Philly’s RED BRICK Lob Ominous New Single “The Price”

Heavy sludge from Philly, featuring a two-piece band with a provocative name: RED BRICK. Mag Stephens tackles the strings and Chris Penrod the drums, trading barbs on vocals. It’s an all-out assault on the senses, carrying all the contempt of a brick thrown into a glass window.

The band sheds some light on the motives driving the new album, their first full-length following a 2021 EP:

Anchored in real-world despair, class violence, and moments of seething clarity, the album navigates themes ranging from substance abuse and queer trauma to dead-end jobs, burnout, performative activism, blind consumerism, and the failures of authority.

Combative and in your face, ‘Thrown’ (2025), is a wrecking ball of power and emotion blending elements of sludge, death, and grind into a caustic boiling cauldron. “The Price” is their second single and hits you with the force of a seismic wave. Out July 25th on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.

Give ear…

SOME BUZZ

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release Thrown, the new album from Philly’s destructive hardcore/sludge/grindcore/death metal act Red Brick. Scheduled for July 25, the album will be available on CD and digital formats, along with merch.

Red Brick is made up of two violent homunculi grown in Petri dishes in the bowels of Philadelphia for the dual purpose of suffering and playing false sludge. They arrived upon the world in 2021 AD with the EP Gastric. Operating as a trio until about a year before the debut album, Thrown, was slated for release, Red Brick eventually condensed into a two-piece. That shift birthed a new dimension for the band, as vocalist/guitarist Mag Stephens states: “Through all our various trials and tribulations, we feel like we’ve truly found our sound on this one.”

Recorded in the dead of winter as they mourned the living, Thrown is a testament to their nature, blending sludge, hardcore, grindcore, and death metal sensibilities seamlessly for a soundtrack befitting only the most destructive crash-outs imaginable. Anchored in real-world despair, class violence, and moments of seething clarity, Thrown doesn’t simmer, it erupts. Substance abuse, queer trauma, dead-end jobs, burnout, incompetent authority, performative activism, blind consumerism — it’s all here.

If you see Red Brick, do not make any sudden movements and back away slowly.