Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste

Thrash should leave you breathless, busted-up, and maybe even a little drunk (in a cutoff denim vest adorned with barely legible patches). Since 2001, Municipal Waste have uncompromisingly stuck to their guns as hard-partying and even harder-hitting torchbearers of 21st century thrash metal.

The Richmond, VA quintet have transformed from a cult favorite into metal mainstays for a generation. Municipal Waste maintain course as vicious and vital as ever on 2022's Electrified Brain. Recorded in Philadelphia with producer Arthur Rizk [Power Trip, Code Orange], they achieved "a thicker and heavier sound" than before. The debut single "Grave Dive" hinges on a downright mean palm-muted riff as a percussive onslaught commences. It builds towards a gang chant call-and-response before a lead rips. In the end, Electrified Brain will give you everything you'd want from a Municipal Waste record or heavy metal record, period.

Municipal Waste

Electrified Brain

Nuclear Blast America
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
LP +

$26.99

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Yellow Vinyl

Released 09/23/2022Catalog Number

NBA6381.1

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Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
LP +

$26.99

Blue Marble Vinyl

Released 09/23/2022Catalog Number

NBA6110.1

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Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
CD

$14.99

Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

NBA6110.2

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Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
CD +

$22.99

Indie Exclusive Longbox CD

Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

NBA61105.2

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Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
Tape

$13.99

Indie Exclusive

Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

NBA6110.4

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Municipal Waste

Electrified Brain

Nuclear Blast America
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
LP +

$26.99

Indie Exclusive

Yellow Vinyl

Released 09/23/2022Catalog Number

NBA6381.1

Learn more
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
LP +

$26.99

Blue Marble Vinyl

Released 09/23/2022Catalog Number

NBA6110.1

Learn more
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
CD

$14.99

Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

NBA6110.2

Learn more
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
CD +

$22.99

Indie Exclusive Longbox CD

Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

NBA61105.2

Learn more
Album artwork for Electrified Brain by Municipal Waste
Tape

$13.99

Indie Exclusive

Released 07/01/2022Catalog Number

NBA6110.4

Learn more

Thrash should leave you breathless, busted-up, and maybe even a little drunk (in a cutoff denim vest adorned with barely legible patches). Since 2001, Municipal Waste have uncompromisingly stuck to their guns as hard-partying and even harder-hitting torchbearers of 21st century thrash metal.

The Richmond, VA quintet have transformed from a cult favorite into metal mainstays for a generation. Municipal Waste maintain course as vicious and vital as ever on 2022's Electrified Brain. Recorded in Philadelphia with producer Arthur Rizk [Power Trip, Code Orange], they achieved "a thicker and heavier sound" than before. The debut single "Grave Dive" hinges on a downright mean palm-muted riff as a percussive onslaught commences. It builds towards a gang chant call-and-response before a lead rips. In the end, Electrified Brain will give you everything you'd want from a Municipal Waste record or heavy metal record, period.