Avant-Grind Extremists SQUID PISSER, Featuring GWAR's GRODIUS MAXIMUS, Announce New 'Full-Length EP' 'Throat Slave'
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SQUID PISSER — the brainchild of Tommy Meehan (Grodius Maximus of GWAR) — will release a new full-length EP, "Throat Slave", on August 28 via Skin Graft Records / Sweatband Records. To celebrate the announcement, the band has unveiled the new single "Mucus" and its accompanying official music video, available here.
Serving as the lead track from "Throat Slave", "Mucus" prominently showcases the contributions of guitarists Michael Armendariz and Raz Azraai, whose songwriting and performances broaden the band's sonic palette while retaining its uniquely unstable identity. Alongside founder and GWAR guitarist Tommy Meehan and STARCRAWLER's Seth Carolina, the expanded lineup delivers SQUID PISSER's most immersive and fully realized work to date.
On the new single, Baxter Yogurt explains: "'Mucus' exists to keep unwanted things out. Germs, parasites, bad ideas, manipulative people, psychic vampires, whatever. This song is about developing your own protective slime layer and trusting it when outside forces try to hijack your identity or steer your life in directions that don't feel right. Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is reject the infection and remain your weird, disgusting self. MUCUS IS YOUR FRIEND."
Following the sensory overload of 2024's "Dreams Of Puke", Los Angeles slime merchants SQUID PISSER return with "Throat Slave" — a "full-length EP" collecting five original songs, six demented remixes and a foreboding, fear-fraught preface that all push the band's increasingly strange universe into darker territory.
"Throat Slave" marks a significant evolution for SQUID PISSER. While retaining the band's volatility and sonic intensity, the material reveals a broader emotional range. Groove, atmosphere, and dynamic tension play a larger role than ever before, creating space for the band's most immersive and fully realized work to date.
Side A unfolds through five compositions that navigate paranoia, confrontation, self-examination, and release. Beneath the record's recurring imagery of vermin, tumorous growths, leeches, and bodily decay lies a more universal struggle: reclaiming one's identity from manipulation, illusion, and the stories imposed by others. "Throat Slave" is ultimately a record about emergence — about recognizing uncomfortable truths and finding clarity in their wake.
If Side A documents the organism, Side B documents its mutation.
Remix artists including queer-cult icon Plack Blague, minimalistic noise-pop duo Hyper Gal, Drumcorps, Fartbarf, Ecology: HomeStones, DJ Embryonic Petit Sac and ZENI GEVA's KK Null (with an exclusive CD-only track),dismantle and reconstruct the original material into electronic hallucinations, industrial rituals, mutant dance music, and psychedelic fever dreams. Rather than functioning as bonus material, the remixes operate as a second act, transforming familiar themes into entirely new forms.
Accompanied by the luminous and deeply unsettling artwork of Bora Murmure, "Throat Slave" occupies a space somewhere between nightmare and revelation. Like the glowing figure depicted on its cover, the record emerges from darkness transformed — beautiful, disturbing, and impossible to fully explain.
As Baxter Yogurt puts it: "'Throat Slave' is a collection of songs about defending your identity from parasites... Whether they're people, institutions, bad habits, or the voice in your own head telling you to play it safe. The record is filled with bodily fluids, vermin, disease, and decay because that's what these forces feel like when they're attached to you and feeding. Every song is a battle between self-determination and surrender. The answer isn't self-improvement or enlightenment... It's trusting yourself enough to reject what's false. Don't become somebody else's 'Throat Slave'."
"Throat Slave" track listing:
Side A
01. Prison
02. Fart F***** F*** Face
03. Leeches
04. Mucus
05. Rats
06. Tumors
Side B
07. Face Fart F***** F*** (Plack Blague Leather Remix)
08. Mucus Producer (Drumcorps Remix)
09. Rats & Leeches (FARTBARF Remix)
10. Filthy Rats (Ecology: HomeStones Remix)
11. Snot Of Self Abuse (HYPER GAL Remix)
12. Throat Toad (DJ Embryonic Petit Sac Remix)
13. Pay To Rot (KK Null Remix / CD Bonus Track)
SQUID PISSER is currently on the "Internal Violence Tour 2026", with the band's "Tumors Across America Tour" set to kick off August 19.
(Source: www.bravewords.com)
