LIVING WEAPON have released "Death In The Family," their debut full-length — an album that stares directly at mortality, meaninglessness and whatever is left once existence stops. The record runs a compact 23 minutes and drives toward an unresolved end, examining life at its start and at its finish while the universe declines to care about either.
Arriving alongside it is a music video for "In Loving Memory."
The Boston outfit is fronted by Jonathan Lhaubouet, better known as bassist and backing vocalist in VEIN.FM, and its ranks pull from the tightest corner of the New England heavy scene — including Jeremy Martin of VEIN.FM, Anthony DiDio of FLESHWATER and VEIN.FM, and Josian Soto-Ramos of FLESHWATER and VATICAN. The album lands via Closed Casket Activities and follows the band's 2021 EP "Paradise," making this their first full statement after five years of comparative quiet.
It is also the first time LIVING WEAPON have tracked an entire album in-house. Jeremy Martin recorded, produced and engineered the sessions across fall 2025 into spring 2026, keeping the process internal from start to finish. Mixing went to Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio — a name attached to some of the most punishing hardcore and metal records of the past decade — with Nick Townsend handling the master.
The result is dense and deliberately unglamorous, closer to mathcore's jagged geometry than to anything built for a chorus. Titles like "Metastasis," "The Leaving Process" and "When No Light Compared" telegraph the subject matter without flinching; "Qui Transtulit Sustinet" borrows the Latin motto of Connecticut — "he who transplanted still sustains" — and drops it into an album with no interest in reassurance.
The band play a record release show on August 22 at Middle East Upstairs in Boston, Massachusetts.
"Death In The Family" tracklist:
- The First Element
- Metastasis
- Dead Like You
- The Leaving Process
- Parthenogenesis
- Interspecies Quality Assessment
- Qui Transtulit Sustinet
- In Loving Memory
- When No Light Compared
Live:
- Aug. 22 — Boston, MA — Middle East Upstairs (record release show)
Stream "Death In The Family": livingweapon.bandcamp.com
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