Track-by-Track: Hot Fiends Ponder Their Latest EP ‘Cult Supreme’

Part of the fun with Hot Fiends is the unpredictability. The post-hardcore punk band is all over the place in the best of ways, as you will find on their debut EP, Cult Supreme. It’s a fresh interpretation of what hardcore is all about, inspired by Soul Glo, Pissed Jeans, and The Blood Brothers. No one could describe it better than the band themselves. In characterizing their music, they claim it’s like “giving a chimp a guitar and a gun and telling it to choose.” Hailing from Brighton and South Coast, Hot Fiends has packed Cult Supreme with a helping of jarring transitions, humorous and, at times, twisted lyrics, and dark, infectious guitar riffs. It’s a massive-sounding record delivered in a rather minimalistic way. The band features Sean Duke, Ben Flowers, Leo Osbourne, and Lewis Magill...

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