The Locust
Goin’ Solo, the Long, Hard Way with Satyasena
January 25, 2024 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Satyasena‘s debut album, featuring members of Ghoul and Secret Chiefs 3!
Pre-Order THE LOCUST’s ‘Safety Second Body Last’ on Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl and Cassette RIGHT NOW!
February 1, 2022 Decibel Magazine
Only 100 copies each of The Locust‘s Safety Second Body Last Oxblood color variant LP and Brown color variant cassette are available via the Decibel web store.
Tickets for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST: Los Angeles with THE LOCUST, CURL UP AND DIE & More Are On Sale NOW!
September 24, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Tickets to see The Locust, Curl Up and Die, Bewitcher and Rude at our Los Angeles Metal & Beer PRE-FEST are just $30 in advance and on sale NOW!
THE LOCUST, CURL UP AND DIE, BEWITCHER and RUDE Announced for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST: Los Angeles on December 9!
September 20, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST: Los Angeles tickets are just $30 in advance and on sale Friday, September 24 at 10am PT.
Education Gets You Every/Nowhere: INUS Album Stream and Video Premiere.
August 1, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
INUS – “a pre-postapocalyptic, post-honky-tonk-prog-skronk, space Tropicalia, math-lounge powersilence trio”
Track Premiere: Surachai – ‘Empress of the Starved Lung’
December 14, 2018 Emily Bellino
Producer Surachai joins forces with The Locust’s K. Joseph Karam.
Justin Pearson Releases New Book, Looks Back on Provocative Musical Career
June 14, 2018 Greg Pratt
Justin Pearson of The Locust, Dead Cross, and Retox just published a book collecting lyrics from throughout his shit-disturbing musical career, and we rounded him up to talk about it.
Hall of Fame Countdown: The Locust’s Plague Soundscapes
January 3, 2017 Daniel Lake
Because New Year countdowns are all the rage and never get boring, count down the songs on Plague Soundscapes with us. Or against us.
Decibel Inducts The Locust’s Plague Soundscapes into the Hall of Fame
October 7, 2016 J. Andrew
Anything pop can do grind can do better.
Thoughts From Two Decades of Road Dogging: Retox Offers “Pre-Tour Diary”
August 25, 2016 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox) is no stranger to the road. Dude has been staring at blacktop and lane dividers in the name of playing dive bars and assorted shit holes around the world for ‘round about 20 years
INTERVIEW: Retox’s Justin Pearson on punk sincerity, Ugly Animals, extremity and running for office
December 5, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
Clocking in at 13 minutes or so, Retox’s debut rager Ugly Animals only just falls into the LP category. But, shit, it packs enough aggression, energy and compositional cordite to compensate anybody who is bummed out from holding out for a longer running time. The San Diego quartet don’t fuck around—at least not with the…