If you’ve ever driven through rural Georgia with your windows down and a storm on the horizon, you already know what Boondox sounds like. It’s the thump of bass in a rusted pickup, the hum of cicadas, and the slow bleed of something dark just beneath the dirt.
Born David Hutto in Richmond County and raised in Covington, Boondox grew up on contradictions, Sunday sermons and Southern sins, metal riffs and mud caked backroads. Before the face paint and the scarecrow paint, he played bass in local metal bands, carrying the pulse of Georgia’s heavy underbelly long before horrorcore found him.
When Psychopathic Records signed him in the mid 2000s, Boondox became the South’s first true voice in the Midwest’s underground horrorcore empire. The Harvest (2006) was a shotgun blast of pain and poetry, while albums like Krimson Creek and South of Hell turned trauma up a notch.
Pray With Snakes ‘Boondox’ (The Harvest)
‘Pray With Snakes’ hit like a thunderstorm, the moment Boondox stopped whispering his truth and started howling it. With The Harvest, he became something new to the underground, a Southern prophet in corpse paint, spitting parables about poverty, violence, and faith gone sour.
The scarecrow was more than just a gimmick, it was mirror like, a reflection of the man who grew up fighting his way through Georgia’s backroads, the kid who never quite fit in, who learned early how to survive pain by turning it into art.
PunkinHed and Krimson Creek
He followed it up fast, dropping PunkinHed in 2007, a short, sharp EP that cracked into Billboard’s Top Heatseekers, proving Boondox’s darkness had found its crowd. By the time Krimson Creek arrived in 2008, that crowd had multiplied. The record dove deeper into his past, addiction, alienation, redemption, and hit No. 1 on the Heatseekers chart, it was personal, raw, and disturbingly relatable.
Then came South of Hell in 2010, a record that doubled as autobiography and exorcism. A companion documentary, Southern Bled, laid bare the person behind the paint: not a villain or monster, but a man raised in chaos who found catharsis in horror. It became his highest-charting album to date — and, for many fans, his definitive statement.
Like every Southern myth, there were trials ahead, Boondox stepped away from Psychopathic Records in 2012, citing personal issues, but leaving on good terms. Under the alias Turncoat Dirty, he revisited his gangsta rap roots, then re emerged with The Underground Avengers, a short lived but cult loved supergroup with Bukshot and ClaAs (who have since released new material in 2018 and 2024)
Psychopathic Records return
In 2013, the scarecrow returned to Psychopathic and releasing dropped Abaddon in 2014, a heavy, hallucinatory descent that mixed biblical imagery with backwoods horror. He toured relentlessly, even hitting Australia alongside Insane Clown Posse and Blaze Ya Dead Homie.
Majik Ninja Entertainment
When Boondox crossed over to Majik Ninja Entertainment in 2016, he found the freedom he’d always hinted at. The Murder (2017) turned violence into metaphor, blood into ritual. Its lead single, ‘Peck Your Eyes Out’, came with one of his most visceral videos yet, a Southern nightmare with gospel energy.
That era blurred into a creative high: side projects, reunions, and the long awaited return of Turncoat Dirty. Between 2018 and 2019, he dropped Dirty Days of Night, Anomaly 88 with The Underground Avengers, and Liquor, Lies & Legacy, each one a different slice of his psyche.
Even as his base shifted north, the South never left his voice. His 2020 project Krimsom Crow was proof: a twisted love letter to his roots, soaked in Southern mysticism and the restless energy of a man who still carries Georgia in his blood.
Now, nearly two decades after The Harvest, Boondox’s legend has outgrown genre lines. He’s part rapper, part preacher, a painted-up, heathen scarecrow from Georgia who turned generational pain into cult poetry. You can move him out of Covington, but you can’t scrape that red dirt from his boots.
Must Watch Videos
‘Red Mist’ ft. Twiztid & Blaze Ya Dead Homie
‘Inbred Evil’
‘Abaddon’
Wild Horses
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