This Monday, March 7, will mark the last show local weirdo-thrash unit Oozing Wound will play with founding drummer Kyle Reynolds. Oozing Wound was formed back in 2012 by Reynolds with former Cacaw bandmate Zack Weil on guitar and vocals and Unmanned Ship bassist Kevin Cribbin, and they’ve since been hammering out an intense, high-volume, off-kilter take on Big Four thrash-metal. With two Thrill Jockey-issued full-lengths under their belt, and a brand-new, as-of-yet-untitled third LP just in the can, the question that came to my mind when I learned about Reynolds’s departure was, “So what now?”
To celebrate Reynolds’s run with Oozing Wound, today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Hippie Speedball,” a six-minute, sludgy stomper from 2014’s Earth Suck LP. Check out its video below.And keep your eyes peeled for the band’s announcement of a new drummer. “Some rando grabbed my arm at the Empty Bottle and just yelled ‘Drum machine or a guy?!’” recounts Weil. “It’ll be a guy.”
