Spread the Disease - The Darkness. The Dread. The Suffering.Emerging from the frigid heart of Southern Ontario in 1997, Spread The Disease (STD) began as a darker, uncompromising side project from members of New Day Rising. Long before blackened hardcore became a recognized genre, the band was already forging that collisionfusing the aggression of hardcore with the cold extremity of black metal and the technical precision of death metal. Now, decades after their primal beginnings, Spread The Disease returns.