Iguana Death Cult will release their new, fourth studio album Guns Out via the American labels Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society. Guns Out was recorded at Epic Rainbow Unicorn Studio in Rotterdam together with Simon Akkermans, who also took care of the mix. Mastering was done by Jerboa Mastering. The new single I Like It, It’s Nice is out now.
Guns Out marks a return to punchy garage rock and features honest self-reflection, addressing escapism, mental strain, and creative renewal. The result channels their early punk and garage roots, uitars, percussion, synths and a whole lot of soul-searching is all that Iguana Death Cult needed for their recent resurrection. As part of a personnel change the band gained a strong new line-up, including the dazzlingly virtuous drummer Uri Rennert (previously in Häxxan and Brian Jonestown Massacre). This new era of Iguana Death Cult’s existence is channeling their earlier punk and garage style while simultaneously feeling unmistakably like a product of today. It is characterised by razorsharp and highly rhythmic riffing by Tobias Opschoor and the relentless drumming by Uri Rennert. By the ever-groovy and effortlessly cool percussion and synths by Jimmy de Kok and by the hefty yet heartfelt voice of frontman Jeroen Reek, guiding the listener through feelings of despair, anger and solace, in that very order.
With Iguana Death Cult’s latest iteration, the band laments on personal stories of hardship and doubt whilst fixing their gaze on the burning world around them. On Guns Out, Iguana Death Cult is exercising self-reflection on multiple levels: by breaking with the more indie-like, art-punk-funk sound of their previous album Echo Palace (released through Innovative Leisure in 2023), returning to a more ‘in your face’ punchy garage rock style. Secondly, by confronting a behaviour of escapism, and the toll that way of living takes on the self. And finally by ways of questioning their ways of writing music, returning to a faster, more spontaneous process. Guns Out is an album that’s tough and rigid on the outside but soft and contemplative on the inside. Moreover, it is the story of a band coming to terms with their own existence in the world they live in.
The new single I Like It, It's Nice is a quirky, bass heavy groove tune. “This song is either a critique of consumerism fed by malevolent tactics of greedy corporations, social media trickery and the overall existential dread of late stage capitalism. A salacious confession of fleshly desires that will get you into the groove or a silly song about a British baking show. But we’ll leave that to the ear of the beholder," says Jeroen Reek. Watch the video below.
Iguana Death Cult is a band who have made quite the miles in the last decade. Started as a group of young friends in 2014 wanting to make rock ‘n roll, the band has risen to great heights including touring with Osees, Frankie and the Witchfingers, supporting Jack White, playing SXSW, Levitation Festival and Desert Daze and doing multiple successful US tours. Upcoming spring the band is touring through The Netherlands and Belgium:
- 3 April - Slachthuis, Haarlem
- 4 April - Rotown, Rotterdam
- 18 April - Groene Engel, Oss
- 23 April - Nijverheid, Utrecht
- 25 April - Gebouw-T, Bergen op Zoom
- 30 April - Hall of Fame, Tilburg
- 5 May - In Vredesnaam, Deventer
- 8 May - De Beatrix, Leeuwarden
- 10 May - Effenaar, Eindhoven
- 13 May - Cinetol, Amsterdam
- 15 May - Sonic Whip, Nijmegen
- 17 May - Bibelot, Dordrecht
- 20 May - Vera, Groningen
- 21 May - Club AFF, Hasselt
- 23 May - Sniester, Den Haag