Gossip Wolf first caught Hogg in a smoke machine-filled DIY space in 2015, and to this day the proto-industrial duo have maintained a prodigious talent for instantly turning any venue into a murky catacomb, ripe for their dark rituals. Talk about bringing serious atmosphere! On Friday, May 11, Hogg drop their new album, Self-Extinguishing Emission, via Alex Barnett’s label Scrapes Recordings. It’s a banger—”Confidence,” the first song available to stream, blends stark spoken and sung melodies and rudimentary, thudding percussion into a tense, crawling manifesto. The vinyl version includes a double-sided poster insert, and it’s limited to 300 copies—Barnett says early birds can buy theirs on Wednesday, May 9, when Hogg open for Pharmakon at the Hideout.
