Friday, August 16th, 2024 – Extinction A.D., New York’s relentless purveyors of ferocious hardcore tinged thrash metal, have released their brand new album, ‘To The Detested’ today via Unique Leader Records. Unwavering in its brutality and pulling no punches from a lyrical perspective. The band’s fourth studio album sees the band continue to expand and evolve their sound and embrace new influences. This evolution is most apparent on today’s focus track, ‘Burnt Sienna’, crafted in homage to frontman, Rick Jimenez’ Puerto Rican heritage, incorporating elements of Bomba and hearing Rick sing in Spanish for the first time on an Extinction A.D. track. Rick’s vulnerable experiences that shaped the song and the band’s journey to creating the song have been captured in a mini-documentary, that will premiere on Monday, August 19th HERE. Watch the official music video for ‘Burnt Sienna’ HERE. Listen to ‘To The Detested’ on your streaming platform of choice HERE. Speaking on “Burnt Sienna”, Rick Jimenez shares “This entire song was a crazy journey from start to finish. From conception of incorporating Bomba into our typical metal style, to singing in Spanish, to diving into the “personal turmoil turned pride in exploration” of my Puerto Rican heritage and my upbringing in an unwelcoming environment, to putting together the exposition video doc of the creation of the song, to choosing this as a single. It’s a lot of personal exposition and being raw about my own individual experiences and evolution as I grow older in this world while simultaneously coming to terms with some things and discovering others.” Speaking on the release of the album today, Jimenez continues “This album took on a life of its own very quickly and is by far the freshest one of our career. There was no second guessing or laboring over anything, it was pure unbridled energy from the first note of the first song we wrote to the final sound we recorded. We’ve never pulled any punches musically or lyrically but this is a whole new level of intensity, vitriol and honesty. It is not for the thin-skinned or the weak hearted. This record is in fact our declaration to the detested.” | 
