Photo by Kathleen Kennedy Magruder
Decibel Magazine is currently streaming Lazer Blood, the debut full-length from Texas-based, self-proclaimed slug metal berserkers KALLOHONKA, in its entirety. The premieres comes in advance of the record’s official unveiling Friday, March 13th through Memory Terminal Records.
Comments bassist James Magruder, “Forget yourself and this banal Armageddon! Revel in ecstatic moronica until the tides wash us all away. Let the chaotic tinntinnambulations cleanse your fear. There is only one law as the hourglass silently wanes with granules finite: be fucking free. Don thy regalia and join us in the streets as we twist and turn in mad contortions.”
Adds Decibel, “On their debut album, Lazer Blood, this Texas foursome… offers up a musical ritual that’s equal parts art damaged punk, carnivalesque grindcore, ’70s prog, and some quirky version of metal. [Vocalist Amie] Carson’s primal, anguished wails provide an atonal tension to all eight, brief tracks. This is a debut you’ll surely remember.”
Stream KALLOHONKA’s Lazer Blood HERE.
Lazer Blood was captured at The Echo Lab in Argyle, Texas and produced by James Magruder and Matt Pence. The record includes guest appearances by Dennis Gonzalez, Aaron Gonzales, Sarah Ruth Alexander, and Jenni Raab. The record also serves as the last unreleased album with Dennis Gonzalez. Rest in power.
Lazer Blood will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Find preorders at the KALLOHONKA Bandcamp page HERE or Memory Terminal Bandcamp page HERE.
Lazer Blood Track Listing:
1. Experimenting With The Dead
2. Robotically Birthed
3. DMT
4. Simulated Experience
5. Heaven’s Gate
6. Psychic Surgery
7. Leeches
8. Onward To Death
KALLOHONKA Live:
3/13/2026 The Doublewide – Dallas, TX * Record Release Show w/ Oil Spill, Teal Stripe
!Behold KALLOHONKA! Stoned out slugs from the Dark Wood of Olde! Originally hippy Christian cult members, the quasi-discernible minds of KALLOHONKA were conscripted by CIA-run hallucinogenic brain mutation research programs, fracturing their individual reality tunnels. As accusations swirled of sowing the seeds of both Jonestown and the Hale-Bopp fiasco, KALLOHONKA fell into the stuff of legend. Eventually escaping a dark site lab in 1997, KALLOHONKA became a festering hive ego composed of primordial goo. In the mid-2000s, KALLOHONKA returned to its roots, reforging the bear cult feasts of the elder days. While gorging on ursine flesh, they sang craven arias to the souls of the phantasmic beasts, hiding with style and aplomb, the true method of dispatch used to fell the creatures. Rising through the cacophony, a final opus to the animal’s skull rang true and beautiful as it was placed atop a century pine, casting the bear’s spirit back into the stars to be perpetually born anew. Join us in grotesque bacchanals of these feral hymns. !Behold KALLOHONKA!
“We as listeners are being led upon a cavalcade of mind-bending semi-astral projections conjured via sound and not enjoying it would require some serious stick-up-the-ass action from whomever dared to disagree.” – Everything Is Noise
KALLOHONKA:
Amie Carson – vocals
James Magruder – bass, howls, auxiliary whatever
Jason Mullins – guitars
Alec Rabb – drums
Dennis Gonzalez – horns
Sarah Ruth Alexander – vocals
Jenni Raab – screams
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