NEQUIENT: Heavy Blog Is Heavy Premieres “Christofascist Zombie Brigade” Video From Chicago Grind Crew; Avarice LP Drops April 24th On Nefarious Industries + Tour With Black Cross Hotel Nears

photos by John Mourlas

Heavy Blog Is Heavy is responsible for the worldwide video premiere of “Christofascist Zombie Brigade,” the new track by Chicago grindcore/hardcore quartet NEQUIENT. The song is the latest warning shot fired ahead of their incoming third album, Avarice, nearing release through Nefarious Industries.

Produced by Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Yob, Wovenhand) and mastered by Collin Jordan (Harm’s Way, Windhand, Voivod), Avarice is the recorded debut of NEQUIENT bassist/backing vocalist Aaron Roemig (Arbogast, Mine Collapse) who joins the band’s mainstays Chris Avgerin (drums), Patrick Conahan (guitar), and Jason Kolkey (vocals). The grotesquely intricate artwork by Arifullah Ali, design by Scott Shellhamer (American Heritage, Buried at Sea, Coffinworm), and guest synth contributions from Kevin Kalay and Circa Tapes all contribute to an atmosphere of existential horror.

With the new single, Kolkey reveals, “‘Christofascist Zombie Brigade’ is a rapid-fire, blackened grind assault featuring a title that I stole from Marc Maron. The lyrics focus on the dangerous alignment of evangelical Christianity with blood-and-soil nationalism that’s enabled a lurch toward illiberalism in the U.S. and elsewhere. We were excited to collaborate on the video with David Jessup, who complemented the musical chaos with stop-motion animation reminiscent of the classic Tool clips we grew up watching over and over again.”

With the video’s public debut, Heavy Blog Is Heavy writes in part, “I don’t really know what’s cooler: the amount of work and dedication that was put into sourcing the sets for this video, the amount of attention needed to actually make it, or the absolutely killer music that it’s set to… It’s a veritable cornucopia of grind and camp aesthetics, all blending into one excellent whole.”

Watch NEQUIENT’s video for the ravenous “Christofascist Zombie Brigade” first via Heavy Blog Is Heavy RIGHT HERE.

Avarice will be available on splatter vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital formats on April 24th. Find preorders where the “Mad King / Fool” video is playing at Nefarious Industries HERE.

Additional videos and previews of the album will drop over the weeks ahead.

NEQUIENT’s Midwest tour with Black Cross Hotel is just days away, running from March 26th through 30th, and a hometown release show is booked on the day of the album’s release. A Summer East Coast tour and more is also in the works.

NEQUIENT Tour Dates:
3/26/2026 Loose Cobra – Tolono, IL w/ Black Cross Hotel
3/27/2026 Heavy Anchor – St. Louis, MO w/ Black Cross Hotel
3/28/2026 Frat House – Iowa City, IA w/ Black Cross Hotel
3/29/2026 Reverb Lounge – Omaha, NE w/ Black Cross Hotel
3/30/2026 Memory Lanes – Minneapolis, MN w/ Black Cross Hotel
4/24/2026 Liar’s Club – Chicago, IL *Record Release Show w/ Something Is Waiting, Neverender

How can artists and musicians respond to an era when jackbooted thugs descend on U.S. cities, tech billionaires blithely deploy technologies calculated to wipe out the livelihoods of millions, and misinformation controls the rage of the masses? For Chicago’s grinding metallic hardcore misfits NEQUIENT, the answer is to get even angrier and weirder.

NEQUIENT’s second album Darker Than Death Or Night was praised as, “a fusion of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, and Combatwoundedveteran – if those bands were feral and sludgy,” by Decibel Magazine. The Heavyist called the album, “proper fuckin’ excellent weirdo hardcore,” and The Chicago Reader praised its, “menacing layers of hardcore, grindcore, thrash, and straight-up gnarly metal.” Invisible Oranges said, “NEQUIENT is the soundtrack of our frustrations, this angry, chaotic sound of distrust, anger, and voicelessness now given a megaphone.” Since that release, the band has exhibited an undying dedication to the DIY way with a series of tours, including a run of dates alongside Psychosomatic and Black Mass.

Avarice is the quartet’s third full-length album, the culmination of more than a decade spent evolving their unique synthesis of extreme metal and hardcore in the depths of the aggressive music underground. Honing the adventurous songwriting and lyrical venom exhibited on previous releases like 2018’s Wolves At The Door and 2022’s Darker Than Death Or Night, the unrelenting assault of Avarice blasts listeners out of complacency with withering screeds against the malignant forces ravaging our world.