Out Now - Hollow Leg - Dust and Echoes

When HOLLOW LEG began shaping what would become Dust and Echoes, the Florida-based heavy outfit wasn’t setting out to write a full-length album. Instead, the band—formed in 2009 and known for their sludge-laced, riff-centric take on heavy rock—decided to create two distinct EPs, Dust and Echoes, written and recorded during separate sessions across the span of a year. The intention was simple: two standalone releases that carried a shared DNA, built to be experienced independently or fused together as a full-length journey.

That journey is now complete. Releasing in June 2025 via Third House Communications, Dust and Echoes is HOLLOW LEG’s most cohesive and diverse album to date, a full-spectrum exploration of weight and atmosphere. Across nine songs and nearly 40 minutes, the band channels doom, grunge, hard rock, space rock, and old-school metal into a singular vision of destruction, decay, and transcendence. It’s both a soundtrack to the end of the world and a map for surviving it.

The album opens with “Poison Bite,” a crushingly slow and sludgy track that pulls from HOLLOW LEG’s earlier material—raw, direct, and emotionally grim. Written around themes of twisted human behavior, it’s a live staple that sets the tone for what’s to come. From there, “Sick Days” shifts gears into a more rock-driven groove, pairing gritty riffage with cleaner vocals to create a brutal but melodic attack on the cruelty of mankind and the absurdity of war.

“Funeral Storms” brings a grunge-tinged groove with thick vocals and apocalyptic imagery, while “Another Day Dying” leans into the band’s hardcore roots. It’s packed with layered vocals and ends with a hazy, psychedelic slide guitar outro—blurring the lines between consciousness and chaos. “Holy Water” closes out the Dust half of the album with slow-building atmosphere, rainsticks, congas, and other textural ear candy. A post-apocalyptic hymn, it imagines the “last tribe” surviving after civilization’s collapse.

Then comes Echoes, the second half of the experience. “Last Tribe” kicks off this side with bounce, groove, and rich vocal harmonies, ending in a synthy wash of guitars and the titular phrase “emerging from dust and echoes.” It's both the conceptual and musical bridge between the EPs. “Bury Our Kings” follows with a blues-drenched riff that has become a live staple, its infectious mid-tempo stomp securing it as one of the band’s signature bangers.

With “Red Skies,” HOLLOW LEG imagines humanity abandoning Earth to start over on Mars—a short, punchy rocker that blends end-times anxiety with space-faring escapism. “Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave,” the album’s longest track, closes the record on a high. It’s a two-part epic about aging, surrendering to time, and accepting the inevitable, morphing from a frenetic, groove-heavy rocker into a doom-gaze finale that floats through the void like stardust.

The lineup—Scott Angelacos (vocals), Brent Lynch (guitar/backing vocals), John Stewart (drums/percussion), and Tom Crowther (bass)—recorded the album at High Five Studio in DeLand, Florida, producing the sessions themselves with mixing and mastering handled by Zeuss. The artwork was created by Shawn Garrett and Jean Saiz, echoing the record’s themes of desolation and rebirth. These four musicians, veterans of underground acts like BLOODLET, CARIBOU KING, JUNIOR BRUCE, and HOPE AND SUICIDE, have always thrived in heavy music’s murky, rebellious corners—and with Dust and Echoes, they’ve crafted something that’s both raw and realized.

Whether you start with Dust or Echoes, the result is the same: a heavy, grooving, groove-laden saga about the end of everything—and the strange beauty in what comes after.

About HOLLOW LEG:

HOLLOW LEG is a heavy band born in the swamps of Florida, built on riffs, rhythm, and raw energy. Since forming in 2009, the band has forged a sound that blends sludge, doom, and hard rock with elements of grunge, classic metal, and even blues and hip-hop — a swampy, groove-laden punch to the gut that’s as soulful as it is crushing.

Over the years, HOLLOW LEG has carved out a loyal following with their dynamic songwriting, relentless live shows, and a discography that balances grit with atmosphere. The lineup — Scott Angelacos (vocals), Brent Lynch (guitars/backing vocals), John Stewart (drums/percussion), and Tom Crowther (bass) — brings deep roots in the underground, with current and former members of cult bands like BLOODLET, CARIBOU KING, and JUNIOR BRUCE.

With appearances at major underground festivals like Psycho Las Vegas and Maryland Doom Fest, and a catalog of full-lengths and EPs that have pushed their sound in new directions, HOLLOW LEG continues to evolve without losing their core: heavy, honest, and hungry. Whether channeling the slow burn of doom, the swagger of stoner rock, or the urgency of hardcore, they remain fiercely committed to the riff and the truth it carries.

Their new album, Dust and Echoes, is the culmination of everything the band has built — a concept forged from two distinct EPs that fuse into a single, end-of-days experience. It’s their heaviest, most varied, and most fully realized statement yet.

HOLLOW LEG is:

  • Scott Angelacos – Vocals

  • Brent Lynch – Guitars, Backing Vocals

  • John Stewart – Drums, Percussion (including rainsticks)

  • Tom Crowther – Bass

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CROP (Grunge, Doom) - S.S.R.I

In the undercurrent of Lexington, KY’s heavy music scene, few bands hit as viscerally as CROP. Since forming in 2020, this four-piece—Marc Phillips (vocals), Zach Hunter (guitar), Braun Dabney (bass), and Andrew Beauvier (drums)—has crafted a sound that feels both dangerously raw and unflinchingly refined, grounded in the crushing gravity of 90s grunge but stretched into something darker, doomier, and entirely their own.

Their upcoming release, S.S.R.I, out August 22nd, 2025 via Third House Communications, is not just a sophomore album—it’s a psychological unearthing. Across 34 minutes and 46 seconds, CROP spirals through the internal wreckage of grief, acceptance, self-sabotage, and survival, wrapped in distortion thick enough to suffocate and lyrics sharp enough to bleed. The record opens with the instrumental “Flatline,” a bleak curtain rising on what feels like the soundtrack to a personal apocalypse. It quickly plunges into “Formaldehyde,” a brutal retelling of witnessing someone’s decline into suicide. Though written about another person, the song’s crushing weight comes from how that loss imprinted itself on the narrator. “We barely impacted each other in life,” Marc Phillips says, “but in death, he left a mark that felt deeper than final.”

From there, S.S.R.I never lets up. “Goddamn” captures the exhausting rhythm of living on a cycle of hope and collapse—a furious, almost desperate search for something real in the chaos. On “10-56,” the theme turns inward. It’s a song about getting what you always thought you wanted, only to feel it destroy you from the inside. “It’s everything I needed,” Phillips explains, “and that made it worse.”

But it’s “Alone” that feels like the album’s emotional core. Rooted in the moment of a breakup, it’s less about heartbreak and more about clarity—the realization that sometimes the loneliness you feel with someone is more suffocating than the loneliness without. In that recognition, there’s peace, but it’s the kind of peace that leaves scars.

The band returns to instrumentals with “Breath,” offering a sliver of space before the final blow. The closer, “Break,” is both an anthem and an epitaph—an existential gut-punch that challenges the very idea of what it means to pursue a dream that might be killing you. “Life isn’t supposed to be safe,” the band insists. “Find what you love and let it kill you.”

Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Jason Groves, S.S.R.I is a wholly realized vision—uncompromising, loud, and emotionally devastating. The artwork, created by Josh Flowers, reflects the stark internal landscape the album traverses: raw, unfiltered, and impossible to ignore.

CROP has been making noise far beyond their Kentucky roots, with appearances at Ohio Doomed and Stoned, Maryland Doomfest, LegalizeLex, Magbar Musicfest, Holler of Doom, and RPM Fest. They’ve toured alongside HASHSTRONAUT, HORSEBURNER, TEMPLE OF THE FUZZ WITCH, and SHI, and shared stages with genre-defining acts like WEEDEATER, CONAN, REZN, BONGZILLA, and more. It’s no surprise LEO Weekly hailed them as “one of Kentucky’s best metal bands,” or that Riff Zealot called their music “a beautiful cacophony of pleasure and pain.”

As S.S.R.I prepares to launch, CROP will hit the road again with shows stretching from Asheville to Baltimore, culminating in a homecoming album release show in Lexington on September 5th at Al’s Bar. 

To hear CROP is to feel something uncomfortably human—something bruised and bleeding, but still standing.

CROP Announces New Album S.S.R.I, New Single "Alone" Out Today

Lexington, KY’s heaviest export, CROP, has announced the release of their highly anticipated sophomore album S.S.R.I, due out August 22, 2025 via Third House Communications. Alongside the announcement, the band has dropped the album’s first single, “Alone”—a soul-crushing breakup song that cuts deeper than heartbreak and settles into the kind of emotional void that never really closes.

“Alone” is a brutal meditation on what it means to lose someone twice—once in the relationship, and again in the realization that their presence offered no real solace. 

Backed by thunderous guitars, unrelenting drums, and vocals that walk the line between raw power and quiet devastation, “Alone” captures the emotional core of S.S.R.I—an album steeped in grief, clarity, and the jagged edge of survival. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jason Groves, S.S.R.I builds on the massive sound CROP introduced with their self-titled 2021 debut, and dives even further into the chaos of identity, loss, and mental disintegration.

The seven-track record features emotionally heavy tracks like “Formaldehyde,” “10-56,” and “Break,” and pairs crushing riffs with deeply introspective lyrics, reflecting the band’s evolution from local underground staple to national force.

Known for their blistering live shows and rising reputation in the doom and heavy grunge scenes, CROP has performed at Maryland Doom Fest, RPM Fest, and shared stages with WEEDEATER, CONAN, REZN, BONGZILLA and more. With S.S.R.I, the band delivers not just an album, but a fully immersive psychological and sonic experience.

About CROP:

Formed in 2020 in Lexington, KY, CROP is a four-piece heavy band steeped in the grit of 90s grunge and sharpened by the weight of modern doom. Their sound is both relentless and reflective—massive walls of distortion colliding with lyrics that cut deep. With Marc Phillips on vocals, Zach Hunter on guitar, Braun Dabney on bass, and Andrew Beauvier on drums, CROP crafts songs that explore grief, isolation, existential dread, and the fight to stay human in an increasingly fractured world.

Their debut album CROP (2021) introduced audiences to their brutal honesty and raw sonic identity. With their follow-up S.S.R.I (2025, Third House Communications), the band has expanded both emotionally and sonically, delivering a record that is as vulnerable as it is heavy. Known for cathartic live performances and a growing presence on the underground festival circuit, CROP has shared stages with heavyweights like WEEDEATER, CONAN, and BONGZILLA, while earning praise from outlets like LEO Weekly and Riff Zealot.

For CROP, the music is a confrontation—a refusal to look away from the darkest corners of life, and an insistence that even pain deserves to be heard at full volume.

CROP is:

  • Marc Phillips – Vocals

  • Zach Hunter – Guitar

  • Braun Dabney – Bass

  • Andrew Beauvier – Drums

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