Slogan Machine News Today

Last month, the Chattanooga band Gumm announced their full-length debut, Slogan Machine — its title track landed on our best songs of the week list and was highlighted in our hardcore column. Slogan Machine arrives next week, and before that the band is sharing another song from it, the snarling and defiant “Free.”

For the past few years, the Chattanooga, Tennessee band Gumm have been making a name for themselves by playing a frantic, intense brand of hardcore that draws on mid-’80s DC. Gumm’s 2020 EP Piece It Together impressed the hell out of me, and now the band has announced that they’ll release their full-length debut Slogan Machine next month. They’ve also shared its title track.

Danny Collins’ fellow soldiers told him not to linger around the mess hall when he finished eating on Saturdays.