MEATWOUND Unleashes âFrank Stalloneâ Single; Macho Full-Length To See Release May 9th On Threat Collection Records

Photo by Wallace Boesch

Stream MEATWOUNDâs âFrank Stalloneâ HERE.Â

âFrank Stalloneâ is the latest single from Floridaâs noise-soaked hardcore sludge alchemists MEATWOUND. The track comes by way of the bandâs Macho full-length, set for release on May 9th on the newly-launched Threat Collection Records, owned and operated by producer/engineer Ryan Boesch (Whores, Melvins, Helmet, Andrew W.K.).

Comments vocalist Daniel Wallace, ââFrank Stalloneâ originally had a Michelangelo-inspired title but upon completion, felt more like another famous Italian. [Bassist] Marty [Iglesias] built the track over many days, followed by endless hours of level tweaks and bluetooth boombox mix checks. We never took the song to band practice, so the other guys werenât familiar with it. [Drummer] Dimitri [Stoyanov] finished his tracking in the studio and was about to break down his kit when he heard âFrankâ¦â for the first time, had some ideas he wanted to try, and thatâs how we ended up with real drums over the end. Marty recorded all the guitar tracks before coercing Ari [Barros] into adding even more. My first attempt at doing vocals on it was in the studio so I had to work through a few takes before landing one we liked.Â

âThe lyrics,â he continues, âare about stretching your face and doing lies. Does it fit the song? Somewhere between Tetsuo and the roller rink is the reality it lives in. Or spinning on cardboard in the subway next to fresh 4:00am vomit piles and blacked out public pissers. Unexpected bodily responses and the uncertainty of whether this is a good or bad time. âFrank Stallone,â playing his guitar in that ladyâs personal space while she works out.â

Macho by Meatwound

Stream MEATWOUNDâs âFrank Stalloneâ HERE.

Macho will be released on limited 180-gram Pink vinyl via Threat Collection Records (the labelâs debut release) and digitally via Pax Aeternum Digital.

Find preorders at the Threat Collection webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE, where the first single,Â âMount Vermin,â can be streamed.

Macho Track Listing:
1. Compressed Hell
2. Mount Vermin
3. Obese Variants
4. Labor
5. Frank Stallone
6. Pigs, Tu
7. Europa
8. Barking Dog As Plot Device
9. Chunk
10. Exodus MF

MEATWOUND began in the Mudhaus circa 2014, maybe earlier. Their debut 12â Addio â which was intended to be a demo â arrived in 2015 (making Macho an inadvertent ten-year anniversary celebration of band activities).

Addio sounded like it was recorded on burning equipment in a burning studio but it managed to win over some listeners, and the Steak Mtn cover art began to appear on shirts around Tampa. Many shows went down during these early years, according to the dates on flyers and posters in the practice space. Shows with Melt Banana, High On Fire, The Melvins, Torche, Black Tusk, Author & Punisher, and others were played. Some in the audience enjoyed it.

In 2017, the bandâs second LP,Â Largo, arrived. A noticeable improvement over Addio, Largo displayed more ambitious song structures, layered noise attacks, better sound overall, and even some (strangely) danceable rhythms. Its lyrics covered topics like cats and life in the city of Largo. Touring occurred to varying degrees of success.Â

MEATWOUNDâs third full-length album, Culero, was released in 2019. Musically, the bandâs sound was expanding; the instrumental âEldersâ leaned toward cinematic territory with analog synths courtesy of Matt Akers, âRefusalâ was a violent blast that came in under one-minute long, while âFist Of Godâ trudged in the direction of Bolt Thrower. Lyrically, vocalist Daniel Wallace continued yelling about longtime targets like religion and politics until the last track where he temporarily drops the ignorance in favor of shouting entire paragraphs âborrowedâ from Ray Bradbury. Then COVID happened…

Enter the Macho era: a slow march progressing in bursts of productivity followed by months/years of refinement. There were multiple demos, rewrites, new tracks built at the last minute, etc. before finally entering Candor Recording Studio in the Summer of 2024. Candor owner/producer/engineer/mastermind Ryan Boesch harnessed the creative nonsense inhabiting the brains of these musicians and maximized the sound of it, remaining patient throughout. Bolstered by the experience and enthusiasm of Boesch, the band delivered something better and worse than before (allegedly).

Wallace comments in the persona of âoutside sourceâ as follows, âMacho? 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 albumâ¦ 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.â

MEATWOUND:
Ari Barros – guitar
Mariano Iglesias – bass/programming
Dimitri Stoyanov – drums
Daniel Wallace – vocals