SKiN GRAFT RECORDS WELCOMES BUÑUEL, HYPER GAL, SQUID PISSER TO ITS ROSTER

Three more diverse and eclectic acts join the celebrated label and are set to make their SKiN GRAFT debuts in 2024

Photo credits: Annapaola Martin (BUÑUEL) / Dancefloormurder (SQUID PISSER) / Andy Armstrong (HYPER GAL)

SKiN GRAFT Records is over the moon to share that three new acts have joined the label’s storied roster of artists. Coming to the fore in 2024 are North Hollywood’s masked sci-fi grindcore annihilists SQUID PISSER, Japan’s stunning stripped-down minimalists HYPER GAL and the US-Italy avant-metal-noise-rock supergroup BUÑUEL.

These three bands join the previously announced new arrivals – Berlin’s noise-wave iconoclasts CUNTROACHES and Minneapolis’s UPRIGHT FORMS (headed by ex-Dazzling Killmen singer-guitarist Nick Sakes), as well as the recently reactivated YOWIE, who will debut their new line-up at this year’s Subterranean Dissonance Fest.

– SQUID PISSER –

Delivered via the manic pedalboard wizardry and sophisticated finger work of guitarist Tommy Meehan (Cancer Christ, Deaf Club, Cartoon Network) and the utterly brutal and savage drumming of Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), SQUID PISSER’s tightly controlled, futuristic hardcore-onslaught of amped-up rainbow vomit is a thing of throbbing, mucous-laden beauty. Conceptualized and formed in 2022, SQUID PISSER decided to fully utilize planet Earth’s viral slumber in order to gestate, write, and record – resulting in the opening salvo ‘My Tadpole Legion’ (Three One G / Sweatband) and a spattering of live shows, already the stuff of legend.

SQUID PISSER will continue their live assault and make their SKiN GRAFT Records premiere early next year with ‘Vaporize A Neighbor’, a four-song EP packaged in a 24-page wraparound comic book sleeve, released in conjunction with Sweatband Records. The band’s Tommy Meehan says, “SKiN GRAFT has been putting out vibrantly nasty music and chum-inducing art for over three decades. I’ve been wanting to work with Mark for years now. We’re grateful to be teaming up with such a legendary label and we’re feeling right at home in the company of so many other fucked-up sounding bands…”

– HYPER GAL –

Springing from Osaka, Japan’s cultural center and historical heart, comes HYPER GAL, a two-piece band consisting of visual artist Koharu Ishida on vocals and noise artist Kurumi Kadoya on drums. The minimalist duo make maximum impact – stripping music down beyond the bare essentials, to create shimmering, no wave pop from blastbeat drums, glittery keyboard loops and ethereal bubblegum vocals – laced with velvet and firecrackers.

HYPER GAL says of the signing, “It has been almost five years since HYPER GAL started its activities in Japan. These years have been very exciting. We’ve been fans of so many SKiN GRAFT artists… AIDS Wolf, Melt-Banana, Arab On Radar… The upcoming releases from SKiN GRAFT are a great opportunity to reach new audiences. We hope HYPER GAL will be a new musical experience for you. See you soon!”

HYPER GAL is at work on their third album. In the lead-up to its release, SKiN GRAFT will indoctrinate first-time listeners by making the band’s revolutionary second album, ‘Pure’, available outside of Japan. A compact disc edition will be released next February. Both it and a digital download version are now available for pre-order at SKiN GRAFT’s Bandcamp page.

– BUÑUEL –

BUÑUEL is heavy. The sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice. Produced by a literal supergroup of global significance, BUÑUEL boasts the sound work of the Italian trio of guitarist Xabier Iriondo (Afterhours, A Short Apnea), the bass of Andrea Lombardini (The Framers), and the drums of Francesco Valente (Il Teatro Degli Orrori), along with the singular vocals and lyrics of Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow).

“SKiN GRAFT has always emerged like the pretty person who I admired but figured would never give us the time of day, but today they did and given that BUÑUEL has this monster double album dropping, I’m super excited to have this beast handled by someone as pretty as SKiN GRAFT. “Mansuetude”, BUÑUEL’s first after their murder trilogy, couldn’t be in a better place or handled by better people than the folks at SKiN GRAFT” – says Eugene. So the way I look at it is like this: if you’re going to be a criminal you need to have a good criminal attorney. We found that in SKiN GRAFT. SKiN GRAFT correctly and comfortably provides context for the completely incorrect and uncomfortable music on BUÑUEL’s “Mansuetude”. So… like a match made in Heaven. But a lot… warmer.”

BUÑUEL‘s fourth record, ‘Mansuetude’, sets a hard course for the noisy source of music well beyond noise rock; made in a place full of hot heat, abandon and a studied dedication to the craft of un-comfortability. Italy’s OVERDRIVE Records and SKiN GRAFT have joined voices to bring BUÑUEL’s new album ‘Mansuetude’ into the world next year, right on time for the end time.