Bodybox - Florida men form trailer park metal band

Imagine a bunch guys named Bubba Lou, Big Earl, Lazy Jed and Fat Bobby living down by the swamp in Florida listening to Pantera, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pantera, Hatebreed and then some more Pantera, talking about forming a “heavy band, man,” while they’re out on the boat with their shotguns trying to find some alligators to barbecue later on tonight while they’re blowing up fireworks, chewing tobacco, and eating alligator beef jerky with Tabasco. It’s big, huge, enormously dumb stomping death brutality. The way they’d like to describe their sound is “Pantera’s I’m broken” combined with “deathcore” with some good ole trailer park grooves. It’s mostly animal farm noises, grunting and playing the three chords they know to the best of their hillbility. All they know is that if they can sound heavier than Pantera, than would be a good reason to go to the local Circle K and buy some beverages to pass out on Friday night and wake up some time on Saturday afternoon. These guys, whose real names their parents never told them, may not be good at reading, writing, arithmetic, speaking, thinking, staying out of jail, chewing alligator beef jerky and walking at the same time, but they sure make Florida proud with the death groove brutality of their 2021 EP “Through the Bongfire” and the 2021 demo “Microwaved Weed.” Bodybox can gallop in the old-school death way and can slow things down to grimace-face nasty heaviness breakdowns. The vocals are low and gruff, and lower and gruffer, while the music is dedicated to the art of the chugga-chugga-chug. Put away that calculator, you won’t need it to figure out the sound big belly tattooed hillbilly trailer park extreme metal. Alright, alright, alright.

THROUGH THE BONGFIRE by BODYBOX

MICROWAVED WEED by bodybox