Torche, Hydra Head thrash kings

We’re getting caught up on two weeks of intense blogging for West Coast Sound, and we now present to you some tasty MP3 and/or streaming works. This is the Shred Edition (with some twang thrown in too).

1. FEATURED: 22 Songs of Shred and Doom from Hydra Head*
2. Free Album from Psychedelic Random Patterns
3. Slim Barton and James Moore’s ‘Poor Convict Blues’
4. ‘Los Angeles’ by Leslie & the Badgers, on Thirty Tigers
5. Saddam, Barack, Hillary Cameo in Henry Clay People Clip
6. ‘Claws’ By Local Gaze-Pop Outfit Luna Is Honey

(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)

* “As far as gift-giving goes, this one may be arriving out of season, but L.A. metal-of-many-stripes institution Hydra Head Records has just dropped the free 22-song digital sampler, Phoning It In.”