Sod The Earth’s new concept album »Touch Grass« follows one post-divorced man’s journey; available now on all streaming platforms!
Grand Rapids, Michigan based doom/sludge metal band Sod The Earth has just released their sophomore album »Touch Grass« on November 6th, 2026.
»Touch Grass« is now available on all streaming platforms!
Tracklist:
01. Fight Your Dad
02. Cracked Plastic Throne
03. Divorced From Reality
04. Touch Grass
05. Peen Greig
06. Red Dye 40 Hands
07. Can’t Get To Heaven With Soft Hands
Sod The Earth’s newest concept album »Touch Grass« is following one post-divorced man’s journey towards redemption through the healing powers of drinking, smoking, and doing yard work.
“We write doom/sludge that skips the fantasy/horror tropes and digs into overlooked midwest mythology instead – suburban dread, working-class life, the getting-in-fistfights-at-softball-league-meets-existential-collapse stuff. Think Crowbar/The Sword heavy groove with a little John Prine in the songwriting. The record grew out of our earlier single »Cracked Plastic Throne«, which ended up inspiring the whole album.” adds the band.
Sod The Earth emerges from Grand Rapids, Michigan as a doom/sludge band that treats suburban American mythology like the subject matter of legitimate epics. While most heavy bands mine fantasy and horror for lyrical ammunition, Sod The Earth finds genuine dread in the real stuff: Getting in a fistfight at softball league, getting laid off to automation, drinking too much at your stepson’s birthday party, and watching your 1997 Chevy Caprice slowly rust into nothing. Their music combines the heaviness and atmosphere of bands like Crowbar, The Sword, Elder, and Weedeater with the songwriting sensibility and working class humor of John Prine, creating a sound that resonates with both longtime doom fans and outsiders alike.
The band started as John Flynn’s solo project and expanded into a full live band focused on blistering riffs and pure fun. What emerged was a vehicle for transforming the overlapping crises of working-class Midwest life into crushing songs that manage to be both hilarious and devastating. Lines about Kirkland brand liquor and crumbling dreams sit alongside riffs that actually hurt. The songs work because the band doesn’t wink at satire… they’re deadly serious about it.
Live, Sod The Earth punches well above their weight class, delivering sets that feel equally committed to sonic devastation and genuine relatability with the room. All members are fathers juggling young kids and the demands of life. Their first album »Enter The Den« landed in December 2025, with a followup EP »Hardly Working Man« shortly after in January 2026. Their second album »Touch Grass« was released in November 2026.
The band is still in its infancy by conventional standards, but the trajectory feels inevitable. Grand Rapids’ West Michigan doom scene has grown considerably and Sod The Earth sits comfortably between the local metal underground and adjacent punk/math rock/grunge worlds that’ve embraced them just as enthusiastically. They’re not trying to transcend their region… they’re trying to make the best possible songs about it.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well