THE LOUSY
Unstoppable Boston, MA raw punk/speed metal force. The Lousy emerged around 2021 from the ashes of local d-beat crust marauders D-Sagawa, in a punk house in Boston, MA. Dan from local crust maniacs Instinct? moved in the house with the remaining D-Sagawa ex-members and this is when all the roommates began to throw around ideas for a faster and more metal-influenced and reckless new project that would be more thrash oriented and which had as primary inspiration bands like Bolt Thrower, Metallica, Slayer, Sacrilege, and Morbid Saint. The band's sound was further inevitably influenced by the band's close-knit life style of punks and friends living together "in a crazy punk house" with the songs lyrically and thematically "about being maniacs, the love for thrash metal and being evil". The band's debut demo "Shut Up I'm Talking!!!!” (titled this way for vocalist Jess' dislike of hearing people talking over them) was digitally self-released on the band's Bandcamp in early 2022 and immediately attracted attention with its break-neck intensity, commanding songwriting, and blown out raw production. Shortly after its digital self-release, Canadian punk tape label Sore Mind released the cassette in Canada featuring original artwork done by vocalist Jess Campbell, while Sentient Ruin released an American version of the cassette with the same artwork xeroxed and with a different graphic layout.