Photo by Blake Metcalf

Our first look at Gumm was in the art of celebrating the inward looking outside into this dumpster fire of a world, with the Chattanooga hardcore band’s 2023 debut album, Slogan Machine. The view hasn’t gotten any prettier in the years since, and that definitely is leaving a mark. With “New From The Pain”, the lead single from the band’s sophomore follow-up, Beneath The Wheel, they’re channeling all that negative energy into accentuating the self-preservation positives that come from working through these very intense emotions. Digging bigger into the melodicism behind vocalist Drew Waldo’s grated screams while beefing up the ’90s post-hardcore-styled riffs, his feelings of being an outsider may be coming from one human alone, but when he shouts, “I don’t fit in anywhere!”, the listen becomes a communal anthem meant to be screamed by the many looking for one another in the dark.

Directed by: Derek Rathbun

Gumm’s Beneath The Wheel will be released October 31st on Convulse Records.