“The Chicago-based trio’s debut, Retrash, may be some of the filthiest crossover thrash you’ve ever heard” - Decibel

LP edition is pressed on virgin vinyl and packaged with a fully artworked inner sleeve and free download coupon.

CD version in 4 panel mini-LP style gatefold package.

“take three dudes from some of the city’s grossest, weirdest bands, and together they create a simple, powerful thrash unit...Retrash is a seven-song, 32-minute blast of streamlined, high-intensity heavy metal” - Chicago Reader

Oozing Wound is Zack Weil (guitar, vocals), Kevin Cribbin (bass), and Kyle Reynolds (drums), young men that have established themselves in the volatile Chicago underground in a short time, playing in Cacaw, Unmanned Ship, ZATH, Bad Drugs, and countless other groups that have populated packed, sweaty basements and lofts throughout the city. Simultaneously hilarious and terrifying, their debut album, Retrash, is made for people who have no faith in melody and happiness, and no resistance to heavy riffage. This is music by and for people with a desire to slay.

The band channels their inner 15 year old, offering little distinction between comedy and antagonism. As Weil puts it, Oozing Wound is defined by, “loud fucking guitars and screaming and shit. We don’t sing, and we don’t write big choruses. Anything like that gets checked by the wayside because, fuck it, it’s not us.”

The songs on Retrash use humor to defend against and explore the anger, paranoia, and destruction that characterize life in the modern era. The line between hysterical and histrionic is tread with little regard for anything at all. “See you later, alligator” Weil howls in “Welcome to the Spaceship, Motherfucker,” as he channels a fever dream of the Biblical Joseph after discovering Mary’s pregnancy. “.......
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