GRIDIRON — Matthew Karll, vocals; Will Kaelin, guitar and vocals; Xavier Wilson, guitar; Lennon Livesay, bass; and Tyler Mullen, drums — just dropped their new EP, titled LIGHTS OUT, via Blue Grape Music. Listen here.
The four-song EP features two brand new bangers laced with the type of hardcore grooves that Gridiron have steadily built their reputation on, along with two remixes (one done by Jami Morgan and Shade of NOWHERE2RUN) of songs from last year's plate-shifting album Poetry From Pain, which was tipped by Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, NO ECHO, and more.
Today, they drop the video for the title track, which is tinged with Karll's signature rap-influenced cadence. Watch it below.
"'Lights Out' is a track about revenge, a track about counting your chickens before they hatch. A song about going out and getting back what's yours," declares Karll.
ABOUT GRIDIRON:
Gridiron, which originally formed as a pandemic project and have since grown into a full-fledged entity, features members of Never Ending Game, Simulakra, and Scarab, and connects the Philadelphia, Delaware, and Michigan areas. Pushing every boundary to a breaking point, Gridiron will go to any extreme and then some. They follow quite possibly the most unpredictable playbook in the game. The band might flood the zone with a corpsepaint-smearing death metal barrage only to double back around for a victory lap narrated by blinged-out and braggadocios bars. Their hybridization of metal, hardcore, and hip-hop wouldn’t be out of place at either OZZfest 1997 or Rolling Loud 2027.
Gridiron were born out of a series of COVID-era marathon Call of Duty sessions, which led to writing and recording together. Their musical pedigree spoke for itself with Will also in Never Ending Game, Xavier in Simulakra, and Tyler and Lennon in Scarab. Given their individual experiences, the guys instantly locked into a creative groove. Following the Loyalty At All Costs EP [2020] and Worldwide Brotherhood EP [2021], they dropped their first full-length, No Good At Goodbyes [2022]. Along the way, they also shared stages with everyone from Missing Link to Trapped Under Ice to Hatebreed.
