Description
Based in New York, YHWH Nailgun have built a reputation on music that is visceral, immediate, and impossible to neatly categorize. What began in 2020 as the raw collision between vocalist Zack Borzone and drummer Sam Pickard has since evolved into a full four-piece alongside guitarist/producer Saguiv Rosenstock and synth player Jack Tobias. Their new album ‘Magazine’ further sharpens the bands uncompromising vision.
Across 10 tracks that unfold in just 11 minutes, ‘Magazine’ pushes YHWH Nailguns sound into even more skeletal and immediate territory. Opening with the slow fade-in of Ghost of Love, the record feels less like a conventional album than a fragment pulled from an endless transmission. The band balances chaos with precision: frantic guitars, bruising percussion, air-raid synths, and Borzones now-unmasked vocals, delivered with a newfound clarity that brings his surreal, religiously charged imagery into sharper focus. ‘Magazine’ was previewed at C2C Festival NYC with the band performing the record in its 11-minute entirety before abruptly exiting the stage. Known for their dynamic and volatile live shows, the performance generated equal parts confusion and excitement.
While their acclaimed 2025 debut ’45 Pounds’ introduced the bands feral intensity, ‘Magazine’ strips away abstraction in favour of something even more direct. Pickards drums are leaner, Rosenstocks production more exposed, and Borzones lyricsfilled with visions of blood, serpents, God, and the Deviltake centre stage. Despite the extremity of their sound, the band approaches their music with instinct over self-consciousness, building what they describe as an autonomous creative world unconcerned with trends or reactionary impulses.
Rooted in improvisation and the pursuit of quick bursts of inspiration, YHWH Nailgun continues to refine a sound that feels both confrontational and strangely transcendent – music that resists definition while fully committing to its own singular language.
TRACK LISTING
1. Ghost of Love
2. Stillness Blues
3. Innocent Sigh
4. Hips on a Wheel
5. Ballerina
6. Give Blood
7. Magazine
8. Sewer Tree
9. Burns
10. To The Devil
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