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NØ MAN are heading out for a run of dates in the US and Canada supporting their critically acclaimed new album Glitter and Spit, out now on Iodine Recordings. The tour starts on July 24th in their hometown, Washington, DC. From there, they’ll head up the East Coast, including a set in Boston for an Iodine Recordings showcase on August 1st, and an appearance at New Friend's Fest in Toronto, ON on August 4th. Upon its release, Glitter and Spit was met with wide ranging praise, and has since been named by Brooklyn Vegan as one of the “10 Best Punk andamp; Hardcore Albums of 2024 So Far”. On their third full-length album, the Washington DC band affirm their essential presence as a necessary voice in modern hardcore. Singer Maha Shami has fully come into her own as a front person, snarling out the most vicious vocals of her career. As the daughter of refugees, a recent return home to Palestine included witnessing first-hand the casual atrocities inflicted on her family. 

 

Watch the music video for “Glitter and Spit” via YouTube

Order Glitter and Spit via iodinerecords.com

 

“This record is a love letter to resistance. It’s about refusing the many ways colonial logic attempts to make us disappear. As a Palestinian and a woman, my existence alone is enough to offend. Although these songs were written before the current live-streamed catastrophe facing Palestinians, 75 years of military occupation with mass killings, home demolitions, kidnapped children, and stillborn checkpoint babies has provided fuel for the fire as I look for hope in a world gone mad.” - Maha Shami

 

Though written before the current conflict’s boiling point, Glitter and Spit synthesizes the 70+ years of systemic violence carried out against Palestine and her own lived experiences. Formed in 2017, the four-piece punk band has been alchemizing the personal and the political from the jump. Composed of members from Majority Rule, the band’s current aims go hand-in-hand with their past, sonically and thematically.

 

Glitter and Spit, solidifies NØ MAN’s furious hardcore into a weapon of a record. Album opener “Eat My Twin” twists and refracts a mid-tempo riff into a sonic hammer, cracking open the record’s heaviness to come. Across the album’s blistering 10 tracks, Shami draws on deep seeded ancestral wounds as well as her own first hand present day experience. From school teachers and classmates telling her Palestine doesn’t exist, to being humiliated by soldiers at checkpoints when she visited her family, these many moments fuel the album’s lifeblood, coalescing on “Can’t Kill Us All.” “They want to silence us,” Shami said at a recent benefit show in D.C. “We will be louder. We aren’t fucking going anywhere. Because Palestine will never die.”

 

The band’s members Matt Michel (guitar/vocals), Pat Broderick (drums) and Kevin Lamiell (Bass) helped lay the foundation for hardcore and screamo in Majority Rule from 1996 to 2004. Alongside the band, vocalist Maha Shami has been a longtime friend, giving a “cameo” guest vocal performance on Majority Rule’s “Packaged Poison” in 2004. When Majority Rule reunited in 2017 to perform multiple benefit shows, it ignited a desire to keep creating, and no one was better equipped to step in as front person than Shami.

 

Their energy and spirit have brought them together on tour with bands like Portrayal of Guilt, Darkest Hour, FAIM, Entry and more. In 2023 they collaborated with former tourmates and fellow iconoclasts The HIRS Collective on the song “Sweet Like Candy.” They’ve also contributed to Secret Voice’s (the label of Touche Amore frontman Jeremy Bolm) compilation Balladeers, Redefined.

 

Glitter and Spit was recorded and mixed by Matthew Michel at Viva Studio, and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

 

Upcoming tour dates listed below…

Upcoming Tour Dates:

JULY

24 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd

26 - Richmond, VA @ The Warehouse

31 - Lake Como, NJ @ Salty’s

 

AUGUST

01 - Boston, MA @ Deep Cuts (Iodine Recordings Showcase)

02 - Montreal, QC @ Turbo Haus

03 - Ottawa, ON @ House of Targ

04 - Toronto, ON @ New Friends Fest

 

SEPTEMBER

13 - Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry (Dark Days Bright Nights)

 

OCTOBER

19 - New York, NY @ The Meadows w/ Coalesce andamp; Cave In

27 - Gainesville, FL @ The FEST