Today, All Leather releases its Amateur Surgery On Half-Hog Abortion Island. The effort is a remixed, remastered and updated anthology of the band’s music and sees release on Three One G Records. Grip it here.

Some of the material was originally released via Dim Mak, and it appears the band has emancipated it for this release. Justin Pearson says:

“The recording budget for the All Leather LP was $7K. That was almost 20 years ago. Dim Mak stopped accounting to us after one of our tracks sold just shy of 2 million downloads (this is before streaming existed), so via Apple Music ($.99 per download), Beatport ($3.99 per download), etc. Granted, the sales were due to the masked Spiderman-esque DJ duo, the Bloody Beetroots, doing a remix for us. But, we were actually accounted for that track’s sales, which shows that All Leather made a little over $300 for that remix’s download sales.

“However, the most recent statement we received after 14 or so years later says the band currently owes the label $14K. So, if anything, it’s impressive that our debt to Dim Mak has doubled in almost two decades. Which, I suppose makes sense, when the label also charged us for shit like a photoshoot that our friend did for free, and somehow managed to not account for any physical sales, or merch at all, which they sold online and through their distributor. So, needless to say, shit is pretty lame.

“Oh, I forgot to mention, they also took a vocal stem from an All Leather track, and assigned it to another DJ duo called Religion, who released a song and video called ‘Burn the Bar Down.’ The lyrics to the song Mystery Meat are, ‘burn the barn down.’ I was not asked about that in advance, nor was I compensated other than Dim Mak saying sorry and sending me a hundred bucks.

“Coming from a label owner who spends $23K on Cap’n Jazz art, and who gets paid triple digits to push play on a laptop in Vegas, we just wanted our music back, so we took it. Illegally. I guess I expect this situation from a dude who has allegations of misuse of funds from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG), a COVID-19 relief program for struggling venues and arts groups. When you are that rich, you become a different tier of human.”

All Leather is the soundtrack to a dance party at the epicenter of doom and destruction: heavy distortions, sharp, grating guitars, bitter, angry shouts fused with sexual slurs. In the span of its limited time as an active band, All Leather consisted of Nathan Joyner (Psychic Graveyard, Some Girls, Hot Nerds) on guitar, either Jung Sing (Silent, Maniqui Lazer) or Tin Cagayat on drums, and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Deaf Club, Dead Cross) on vocals. The genre is self-described as, bluntly stated: “annoying.”

This anthology, titled Amateur Surgery on Half-Hog Abortion Island (in classic All Leather fashion), is a complete collection of their odd and brief existence. All of the songs in this collection have been either re-recorded, recorded over, and/or revamped, presenting an invigorated vision to their body of music. This re-imagining showcases All Leather’s unique perspective in the only way they know how: with snarling grit and electronic grime.

Amateur Surgery On Half-Hog Abortion Island was recorded by Mike Kamoo at Earthling, Brent Asbury at Singing Serpent, and Nathan Joyner at Cereal and Soda in San Diego, Califoria, and was mixed, remixed, and mastered by Nathan Joyner. Now, it has been pressed on limited edition color vinyl w/ faux leather cover.

Photo by Robin Laananen