Iron Front “Hooked” Brutal Death Album Release

The second album from Oakland, California-based brutal death metal outfit IRON FRONT, official release this Friday on Creator-Destructor Records.

Originally formed in 2016 as Dire Wolves, the band reformatted to IRON FRONT in 2019 and is currently embodied by drummer Max Mahmood, guitarist/vocalist Cruz Garcia, guitarist Jesse Dicruttalo, bassist Dmitri Castillo Russel, and vocalist Topey Plourde. Taking inspiration from old-school death metal and NYHC, the output of IRON FRONT is a hardcore-adjacent, slam-induced alloy of pure savagery, calling to mind 200 Stab Wounds, Snuffed On Sight, Skinless, Bodybox, Internal Bleeding, and Suffocation.

Prior to Hooked, IRON FRONT has released a handful of demos and singles, the Flayed Alive EP on Transylvanian Recordings, and their independently released Left Out To Rot debut full-length, in addition to having performed live all over the greater Bay Area and touring across the Western US.

Now, IRON FRONT arrives with their most decimating material to date with their second album, Hooked, the succinct but dense record savagely unloads seven earthmoving tracks stacked with infectious riff-hooks and earthmoving beatdowns. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Nicholas Morosini at Inpatient Studios in Oakland, Hooked is completed with cover art by Julian Felipe Mora Ibañez.

IRON FRONT collectively offers, “We’re very excited to release this album and show how we’ve developed as musicians and as a band. Most of us have been playing together and making music with each other since we were about twelve years old, and we feel ready to start moving up from, ‘a band to watch,’ to a, ‘band being watched.’ We’ve taken what we’ve learned from performing over the last several years and used that experience to create crushing songs that will decimate in both a live and studio setting. I think both hardcore kids and death metal bros will dig this record, and our good friends Gerold and Kane from Manos De Fierro and Harry from Bodybox did some sick features on some of the songs.”

Hooked will be released on LP and digital platforms this Friday, January 12th. Find preorders at the Creator-Destructor webshop https://www.creator-destructor.com and https://ironfront.bandcamp.com

IRON FRONT will support Hooked with regional live actions and tour dates in 2024, having just completed a three-day run across California, and with a release show for the album going down in San Francisco this Saturday on January 13th. Watch for additional dates to post shortly.