Prizehog
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Latest Prizehog News
Below is our complete Prizehog news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Prizehog Announces New Tour Dates
Still riding a fresh wave of killer reactions to walloping third LP, "Re-Unvent the Whool," Portland's Prizehog has announced the routing for an upcoming Spring U.S. tour.
Embarking off the band's home turf on May 2nd, the counter-clockwise path this tour makes will find Prizehog winding through the entire continental U.S. for five full weeks before closing down with a final gig in Seattle on June 8th.
Amidst the closing-in of this confirmed run, Prizehog will be announcing a next tour lining up for this July alongside labelmates Hot Victory, with further details forthcoming. For now, catch the band live on these dates: More...
Prizehog Streaming Full Album
Portland's celestial space sludge trio Prizehog this week celebrates the release of mammoth third full-length "Re-Unvent the Whool" on March 4th via Eolian Empire.
You can also now hear the full album over at The Obelisk here. The track listing is as follows:
1. Paradiggum
2. Whoady
3. Shed (streaming below)
4. Awsme Bube
5. Irrevelant
6. Gnumskull, the Ruler More...
Prizehog Posts New Track Online
Portland, Oregon's Prizehog is a swine like no other; a beast which rather than simply residing in its own excrement awaiting a reservation with the bacon-maker instead delivers an unclassifiable battery of intoxicated, celestial sludge thunder.
Prizehog will release third full-length "Re-Unvent the Whool" via Eolian Empire on March 4th. Today you can hear new song "Shed" in the player below, courtesy of Decibel Magazine.
The album was recorded and mixed by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Tool, Russian Circles) at Sound of Sirens. You can also catch the band live:
2/28/2014 The Know - Portland, OR - record release show w/ Thrones, Polst More...
Prizehog To Release New Album
Prizehog will release third full-length album "Re-Unvent The Whool" on March 4th via Eolian Empire on digital download and 180 gram vinyl. Pre-orders are available at this location.
The street date will be celebrated early at a hometown record release gala on February 28th at Portland's The Know, sharing the stage with Thrones and Polst. Prizehog is currently scheduling a full U.S. tour for May, with those dates to be released in the coming weeks.
Eolian Empire also issued the following press release about the band:
"Prizehog, the mind-bending Portland-by-way-of-the-Bay-Area trio, exists on their own cosmic plane. Combining meditative grooves, punishing sludge, dazzling melodies, ultra-heavy psych, and crunchy riffs aplenty using a baffling and impossibly cryptic calculus, the outfit has created its own bizarro universe of heaviness.
"Re-Unvent the Whool, Prizehog's third full-length release, is a magnificent, powerful LP; a byzantine labyrinth of impenetrable riffs, crushing dirges, heavy hooks, and warped excursions wrapped up in triumphant progressions made complete with downshifted bellows and dark cries; perplexing and mystifying yet grand, spellbinding, enthralling, and uncannily soulful. More...