Hollow Leg Come Roaring Back With Explosive LP, ‘Civilizations’

The first encounter I had with HOLLOW LEG came by way of a friend excitedly tagging a half-dozen of us. “Have you heard these guys? Stop what you’re doing right now. You need to listen to this!” The post was in reference to the band’s 2010 debut, Instinct. It was hands down the beefiest thing I’d heard in like…forever…and I’ve been hooked on those meaty riffs and savage vox ever since.

As Hollow Leg inch closer to celebrating a full decade of shaking walls, rumbling floors, and rearranging internal organs, we’re bracing for yet another powerful spin from the Florida sludgers. ‘Civilizations’ (2019) is a behemoth beyond reckon – and you don’t even have to take my word for it. From the arresting pounding of its opening drumbeat to the gravelly strains of those prophetic words, “What we’ve just witnessed must surely be the end,” you’ll be transfixed. The entirety of Civilizations feels larger than life. The fury and weight of every track will scare you wide awake. Few can bring the fire of apocalypse like Hollow Leg. When this band warns the end is near, you’d better damn believe it.

Jan 25th is the watch date, as Argonauta Records readies Hollow Leg’s fourth full-length in a 300 limited count vinyl release, in addition to CD and digital formats. You can pre-order the record right here.

Today, Doomed & Stoned is giving you your first taste with the stormy single, “Hunter and the Hunted” – drawn straight from the album’s midsection. This hearty four-and-a-half minute bruiser is an ode to the primitive instinct to kill or be killed.

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Called an "enormously toned groove engine,” Hollow Leg’s train just keeps a rollin’. Now on the eve of their fourth full-length release since 2010, the band is poised for national notoriety. 'Civilizations’ (2019) features nine tracks of sludge vitriol akin to Crowbar, Weedeater, and Eyehategod.

Hollow Leg is the sort of demented sludge behemoth that makes the faint of heart tremble and shake. Having emerged from the Florida swamps, this isn’t just another heavy band trying to suck at the teat of a bloated scene. Rather these Psycho Las Vegas veterans have made a name for themselves as weathered professionals, both on the road and in the studio. Blending American blues with English heavy metal, Hollow Leg have refined a sound that is colored with the influences of everyone from Jane’s Addiction and Faith No More to Eyehategod by way of Judas Priest.

Once called “fluid in its groove and molasses-thick in tone” by the Obelisk, Hollow Leg have been methodical in their tour approach and consistent with their recorded output. This fall will see the release of 'Civilizations’ on Argonauta Records, the band’s fourth album in eight years and third studio release since 2016. The group recorded it all in their own studio and self-produced, eventually being mixed and mastered by Kent Stump of Wo Fat. With huge ambitions and deep roots, Hollow Leg have found themselves playing multiple Maryland Doom Fests.

Cranking out crushing riffs left and right in the nations seedy dive bars as well as alongside titans like Amon Amarth and Enslaved, this band is a veritable train kept a’ rollin’. Unafraid to evolve, having even shifted from being a duo to a four piece, this is a group who constantly push for bigger and better things. Greater than the sum of their parts and constantly expanding their sound, Hollow Leg have the drive and ambition needed to become lords of the stoner metal underground.