EVIL TREE - Moon Maniac LP

From the darkest corners of Drew Owen's (Sick Thoughts, Total Hell) mind come these 6 tracks of Metal Mayhem.

The recording was called forth from the stinking city streets of New Orleans and released as a cassette in the witching hours of 2022 but we knew this rot had to be released on proper vinyl format and we're happily risking damnation to do it. Fans of Transylvanian Hunger or the 7" period of Midnight will surely be pleased with this festering mess. Metal-Punk with no Motorhead riffing in sight. Just seething, horny darkness.

Drew Owen broke away from his usual brand of melodic buzzsaw punk as Sick Thoughts to drop Moon Maniac, a quick one-off metal EP under the moniker Evil Tree. Dwyer calls it “a homebrewed kind of Venom and Celtic Frost which hits all the buttons.” As someone who prefers his metal with “a real recorded-in-a-garage quality to it where it sounds like shit but in a really good way,” Dwyer is a fan of the entire Neon Taste Records label. Also on its roster: Vancouver’s Chain Whip, Toronto’s Imploders, and Berlin’s Lafff Box. “It’s just a weird Canadian label that puts out a bunch of skronky, grimy hardcore.”