Today we have a video for you from Los Angeles’s Slaughterhouse. They’ve also released a new album which packs five brand new tracks of early-80s-inspired LA hardcore/death rock for the masses. Presented on a single sided 12-inch EP with etched B-side, Slaughterhouse are setting the tone for 2025 with Sick and Tired via Pirates Press Records. They’ve dropped a video for the title track, and you can see it with us first. The record will be available for preorder this Friday.
The record was made with producer Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Alkaline Trio, Pennywise). Never one to rest on their laurels, Slaughterhouse continue to set the scene afire and prove to everyone what those who’ve seen them live already know: This band are the real deal, and they can more than hold their own on any stage, with any line up.
About the track and another song song on the album, vocalist Meriel O’Connell says, “You get a lot of people talking in your ear about what you should do, say, look like, how you should behave … I don’t think we’re put on this planet to try to make everyone happy or feel comfortable.” If ‘Sick and Tired’ speaks to the more personal side, ‘DNA’ is, “more of a larger scale fuck you to living in this cis-, hetero-, Euro-centrist, ableist, capitalist hellscape…isn’t that cool?!”
The record also features a cover of Black Flag’s “My War.” True to their LA roots and sound, Slaughterhouse rip through this legendary punk classic with a version that should make Rollins proud, while at the same time making it wholly their own. For fans of Slaughterhouse, this is what you’ve been waiting for. If you’ve seen them live in the past year, you already know what’s coming. If you haven’t had the privilege yet, this is your starting point. If this EP is, as the band puts it, “the tip of the iceberg creatively,” we can’t wait to hear what’s next! Grab your copy today!
