Release Date: November 06th 2026. Record Label: Self Released. Format: DD
Touch Grass - Tracklist
1.Fight Your Dad 04:15
2.Cracked Plastic Throne 04:58
3.Divorced From Reality 02:44
4.Touch Grass 05:06
5.Peen Greig 02:46
6.Red Dye 40 Hands 05:06
7.Can't Get To Heaven With Soft Hands 03:39
Review
Sod The Earth is a Sludge/Stoner Metal band focusing upon the later stages of adult life or as the band calls their style of music - DADCORE. That description that fully fits the whole tone Sod The Earth taking a very sly and critical eye at life at suburban divorced fathers everywhere. The lyrics are quite grounded but also superbly funny, a dark WEEDIAN humour hidden behind the scenes.
The music itself is influenced by the likes of The Sword, WEEDEATER and CLUTCH with a dark Psychedelic Stoner Rock/Metal style that develops throughout the album. Their second album Touch Grass could easily be taken as multiple different meanings which allows Sod The Earth to play a highly distorted style of fuzzed out grooves and doomed out sounds.. The songs can be quite emotional until you Sod The Earth punch in you the gut at how bleak life can be though the superb humour always lightens the mood.
Sod The Earth do start to move further into the world of Grunge at times echoing bands such as Melvins, TAD and Soundgarden which appears superbly well in tracks such as Fight Your Dad, Cracked Plastic Throne, Touch Grass and Red Dye 50 Hands. The sound is quite seedy but Sod The Earth always plays with a determined focus with an aggressive sound that’s quite melodic in a classic Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal kind of way.
Touch Grass has a warm hearted attitude especially within the title track which is perhaps my favourite track as it showcases a different flavour of Psychedelic Stoner Rock that becomes quite therapeutic but still relying on that fantastic WEEDIAN humour. Though, Sod The Earth injects some catchy Post-Stoner, Post-Doom and Post-Rock melodies.
Touch Grass is an addictive groove based record with Sod The Earth creating an immensely entertaining album that has all the right ingredients to become a firm favourite / cult classic within the underground WEEDIAN METAL scene.
Words by Steve Howe
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