It has been decided. The round table of Album Art Judges have made up their minds and declared that Chicago's OOZING WOUND have provided us with the "Best Cover Art" for all of 2013. Judge Milton Cornbeater has this to say about the decision: "For the rest of the year, all items might as well just be blank, with simply the band name and the title of the record, cause no one is going to top this shit." Cheers to our friends OOZING WOUND - see em at the Bottle for their Record Release Show with THE BODY & TOUPEE on Thursday, October 24. It's FREE with RSVP!Thrill Jockey Records has more on the record below...“take three dudes from some of the city’s grossest, weirdest bands, and together they create a simple, powerful thrash unit...Retrash is a seven-song, 32-minute blast of streamlined, high-intensity heavy metal” - Chicago ReaderOozing Wound is Zack Weil (guitar, vocals), Kevin Cribbin (bass), and Kyle Reynolds (drums), young men that have established themselves in the volatile Chicago underground in a short time, playing in Cacaw, Unmanned Ship, ZATH, Bad Drugs, and countless other groups that have populated packed, sweaty basements and lofts throughout the city. Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying, their debut album, Retrash, is made for people who have no faith in melody and happiness, and no resistance to heavy riffage. This is music by and for people with a desire to slay.The band channels their inner 15 year old, offering little distinction between comedy and antagonism. As Weil puts it, Oozing Wound is defined by, “loud fucking guitars and screaming and shit. We don’t sing, and we don’t write big choruses. Anything like that gets checked by the wayside because, fuck it, it’s not us.”The songs on Retrash use humor to defend against and explore the anger, paranoia, and destruction that characterize life in the modern era. The line between hysterical and histrionic is tread with little regard for anything at all. “See you later, alligator” Weil howls in “Welcome to the Spaceship, Motherfucker,” as he channels a fever dream of the Biblical Joseph after discovering Mary’s pregnancy. “No more faker, doppelganger/No more false child of mine.” At the core of every song is a riff, or collection of riffs: from the ur-thrash of the gut-punching opener “Everyone I Hate Should Be Killed” to the sludgy noise of “New York Bands,” Retrash is a blast of pure energy put forth with simplicity and fury.Retrash was recorded at Electrical Audio and Studio Chicago in two 12-hour sessions by their friend Matt Russell, and follows the Vape and Pillage cassette on Reynolds’ own Rotted Tooth Recordings. These recordings were not made for laptop speakers or ear buds, and are meant to be played as loud as possible.
