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Decibel Magazine is currently streaming “Upset The Grave” from Santa Fe death metallers, STREET TOMBS. The scalding new hymn comes off the band’s Existence Is Corruption full-length, set for release on August 21st via Carbonized Records.
Existence Is Corruption delivers an unapologetically vitriolic and sickening take on modern society, complacency, corruption, and destruction. As greedy poisonous minds mutilate today’s world, STREET TOMBS continues to upset the grave with crusty blackened d-beats and deadly driving riffs straight from the gutter.
Comments guitarist/backing vocalist David McMaster, “‘Upset The Grave’ plays into themes of human entrapment and addiction. It culminates at the point in which humans choose to remain complacent in their self-destruction. The nature of our pain and suffering differ, but Upset the Grave thrashes to something universal, as consuming destructive thoughts collectively contaminate and rip apart our apathetic minds.”
Adds Decibel, “Proto-metalists Blue Cheer put forth the suggestion that there ain’t no cure for the Summertime blues, but we’d like to rebut that assertion with a fistful of old school New Mexico death metal courtesy of Santa Fe ragers STREET TOMBS and their new single, ‘Upset The Grave.’ Consider your Summertime blues cured. And by cured we mean stomped on, ravaged and set on fire. This five-minute cranium walloper, from their upcoming second full-length… relies on simple feral savagery to deliver blow after blow.”
Stream STREET TOMBS’ “Upset The Grave” HERE.
STREET TOMBS was forged in the flames of the legendary underground venue, The Cave, in 2017, where the band hosted numerous shows for the DIY punk/metal community of Santa Fe and surrounding cities. Combining the death metal grit of early Sepultura and Bolt Thrower, with the rabid d-beat/street punk of Discharge and G.B.H., the collective released three demos before dropping their Reclusive Decay full-length (2023). The critically lauded offering presented a unified vision for all that is dark, heavy, and fast. Several US tours would follow including the Reborn Dead Tour supporting Left To Die. Metal Injection championed a record that “feels like a cross between early thrash and punk rock mixed with some serious Bolt Thrower vibes for an experience that’ll put you right into the ground,” while No Clean Singing hailed, “a powerhouse surge of obliteration, coupled with riffing that both blazes and contorts in insectile fevers, with colossal, cavern-deep vocals that add to the horrors.” Reclusive Decay also earned the #38 spot on Decibel Magazine’s Top 40 Albums Of 2023.
2024 saw the release of a compilation LP, RIP The Abyss, which contained recordings the band had previously produced at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The album was released in conjunction with the start of their North American Tour supporting Necrot across the US and Canada that June.
STREET TOMBS spent much of 2025 finalizing the writing portion of Existence Is Corruption. The record was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Grammy Award winning producer and engineer Greg Wilkinson at Engine 70 Studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Earhammer Studio in Oakland, California with additional recording by STREET TOMBS bassist Galen Baudhuin. The record features artwork by Shane Donaldson and logo by Ben Brodsky.
Existence Is Corruption will be released on CD, LP, cassette, and digital formats.
Find North American preorders HERE, European preorders HERE, all other international orders HERE and digital orders HERE where lead single “Systematic Suffering” can be streamed.
Existence Is Corruption Track Listing:
1. Pestilent Storm
2. Deceptor
3. Septic Values
4. Upset The Grave
5. Systematic Suffering
6. Mental Mutilation
7. Braindead
8. Parasitic Feast
STREET TOMBS Live:
9/01/2026 Tumbleroot – Santa Fe, NM
9/04/2026 Seventh Circle – Denver, CO
9/05/2026 Aces High – Salt Lake City, UT
9/06/2026 The Shredder – Boise, ID
9/07/2026 The Kraken – Seattle, WA
9/08/2026 High Water Mark – Portland, OR
9/12/2026 Knucklehead – Los Angeles, CA
STREET TOMBS:
Damian Jacoby – vocals, guitar
David McMaster – guitar, backing vocals
Ben Brodsky – drums
Galen Baudhuin – bass
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