Deer

Hulk Smash is a two-piece band, a very loud two-piece band, and one of Philadelphia's best kept secrets. Using an 8-string bass, organ pedal board, midi controls, homemade electronic instruments, keyboards and drums, visually the duo can look like two separate one-man-bands. Tagged as Electro-Sludge, Electro-Punk and Prog-Doom the group has garnered comparisons to Melt Banana, the Melvins and the label Amphetamine Reptile's glory days. Deer++ is their second full-length effort. It was written as it was recorded in the studio. The first half of the album was written in one 24-hour stretch in the studio and released as the Deer cassette. The second half was written and recorded almost a year later in another 24-hour stretch in the studio and since the theme of the material seemed to fit together so well it was put together as a full record with deer. Then bonus tracks from an earlier recording were added to make deer++.