Deaf Club

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Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channeling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Succinct pauses, surreal frequencies and effects, breakneck pace and sharply hurled vocals characterize the band’s aesthetic, which seems as though it is rooted in a sort of nasty-sound-meets-highbrow-message ethos. Fueled by the onslaught of society’s insanity and driven mad by tinnitus, Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross), Brian Amalfitano, Scott Osment (Glassing, Planet B), and Collin Smith approach music as an opportunity to confront our collective sicknesses.

The band initially released their debut EP, Contemporary Sickness, via Three One G in 2019. Having had time to stew in the cesspool of two years of pandemic, and mutating into its newest variant, their debut longplayer, Productive Disruption, dropped in 2022, ventured deeper into the abyss. 2025’s sophomore album, We Demand a Permanent State of Happiness was released on Southern Lord September 2025. Since then the band have been touring regularly across North America and Europe, including an appearance at Roskilde Festival. They have shared stages with Converge, Melt Banana, John Waters, Negative Approach, Napalm Death, Unbroken, and Saetia.