New Iowa city screamo act thisworldisnotkind kicked off my new year on January 3rd with a heavy EP release that’s been nominated for two Skrammy Awards this year, thisworldisnotkind, or TWINK for short, is being nominated for "Best New Jacks of 2025" and "Best Screamo EP of 2025" for their release titled “death”.

Today I’m beyond excited to chat with Laela so we can get into their lore and find out where TWINK is headed.

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Maggie, Nathan and Spencer from First Day Back join us on the pod today!

We discuss their debut album “Forward” and their overnight blow up, we chat about everything from environmental studies to music enjoyers, origin stories, their Santa Cruz scene, hotstuff productions, their recording process, lyrical journeys, becoming hood famous, best friends forever, property destruction, arson, a good sock up, breakcore, German hard style & tinnitus.

Debuting a new HKFY song on the podcast with Christian Hell this week.

Christian Hell from Hong Kong Fuck You / All You Need Is Kill is back to fuck the show up with a new song debut and many laughs. We discuss everything from marx maxers to his recent Japan tour, hentai, tengas, getting naked, goatse, jenkem, the Hellverse, merchcore, zoofiles, Godzilla, Calvin Kleins, art inspo, contrabass, negative IQ caveman music, a rig & gear rundown, pew pew noises, gospel chops, the hellbell, romance, Mongolian throat singing and the upcoming HKFY plans for 2025.