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Today, Armageddon Label announces July 23rd as the international release date for EXIL's highly anticipated debut album, Warning.

From Sweden with a boot to the face – fresh, new high-speed dirt from respectably old seasoned punks! EXIL is not another pitiful pandemic project jammin’ through the internet, but a properly planned, functioning, sweaty-rehearsal-space band that just had the rotten luck of forming in the middle of the world shutting down to shit. So, no gigs, just straight for full-length album: 11 tracks, 26 minutes of pure ferocious hardcore punk.

There’s enough distortion to satisfy the leathery raw punkx mania for mangel, yet plenty of sharp simple hooks to give the USHC stage-diving singalong freaks their fix. Metal? Perhaps a knife’s edge worth in the guitar work and blitzkrieg soloing, akin to early moronic speed metal. EXIL write actual tunes you can sing along to. Tunes for fuckers.

Three quarters of the band are born and raised Umeå Hardcore. Their paths have crossed before, going back some 25 years (see below). But EXIL are based in Stockholm. It’s a hellish neo-liberal experiment of a capital city: Ayn Rand’s own privatized garden of lust, or an even shittier 50 Shades of Grey with Rich Uncle Pennybags-gone-Pinhead as the dom and we, the people, as the subs.

Members have played in: Asterisk*, Demon System 13, Invasionen, The Lost Patrol, The Vicious, Tristess, U.X. Vileheads,  AC4, Bruce Banner, Epileptic Terror Attack, Feral Brain, Imperial Leather, Riwen, Sonic Ritual, Suicide Blitz, Axis Of Despair, Infanticide, Proteststorm, and more.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Maniac" on the Greetings from Sweden - Quarantined Hardcore vol 1 compilation HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Joe BB (Extended Hell, Subversive Rite, Humant Blod), and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for EXIL's Warning
1. Warning
2. Maniac
3. Damaged
4. The History Of Cleanliness / Idiot Face
5. Poison
6. Dear Landlord
7. Melting Teeth
8. Security
9. Downward Spiral
10. Internalized Extinction