Hollow Leg Dust and Echoes Release: 13 June 2025 Submit Coverage MP3 Download
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Currently only "Poison Bite" is cleared for airplay/podcast

When HOLLOW LEG began shaping what would become Dust and Echoes, the Florida-based heavy outfit wasn’t setting out to write a full-length album. Instead, the band—formed in 2009 and known for their sludge-laced, riff-centric take on heavy rock—decided to create two distinct EPs, Dust and Echoes, written and recorded during separate sessions across the span of a year. The intention was simple: two standalone releases that carried a shared DNA, built to be experienced independently or fused together as a full-length journey.

That journey is now complete. Releasing in June 2025 via Third House Communications, Dust and Echoes is HOLLOW LEG’s most cohesive and diverse album to date, a full-spectrum exploration of weight and atmosphere. Across nine songs and nearly 40 minutes, the band channels doom, grunge, hard rock, space rock, and old-school metal into a singular vision of destruction, decay, and transcendence. It’s both a soundtrack to the end of the world and a map for surviving it.

The album opens with “Poison Bite,” a crushingly slow and sludgy track that pulls from HOLLOW LEG’s earlier material—raw, direct, and emotionally grim. Written around themes of twisted human behavior, it’s a live staple that sets the tone for what’s to come. From there, “Sick Days” shifts gears into a more rock-driven groove, pairing gritty riffage with cleaner vocals to create a brutal but melodic attack on the cruelty of mankind and the absurdity of war.

“Funeral Storms” brings a grunge-tinged groove with thick vocals and apocalyptic imagery, while “Another Day Dying” leans into the band’s hardcore roots. It’s packed with layered vocals and ends with a hazy, psychedelic slide guitar outro—blurring the lines between consciousness and chaos. “Holy Water” closes out the Dust half of the album with slow-building atmosphere, rainsticks, congas, and other textural ear candy. A post-apocalyptic hymn, it imagines the “last tribe” surviving after civilization’s collapse.

Then comes Echoes, the second half of the experience. “Last Tribe” kicks off this side with bounce, groove, and rich vocal harmonies, ending in a synthy wash of guitars and the titular phrase “emerging from dust and echoes.” It's both the conceptual and musical bridge between the EPs. “Bury Our Kings” follows with a blues-drenched riff that has become a live staple, its infectious mid-tempo stomp securing it as one of the band’s signature bangers.

With “Red Skies,” HOLLOW LEG imagines humanity abandoning Earth to start over on Mars—a short, punchy rocker that blends end-times anxiety with space-faring escapism. “Ride the Wave/Dig the Grave,” the album’s longest track, closes the record on a high. It’s a two-part epic about aging, surrendering to time, and accepting the inevitable, morphing from a frenetic, groove-heavy rocker into a doom-gaze finale that floats through the void like stardust.

The lineup—Scott Angelacos (vocals), Brent Lynch (guitar/backing vocals), John Stewart (drums/percussion), and Tom Crowther (bass)—recorded the album at High Five Studio in DeLand, Florida, producing the sessions themselves with mixing and mastering handled by Zeuss. The artwork was created by Shawn Garrett and Jean Saiz, echoing the record’s themes of desolation and rebirth. These four musicians, veterans of underground acts like BLOODLET, CARIBOU KING, JUNIOR BRUCE, and HOPE AND SUICIDE, have always thrived in heavy music’s murky, rebellious corners—and with Dust and Echoes, they’ve crafted something that’s both raw and realized.

Whether you start with Dust or Echoes, the result is the same: a heavy, grooving, groove-laden saga about the end of everything—and the strange beauty in what comes after.

About HOLLOW LEG:

HOLLOW LEG is a heavy band born in the swamps of Florida, built on riffs, rhythm, and raw energy. Since forming in 2009, the band has forged a sound that blends sludge, doom, and hard rock with elements of grunge, classic metal, and even blues and hip-hop — a swampy, groove-laden punch to the gut that’s as soulful as it is crushing.

Over the years, HOLLOW LEG has carved out a loyal following with their dynamic songwriting, relentless live shows, and a discography that balances grit with atmosphere. The lineup — Scott Angelacos (vocals), Brent Lynch (guitars/backing vocals), John Stewart (drums/percussion), and Tom Crowther (bass) — brings deep roots in the underground, with current and former members of cult bands like BLOODLET, CARIBOU KING, and JUNIOR BRUCE.

With appearances at major underground festivals like Psycho Las Vegas and Maryland Doom Fest, and a catalog of full-lengths and EPs that have pushed their sound in new directions, HOLLOW LEG continues to evolve without losing their core: heavy, honest, and hungry. Whether channeling the slow burn of doom, the swagger of stoner rock, or the urgency of hardcore, they remain fiercely committed to the riff and the truth it carries.

Their new album, Dust and Echoes, is the culmination of everything the band has built — a concept forged from two distinct EPs that fuse into a single, end-of-days experience. It’s their heaviest, most varied, and most fully realized statement yet.

HOLLOW LEG is:

  • Scott Angelacos – Vocals
  • Brent Lynch – Guitars, Backing Vocals
  • John Stewart – Drums, Percussion (including rainsticks)
  • Tom Crowther – Bass
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