ENTRY always seem to know exactly when to pick their moment. Or is it that maybe with the way this world plunges faster into chaos by the second these day, it only makes it all the more necessary to welcome their presence ringing into our ears right now?

From one check point on the Doomsday Clock with the excellent high speed velocity of their 2024 EP, Exit Interview, closer to the next with their latest, another extended play entitled Micromania, it’s telling that the heaviness of this new terrifying normal has supersaturated itself within the Los Angeles hardcore extremist’s veins — vitriol festering intensely inside of their sound.

It’s become all the more critical to expel from their bodies, and perhaps suggests why its release came about in short order surprise. The rage is blazing more powerfully violent with this one for it. Vocalist Sara Gregory weaponizes her own destabilized micromania, anger seething, mental breakdowns, and sickened distrust in others as an artful therapy session that hears the band at both their most scathing in their serrated grind of riffs and blurring drum blasts and more compellingly, unrestrained in its harsh potency.

That’s saying something seeing that each of the four tracks on this EP don’t last more than a minute long in length, but they’ve been seared into your skull when its over. Staring at its cassette tape photocopy quality artwork (designed by Emma Maatman of LA noise-pop punks Dummy) featuring a vintage baby doll shaking in fright, you can’t help but feel that ENTRY knows we are all not long for these times. That only gives them all the more reason to up the ante in what they loudly leave in their wake.

Highlights: “Micromania”, “Nonexistent”, “Negative Sentiments”

ENTRY’s Micromania is available now.

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