Photo by Kathleen Kennedy Magruder
“Psychic Surgery” is the latest single from Texas-based, self-proclaimed slug metal berserkers KALLOHONKA. Now playing courtesy of Everything Is Noise, the track appears on the band’s debut full-length Lazer Blood, set for release on March 13th through Memory Terminal Records.
Writes Everything Is Noise in part, “So… what is slug metal, then? Based on [‘Psychic Surgery’], it’s a spaced out yet driving concoction of noise rock, sludge, punk, and some folk, through an experimental lens. Some could even go as far as to just call them, well, weird. Luckily, we at Everything Is Noise are all about that. As for the song’s background, the brief but self-explanatory quote provided by the band’s bassist James Magruder says the following; ‘I wrote part of ‘Psychic Surgery’ in 2000 for a choir director. I fucking hate pirates but stumbling into liminal oblivion is something I’ve always highly condoned.’
“KALLOHONKA surely intends to disrupt norms with their output, and are achieving exactly that to a great effect with ‘Psychic Surgery,’ with its upbeat but brooding pace and instrumentation. 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.”
Stream KALLOHONKA’s “Psychic Surgery” HERE.
Stream the band’s previously released single, “Experimenting With The Dead,” 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!
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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