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RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER: New Album Artwork Unveiled

October 10, 2008

Philadelphia thrashers RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER have unveiled their new album cover created by Mike Hrubovcak of VisualDarkness.com (SINISTER, MORTICIAN, GRAVE, etc.). Due in early 2009, "Living for Death, Destroying the Rest" is said to be "a violent upgrade" from the band's debut release on Relapse Records entitled "Buried in the Front Yard..." RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER "take their newest material to a higher level, with harsher, more extreme vocals, heavier breakdowns and an overall darker assault of evil power. Expect the apocalypse!"

Some words on the cover illustration from Hrubovcak: "I think this cover is the craziest concept to come out in a long time, as well as the hardest (but most enjoyable) cover I've created to date. This cover will fold out into a two-page spread and the packaging art will be as crazy as the band themselves. These guys are comical enough with the concepts to grab your attention, but have the intense brutality to smash your face with their bludgeoning music. All of the elements of the new art pertain to the lyrical content and stories on the new album. We have the 'cyclops' busting out of the ground in the middle of a city street, 'Rumpelstiltskin' on his shoulder (commanding the attack),'Todd the Harpoon Wilson' and 'Merman' oddly joining forces together to combat the invasion of underground minions, as well as the ghostly skull from the first track on the CD, 'Nothing Defeats the Skull'. Other tracks on the album include 'Fiends in the Mountain, Ghouls in the Valley', 'Beware the Thrash Brigade' and 'Revolution of Underground Legions'."

RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER's new album was recorded by engineer Dan O'Hare at Mark It Zero studios and will see a January 20, 2009 release (January 26 internationally) through Relapse Records.

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