G.U.N. Death Dealer EP
It’s been three years since Nashville’s G.U.N. dropped that smoker of an LP, and surprise! They’re back with another short stack of straight killers. The blistering title track kicks off the festivities, serving as a reminder of the group’s raging and uncanny 1980s sound, and it’s only uphill from there. In recent decades, it’s been increasingly rare that we see a new entry to the short list of true hardcore classics, but the next song, “Sex Tourist Blues,” fits that particular designation swimmingly and is destined to appear on many a mixtape this summer. The final two songs further demonstrate the band’s uniquely nuanced chaos. Did these guys get even better? I think so, and this Poison Vision label out of Pittsburgh is batting a thousand so far—be sure to peep it.