Instrumetal proggateers East of the Wall want another round of meat.

And that’s not just because they are a bunch of raging h-moes who love sausage; this undeniably impressive outfit from smelly NJ have so much happening on their musical plate that they simply cannot be sated by one serving.

Fanciful guitars dancing fluidly together, nimble basswork that isn’t afraid to get high, sharp anchored drumming that glues the whole thing together…..this band was somehow not on my radar until the recent South by South Drunk debacle, but rest assured from this point forward I’m extremely eager to see where these uber-creative folk take their powerful sound.

Plenty more tracks from these meat-hungry maniacs on their MySpace page…

And don’t forget to check out their prior group The Postman Syndrome (which is about to release a previously unavailable album, whoahhhhhh)

-KW

As Vince mentioned a few times last week, he and I will indeed be dropping our respective bombz on Austin this week for SXSW 2009. We expect the festival will undoubtedly bring plenty of metal, mayhem, n MEAT a la BBQ (anyone interested in a debaucherous road trip to The Salt Lick?? You drive!)

Sadly, I could not find any songs in my itunes under the tags “barbeque” or “ribs”, but these two lil ditties should suffice:

–if you lived under a poop-stained rock last year, then you may have missed Protest the Hero‘s epic album Fortress; here’s the first track:

PROTEST THE HERO — “Bloodmeat”, from Fortress (2008)

–if you’ve frequented a single strip club since 1993, there’s a pretty decent chance you saw a girl shake her teh-tahs to this old(ish) school alternarock gem:

MEAT PUPPETS — “Backwater”, from BackwaterToo High To Die (1994) (1993) and

For those who will be swilling in the madness first-hand, please join us for the MetalSucks/The End Records rokkker on Thursday night, feel free to try your luck on line the next night to see the fartiest old farts of them all, and for god’s sake, above all, drink some free beer n eat that frickin meat!

-KW