The Locust will release a new album on July 31st titled Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs, referencing their ex-label with which they originally released these 44 hard-to-find tracks.

Since 1994, The Locust has been producing unique combinations of grindcore and new wave music, and Molecular Genetics collects all of their Gold Standard Labs work.  MXDWN regularly covered acts from the Gold Standard Labs label such as Rhythm of Black Lines, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Free Moral Agents, until the label was shut down in 2007. GSL’s owner Sonny Kay went on to become an artist, producing The Glitch Mob’s album art for Drink The Sea.

Be sure to check out this extensive body of early work from The Locust.

Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs Track Listing
1. How to Become a Virgin
2. Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?
3. Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur
4. Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get Out of My Bed
5. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office
6. Perils of Believing in Round Squares
7. Flash’s Theme
8. Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe
9. Turning Your Merchandise Into a Ripped Wall of Mini-Abs
10. Bring Your 6.5 Italian
11. Alas, Here Come the Hypochondriacs to Wait With You in the Lobby
12. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia
13. Flight of the Wounded Locust
14. Get Off the Cross, the Wood Is Needed
15. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case
16. This Is Radio Surgery
17. Spitting in the Faces of Fools as a Source of Nutrition
18. Sever the Toes
19. Well I’ll Be a Monkey’s Uncle
20. Moth-Eaten Deer Head
21. Brand New Set of Teeth
22. How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector
23. Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth
24. Dog Without a Collar (Run over Red Rover)
25. Normal Run of the Muck (Compensation for Conversation)
26. Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees
27. Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
28. An Extra Piece of Dead Meat
29. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys
30. Backbones of Jack Asses
31. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality
32. Skin Graft at Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour
33. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family
34. Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude to a Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony… Yea Whatever)
35. Kill Roger Hedgecock
36. Hairspray Suppository
37. Cattle Mutilation
38. Prepare to Qualify
39. Pain Reliever
40. Off by a Long Shot
41. #99
42. Head Hits Concrete
43. Ass Gravity
44. Keep Off the Tracks