Recommended EP: BIB – ‘BIBLICAL’

Though BIB are of the ilk of hardcore punk where trying to outline any words hurling out of vocalist Nathan Ma may be an impossible fete, it doesn’t mean that through the Omaha band’s ugly, gnashing march into the existential void that they aren’t attempting to sound as huge as a black hole doing it. BIBLICAL, BIB’s latest EP, hears Ma alongside guitarist Jonathan Cobb, guitarist and bassist Brock Stephens, and drummer Bill Liebermann stepping into the studio with heavy scene studio pro Arhtur Rizk (Code Orange, Power Trip) in what churns out to be their most cohesive statement efforts yet across their catalog of demos, EPs, and their 2020 full-length, DELUX. The hooks are grimier yet stick to the walls as Ma’s snarls echo onto them, and the violent electricity cuts through any white noise standing between it. That alone may help piece together BIBLICAL‘s lyrical intent in never letting impending death get in the way of living at max today, but most explicitly, their surroundings of being on the outskirts of trad hardcore and punk hotbeds organically spawn a feral kind of nature where rules get invented by your own will.

Highlights: “THE CIRCLE”, “TWO FACED PLANET”, “32 BELOW”

BIB’s BIBLICAL is available now on Quality Control HQ.

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