California metal crew, Spite, have announced their third full-length album, The Root of All Evil, due out October 4th on Stay Sick Records. In celebration of the announcement, the band also shared “Judgment Day” – the album’s first single – along with an accompanying video.
The album also features the title track, “The Root of All Evil”, which was originally unveiled as a standalone single in April to hold fans over until their highly anticipated third full-length was revealed. You can stream the new single “Judgement Day” and pre-order the record here.
Having established themselves as one of the angriest bands in the scene, Spite attract outsiders together by way of a hypnotic, heavy vengeance bordering on thrash intricacy and deathcore intimacy. As a result, the Northern California quintet—Darius Tehrani [vocals], Lucas Garirrigues [guitar], Alex Tehrani [guitar], Ben Bamford [bass], and Cody Fuentes [drums]—engender a level of devout fandom known as the “Spite Cult” that can only be categorized in canonical terms. The group’s willingness to push the envelope quietly transformed them into one of modern heavy music’s most intense forces without losing any of the intricacies that make their output so appealing. Following 2016’s self-titled debut Spite, the band registered shockwaves on the Richter Scale with Nothing is Beautiful a year later. Tallying over 5 million-plus cumulative on-demand streams, “Kill or Be Killed” notably racked up over 1 million Spotify streams and over 1 million YouTube views. The band destroyed stages coast-to-coast alongside everyone from Dying Fetus, Attila and Oceano to Carnifex, Whitechapel, and Winds of Plague. Along the way, four-piece prepared their most incisive statement to date in the form of their third full-length, Root of All Evil.