Living Weapon Announce Debut Album Death In The Family, Share “The Leaving Process”

The knot of musicians orbiting Boston’s Vein.fm continues to tighten. Living Weapon, the metalcore group fronted by Vein.fm bassist Jonathan Lhaubouet, has announced its debut album, Death In The Family, arriving August 14 via Closed Casket Activities.

The band emerged in 2021 with the Paradise EP, a corrosive first statement. Since then, the lineup has solidified around Lhaubouet, Jeremy Martin (also Vein.fm), Anthony DiDio and Josian Soto-Ramos (both of Fleshwater; Soto-Ramos also plays in Vatican), and Justin Legere. That shared pedigree points to a specific register of hardcore: heavy, noise-tempered, and physically immediate.

The first single, “The Leaving Process,” is a controlled detonation. Low-end churn and clipped screams ride rhythms that shift from pummeling to unnervingly patient, the tension broken by flashes of melody buried under the weight. Its accompanying video is intensely foreboding, matching the track’s grim momentum without resorting to theatrical excess.

The album’s nine tracks include titles like “Metastasis,” “Parthenogenesis,” and “In Loving Memory”—suggesting a thematic throughline of bodily and emotional rupture. Death In The Family feels less like a debut arriving from nowhere than an extension of an already engrossing run from this circle of musicians.