I talked about the garage punk of Madison, Wisconsin's WRISTWATCH (previously mainly a solo project of Bobby Wegner from The Hussy) here in 2023 -- they've now re-recorded basically the best songs from the first two LPs as a four piece, produced by Beau Sorenson (Bob Mould, Superchunk, Taylor Swift): https://wristwatch420.bandcamp.com/album/iii

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The new 7 song EP 'Convulsing Above the Ground' by Milwaukee, Wisconsin's CRYPTUAL (my autocorrect wanted to make it 'crypt, y'all' 🤣) that Iron Fortress recently put out is pretty rad. Perfect for #ThursDeath.

Some kinda unique production on this, a little trebly/thrashy vibe to the guitar tone, but the vocals/everything else are firmly death. These songs rip fairly hard, with some really cool riffs and dynamics. My kind of stuff.

https://ironfortressrecords.bandcamp.com/album/convulsing-above-the-ground

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A while back I discovered WOOD CHICKENS from Wisconsin. They have a couple albums but I always go back to this one, "Well Done!" - the first track is instrumental (a theme) but the rest has great vocals, rough & raw punk, country and garage in there. Cow punk like Meat Puppets or Supersuckers. Fun as hell.

Love ALL these songs, but my favorite might be "I Live In Your Basement and Eat Mice". 😂 Other GREAT tracks are "Death Rides a Horse" and the last one, "Golden Goose".

https://woodchickens.bandcamp.com/album/well-done

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