Hotel Wrecking City Traders (HWCT) is a sludge metal band from Melbourne, Victoria. Hotel Wrecking City Traders has been dislodging earwax, busting strings and sticks and blowing minds since 2007. HWCT is an instrumental duo with a heavy focus on improvisation and a love of loud volume and the psychedelic. The band has to date released an EP (2007) a full length album ‘Black Yolk’ (2008) and a 7” EP ‘Somer/Wantok’ (2009), all through Bro Fidelity Records (Australia). HWCT has also released a collaborative EP with Gary Arce in 2011 and two split EPs. In 2012 a split album was released with Spider Goat Canyon, which was followed by a three way split with WaterWays and Sons of Alpha Centauri .