Hex Machine - Omen Mas FLAC download

"Hex Machine brutalize as is. Omen Mas timewarps to an era when grunge and metal were still lounging around in bed post-coitus, the early-90s heyday of Melvins and Today Is the Day and Cows, when Amphetamine Reptile could do no wrong and production clarity was for assholes. Every deranged riff is dipped in electric tempura batter and fried 'til crispy, every one of Trevor T's honest-to-Satan melodies is corroded in feedback. Heavier tracks like "Nurse Me Back to Hell" and "Godheads Full of Candy" crawl in the dirt and puke up mud. The more rockin' numbers drag the filth out into the light -- Hex Machine sound like elephants in tutus on "Black Skeleton" and "Vivisection," their bulging, gritty guitar tone stuffed into awfully well-formed songs." Etan Rosenblum / Cerebral Metalhead (http://www.cerebralmetalhead.com/2009/03/chainmail-hex-machine-omen-mas-minimum.html)

"Richmond's Hex Machine have been playing since the mid-aughts, but they've only put out one album, 2009's Omen Mas (Minimum Underdrive)—which they've just released again in a fancy vinyl edition. It's strong enough to give the impression that the band sprang fully formed out of someone's forehead, or more likely out of a sweaty thigh like Dionysus. Their greasy, heavy, hot-oil-fried riffs sit somewhere on the line between stoner metal, the Melvins, and straight-up 90s grunge. (If you can pinpoint exactly where that line is, let me know.) Omen Mas sounds like it was recorded in a very small cave littered with trash and old bones, which is just the most obvious of the many cues that this is a band that's best in a live setting, preferably a dark one. The eight-plus minutes of "Godheads Full of Candy," a shotgun wedding of severe Shellac-style angularity with trippy Bauhausian ooga-booga, are alone worth the price of the album. I also really love the arpeggiated ooze of the doomy "Peristalsis Hilton"—it just sounds satisfyingly rotten, which is as good a description of the album as a whole as any. —Monica Kendrick (Chicago Reader) http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/hex-machine-rabid-rabbit-backs/Event?oid=4203192