Photo by Ian Enger

For a band that nearly didn’t find its way back following pandemic upheavel, Gouge Away have really been on one nonstop since releasing one of last year’s most definitively best albums in their third full-length, Deep Sage. The experimental post-hardcore band’s touring as of late suggests that there’s reason to think 2026 is going to be their biggest one yet, too. Hot off opening for rising metalcore giants Dying Wish, they’re again leveling up on the road with two extremely different but amazing runs of dates, with the first being a peculiar team-up that sees them scaring the new class of alt-country folks before Wednesday during their spring tour. Come next autumn, it’s their biggest shows to date playing in front of stadium crowds before Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age.

Will their be new music on the way somewhere in between? That’d be nice, but for now, we get a taste of Gouge Away’s live energy with the drop of their new Live at BBC EP. Personally, I love this kind of shit. All year, we’re bombarded with new music left and right to the point that we can’t even stop to sit with what’s right in front of us, and across the four Deep Sage tracks here recorded at BBC Radio 1 in the storied tradition of Deathwish kindreds Touché Amoré, Converge, and Cave In, the Floridian-cursed rockers grabs you by the clavicle and rip you their way back into the moment. As Bandcamp commenter Cameron best puts it, “I strongly recommend seeing Gouge Away live, but if you can’t, this will fill that void quite nicely.” Avoid the void below…

Gouge Away’s Live At BBC is available now.