EPK – Pyrexia – System of The Animal 25 (2023) (Gravitas Entertainment) |

EPK – Pyrexia – System of The Animal 25 (2023) (Gravitas Entertainment)

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“This album was ahead of its time in 1997. I don’t think a lot of people were ready for such a mix of Brutal Death Metal VS. Beatdown Hardcore. When people hear this material with the production we put together with Demigod Studio, combined with the fact that the music was written in the mid-90s. I think it puts Pyrexia in a whole new light for a lot of people. I think the songwriting is really going to stand out for listeners bored with bands that put out the same album over and over.” says Pyrexia Guitarist Chris Basile.

Album Title: System of The Animal 25
Release Date: June 6, 2023
Label: Gravitas Entertainment

For fans of Dying Fetus, Hatebreed, Aborted, Suffocation, Morbid Angel

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“Close out the week in this post-apocalyptic hellscape with a fittingly on-point lyric video from U.S. death metal legends Pyrexia for the track “Unscathed.”” – Decibel Magazine

“Pyrexia sound brutal like never before with the reimagined release of System Of The Animal 25. This album will reignite your love for Brutal Death Metal.” – Metal Talk

“Brutal death metal with a little bit of a hard/deathcore sound. Cool stuff” – The Mosh Pit – WORT 89.9 FM – Madison, WI

“this re-recording is absolutely monstrous” – The Razor’s Edge

“the album is very punishing and pummels from all directions. This is certainly a nice modernization of an older work. It brings the sound into a pulverizing new mix. The newfound sound is powerful, but the album was already very solid to begin with and simply gets a nice revamp. This is a solid look at some of the foundations of death metal. The album has all the right grooves to impress, even in the present day.” – Heavy Music Headquarters

“If you’ve never heard the original SYSTEM OF THE ANIMAL, you’re fine and in good company (see previous statements), SOTA 25 is the definitive version and will knock you on your arse in ways the original never quite could. Thanks to beefier production values, there’s a density to tunes like “Downsized” and “Purging the Nemesis” that are painfully absent from the original. And then there’s vocalist Jim Beach; the man’s voice sounds like Cookie Monster made love to a garbage disposal, it’s otherworldly. No disrespect to journeyman vocalist Keith DeVito’s original performance, but his delivery has always been snarly and much less guttural. In the right context he’s great (see Internal Bleeding’s IMPERIUM), but hearing Beach snarling his filth across “Unpurged” makes it a night and day listening experience.” – Metal-Rules

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Album Title: System of The Animal 25
Release Date: June 6, 2023
Label: Gravitas Entertainment
Digital: All platforms

Track Listing:
1. Confrontation
2. Downsized
3. System of the Animal
4. Closure
5. Purging the Nemesis
6. Day One
7. Unscathed
8. G.F.Y.S. (Go Fuck Your Self)

Song performed by: Pyrexia
Written by: Chris Basile
Produced by: Chris Basile
Mixed/Mastered: Miguel Tereso
ASCAP member
Album Cover Artwork by Francoise Duvvier
Lyric Video Artwork by: Aarmada Art

Band Lineup:
Chris Basile – Guitar
Shaun Kennedy – Bass
Jim Beach – Vocals
John Glassbrenner – Drums

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Story Angles – Fun Facts:
1. Guitarist Chris Basile originally wrote this track in 1989 for the first band he was in Mortuary. The first people to play and perform this song were Terrence Hobbs, Mike Smith, and Doug Cerrito of the original Suffocation lineup while they were all in Mortuary together. It would later appear on the first recording of the album System of the Animal in 1997.

2. Lyric Video artwork was done by the same artist who did the “Gravitas Maximus” album cover Aarmada Art.

3. In 2018 Pyrexia pulled off the impossible. The band had a European tour and a US tour scheduled so close together that the tours overlapped for 5 shows. Rather than cancel any shows from either tour. Pyrexia Split itself in 2. Using past members and sessions musicians, Pyrexia played on 2 separate Continents simultaneously for 5 straight nights.

4. The “System of the Animal 25” layout for the CD and Vinyl was done by none other than Danny Nelson, singer of the New York band Malignancy.

5. 25-year anniversary of the original release.

Photo Credit – Jim Wertman

Band formation: 1990 – present

Location: Long Island, New York

1987-1989: Chris Basile joins the band Mortuary along with Terrence Hobbs, Doug Cerrito, and Mike Smith, all of Suffocation. Together over 30 songs were written by the band and many of the songs and riffs written during this time appear on both Pyrexia and Suffocation’s early releases leading to many comparisons.

1990: Basile meets up with the four other original members Guy Marchais, Rob Shimonski, Daryl Wagner and Mike Andrejko, and Pyrexia is formed. They go on to release their 1991 demo Liturgy of Impurity and later the classic 1993 Full-length Sermon of Mockery, cementing their place in the anoles of Death Metal history……

Pyrexia continued to release one seminal release after another including their 1997 “System of the Animal”, and even teaming up with Trevor Peres of Obituary in 1999 to form the band “Catastrophic” which went on to release their debut album on Metal Blade records.

In 2007 the band signed with Unique Leader Records and began an extensive campaign of touring and performing both in America and overseas in support of the next three albums released under the UL moniker that continues today.

With the addition of Gravitas Entertainment and Management as full-time management for the band, the schedule and team in place for 2023 have the band set for new heights…..

Band Lineup:
Chris Basile – Guitar
Shaun Kennedy – Bass
Jim Beach – Vocals
John Glassbrenner – Drums

Discography
2023 – System of The Animal 25 (Gravitas Entertainment)
2021 – Gravitas Maximus – LP (Unique Leader Records)
2018 – Unholy Requiem – LP (Unique Leader Records)
2015 – Sermon of Mockery Reissue – LP (Century Media)
2013 – Feast of Iniquity – LP (Unique Leader Records)
2007 – Age of the Wicked – LP (Unique Leader Records)
2004 – Cruelty Beyond Submission – Compilation (Rex Records)
1999 – Catastrophic-The Cleansing (featuring members of Obituary)
1997 – System of the Animal – LP (Serious Entertainment)
1995 – Hatred Anger And Disgust – EP (Self-Release)
1993 – Sermon of Mockery – LP (Drowned Productions)
1991 – Liturgy of Impurity – EP (Self-Release)

EPK – Pyrexia – System of The Animal 25 (2023) (Gravitas Entertainment)

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