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How can artists and musicians respond to an era when jackbooted thugs descend on U.S. cities, tech billionaires blithely deploy technologies calculated to wipe out the livelihoods of millions, and misinformation controls the rage of the masses? For Chicago’s grinding metallic hardcore misfits NEQUIENT, the answer is to get even angrier and weirder.

Avarice is the quartet’s third full-length album, the culmination of more than a decade spent evolving their unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore in the depths of the aggressive music underground. Honing the adventurous songwriting and lyrical venom exhibited on previous releases like 2018’s Wolves at the Door and 2022’s Darker Than Death or Night, this unrelenting assault blasts listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.

The album’s opening song “Mad King / Fool” arrives as the lead single for the record delivered through a video shot by Michael Rataj, edited by Patrick Conahan, with lighting by Danny Cardona. Vocalist Jason Kolley states with its release, “‘Mad King/Fool’ synthesizes the eclectic elements that make up the NEQUIENT sound into a focused burst of aggression. With our D-beat, grind, hardcore, mathcore, and thrash influences at the fore, it's perhaps the closest we'll get to a straightforward moshpit anthem. The lyrics attack the U.S. gerontocracy, particularly as embodied by our current president, and lean heavily on references to Shakespeare's King Lear.”

Produced by Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Yob, Wovenhand) and mastered by Collin Jordan (Harm’s Way, Windhand, Voivod), Avarice is the recorded debut of bassist/backing vocalist Aaron Roemig (Arbogast, Mine Collapse) who joins the band’s mainstays Chris Avgerin (drums), Patrick Conahan (guitar), and Jason Kolkey (vocals). The grotesquely intricate artwork by Arifullah Ali, design by Scott Shellhamer (American Heritage, Buried at Sea, Coffinworm), and guest contributions on synth from Kevin Kalay and Circa Tapes all contribute to an atmosphere of existential horror.

Sophomore album Darker Than Death or Night was praised as “a fusion of the Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, and Combatwoundedveteran—if those bands were feral and sludgy” by Decibel, as “"proper fuckin' excellent weirdo hardcore" by The Heavyist, and for its “menacing layers of hardcore, grindcore, thrash, and straight-up gnarly metal” by The Chicago Reader. Invisible Oranges said, “NEQUIENT is the soundtrack of our frustrations, this angry, chaotic sound of distrust, anger, and voicelessness now given a megaphone.” Since that release, NEQUIENT has exhibited an undying dedication to the DIY way with a series of tours, including a run of dates alongside Psychosomatic and Black Mass.

"I don’t really know what’s cooler: the amount of work and dedication that was put into sourcing the sets for this video, the amount of attention needed to actually make it, or the absolutely killer music that it’s set to… It’s a veritable cornucopia of grind and camp aesthetics, all blending into one excellent whole." - Heavy Blog Is Heavy

"Do you like your metal weird and unpredictable? Then spin this one. […] Avarice feels like a stream of consciousness rage session from a band who are reading each other’s minds. […] The listening experience is both cathartic and exhausting." - Heavy Metal Philosophy

"NEQUIENT have shown a vast improvement in their performances and songwriting on Avarice. Their technical skills are sharper than ever. The production and overall quality of this record bring it to life nearly as much as their impressive stage presence, and their barbed attacks against political and capitalistic oppression, genocidal and warmongering lunatics, and religious hypocrisy echo the sentiments of the rightfully pissed off, informed, and compassionate masses with all of the focused rage of the best hardcore bands, albeit with an ever shifting metallic edge. Despite the righteous fury, Avarice is the most fun record I’ve heard this year and should rightfully ascend NEQUIENT to one of the most recognizable metal bands in Chicago and the whole of the United States." - Everything Is Noise

"Framed as a furious response to modern decay, the band have positioned the record as both a sonic and ideological assault." - Metal Injection

"Avarice is a nerve-flayed, teeth-grinding listen that captures the low-grade panic and spiritual exhaustion of modern life with alarming precision. Rather than settling for dime-a-dozen mathcore spasms or rote metallic bludgeoning, the Chicago crew stitches together dissonance, groove, chaos, and razor-wire technicality into something far more purposeful." - Angry Metal Guy

"Avarice is not just angrier, but much stranger than what the band has done before. The NEQUIENT sound can best be described as a collision of DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN hardcore, tech-death extremity, and a kind of VOIVODish nervousness and anxiety. […] Technical without being pretentious, brutal without being mindless, and just plain mean, Avarice is the best NEQUIENT yet. For Christ’s sake, get on the case!" - Wormwood Chronicles

"Desde de todo empieza con “Mad King / Fool” y termina con “Stochastic Terror”, por muchos momentos se siente una gran influencia de Brutal Truth, con esa idea de riffs pesados como pared e ideas más extremas a nivel general, porque desde que empieza el disco se siente como una máquina de violencia brutal y directa, donde como se dijo, son músicos de alto nivel para cambiar el tempo en segundos." - Metallerium

"Intentionally crafting tumultuous, disorganized sounding songs, NEQUIENT deliver alarmingly authentic portrayals of the vexation and cognitive dissonance caused by a system that methodically dismantles what individuals personally value, justifying it with contradictory arguments. The staggering amount of aberrant material packed into less than three quarters of an hour creates a mind-bending experience, offering listeners who share these frustrations a powerful outlet for expression, while also providing an opportunity to listen to a grindcore band unlike any other." - Asphyxium Zine

"Super metal. Cookie monster vocals, hyper riffs and pounding, mathematical rhythms. If Sesame Street wants to prove its merit, let's see The Count follow along with these jams. Absolute abuse of the mind, body and soul. This is technical and massive." - Monuments in Ruin