Jivebomb doesn’t waste time. A minute and fifteen seconds is all they need to tear through another new jam “Estrela,” their latest single from Ethereal, out March 28 via Flatspot Records.
Baltimore’s hardcore crew has already built a reputation for stripped-down, ferocious bursts of sound, and this track doesn’t deviate—it just refines their attack. It’s fast, menacing, and seething with frustration, yet laced with an eerie sense of finality.
Vocalist Kat doesn’t mince words about where Ethereal is coming from. “This song has been written (lyrically) for a while and I was on a heavy Billie Holiday kick at the time,” she says.
“‘She has a devastating song where she says, ‘angels have no thoughts of ever returning you – would they be angry if I thought of joining you?’ so there’s an ode to that in ‘Estrela.’ Letting a past self die in order to grow, rather than being complacent in your shit life.” That theme—shedding dead weight, cutting loose from the past—threads through the album’s title and the raw lyricism that underpins Jivebomb’s sonic assault.
The video for “Estrela,” directed by Noah Haycock with additional filming from James Carline, Rob Silverstein, and Greyson Pearce, puts that intensity under a microscope.
The band’s live shows are a spectacle of movement—chaotic, cathartic, bodies slamming against one another in a barely controlled eruption. Jivebomb feeds off that energy, and the video locks in on the band at their most volatile.
Ethereal pushes their sound even further into the red. Recorded with Ben Greenberg (Uniform) at Circular Ruin in Brooklyn, the album doesn’t clean up their approach—it amplifies it. At just thirteen minutes across ten tracks, it’s a blitz of hardcore, grind, and unfiltered aggression.
Jivebomb has sharpened their attack since 2021’s demo and 2022’s Primitive Desires EP, and now they’re coming back meaner, heavier, and more unforgiving.
Ethereal is available for preorder now through Flatspot Records.
