BLACK PUS / OOZING WOUND split 12″ featuring brand new tracks from each.
Out on 17th June by Thrill Jockey Records on limited edition LP/DL

BLACK PUS is „raucous and otherworldly” solo drum project of Brian Chippendale, the drummer of hard noise rock duo Lightning Bolt. He has been chosen by Björk and The Flaming Lips as a collaborator and played on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Repentance album (2008). OOZING WOUND is a classic, but a little unorthodox thrash metal band, because there aren’t guitar solos. In May 2013 they opened up for Black Pus in their hometown Chicago… These songs aren’t from the split! Just as samples

Black Pus Euro tour June-July. Vienna June 30

Oozing Wound – Retrash

It’s unnecessary to write about this album too many words. It’s fuckin’ good THRASH METAL. I’m very pleased; it’s enormously amusing and impossible to get bored with these perfect 32 minutes. Just Slayer, Exodus, Voivod, Nuclear Assault and Pantera came to my mind during the listening, and sometimes the Ministry. Moreover there aren’t guitar solos. It’s extra delight for me, because I like Uncle King’s solos alone.

“We’re so cool that we don’t care that we’re not cool.”

The cement mixer operators have very colourful antecedents. It’s surprising that two of them played bass in avant-garde performance art rock band, Lovely Little Girls.  And there are acoustic folk, hard-edge-pop and garage rock bands also. The immediate antecedents:
a noise rock band of Kyle (drums): Bad Drugs,
an old copied cassette thrash band of Zach (guitar, vocal): Zath,
and a thrashy noise punk band of both: Cacaw.

„Evil is ageless. You can be a 90-year-old wizard and still play metal.”

And there is another surprise. Their debut album was released by Thrill Jockey Records.
They’re interesting in avant-garde – experimental – psychedelic music mainly. Some artists from the roster: Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars), Black Pus, Boredoms, David Byrne, Chicago Underground, White Hills, Tortoise, Wooden Shjips. So this isn’t a conventional metal album.

Zach: When I was 13 I wanted to be Kurt Cobain.
Kevin (bass): I wanted to be Les Claypool.
Zach: And Kyle wanted to be Dale Crover. (Drummer of the Melvins)

Quotes and interview fragment from Chicago Music

Do you like thrash metal, but don’t like guitar solos?
Yes, it’s a real problem. The solution is OOZING WOUND

They come from Chicago, and their debut album was released recently by Thrill Jockey

Some people can write all sort of stupidity about them: punk, hardcore, crossover, Big Black(?). No, the Oozing Wound is a first-class Thrash Metal band without all the banalities of metal, for example needless guitar solos and high-pitched shrieks. Not accidentally the Thrill Jockey to release their debut album. It is not truly a metal label, rather experimental. Some artist from the rotate: Black Pus, Boredom, Chicago Underground, Mouse On Mars, Tortoise, White Hills.

Retrash LP by Thrill Jockey

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