USA/MEXICO//Low Level Hell

Austin’s USA/Mexico aren’t quite sludge or doom or death metal. Instead, they lurch somewhere in between the down-tuned pummel of bands like Buzzov•en and Eyehategod and the ultraviolent spazzes of Burmese or Brainbombs. A trio of Austin experimental rock veterans, they are led by Shit and Shine’s Craig Clouse on guitar and vocals and rounded out with Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’s Nate Cross on bass. Their debut Laredo was a bent-out sunstroke of processed vocals and noise-laden riffs, and its followup Matamoros is slower, freakier, and somehow louder.