Chef John Thompson is boiling out the fryers and cleaning all the surfaces to make the kitchen truly vegan for a weekend anchored by “Macho Beer. Macho Nachos,” and of course Macho, the new full-length from Meatwound.
A decade after its debut 12-inch Addio, the Tampa hardcore band continues its constant evolution for this fourth LP, a slow march of productivity that was borne of multiple demos, rewritten material, and stuff assembled in the last minutes before entering Candor Recording Studios just a mile away from Deviant. (The studio also is where Atlanta noise-rock band Whores recorded War., named one of Rolling Stones best metal albums of last year.)
While the median age of Meatwound members dropped dramatically with the addition of new drummer Dmeatree Stoianovich, the results (FFO: Hum, Quicksand, Drive Like Jehu) are refined in a manner that can only be achieved by players that’ve seen it all.
Tickets are $10 at the door for the Meatwound Macho record release at Tamps’s Deviant Libation on Saturday, May 10 in Tampa.
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This article appears in May 1-7, 2025.