“Everybody says this about their local scene,” begins Jivebomb guitarist Harper – who, like his bandmates, prefers to go surname-less – “but Baltimore is ahead of the curve on a lot of stuff. It genuinely is super-diverse. All the hardcore guys, the punks and the metalheads, we hang out and influence each other.” This perhaps explains why Jivebomb’s songs arrive like short, sharp shocks but still manage to come packed with ideas and energy. Everything on their anticipated debut album, ETHEREAL, clocks in at under two minutes, but across its 10 tracks you’ll find industrial blasts of distortion, tangled metallic riffs and old-school hardcore stomping. “We expanded our options into everything that we listen to and what we like,” says bassist Ethan. “A lot of options opened u...