Photo by Kathleen Kennedy Magruder
Texas-based, self-proclaimed slug metal outfit KALLOHONKA will unleash their debut full-length Lazer Blood March 13th on Memory Terminal Records.
!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!
Proclaims KALLOHONKA bassist James Magruder on Lazer Blood, “Slugs, bear cvlts, weed, aliens, this motherfucker has it all! Forget yourself and this disaster of a planet. Let’s have some fucking fun before the bill comes due. Next stop, Hale Bopp, ya’ll.”
Of opening track and first single “Experimenting With The Dead,” Magruder further elaborates, “Have you ever smoked weed on Ketamine while riding a jet boat with the family and accidentally turned into an art deco building? Well, now everyone can.”
Stream KALLOHONKA’s “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
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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