artists. This may be best explained due to the similar musical interests while executing a diverse musical past between members.

Composed of longtime scene veterans, DEATHGRAVE is guitarist Greg Wilkinson (Autopsy, Brainoil) alongside bassist Fern Alberts (Amber Asylum), vocalist Andre Cornejo, and drummer Clint Zane (Owl). Over the past thirteen years, they’ve toured multiple regions every year throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico, and kept busy recording. To date, they’ve released two demo tapes, four split 7″s, a split 12”, and three full-length albums which dragged them out from the depths of the underground and into the forefront of the bay area’s grind/metal scene.

On Hell Is Evil, DEATHGRAVE expands their signature brand of grind adding musical stylings of death, thrash, punk, industrial, doom, noise rock, and d-beat into a seamless concoction. Escape this dreadful reality for the next 32 minutes and dive headfirst into DEATHRAVE’s most ambitious album to date. The riffs are thick enough to keep you afloat.

Comments DEATHGRAVE guitarist Greg Wilkinson, “Our goal for this album was to seamlessly bend musical genres and create a unique sound. We allowed you to gaze into our neighborhood on our second album It’s Only Midnight. Hell Is Evil will plunge you with haste into our whole world.”

In advance of the release, DEATHGRAVE presents the album’s first single, “Born From Death.” 

Comments Alberts, “The concept for this song arose from a conversation the band had regarding the horrific condition of a woman who was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead. While her brain was not functioning, her body was put onto life support so that it was forced to incubate the fetus. This was due to the new, heavily restrictive laws in Georgia regarding abortion. No one, especially a dead person, should be forced to birth a child. RIP Adriana Smith.”

Stream DEATHGRAVE’s “Born From Death” HERE.

DEATHGRAVE’s Hell Is Evil was mixed and mastered at Wilkinson’s Earhammer Studio and includes  guest and backup vocals by Chris Reifert (Autopsy) on “Hard To Swallow” and art by Max Rain.

The record will be released and CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:

Half Deep Purple / Half Black Ice w/ Purple, Black And Silver Splatter
Deep Purple

Find CD preorders HERE, vinyl preorders HERE and orders at the Tankscrimes Bandcamp HERE.

Hell Is Evil Track Listing:
1. Hell Is Evil
2. Hard To Swallow
3. I Am Here
4. Born From Death
5. Smaller And Smaller
6. It’s Only Midnight
7. Yaws 3D
8. Your Pain Is Ready
9. Won’t See You In Heaven
10. 27B/6

DEATHGRAVE Live:
7/10/2026 Earthdom – Tokyo, JP w/ Black Ganion
7/11/2026 Live & Lounge Vio – Nagoya, JP w/ Black Ganion
7/12/2026 Bears – Osaka, JP w/ Black Ganion
7/30/2026 Colonial Theater – Sacramento, CA w/ Sigh
8/23/2026 The Holding Company – San Diego, CA w/ -16-
9/11/2026 Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA w/ Necrot, Iron Lung

DEATHGRAVE:
Andre Cornejo – vocals
Clint Zane – drums
Fern Alberts – bass
Greg Wilkinson – guitar

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