Meeting in Vancouver’s dusty music and comedy clubs, Canadian trio Bad Pop have shared their mutual love for rock and humour for the past eight years. They have now released their new EP, Dark Metal, through Killing Moon Records as one finger of the two they flip in the face of growing up whilst peppering the music with sarcasm, wit and gritty guitars. Recorded partly prior to lockdown and finished throughout, Dark Metal could be argued as a response to humankind and the lockdown Bad Pop and the rest of the world have had to face; then the trio will release their second EP as an alternative reaction to the madness. Dark Metal serves as the pissed off, aggressive reaction to capitalism, growing up, human over-population and lockdown in comparison to the existential reaction to follow later ...