Letterbombs share the song I'm Not Here To Enjoy My Life on a new split

Letterbombs have put out a new song called I'm Not Here To Enjoy My Life. Stereogum, which carried it, describes the Finnish DIY group's take on metallic screamo as fearsome and majestic, and the track continues what the site calls their tour of the global underground.

The detail that separates this from an ordinary single is the format. The song arrives on a split, shared with another band from the same scene, which is the release model this corner of hardcore has used for decades: two acts, one record, each introducing the other to an audience neither could reach alone. The partner is not named in the readable part of the report.

Output is the group's defining trait as much as the sound is. Stereogum's writers have taken to joking about it in print, with Chris DeVille's line about Letterbombs' Bandcamp notifications exploding into his inbox getting recycled by a colleague in this write-up because it keeps being accurate. A band releasing at this rate is a band working entirely outside the album cycle that governs how most releases are planned and covered.

That is also why almost nothing about the release is dated or labelled. There is no album title, no label and no scheduled follow-up attached to the song, and the remainder of the Stereogum article sits behind a registration wall, so the name of the band they split the record with could not be read from it.

Splits and one-off tracks have been the main current in heavy metal releases this season rather than the exception, with Devil Master putting out Death Anthem as a tribute to G.I.S.M. and Pain of Truth releasing the standalone single Stranded. Anything Letterbombs do put a date on will appear on the release calendar.