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09/17/25 | [dcraley]Meatwound Return With "Mount Vermin"
Florida’s MEATWOUND will unleash their first new album in six years, Macho, on May 9th via the newly launched Threat Collection Records, owned and operated by producer/engineer Ryan Boesch (Whores, Melvins, Helmet, Andrew W.K.). Alongside the album announcement and details, the band has premiered the record's first single "Mount Vermin."
Vocalist Daniel Wallace comments, "Macho? Old man shit. Inescapable to not mention age when discussing MEATWOUND as most members are hovering around and beyond 50 years of earth living, yet still refuse to leave music creation to the youth. So what do the decades of song writing and instrument playing yield in this situation? Reticence and frustration, a sense of urgency to incorporate more sounds into the fray while taking five years to write, demo, and eventually record the nine new tracks on the album… Recruited a new drummer with a new set of influences to litter about, as can be heard across the record. An electronic shadow drummer also appears a couple times, complicating and perhaps ruining the experience, depending on your palate. More of the pedal abuse masquerading as dynamics. Bass lines somewhere between insult and seduction. People get restless and mutations occur, for better or worse. The arc of MEATWOUND appears to be constant expansion, more melody along with more noise, dialing back the abrasive qualities in one section and multiplying them in another, always angling to first keep it awesome to themselves musically, before stepping back to gauge potential listener attention span. But fuck a listener, right? Idiots.
“‘Mount Vermin’ is a rock song, basically. Probably not written with the specific intention of being it but upon completion, and when compared to other tracks, MEATWOUND’s idea of lead single it is. The band members seem to hear completely different origins listening back to the song, leading to the shaking of heads. Unconscious tribute to Rick Froberg? Distant memories of listening to Slip on cassette in 1993? Somebody still writing songs about ‘vermin’ at 47 years old? It all tracks.”
Pre-order Macho HERE.
Macho tracklist:
Side A
1. Compressed Hell
2. Mount Vermin
3. Obese Variants
4. Labor
5. Frank Stallone
Side B
1. Pigs, Tu
2. Europa
3. Barking Dog As Plot Device
4. Chunk
5. Exodus MF
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Dan started Getting It Out back in 2018 as a stand alone podcast. He’s been writing for music websites for over a decade and finally decided to start his own. Now living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife and kids, he briefly sang for Baltimore’s Pleasant Living.
