Out This Week | Post-Trash Highlights — POST-TRASH (2024)

AUTOBAHNS | "First LP!"

Legless Records
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Autobahns, the Leipzig based synth-punk project of Giuliano Iannarella, sound like a tornado ripping through an enclosed space, warped and weird in the best of ways. On First LP!, Autobahns come surging out the gate with deranged synths and pummeling beats as they jolt between jittery hardcore, mangled "egg punk," and the occasional retro futuristic boogie.

CAVALERA | "Schizophrenia (Re-Recorded)"

Nuclear Blast
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Cavalera, the duo of Sepultura’s founding members Max and Iggor Cavalera, are back at it with a re-recorded Schizophrenia, arguably the band’s first (but not last) genre defining classic, and while many love the way the original sounds, it’s clear that the re-recorded version of the record has been given an upgrade in terms of sheer fidelity, the songs hurtling like torpedoes of bellowing thrash metal. It sounded like an untamed beast back in 1987, and the it’s only grown more feral over time.

DUST FROM 1000 YEARS | "Joy"

Self Released
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Ben Rector (aka Bone), has been perfecting his profoundly beautiful "sad bastard" music as Dust From 1000 Years for well over a decade, his lyrics heart wrenching and human. While he's been busy establishing himself as a great photographer, Joy is his first new record in five years. His world weary ballads create a stunning space between slow drawn depression and earnest romanticism.

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FROZE TO DEATH | "Thirds"

Resident Recordings
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Ithaca's Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death return with Thirds, the band's first new album in five years, a slab of wrought post-hardcore mixed by none other than J. Robbins (who produced their prior album). With sinewy riffs galore and a dense and muscular rhythm section (Brendan Kuntz crushes it on the drums), the band weave their way through corrosive structures that are propulsive and delightfully off-kilter.

HYPERDONTIA | "Harvest of Malevolence"

Dark Descent / Me Saco Un Ojo Records
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With their third album, Harvest of Malevolence, Hyperdontia are once again atop the festering death metal heap, stampeding in every direction with rhythmic dexterity rarely seen and guitar riffs that feel seismically intense. The record is a brutal infestation of a band as intensely smart as they are barbaric. Harvest of Malevolence is in constant motion, rapidly shifting at the speed of light, and yet it’s the impenetrable darkness that always prevails.

SUMAC | "The Healer"

Thrill Jockey Records
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SUMAC, experimental metal's most forward thinking band, return with The Healer, a gargantuan record that explores ideas of damaged morality and the importance of empathy via apocalyptic drone, warped sludge, bellowing incantations, and brute force. The trio function as one with a kinetic ability to bludgeon and dazzle in equal parts, their artistic contribution to metal as brilliant and free as it is chaotic. The Healer is a complicated yet patient record, delivered with a sense of hope for these dreadful times.

THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 | "The Funeral Pudding" (Reissue)

Bulbous Monocle
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Originally released as a European only tour CD back in 1994, the ever fascinating Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 bring The Funeral Pudding back into circulation with a vinyl reissue and digital remaster. In contrast to the majority of the band's catalog, Anne Eickelberg and Hugh Swarts handle vocals on The Funeral Pudding, showing a different side of the profoundly amorphous band. A gem in a catalog full of gems.

YOUR OLD DROOG | "Movie"

Self Released
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After releasing eight albums in two years, Your Old Droog spent 2022 dropping a never ending array of conceptual EPs. Then things got quiet, presumably as he worked on stand-alone singles with Madlib and Movie, his first new full length in three years. With a stellar line-up of hip-hop's most in demand producers, Droog dives deep on Movie, his lyricism unflinching as he swerves between punchlines, braggadocios sh*t talk, and sincere explorations of his personal life.