NEQUIENT: Metal Injection Hosts Exclusive Stream Of Avarice, The Scathing Third LP From Chicago Grindcore/Hardcore Band; Album Out Friday On Nefarious Industries + New Tour Dates Announced

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“…both a sonic and ideological assault.” – Metal Injection

Metal Injection is hosting an exclusive stream of Avarice, the scathing third LP from Chicago-based grindcore/hardcore crew NEQUIENT, ahead of its release this Friday on Nefarious Industries.

Avarice is the culmination of NEQUIENT having spent more than a decade 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, the unrelenting assault of Avarice blasts listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.

Produced by Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Yob, Lair Of The Minotaur) and mastered by Collin Jordan (Harm’s Way, Windhand, Voivod), Avarice is the recorded debut of NEQUIENT 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 synth contributions from Kevin Kalay and Circa Tapes all contribute to an atmosphere of existential horror.

Kolkey writes, “Everywhere I turn, I see all that I care about and value being trampled by the insatiable greed of oligarchs and the bankrupt culture they’ve forced upon us. This is an album for people who feel similarly frustrated and alienated, who want music that prioritizes originality and self-expression over slotting neatly into an algorithmic recommendation engine. It’s also for anyone who just wants to hear some sick riffs and killer drumming.”

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

Stand with NEQUIENT and their wrath upon the ruling class and stream Avarice in its enraged entirety first via Metal Injection RIGHT HERE.

Avarice will be available on splatter vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats this Friday, April 24th. Find preorders where the videos for “Mad King / Fool” and “Christofascist Zombie Brigade” are playing at Nefarious Industries HERE.

Following their March Midwest tour with Black Cross Hotel, NEQUIENT is preparing for their hometown release show booked for the day of the album’s release. The band has also booked shows in Madison and Appleton in Wisconsin June 5th and 6th, and their Summer tour is mainly booked, running from July 9th out to the East Coast and back, ending July 18th. See all currently confirmed dates below and watch for additional dates to be added in the days ahead.

NEQUIENT Tour Dates:
4/24/2026 Liar’s Club – Chicago, IL *Record Release Show w/ Something Is Waiting, Neverender
6/05/2026 Mickey’s Tavern – Madison, WI w/ Corridoré
6/06/2026 Missfits Tavern Appleton, WI w/ Corridoré, Drillbit
7/09/2026 Dunlap’s Corner Bar – Cleveland, OH w/ Atomic Witch, RST, Casket Splinter
7/10/2026 The Wood Shop – Brooklyn, NY
7/11/2026 TBA – Philadelphia, PA w/ Gridfailure, Sploot
7/12/2026 The Camel – Richmond, VA w/ Sploot
7/13/2026 The Den – Winston-Salem, NC
7/17/2026 The Hidden Gem – Dayton, OH
7/18/2026 North End Pub – Lafayette, IN

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.

NEQUIENT’s second 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 Magazine. The Heavyist called the album, “proper fuckin’ excellent weirdo hardcore,” and The Chicago Reader praised its “menacing layers of hardcore, grindcore, thrash, and straight-up gnarly metal.” 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, the band has exhibited an undying dedication to the DIY way with a series of tours, including a run of dates alongside Psychosomatic and Black Mass.

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