With all this Southwestern metallic hardcore going on, this would be a good time to post the last of the Lardass requests: some Word Salad. The split with Hellchild should do the trick: it's out of print (and not on Prank) and it rules! Hellchild should be easy to recognize after sharing split honors with Multiplex and Discordance Axis, among others. Sludgy, grungy, and drugged out Japanese metal with just the right hint of melody to keep you coming back. The thick metal guitar sound doesn't hurt their case either.
Word Salad... yeah, I'm not too keen on their name, but as always, it's the rock that counts. What I like the most about this band is that they really are hard to classify; there's some thrash metal going on, and they dabble in sludge, but there's still something modern and novel about the whole delivery. Comparisons to Dystopia, Logical Nonsense, and maybe Lesser Of Two are hard to resist. The final nail in the coffin for me is the vocal style: there's nothing special these days about screaming into a mic, but the way this guy draws them out is truly cringe-inducing. This band has been overlooked long enough...
It's pretty easy to find this split... check some of the distros in the side bar. Prank handled all of WS's other releases, so check there for availability. Some good people have posted HC stuff here, here, and here.
