Hedorah - Detroit EP (2011)

I think Detroit might be the worst place on earth. While I have had mercifully little exposure to this terrible, terrible place, I did spend roughly 24 hours there when my old band toured through a bunch of years ago. As far as I can tell, the city is inhabited entirely by thugs, juggalos, and disreputable women. The amount of jarring, crazy shit we saw in just that tiny time frame was simply mind-boggling, and I've never been happier to leave such a depressed, ugly town. I would seriously rather vacation in the ruins of Chernobyl than spend another minute in that foul petri dish of ruined lives. So when I saw that Hedorah's recently submitted EP was entitled 'Detroit', I knew I was in for some ugly shit.

So here's the recipe for some proper Detroit sludgegrind: take that gritty, down-tuned sludge template as laid out by bands like Gaza, add a splash of noisy grind, a pinch of powerviolence, and a whole lot of misanthropy. Tracks like 'A Shallow Grave For Rick Snyder' rumble through some massive doom riffs that rumble through with floor-cracking heaviness, while others go for the throat with filthy angularity. Pretty solid stuff, even if the production is somewhat raw and the EP flies by quicker than a Michigan auto plant going under. Just like their city, there's not a single pretty thing about Hedorah - the disgust seeps from every track - but that's totally expected when you create music in the butthole of America.

Tracklist:
1. The World To Save
2. Hivemind
3. Cop Crusher
4. A Shallow Grave For Rick Snyder
5. Epitaph

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