THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Waxlegs are a feminist-charged, four-wheeled monster truck speeding through a dark and deserted town, followed by beer cans attached by guitar strings, just in time to celebrate Lucifer’s second marriage. The magnificently titled Horny Tears From Hell is their debut album.
Horny Tears From Hell unites a fusion of sounds from ominous genres that collide together in a dark, hauntingly endearing manner. A raw unpolished beast for fans of real killer bands like Acid, Sacrilege, Girlschool or Discharge. It combines the best of punk and metal. Its heavy hard rock riffs that automatically will make your head bang against the wall into a bloody pulp with two fingers in the air. The doomy Sabbath-esque aesthetic will ava- lanche your body into a sweaty death pit at your local headbanger’s ball. And all of this happens while feverish vocals scream proclamations against the unjust, but sing praise for the desired — fueled by genuine DIY punk attitude.
Dissident musical passages break free from their frameworks, aligning into rebellious compositions that fuse immorality with mortality. The haunting sounds of gothic chamber music and feral screeches slowly introduce tracks as if you’re about to be exorcised by a possessed Satanic priestess. Bewildering sounds will leave you wondering if the band are producing them, or if the’ve been lifted from an old-school VHS horror movie. Incongruously sinister Spanish guitar noodles will ease you into a giant ball of ecstatic confusion with a wild smile on your face.
Waxlegs now joins the excitingly growing Bretford Records roster of international delinquents, releasing this 11-track collection of genre-fucking seedy chaos. In the winter of 2019-20, singer-guitarist Wolfie got a vision to start Waxlegs. The first men onboard were Dodi on drums and Moritz on bass. Two years later Sid completed the full lineup on second guitar. After just three frenzied months writing songs in the rehearsal room, they recorded the Pleasure & Pain demo tape, which was released in the fall of 2021.
Horny Tears From Hell is savvily produced by Die Verlierer guitarist/bassist Lorenz Szukal. Setting up camp in O’Tool Studio just outside of Berlin, Waxlegs bugged out and got down with the producer to create something that seeks musical integrity and ingenuity — keeping some natural amp hums and hisses whilst adding eerie noises from worlds we don’t want to find.
Wolfie’s grounded lyrics of everyday life situations showcase a nihilistic, fatalistic frame of mind, urging listeners to just bloody well get on with it. Case in point: “Come with me to the gas station, it’s never too late to break free” — screamed with passion you seldom hear at a gas station. The no-fuss lyrics are matched with high-strung instrumental intensity, erasing the blurry line between sanity and insanity.
Waxlegs could be as well called a “supergroup,” with members from other Berlin bands such as Indian Nightmare, Urin and Batterrrii. They have a true to heart / be real / no poser ethos, urging everyone to relax and be themselves, and not to pretend to be anything they’re not. It’s real music coming from real people of the very real city of Berlin. Horny Tears From Hell is an album to conquer the boundaries of music, while bringing you something truly unique and wonderfully uncanny.”
