Photo by Kathleen Kennedy Magruder
Texas-based, self-proclaimed slug metal collective KALLOHONKA are pleased to present their video for “Psychic Surgery.” Now playing at Decibel Magazine, the track comes off the band’s Lazer Blood full-length, out now on Memory Terminal Records.
Comments bassist James Magruder, “Witness the Chaos, Exultation, and Catharsis of KALLOHONKA. Become a corvine wizard! An anarchist shopping cart! A 12-foot teetering wheel of pizza! You can be anything, really.”
Decibel Magazine lauds, “a psychedelic nightmare of Butthole Surfers-level insanity.”
Watch KALLOHONKA’s “Psychic Surgery” video 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 jazz musician Dennis Gonzalez. Rest in power.
Lazer Blood is out now on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Find orders 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
!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
“They are one of the oddest stoner punk bands I have heard in some time, which is endearing unto itself… if you smoke lots of weeds and listen to punk you will get the joke.” – Abysmal Hymns
“To try to pin down what they sound like is futile: it’s noisy, technical, wild, dystopian. They don’t care about making sense or appeasing a particular audience, choosing rather to be uniform in their experimental folly.” – Heavy Music HQ
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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