photos by Axel Brandt
Swedish trio BACON WAGON will drop their debut LP, Trauma Cake, through the noise rock scoundrels at Reptilian Records on June 6th.
In 2003, upon the disbanding of seminal Swedish noise rock band Acid Ape, brothers Marcus and Kristoffer Kinberg started BACON WAGON. 2004 saw them record a self-released split 7” with fellow rockers Instrumen. After trying a bunch of guitarists, Marcus switched from drums to guitar/vocals, and in 2005, the band recorded and released a six-song EP, Savant, released on Maduro Records. Shortly after, Peter Johansson, who played drums in Instrumen, quit his band and joined BACON WAGON, which turned out to be the perfect lineup. In 2006, BACON WAGON hooked up with Baltimore noise rockers Dactyl for a split 7” on Hit-Dat Records and a US tour, and a couple of years later, the band was put on hiatus.
The brothers Kinberg continued onward in the new outfit Hooves Not Hands, and Johansson later started the punk band Slöa Knivar and death metal band Bastard Grave. Fast forward to 2023 when the BACON WAGON crew finally got their shit together and wrote a slew of new songs. The band now finally arrives with their first ever full-length album, Trauma Cake.
Crackling with the expected caustic noise rock snarl and a filthy edge of tongue-in-cheek snark, Trauma Cake slaps the listener with ten ripping ragers fueled with punk energy and fuzz galore. One can picture the band members slyly cranking these dirges out amidst stacks of blown-out amps pumping forth plumes of blackened fumes while a cast of buzzed patrons light themselves aflame while slow-motion crowdsurfing.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Oliver Dahl at Studio Quaalude, Sweden, and completed with cover art by Marcus Kinberg, Trauma Cake is prime auricle-abrasing sustenance for patrons of Hammerhead, Black Flag, Nirvana, Flipper, Tad, Melvins, Butthole Surfers, and anything with Steve Albini’s name in the lineup or the Amphetamine Reptile logo on it.
Trauma Cake’s second track, “A Voodoo That Actually Works,” arrives as the first single from the impending album, with team BACON WAGON writing, “It’s pretty much a straightforward rock tune that we wanted to keep pretty simple. The lyrics are about manipulative people, not much more to say about it.”
Fire BACON WAGON’s “A Voodoo That Actually Works” up RIGHT HERE.
Trauma Cake will come served on LP with 500 copies on Translucent Blue Vinyl w/ Custard And Hot Pink Splatter and through digital ingestion services on June 6th. Make your physical and digital reservations at the Reptilian Records galley HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Trauma Cake Track Listing:
1. Tar Salad
2. A Voodoo That Actually Works
3. Lady Cramps
4. Hyena
5. Gauntlet
6. Honey! (I’m Home)
7. Love Blister
8. I-Beam
9. Brown Gravy
10. Bear Of A Man
Expect a second course to be provided between now and the album’s arrival.
BACON WAGON has booked a release show for the album at Rundgång Records in Malmö on May 23rd, with more shows being planned.
BACON WAGON Live:
5/23/2025 Rundgång Records – Malmö, SE *Record Release Show
BACON WAGON:
Kristoffer Kinberg – bass/vocals
Peter Johansson – drums
Marcus Kinberg – guitar/vocals
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