• Pre-Order : Catharsis "Hope Against Hope" LP (INFO SOON!!)
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Crimethinc Records
Release Date : 1st August 2025
Pre-Order by 12th August 2025
First press! On Black Vinyl
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina's premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, Hope Against Hope.
This record picks up where their last material left off, continuing to push the envelope for what hardcore can do. Catharsis don't retread the ground they broke on their previous albums, but press forward into ever more abrasive and dynamic territory. Politically, they remain uncompromisingly radical in their lives as well as lyrics. This is not a band that has slowed down, toned down, or mellowed out.
They recorded the drums with Benny Grotto at Mad Oak Studios and tracked the rest themselves. For the backing vocals, Catharsis tapped the vocalists of some of their favorite hardcore bands: Poland's Next Victim, Brazil's Point of No Return, and North Carolina's own Scarecrow and Vittna. Mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studio and mastered by Scott Crouse, Hope Against Hope is as explosive as our times.
Twenty-four years have passed since Catharsis released their last record, the split LP featuring "Arsonist's Prayer," though they did complete another song from that session for their discography in 2012. But they have been playing regularly together since 2013, adding Jimmy Chang (of Undying and Sect), who left the band in 1995, to the lineup that recorded the Passion LP. It was high time to record another album, making the most of material that has come together across two decades. In fact, Catharsis has never sounded better.
Hope Against Hope is an assault on a self-destructing society and a beacon of inspiration for all who are determined to survive.
This record picks up where their last material left off, continuing to push the envelope for what hardcore can do. Catharsis don't retread the ground they broke on their previous albums, but press forward into ever more abrasive and dynamic territory. Politically, they remain uncompromisingly radical in their lives as well as lyrics. This is not a band that has slowed down, toned down, or mellowed out.
They recorded the drums with Benny Grotto at Mad Oak Studios and tracked the rest themselves. For the backing vocals, Catharsis tapped the vocalists of some of their favorite hardcore bands: Poland's Next Victim, Brazil's Point of No Return, and North Carolina's own Scarecrow and Vittna. Mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studio and mastered by Scott Crouse, Hope Against Hope is as explosive as our times.
Twenty-four years have passed since Catharsis released their last record, the split LP featuring "Arsonist's Prayer," though they did complete another song from that session for their discography in 2012. But they have been playing regularly together since 2013, adding Jimmy Chang (of Undying and Sect), who left the band in 1995, to the lineup that recorded the Passion LP. It was high time to record another album, making the most of material that has come together across two decades. In fact, Catharsis has never sounded better.
Hope Against Hope is an assault on a self-destructing society and a beacon of inspiration for all who are determined to survive.