Hear Flummox Channel Slayer on Anti-Capitalist Banger "Planet Cancer"

If you're looking for a band that sounds like Slayer with a dash of Protest the Hero-esque prog wonkiness, then Flummox are for you. The Nashville band, fronted by transfemme vocalist-bassist Alyson Blake Dellinger, made waves last year with their militant anthem "Trans Girls Need Guns," and now they're gearing up to release a new album, Rephlummoxed, on April 1st via Needlejuice Records. Today, we're premiering a blazing new single from the album called "Planet Cancer," which rages against capitalism and the ongoing climate crisis with an old-school thrash ferocity and a playful mathcore technicality. Take a listen above via YouTube. 

"'Planet Cancer' was an angsty little song that I wrote when I was 19—about capitalism and how the climate crisis is affecting the planet," Dellinger says. "Just my own existential, teenage thoughts about that sort of thing. It was actually the last one we recorded for the new album. We weren't initially going to record it and then, kind of last minute, we thought, 'Why don't we make it a little bit faster, nastier, more brutal? So we tried it, and it totally worked. 'Planet Cancer' is one of the only songs we haven't played live yet with the band's current lineup. Because of that, it had a really fresh energy when we were in the studio."

Rephlummoxed is out April 1st and you can pre-order it now on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital from the band's Bandcamp.