The Locust

The Locust are a four-piece hardcore?/grindcore?/powerviolence?/noise rock? band from San Diego California, that began in 1994. Since then, they've become one of extreme music's most unique and reputable sources for off-the-wall, outside-the-box sonic bizareness, with theatric live performances and insane recordings. Following a few line-up changes in their earliest incarnation, the band's roster settled with some very familiar figures in the world of hardcore. This includes vocalist/bassist Justin Pearson (Swing Kids, Struggle, Some Girls, Holy Molar, Head Wound City, Retox, Dead Cross) and guitarist-turned-drummer Gabe Serbian (Cattle Decapitation, Holy Molar, Head Wound City), who unfortunately died earlier this year. The band was rounded out by guitarist/vocalist and founding member Bobby Bray, alongside keyboardist/vocalist Joey Karam.

To try and even describe The Locust is an insurmountable task, and one not even worth really attempting. Think minute-long bursts of unhinged chaos at breakneck speeds with disconerting rhythms, and even that doesn't do it justice. They evolved and changed quickly as a unit, pumping out three full-lengths and a whole wack of other material in just a few short years. For a quick guide, the majority of their discography can be found on the 2012 compilation Molecular Genetics From The Gold Standard Labs. Between that, Plague Soundscapes, New Erections, and their splits with Jenny Piccolo and Man Is The Bastard, you've covered most of your bases. If you're new to them, I'd suggest starting with Plague Soundscapes, and diving further into the rabbit hole from there. Enjoy.

Our Earth's Blood Pt. 2/Locust (1995)

1. Man Is The Bastard - Margin For Disintegration

2. Man Is The Bastard - War

3. Man Is The Bastard - Prayer From Another Land

4. Man Is The Bastard - Robotic Anenomi

5. Man Is The Bastard - Cave Water Rings

6. Man Is The Bastard - A Periscope's Demise By Torpedo

7. Man Is The Bastard - Rocket Brain Failure

8. Man Is The Bastard - Ward Of Knives

9. Man Is The Bastard - Lunatic Hunting People

10. Man Is The Bastard - Pluto's Winter

11. Man Is The Bastard - Jupiter's Autumn

12. Man Is The Bastard - Katlehong Journal (An Update)

13. The Locust - Ass Gravity

14. The Locust - Futile Agreement

15. The Locust - Sever The Toe

16. The Locust - Emaciation Fuckers

17. The Locust - Red

18. The Locust - Inbred America

19. The Locust - Hellos

20. The Locust - Personal History

21. The Locust - Keep Off The Tracks

The Locust/Jenny Piccolo (1996)

1. The Locust - Follow The Flock, Step In Shit

2. The Locust - Coffin Nails

3. Jenny Piccolo - Labor Day '92

4. Jenny Piccolo - Six

5. Jenny Piccolo - Hand That Feeds

6. Jenny Piccolo - One Year

The Locust (1997)

1. Halfway To A Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude To A Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony... Yea Whatever)

2. Prepare To Qualify

3. Kill Rodger Hedgecock

4. Pain Reliever

5. Off By A Long Shot

6. Cattle Mutilation

7. #99

8. Head Hits Concrete

9. Hairspray Supository

The Locust (1998)

1. Moth-Eaten Deer Head

2. Brand New Set Of Teeth

3. How To Build A Pessimistic Lie Detector

4. Nice Tranquil Thumb In Mouth

5. Dog Without A Collar (Run Over Red Rover)

6. The Perils Of Believing In Round Squares

7. Normal Run Of The Muck (Compensation For Conversation)

8. Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees

9. Straight From The Horses Mouth

10. An Extra Piece Of Dead Meat

11. Twenty-Three Full -Time Cowboys

12. Backbones Of Jack Asses

13. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality

14. Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour

15. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring The Whole Family

16. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

17. Halfway To A Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude To A Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony Yea Whatever)

18. Kill Roger Hedgecock

The Locust/Arab On Radar (2000)

1. The Locust - Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

2. The Locust - Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case

3. The Locust - This Is Radio Surgery

4. The Locust - Spitting In The Faces Of Fools As A Source Of Nutrition

5. The Locust - Sever The Toes

6. Arab On Radar - Three Meals Away From A Crack Whore

7. Arab On Radar - Piggin In The Pumpkin Patch

Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (2000)

1. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

2. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Bastard Noise Remix)

3. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Wizards of War Remix)

4. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Christoph De Babalon Remix)

5. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Sinking Body Remix)

6. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Kid606 Remix)

7. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (I Am Spoonbender Remix)

Flight Of The Wounded Locust (2001)

1. Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You A Cantaloupe

2. Turning Your Merchandise Into A Ripped Wall Of Mini-Abs

3. Bring Your 65 Italian Carbine

4. Alas Here Come The Hypochondriacs To Wait With You In The Lobby

5. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia

6. Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

7. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case

8. This Is Radio Surgery

9. Spitting In The Faces Of Fools As A Source Of Nutrition

10. Sever The Toes

11. Flight Of The Wounded Locust

The Locust/Melt Banana (2002)

1. The Locust - How to Become a Virgin

2. The Locust - Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?

3. The Locust - Twenty‐Three Lubed‐Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur

4. The Locust - Priest With the Sexually‐Transmitted Diseases Get Out of My Bed

5. The Locust - The Half‐Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office

6. Melt-Banana - Too Rough to Scoop (Find a Grain of Greed)

7. Melt-Banana - Creeps in a White Cake

Plague Soundscapes (2003)

1. Recyclable Body Fluids In Human Form

2. Identity Exchange Program Rectum Return Policy

3. Solar Panel Asses

4. Live From The Russian Compound

5. Earwax Halo Manufactured For The Champion In All Of us

6. Wet Dream War Machine

7. Listen, The Mighty Ear Is Here

8. Who Wants A Dose Of The Clap?

9. Teenage Mustache

10. How To Become A Virgin

11. Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better

12. Late For A Double Date With A Pile Of Atoms In The Water Closet

13. File Under 'Soft Core Seizures'

14. Practiced Hatred (Crossed Out cover)

15. Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?

16. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office

17. Pulling The Christmas Pig By The Wrong Pairs Of Ears

18. Can We Please Get Another Nail in The Coffin Of Culture Theft?

19. Your Mantel Disguised As A Psychic Sasquatch

20. Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur

21. Captain Gaydar It's Time To Wind Your Clock Again

22. Priest With The Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Get Out Of My Bed

23. Pickup Truck Full Of Forty Minutes

Follow The Flock, Step In Shit (2004)

1. Follow The Flock, Step In Shit

2. Coffin Nails

3. Red

Safety Second, Body Last (2005)

1. Armless And Overactive / Invented Organs

2. One Decent Leg / Immune System Overtime

New Erections (2007)

1. AOTKPTA

2. We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit

3. The Unwilling... Led By The Unqualified... Doing The Unnecessary... For The Ungrateful...

4. One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation

5. Full Frontal Obscurity

6. Scavenger, Invader

7. Hot Tubs Full Of Brand New Fuel

8. God Wants Us All To Work In Factories

9. Book Of Bot

10. Slum Service (Slyed On The Sly)

11. Tower Of Mammal

The Peel Sessions (2010)

1. How To Become A Virgin

2. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office

3. Kill Roger Hedgecock

4. Straight From The Horse's Mouth

5. Moth-Eater Deer Head

6. Priests With The Sexually-Transmitted Diseases, Get Out Of My Bed

7. Cattle Mutilation

8. Perils Of Believing In Round Squares

9. Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur

10. Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees

11. Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles An Hour

12. Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

13. Who Wants A Donse Of The Clap

14. Wet Nurse Syndrome (Hand Me Down Display Case)

15. Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You Cantaloupe

16. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys

Molecular Genetics From The Gold Standards Labs (2012)

1. How To Become A Virgin

2. Who Wants A Dose Of The Clap?

3. Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Granduer

4. Priests With The Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get Out Of My Bed

5. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office

6. Perils Of Believing In Round Squares

7. Flash's Theme

8. Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You Cantaloupe

9. Turning Your Merchandise Into A Ripped Wall Of Mini-Abs

10. Bring Your 6.5 Italian Carbine

11. Alas, Here Come The Hypochondriacs To Wait With You In The Lobby

12. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia

13. Flight Of The Wounded Locust

14. Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

15. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case

16. This Is Radio Surgery

17. Spitting In The Faces Of Fools As A Source Of Nutrition

18. Sever The Toes

19. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

20. Moth-Eaten Deer Head

21. Brand New Set Of Teeth

22. How To Build A Pessimistic Lie Detector

23. Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth

24. Dog Without A Collar (Run Over Red Rover)

25. Normal Run Of The Muck (Compensation For Conversation)

26. Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees

27. Straight From The Horse's Mouth

28. An Extra Piece Of Dead Meat

29. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys

30. Backbones Of Jack Asses

31. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality

32. Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour

33. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring The Whole Family

34. Halfway To A Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude To A Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony... Yea Whatever)

35. Kill Rodger Hedgecock

36. Hairspray Suppository

37. Cattle Mutilation

38. Prepare To Qualify

39. Pain Reliever

40. Off By A Long Shot

41. Head Hits Concrete

42. Ass Gravity

43. Keep Off The Tracks

44. #99

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