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GO AHEAD AND DIE is a raw, urgent, unrelenting, thrillingly shocking, and vibrant new band. It was born from the mind of creative writer and musician Igor Amadeus Cavalera and the bond of blood and music he shares with his dad, extreme metal icon, and Soulfly band leader Max Cavalera. It's tempos are wild, it's contempt for modern social ills palpable, it's riffs monstrous and captivating. They make angry, spiteful, utterly engaging, spirited extreme music for increasingly extreme times.

The self-titled debut sees Max and Igor splitting guitar and vocalist duties, with utter madman style drumming from Zach Coleman of the blistering Black Curse and critically acclaimed Khemmis. It sounds like a relic from the glory days of thrash, proto-death metal, and filthy rotten punk, the kind of band that would inspire a teenaged thrasher in 1987 to carve the G.A.A.D. logo into a school desk.

The spirits of crust-punk and early grindcore are alive and unwell in Go Ahead And Die. Both Cavaleras love classic bands like Doom, Anti Cimex, English Dogs, Extreme Noise Terror, and Discharge. There's also the sloppy bludgeoning power of bands like Hellhammer, and the ferocity of Terrorizer and Napalm Death, and the singular punch of Max's Nailbomb record. The sessions were captured by engineer Charles Elliot (Abysmal Dawn) and mixed by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cro-Mags, Cavalera Conspiracy).