BACON WAGON: Everything Is Noise Streams Trauma Cake, The Debut Album From Swedish Noise Rock Trio; Record Sees Release This Week On Reptilian Records

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“…brash, punchy punk riffs with an undercurrent of doomy trudge, tons of groove, and feedback aplenty…” – Everything Is Noise

Everything Is Noise is the first place to hear Trauma Cake, the long-awaited debut album from Swedish noise rock trio BACON WAGON, ahead of its release this Friday on Reptilian Records.

Crackling with the expected caustic noise rock snarl and a filthy edge of tongue-in-cheek snark, BACON WAGON’s Trauma Cake slaps the listener with ten ripping ragers fueled with punk energy and fuzz galore. One can picture the band members slyly cranking these dirges out amidst stacks of blown-out amps pumping forth plumes of blackened fumes while a cast of buzzed patrons light themselves aflame while slow-motion crowdsurfing.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Oliver Dahl at Studio Quaalude, Sweden, and completed with cover art by the band’s Marcus Kinberg, Trauma Cake is prime auricle-abrasing sustenance for patrons of Hammerhead, Black Flag, Nirvana, Flipper, Tad, Melvins, Butthole Surfers, and anything recorded by Steve Albini.

Marcus Kinberg states, “The slap in the face you never had but deserved. Enjoy the Trauma Cake: Three Swedes, lots of distortion, ‘deep’ lyrics, multidimensional aura, adult oriented! Like a breeze of filthy fresh air. In other words: something for everyone!”

Adjoining their advance stream of the album, Everything Is Noise writes, “Across the album, listeners can expect brash, punchy punk riffs with an undercurrent of doomy trudge, tons of groove, and feedback aplenty… It’s brash, it’s bold, and it’s well worth a couple spins for anyone who likes their rock and punk punchy, noisy, and grimy.”

Sear your speakers with BACON WAGON’s Trauma Cake now playing at Everything Is Noise RIGHT HERE.

Trauma Cake will be served on LP with 500 copies on Translucent Blue Vinyl w/ Custard And Hot Pink Splatter and through digital services this Friday, June 6th. Reserve your copy at Reptilian Records’ webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. Also watch a live session including some of the album’s tracks HERE.

Following two release shows for the album in recent days, BACON WAGON is booking new live ventures, including a set at Dimman Musikfest Öland in August.

BACON WAGON Live:
8/08-09/2025 Dimman Musikfest – Öland, SE [info]

In 2003, upon the disbanding of seminal Swedish noise rock band Acid Ape, brothers Marcus and Kristoffer Kinberg started BACON WAGON. 2004 saw them record a self-released split 7” with fellow rockers Instrumen. After trying a bunch of guitarists, Marcus switched from drums to guitar/vocals, and in 2005, the band recorded and released a six-song EP, Savant, released on Maduro Records. Shortly after, Peter Johansson, who played drums in Instrumen, quit his band and joined BACON WAGON, which turned out to be the perfect lineup. In 2006, BACON WAGON hooked up with Baltimore noise rockers Dactyl for a split 7” on Hit-Dat Records and a US tour, and a couple of years later, the band was put on hiatus.

The brothers Kinberg continued onward in the new outfit Hooves Not Hands, and Johansson later started the punk band Slöa Knivar and death metal band Bastard Grave. Fast forward to 2023 when the BACON WAGON crew finally got their shit together and wrote a slew of new songs. The band now finally arrives with their first ever full-length album, Trauma Cake.

“…’90s AmRep-style sludge…” – Decibel Magazine

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