(L to R: Milkie Way, Fred Durst, Sam Matlock), Photo Credit: Jessica-Rose Lena)
September 8, 2023 – Ready to pop off in 2023, dynamic London-based duo WARGASM serve up an explosive and energetic new single entitled “Bang Ya Head” [feat. Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit]. It only heightens anticipation for the arrival of their anxiously awaited debut album Venom on October 27th.
Listen to “Bang Ya Head” ft. Fred Durst—HERE & Pre-Order Venom HERE.
Of the new song WARGASM said: “When I was working in bars it always drove me insane how much it costs us to live, and how little money we make. The worlds going fucking crazy and everything’s getting so expensive – how the fuck are we meant to buy a life? It’s just this nightmare cycle until you get lucky. Like banging your head against a brick wall over and over and over – you bang your head until you break your fucking neck.
We took that energy and put it onto a guitar at our friend’s house in LA, then a microphone in a bathroom somewhere so the neighbors weren’t too pissed off, then we asked the one and only Fred Durst if he wanted to join in and he did – now we have this monstrosity. We’ve been waiting so damn long for you to hear this……” – Sam Matlock
“Bang Ya Head” distills WARGASM’s controlled chaos into a focused and frenetic burst of energy. The track itself bounces between glitchy rave-ready electronics, gnashing teeth-gritting guitars, and quotable rhymes only to culminate on a lyrical volley between Milkie Way and Fred. He urges, “Keep banging your head until you’re breaking your neck.” Milkie counters with a nod to Bizkit’s classic “My Generation” with the warning, “You’re in the jungle punk!” After the band opened for Limp Bizkit last year on their 2022 tour they teamed up on the soon to be iconic track.
The moment doubles as a figurative passing of the torch, enshrining WARGASM as boundary-breaking nu metal’s heir apparent.
It follows the single “Do It So Good.” The latter has already piled up half-a-million total streams and counting in addition to earning critical acclaim. Beyond plugs from the likes of UPSET and more, Revolver summed it up succinctly as “fiery.” Right out of the gate, Louder named it one of “the best alt. rock songs you’ll hear this week,” and proclaimed, “Rowdy and ferocious, ‘Do It So Good’ sees the fast-rising alt rock duo bring the rave to the mosh pit as they fuse together The Prodigy’s anarchic sound with a lethal metal edge.”
The music video for the track equally matched the intensity as it sees Milkie Way and Sam Matlock performing live and in a distorted glitch screen video tunnel. Check out the official music video for “Do It So Good” HERE.
In addition to the album, fans can pre-order limited vinyl variants and exclusive merch at www.wargasm.online.
After touring with Enter Shikari and Limp Bizkit at the end of last year (and into top of this year), Wargasm are set for another amazing run of dates leading into the rest of 2023. The band recently supported Royal Blood on July 29th at Brighton By The Beach Festival and then were selected by Corey Taylor to support him on his US tour from August 25-October 5th. The tour makes stops at The Paramount in Huntington, NY on September 15th, and The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA on October 5th. They will also be hitting festival stages at Louder Than Life Festival on September 22nd and Aftershock Festival on October 7th in Sacramento, CA before heading back to the UK where they will be performing at their largest headline shows to date including Shepherds Bush Empire on December 16th. In addition BabyMetal on their European tour. Fans can check out the full list of dates below and at https://www.wargasm.online/tour-dates.
Last year, they unleashed EXPLICIT: THE MIXXXTAPE. It piled up 10 million-plus streams, earned raves from the likes of PAPER Magazine, Loudwire (who hailed it as one of their “Best New Debut Rock + Metal Albums of 2022) and Revolver Magazine who said “Wargasm don’t just have the nu-metal sound, they have the swagger.” Not to mention they have previously been featured on the covers of Alternative Press and KERRANG! Plus, they took home the first-ever “New Noise Award” at the 2022 KERRANG! Awards.
Wargasm Tour Dates:
September 9th Andrew Brady Music Center Cincinnati, OH*
September 12th The Wellmont Theatre Montclair, NJ*
September 13th House of Blues Boston, MA*
September 15th The Dome Wallingford, CT*
September 16th The Paramount Huntington, NY*
September 18th House of Blues Myrtle Beach, SC*
September 21st Mars Music Hall Huntsville, AL*
September 22nd Louder Than Life Festival Louisville, KY
September 24th House of Blues Houston, TX*
September 25th House of Blues Dallas, TX*
September 27th Revel Albuquerque, NM*
September 28th Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ*
September 29th Dollar Loan Center Henderson, NV*
October 1st House of Blues San Diego, CA*
October 3rd Riverside Municipal Auditorium Riverside, CA*
October 5th The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA*
October 7th Aftershock Festival Sacramento, CA
November 8th 1865 Southampton, UK%
November 9th Rock City Nottingham, UK%
November 10th Ulster Sports Club Belfast, UK%
November 11th Opium Rooms Dublin, IE %
November 14th Sentrum Scene Oslo, IN#
November 15th Annexet Stockholm, SE#
November 16th Amager Bio Copenhagen, DK#
November 18th Sporthalle Hamburg, DE#
November 19th Verti Music Hall Berlin, DE#
November 21st Palladium Cologne, DE#
November 23rd Gasometer Vienna, AT#
November 24th Zenith Munich, DE#
November 25th La Laterie Strasbourg, FR#
December 1st Stadthalle Offenbach, DE#
December 3rd O13 Tilburg, NL#
December 4th Ancienne Belgique Brussels, BE#
December 6th L’Olympia Paris, FR#
December 7th Esch-zur-Alzette Luxembourge, LB#
December 8th Frabrique Milan, IT#
December 10th The Mill Birmingham, UK%
December 12th SWG3 Glasgow, UK%
December 13th O2 Ritz Manchester, UK%
December 14h SWX Bristol, UK%
December 15th O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London, UK%
*Supporting Corey Taylor
^Supporting Royal Blood
#Supporting Baby Metal
%Wargasm Headline Shows
WARGASM are the climax of an orgy between heavy metal, electronic, rave, alternative, and industrial powered up by the friction of two gleefully insane creative insurgents Milkie Way and Sam Matlock. They honed a vital and visceral vision across early bangers such as “Spit.,” “Rage All Over,” “Salma Hayek,” and “Scratchcard Feeling,” paving the way for 2022’s EXPLICIT: THE MIXXXTAPE. Beyond reeling in over 10 million streams and counting, the latter incited the applause of PAPER Magazine, Revolver Magazine, and more as well as earning the endorsement of icons such as Jonathan Davis of Korn and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit who personally tapped the band to open a 2022 North American arena tour. They stand out the rare force of nature who could hold their own on tour with either YUNGBLUD or Corey Taylor of Slipknot. Plus, they’ve graced the covers of Alternative Press and KERRANG! in addition to garnering the first-ever “New Noise Award” at the 2022 KERRANG! Awards. However, everything simply set the stage for their 2023 full-length debut album, Venom. The duo deliver a shockingly catchy blast of horny and hypnotic heavy music as unpredictable as it is uncompromising. Its lineage can be traced to the big-screen genre mashing of the nineties, yet it’s spiked with a 21st century fury that could only belong to WARGASM. You’ve been warned by singles “Bang Ya Head” [feat. Fred Durst] and “Do It So Good.” Rock music won’t be the same, and thank FUCKING God for that.
