Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Live Fast Die Recordings presents a split release between two of The Twin Cities’ finest doom/sludge exports: NO FUNERAL and LIVID. Colored vinyl limited to 500 hand-numbered copies worldwide including a download card.

Forged in 2011, NO FUNERAL — featuring former members of Sourvein and Ashen — plays bleak sludge in the vein of Grief, Dystopia, and Buzzov*en, with influences ranging from crust and sludge to death metal. The band’s suffocating output stems from a range of deep personal struggles to complete misanthropy. Hate, misery, and the sheer disdain for the day-to-day activities have molded NO FUNERAL’s songs into a soundtrack for loathsome scum.

LIVID was formed is 2014 and recently joined forces with Prosthetic Records for the release of their Beneath This Shroud, The Earth Erodes debut full-length. The band’s punishing sound is soaked in palpable desolation and despair, spanning delicately-orchestrated drones to pummeling doom. Together the two manifest a three-song EP that’s at once stark and demoralizing. [Live Fast Die Fast Recordings]