Stop what you’re doing — scrolling, working, scrolling while working — and take a brief break to listen to the blistering RVBOMB debut, Obliterated , which released via Colorado Springs independent label Salt Wound Records on July 24.

It won’t keep you long — the album is under thirteen minutes long, as the young Springs powerviolence trio blasts through eleven songs. If you blink, or open up another app, you’ll miss it. But you won’t soon forget it.

“We just wanted to write faster, harder, more aggressive songs,” says drummer Blake Johnson .

Johnson, bassist Dominic Amaro and guitarist Bryan Cross got together to play more traditional hardcore punk back in January 2023, but the need for speed quickly took hold, and now, RVBOMB is chaos incarnated.

“It felt like a gradual progr

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