It hasn’t been so terribly long since Florida’s Hollow Leg were last heard from announcing their June tour (I’ve also put the dates below) with Florist around both bands’ appearances at Maryland Doom Fest, but they’re back with word of fulfilling their prior-stated intention of combining their two 2024 EP releases, Dust (review here) and Echoes (review here), onto one LP aptly titled Dust and Echoes.

A Friday the 13th release (in June) could hardly be more perfect as they roll out on the road the night prior, beginning in Orlando and branching out from there as far north as Connecticut and Upstate NY. No doubt the plan is to have vinyl on the merch table for these shows, and hopefully that’s how it goes as they find welcome up and down the Eastern Seaboard. They’re playing with Clamfight in Brooklyn. I’ll be fresh off travel, but golly it would be good to see those bands together again.

From the PR wire:

HOLLOW LEG Announce New Full-Length Album Dust and Echoes

Sludge-tinged riff lords HOLLOW LEG return on June 13th, 2025 with Dust and Echoes, a thunderous new full-length that doubles as both concept and collision — two EPs (Dust and Echoes) written in separate sessions, now merged into one devastatingly cohesive release. The album will be released via Third House Communications and features nine crushing tracks that traverse doom, grunge, classic metal, and space rock.

Dust and Echoes was recorded and produced by the band at High Five Studio in DeLand, Florida, with mixing and mastering handled by Zeuss (HATEBREED, CROWBAR, ROB ZOMBIE). Artwork was created by Shawn Garrett and Jean Saiz, reflecting the record’s post-apocalyptic themes of human collapse, survival, and rebirth.

The album showcases HOLLOW LEG’s most varied and atmospheric songwriting to date, with layers of percussion, groove-heavy riffing, spaced-out guitar work, and a balance of sludge and melody that pushes the band into new sonic territory. Tracks like “Holy Water,” “Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave,” and “Last Tribe” dive deep into end-of-days scenarios — a choose-your-own-adventure soundtrack for the end of the world and what might come after.

Dust and Echoes Tracklist:
“Poison Bite” – 3:34
“Sick Days” – 3:58
“Funeral Storms” – 3:47
“Another Day Dying” – 4:50
“Holy Water” – 5:45
“Last Tribe” – 5:11
“Bury Our Kings” – 4:43
“Red Skies” – 3:28
“Ride the Wave / Dig the Grave” – 6:33

Hollow Leg / Florist 2025 summer tour

June 12 -Orlando, FL @ wills pub
June 13- Atlanta, GA @ 529
June 14- Asheville, NC @ sly grog lounge (Hell Chere Fest)
June 15-Nashville TN @ the Basement
June 16- Louisville, KY @ MagBar
June 17-Youngstown, OH @ Westside bowl
June 18- Syracuse, NY @ the jugg
June 19-Norwich CT @ Strange Brew
June 20-Brooklyn NY @ Goldsounds
June 21-Fredrick, MD-Doomfest (HL only)
June 22-Fredrick, MD Doomfest (Florist only)
June 23- Wilmington, NC @ Reggie’s

Hollow Leg is:
Scott Angelacos – vocals
Brent Lynch – guitar/backing vocals
Tom Crowther – bass
John Stewart – drums

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Hollow Leg, “Poison Bite” official video

Hollow Leg, Echoes (2024)

Hollow Leg, Dust EP (2024)

Floridian heavybringers Hollow Leg and Florist have paired up for an East Coast run surrounding their respective appearances at Maryland Doom Fest 2025 in Frederick, MD, this June. Hollow Leg are familiar enough around these parts, but I’ll confess I apparently whiffed on Florist‘s 2023 debut album, Contact, and the price of my ignorance is being blindsided by it now, a bright shove a bit manic like a spacebound Torche, if we want to keep it to FL, rooted in punk and aughts-era stoner idolatries but with an immediate point of view in the songwriting. It’s in my notes but they’ll probably have another record out before I can close a week with it. I’ve maintained all along I suck at this.

The bottom line is I dig it, I suppose, and the band will make a solid complement to Hollow Leg on the road. Hollow Leg of course released two EPs last year, Dust (review here) and Echoes (review here), that last I heard were to be compiled onto a single LP sometime in 2025 as may yet still be the plan. Between those two and the band’s by-now-not-insignificant back catalog, they can change up their setlist as much as they want, to lean nastier or more melodic, more aggressive or laid back and rolling, and accordingly, I’d expect these shows to kick ass. Maybe I’ll get lucky and Curse the Son will get added to that Norwich, CT, show.

From Hollow Leg via the PR wire:

Say Hollow Leg: “Hollow Leg and Florist have spent a lot of 2023/2024 playing shows together around Florida so when both bands were booked for this year’s Maryland Doom Fest it was a no brainer that we were gonna do a run together! Thanks to Jean Saiz for the awesome poster!”

Hollow Leg / Florist 2025 summer tour

June 12 -Orlando, FL @ wills pub
June 13- Atlanta, GA @ 529
June 14- Asheville, NC @ sly grog lounge (Hell Chere Fest)
June 15-Nashville TN @ the Basement
June 16- Louisville, KY @ MagBar
June 17-Youngstown, OH @ Westside bowl
June 18- Syracuse, NY @ the jugg
June 19-Norwich CT @ Strange Brew
June 20-Brooklyn NY @ Goldsounds
June 21-Fredrick, MD-Doomfest (HL only)
June 22-Fredrick, MD Doomfest (Florist only)
June 23- Wilmington, NC @ Reggie’s

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Florist, Contact (2023)

Hollow Leg, Dust EP (2024)

Hollow Leg, Echoes EP (2024)

Floridian sludge metal veterans Hollow Leg self-release their new EP, Echoes, tomorrow, Dec 6. I’ll make no attempt to hide the soft spot I have for these guys or the sweet spot they hit between density of groove and aggressive intention, and you might recall back in May their Dust EP also premiered here. The two offerings, the first with five songs and the second with four, were recorded together and are intended as thematic companions, with Dust giving off more aggressive vibes and Echoes honing in on more of a rock groove, though it’s Hollow Leg, so of course intensity is still a part of what they do, as “Red Skies” reminds even as it digs into a righteous chug and leans almost toward Southern heavy in its central riff as vocalist Scott Angelacos screams his head off, as will happen.

No question Echoes is more upbeat than Dust, though, at least on average. Hollow Leg have never shied away from confrontation in their sound, and indeed Angelacos is a big part of that impression — which definitely not to say guitarist Brent Lynch, bassist Tom Crowther and drummer John Stewart aren’t — in both his generally-visceral, Matt Pike-esque-but-more-scream delivery and his on-beat patterning, but the intro to “Last Tribe” and what’s presumably the ‘Dig the Grave’ part of closer “Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave” (the longest inclusion on either EP at 6:33) offer a trippier feel and a more melodic roll, respectively, and though the whole release is only 19 minutes long, that’s plenty of time for the band to conjure a sense of atmosphere around their hard-hitting foundation of sludge. The more you listen, the more you’ll find, and the focus on hooks becomes part of the procession throughout.

To wit, “Last Tribe” Echoplexes its way in as it establishes its riff, and so the immediate impression is swirl, but swiftly moves into its first verse and the start-stop chorus that follows, scream-topped but fluid and effectively riding the groove back to its core swing, dropping the tradeoff after two cycles to move from the verse into the bridge and Lynch‘s solo. “Bury Our Kings” is perhaps appropriately stately but still brash for all that poise, and the gurgly holdout at the finish sets up the crash and riff of “Red Skies” in a way that feels purposeful and flows smoothly despite the angles and elbows being thrown in the material itself. At 3:29, “Red Skies” is the shortest song on either Dust or Echoes — which will see joint release on a single LP in 2025 — and follows suit in its sans-nonsense take on heavy sludge rock before “Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave” pushes outward from the straightforward nod, building classic tension in its verse before the chorus release and with its airier solo prefacing the drop-everything shift into the second part happening around 4:30.

The guitar stands alone to lead the way back in from silence and layered vocals give a resounding impression as the noise builds to the end. Hollow Leg doing doomgaze? It feels that way a little, but that kind of flourish showcasing broader influences isn’t necessarily a new aspect of the band’s sound, even if it’s realized differently in Echoes. That is, the underlying ethic driving them toward individualism is unchanged, but takes a different shape here than it sometimes has in the past, though I guess if you want to nitpick ambiences amid all the crush, you can do that too. Everything’s relative, but if Hollow Leg come out of Echoes sounding like Hollow Leg — and yeah, they do — they demonstrate clearly that there are multiple avenues by which they might get there, and if Dust was a dirge, Echoes feels more like a revelry in its movement.

And, crucially, that seems to be intentional. I don’t know whether Hollow Leg went into the studio with famed metal producer Zeuss thinking they were going to divide up the material as they have over the course of 2024 or not, but even if this plan emerged after, the framing of the material does a lot in terms of creating the impression of variety around the onslaught, and on the most basic level, the listening experience proves they were right to present the two EPs as they have. It will be interesting to hear the direct back-to-back when Dust/Echoes surfaces as a 12″, but though there’s a lot shared between what will be sides A and B, each one emerges with its own character as well. It’s the kind of thing a band can do when they know who they are and are dedicated to the idea of exploring and expanding around that. I think having been around for a decade and a half is probably an asset in their favor there as well.

Assuming I get the player working in time, you’ll find Echoes streaming in its entirety below, followed by more info from the PR wire.

Please enjoy:

IN THE BAND’S OWN WORDS:

“We wanted to change up the way we wrote and released a record this time around. The original idea was just simply making EPs, however many that was, but somewhere during the demoing process we decided we had an overarching theme and sound/vibe to these ideas, and maybe instead of making them separate pieces we could make them a series, parts one and two.

DUST & ECHOES are made to stand on their own but also as a tandem, which is why we are releasing them the way we are, and as a split vinyl in 2025. There’s also some practical reasoning behind it, but really it just boiled down to wanting to try something different. ECHOES is the slightly more hopeful counterpart to DUST, but thematically there is a through line.

Scott and Zeuss did a great job tying the sonics together as well, while also allowing them to keep their own personalities. We’re very excited about this output!”

Tracklist:
1. Last Tribe (5:11)
2. Bury Our Kings (4:43)
3. Red Skies (3:28)
4. Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave (6:33)

Hollow Leg is:
Scott Angelacos – vocals
Brent Lynch – guitar/backing vocals
Tom Crowther – bass
John Stewart – drums

Hollow Leg, Dust (2024)

Hollow Leg on Instagram

Hollow Leg on Facebook

Hollow Leg on Bandcamp

Hollow Leg’s Linktr.ee

Floridian sludge metallers Hollow Leg aren’t letting 2024 go without getting one more gut-punch in. The blow will come in the form of Echoes, a companion four-song EP to earlier this year’s Dust (review here), which was the four-piece first offering in half a decade. With Echoes, the band admit a little that there’s a continuity from one to the next — Echoes and Dust, hmm, doesn’t that ring a bell? — and so they’ll receive a joint vinyl release in the New Year, which if you’re gonna basically do an album split into two parts makes sense to compile it all together. And gruff vocalist Scott Angelacos gives the “Dust and echoes” title line(s) in Echoes opener “Last Tribe,” so yeah, the sense is very much of the band revealing the full scope of the project that began this past May with the release of Dust.

I’m just digging into the songs as the announcement comes through, so I’ll hold off any actual opinion-having, but if you know Hollow Leg, you know the pummel being discussed by the PR wire below, so I won’t keep you any longer. Have at it:

Sludge veterans Hollow Leg to release ECHOES, the follow-up and sister EP to DUST, on December 6th

New album ECHOES, sister EP to DUST, out December 6th

Self-released (Digital)

Hollow Leg have no plans to slow their decade-plus quest to pummel and groove, and 2024 has proven to be one of their most prolific years yet since the band’s formation in 2010. Following on the heels of the DUST EP released this May, the crew return with its sister EP ECHOES, sonically both kin and counterpart to its forebear.

Where DUST saw the brutality and bone-shaking aspects of Hollow Leg’s sludge and doom stand front and center, ECHOES finds the band pivoting towards another part of the heavy spectrum. Still as crushing as ever, the 2nd EP leans further into groove and psychedelia, creating a lean, mean riff machine of hooks and atmospheric guitar leads, all running on the pounding rhythms that are the lifeblood of Hollow Leg. Sledgehammer guitars and drums rolling through thick distortion are balanced by passages of icy, atmospheric serenity, tied together by raging vocals and thunderous tones.

Even 14 years into their existence, Hollow Leg continue to explore and evolve, and ECHOES is one of their most dynamic and adventurous works to date. Released digitally, the two EPs will also be combined into a true dyad as a vinyl release in 2025 on Third House Communications.

IN THE BAND’S OWN WORDS:

“We wanted to change up the way we wrote and released a record this time around. The original idea was just simply making EPs, however many that was, but somewhere during the demoing process we decided we had an overarching theme and sound/vibe to these ideas, and maybe instead of making them separate pieces we could make them a series, parts one and two.

DUST & ECHOES are made to stand on their own but also as a tandem, which is why we are releasing them the way we are, and as a split vinyl in 2025. There’s also some practical reasoning behind it, but really it just boiled down to wanting to try something different. ECHOES is the slightly more hopeful counterpart to DUST, but thematically there is a through line.

Scott and Zeuss did a great job tying the sonics together as well, while also allowing them to keep their own personalities. We’re very excited about this output!”

Tracklist:
1. Last Tribe (5:11)
2. Bury Our Kings (4:43)
3. Red Skies (3:28)
4. Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave (6:33)

Hollow Leg is:
Scott Angelacos – vocals
Brent Lynch – guitar/backing vocals
Tom Crowther – bass
John Stewart – drums

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Hollow Leg, “Poison Bite” official video

Hollow Leg, Dust EP (2024)

As per Halloween tradition, the venerable Maryland Doom Fest has posted its as-of-now-complete lineup for next year’s edition, and MDDF 2025 looks like a rager. Set to unfold its massive billing across June 19-22 in the riffy epicenter of Frederick, Maryland, the fest will highlight newcomers and established acts alike, as veteran outfits like The Skull and Apostle of Solitude, Hollow Leg, Curse the Son, and others make returning appearances and new incarnations like Legions of Doom, Ages and High Noon Kahuna feature familiar players in new contexts. Always cool to see bands like Thunderbird Divine and Spiral Grave doing the thing, and I’ll admit that my eyebrows went up when I saw Virginia’s Lord would be playing, as I’d yet to encounter word of a reunion from that most chaotic of sludge metal outfits. Sonolith and Demons My Friends and Sons of Arrakis and plenty of others will be traveling for it — Ogre! — so I would expect some tours to be forthcoming, and Sun Years, whose Nov. tour begins — wait for it — tomorrow, will feature.

It’s a family reunion you probably already have on your calendar, so don’t let me keep you from perusing the poster and getting stoked on what you find. From Crystal Spiders to B&O Railroad, there’s both a lot here and a lot here to like, and always more waiting to be discovered by those bold enough to show up to Cafe 611 early in the day. Check it out:

MARYLAND DOOM FEST 2025 – June 19-22, Frederick, MD

WE JOURNEY FROM THE HEAVY UNDERGROUND AND STAGES ACROSS THE WORLD TO ASSEMBLE IN FREDERICK, MARYLAND, FOR A JOYOUS CELEBRATION OF DOOM, GROOVE, AND THE ALMIGHTY RIFF.

JOIN US.

After such a magnificent 10th anniversary celebration of #4daysofdoom in 2024, which involved reorganizing and coordinating two stages in one venue (Cafe 611), we are beyond stoked to share The Maryland Doom Fest 2025 roster and marvelous promotional artwork.

The art design was created by one of our Maryland natives in the local music scene—Ben Proudman, the Frederick, MD-based master artist at Key City Tattoo (IG: @tattoosbyprdmn). Ben is also the drummer for the powerful bands Thonian Horde and Foehammer. Our very own Bill Kole (IG: @BillyDiablo) handled the color design and layouts again this year. He majestically brought this piece to life!

Explore the heavy musical talent of these bands and performers and be prepared for the nonstop riffage party in June! Talent beyond words!!! We can’t wait for our doom community to congregate next summer!!!

Time slots, ticket sales, stage rosters, sponsors, and vendors will be presented by year’s end. — 💀DooM💀

THE SKULL + PSYCHOTIC REACTION + APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE + LEGIONS OF DOOM + COMPRESSION + CRYSTAL SPIDERS + HIGH NOON KAHUNA + RED BEARD WALL + WITCHPIT + STRANGE HIGHWAYS + AGES + SUNYEARS + HOLLOW LEG

FUTURE PROJEKTOR + ALL YOUR SINS + SONOLITH + SPIRAL GRAVE + LORD + SABBATH WARLOCK + GALLOWGLAS + SONS OF ARRAKIS + CROP + HOVEL + OGRE + DREADSTAR + THUNDERBIRD DIVINE + WYNDRIDER + SUN MANTRA + KULVERA + STYGIAN CROWN + CURSE THE SON + BENTHIC REALM + HOLY ROLLER

BLOODSHOT + DUST PROPHET + VANISHING KIDS + BLOOD AND EARTH + FIGHT THE FOLD + DAYTRIPPER + B&O RAILROAD + BAILJACK + COKUS + NEW DAWNS FADE + COMA HOLE + FLORIST + ABEL BLOOD + SEASICK GLADIATOR + ENTIERRO + HEX ENGINE + DEMONS MY FRIENDS + ABOMINOG + VRSA + HIGH HORSE CALVARY

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Floridian sludge metal mainstays Hollow Leg are set to self-release their new EP, Dust, this Friday, May 3, and with just 21 minutes at their disposal, there’s a palpable no-time-to-waste vibe as the four-piece dig into “Poison Bite” (video premiere here) in a tight encapsulation of the willful stylistic growth the band have undertaken since 2019’s Civilizations (review here), their most recent LP. Like a lot of what Hollow Leg have done since the tail end of the MySpace era, “Poison Bite” is a ripper.

It’s got a massive, rolling grove led by Brent Lynch‘s guitar, with due weight pushed through Tom Crowther‘s bass and the nod punctuated by John Stewart‘s drumming, and with vocalist Scott Angelacos finding a Matt Pike-y delivery somewhere between a shout and cleaner singing, with effects-laced backing in the chorus presumably from Lynch, as well as the condensed runtime, it also defies expectation in how it digs in. For a sound that remains plenty filthy, one hesitates to use words like “refined,” but on their own terms, Hollow Leg very much are that on Dust.

“Poison Bite” begins a salvo of three sub-four-minute cuts, with “Sick Days” adding a thrashier shove to its abiding nastiness, bringing the not-screamed backing vocals in the chorus closer to the front of the mix alongside Angelacos‘ harsh-throated gnashing, and EP centerpiece “Funeral Storms” hints toward patience as it moves toward its later solo and in its relatively restrained earlier verses. These aren’t the first short songs Hollow Leg have offered, by any means, but they’re presented with a maturity and confidence coinciding with an evolutionary drive that can’t be faked.

That is, they’ve always grown from one release to the next, and they still are, but that growth feels more directed toward specific ideas on Dust than it has in the past, and that’s part of how they’re developing at this point. While “Another Day Dying” feels sharp in its early riffing, the back end with sitar-sounding effects and a muddied-up kind of psychedelic flourish is a purposeful contrast and expansion of scope, and yeah, the brooding, mostly-clean-sung Southern heavy swamp atmosphere of closer “Holy Water” hits into heavier riffing at around two and a half minutes in, but it still carries the initial mood forward, pairing its partial departure with a consistency unto itself that underscores the crafted feel of the EP as a whole.

The notion of Dust as another step in Hollow Leg‘s ongoing progression undercuts some of how that manifests throughout the five songs included, but while they remain in no small part defined by the crash-and-bash aspects of their approach, it’s worth considering just how much they’ve found their place in sludge over their years, and how their balance between extremity and accessibility plays out in this material. Its malleable nature alone, the band’s emergent considerations of ambience alongside their entrenched rawness, would be enough even if the songs themselves didn’t remain so intentionally kickass as they do.

But among the messages Dust most clearly sends is that Hollow Leg aren’t done exploring this path they’re on, and one hopes that, whatever form their next round of discoveries might take upon release, they find ways to continue forward in melding influences from within and beyond their genre. Keep getting weirder, dudes. I don’t think you’ll regret it.

Enjoy the full EP stream below, followed by some perspective from the band courtesy of the PR wire and that “Poison Bite” video, links and the rest:

In the band’s own words: “We’re always writing and playing and working on new music is just what we do, always trying to build on our sound and make the next piece a more clearly defined vision than the last. We have such a wide range of musical and artistic influences that it’s challenging to wrangle them, but we try our best to work within the ‘Hollow Leg’ mainframe and pump out something different than what we’ve done before, but also something that’s still obviously Hollow Leg. Hollow Leg is about freedom though. That’s been the mantra since the first record and we’ve always stuck to that! It’s about pushing ourselves and finding ways to simultaneously party with Metallica, Steely Dan, EyeHateGod, Wu Tang Clan, Stevie Wonder, and Pink Floyd and it somehow makes sense to us!”

Tracklisting:
1. Poison Bite (3:34)
2. Sick Days (3:59)
3. Funeral Storms (3:47)
4. Another Day Dying (4:51)
5. Holy Water (5:46)

Hollow Leg is:
Scott Angelacos – vocals
Brent Lynch – guitar/backing vocals
Tom Crowther – bass
John Stewart – drums

Hollow Leg, “Poison Bite” official video

Hollow Leg on Instagram

Hollow Leg on Facebook

Hollow Leg on Bandcamp

Hollow Leg’s Linktr.ee

Hollow Leg hit me up a couple months back and asked if I could write them an intro to the press kit going out to media for their new EP, Dust. That release is coming up May 3 and where I’ve struggled in the task is getting over the initial question of why the hell do I need to introduce Hollow Leg in the first place? Rooted in Jacksonville and based in Orlando, Florida, they’ve been at it for 16 years and have produced four full-lengths in that time, the latest of them being Civilizations (review here) in 2019, each of which has brought a new stage of an ongoing progression around a defined sound of hard-landing tonal weight, undulating sludge grooves led by Brent Lynch‘s riffs backed by Tom Crowther‘s bass and John Stewart‘s drums, and more than an edge of metal in the vocals of Scott Angelacos that cut through the distortion and establish their own aggressive stance.

Do I have to tell you any of this? I don’t think so. If you’ve ever heard them, their consistency of volume hardly seems to be trying to keep their sound a secret. They’ve never been overly hyped, and while they’ve toured their share in the last decade-and-a-half-plus, including along the Eastern Seaboard in 2023 around a third appearance at Maryland Doom Fest, their sound isn’t friendly and I think they’ve been both taken for granted and underappreciated. Civilizations marked a noted progression in their sound — every one of their releases has been a step forward from the one before it — and Dust continues the thread in an emergent lean toward melodic vocals, reminding on the advance single “Poison Bite” that Angelacos was among the small number of singers enlisted to pay homage to Earthride‘s Dave Sherman at that same Maryland Doom Fest last year, and a tunnel-bore nod stately enough to conjure High on Fire‘s slowdown moments, bolstered by a production that allows it all to coexist fluidly for its 3:34.

That’s right. Frickin’ three and a half minutes. Not a major ask. And for a band who’ve plugged away in the heavy underground long enough to be called legit veterans of it and perhaps afforded some semblance of the respect they’ve earned, it feels like even less of a favor. Hollow Leg do more to represent themselves with the feedback, thuds, crash and burst into the verse of “Poison Bite” than I could ever hope to by telling you you should already know them like some jerkwad gatekeeper. So maybe that’s been my problem all along. This shit speaks for itself, and it’s not about some social-media-FOMO urgency of ‘get the new thing while it’s new and move on a week later.’ It’s about the heart so clearly driving the band and the creative pursuit that’ll go as long as it’s gonna go regardless of scene or trend, fire, flood, plague or hyperbole. That’s who Hollow Leg are, if you needed the introduction.

Dust arrives May 3. It’s on the calendar to stream here in full on May 1, so keep an eye out. It’s a two-parter and as of last week, the band was back in the studio to work on the follow-up installment. More on that when we get there.

Here’s the video for “Poison Bite” to tide you over until then, followed by info from the PR wire.

Please enjoy:

Hollow Leg, “Poison Bite” video premiere

Hollow Leg are here for the long haul. The sludge and doom veterans have been crushing skulls and blowing eardrums since 2010, and continue their scorched-earth quest to evolve and eviscerate in 2024.

Legends of the scene, the quartet are four LPs and an EP strong, with their latest album “Civilizations” released in 2019 on Argonauta Records to critical acclaim. Criss-crossing the US to spread their heavy gospel of groove, they brutalized the stage of Psycho Las Vegas in 2017, and are three-time champions of the revered Maryland Doom Fest.

This year, Hollow Leg take another earth-shaking step in their sonic journey with new EP “Dust” out May 3, part one of a two-part EP series.

Coalescing their wide range of musical influences while still maintaining the unmistakable Hollow Leg sound, the band invite you to raise hell and headbang along to the EP’s battering ram of a single “Poison Bite” and its accompanying music video.

Relentless is the name of the game. From the opening sledgehammer of the kickdrum, “Poison Bite” takes no prisoners. The mid-tempo groove is locked-in and rock steady, inevitable in its forward momentum and ceaseless, grinding pummel. True to form, Scott Angelacos’ growling vocals roar over the noise, spitting fire and brimstone. Hollow Leg is back, and it hurts so good.

In the band’s own words: “We’re always writing and playing and working on new music is just what we do, always trying to build on our sound and make the next piece a more clearly defined vision than the last. We have such a wide range of musical and artistic influences that it’s challenging to wrangle them, but we try our best to work within the ‘Hollow Leg’ mainframe and pump out something different than what we’ve done before, but also something that’s still obviously Hollow Leg. Hollow Leg is about freedom though. That’s been the mantra since the first record and we’ve always stuck to that! It’s about pushing ourselves and finding ways to simultaneously party with Metallica, Steely Dan, EyeHateGod, Wu Tang Clan, Stevie Wonder, and Pink Floyd and it somehow makes sense to us!”

Hollow Leg is:
Scott Angelacos – vocals
Brent Lynch – guitar/backing vocals
Tom Crowther – bass
John Stewart – drums

Hollow Leg on Instagram

Hollow Leg on Facebook

Hollow Leg on Bandcamp

Hollow Leg’s Linktr.ee

Good people playing cool shows. Hollow Leg head out to Maryland Doom Fest in June, and as will happen in the event of such things, they’re making a tour of it. In the South, they’ll team for a few dates with Clamfight — sure to result in a bevvy of sweaty hugs — and they’ll go as far north as Portland, Maine, in pursuit of Eastern Seaboard sludge metal glory that they’ll almost certainly find if history is anything to go by, partnering with Guhts and False Gods on that portion of the trek. The festival of course is the occasion, but as Hollow Leg note in the update below, they never got to tour for their 2019 album, Civilizations (review here), which came out on Argonauta Records, and they are perhaps that much itchier to get out these years later as a result.

Also note some Guhts and False Gods dates on their own — not often found in another band’s tour announcement, but hey, community — and that Hollow Leg vocalist Scott Angelacos will take part at MDDF in a tribute to Earthride frontman Dave Sherman, whose death last September shocked both the Maryland doom underground and fans worldwide.

Dates and some word from Hollow Leg follow here, as sent by the band down the PR wire:

Hollow Leg are going to do our first touring since 2017 in June and we’re looking to get the word out!

It’s been several years since we last hit the road as a band and four years since we last put out a record (a record we never toured) so this is long overdue!

Lucky for us the Maryland Doom Fest have always been great supporters and friends to us and we will always jump at the chance to go back there to play cause it’s just such a great event every time! This run will be especially fun also cause we’re kicking it off with 3 nights with our Philly brothers Clamfight!

And then meeting up to Guhts and False gods for a few up in the NorthEast before all three bands rock MDDF that Friday… we are really excited about the run, we’ve got a couple new tunes we will be jamming as well as older tunes and Civilizations songs we never got to play live before…

The Maryland Doomfest show will be the show to beat for sure, but if you can’t make it to Frederick hope y’all can make it out to one or another date, playing some awesome cities/venues so let’s jam!

Hollow Leg “Another Day Dying” June 2023 tour
Friday June 16- Orlando Fl Wills Pub w/ Clamfight, Moat Cobra, the Dark Arctic
Sat June 17- Savannah GA El Rocko w/ Space Coke and Clamfight
Sun June 18- Asheville NC Fleetwoods w/ Clamfight and more
Tuesday June 20- Portland ME the Cavern w/ False Gods and Guhts
Wed June 21- Allston MA Middle East w/ Guhts and False Gods
Thursday June 22- Brooklyn NY Lucky 13 w/ EAT and False Gods
Friday June 23-Frederick MD The Maryland Doom Fest! (Guhts and False Gods also to perform)
*Sat June 24 Scott will perform at MD doomfest w/ surviving members of Earthride in tribute to Dave Sherman
Sun June 25- Atlanta GA Dobbs Social

Guhts and False Gods only
Monday June 19- Saratoga NY Desperate Annie’s
Sat June 24- Richmond VA Cobra cabana
Sun June 25- Philadelphia PA Kung Fu Necktie

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