Gas Lit is a scattered collective out of the U.S., pieced together across state lines. For now, it lives fully in the digital realm, but live shows aren’t off the table. The foundation is remote, but the sound hits like it’s coming from a sweaty basement with blown-out speakers.
Their self-titled debut dropped on April 20, 2025, via Skramz Demon Audio. It’s three tracks in three and a half minutes—short, violent, deliberate. Lo-fi and chaotic without falling apart, the demo channels early 2000s screamo grit without caving to nostalgia for its own sake.
They’re pulling from the right places: pg. 99, La Quiete, Jerome’s Dream, Loma Prieta, Usurp Synapse. There’s also that mid-2000s MySpace-core slop, where noise, sass, and breakdowns tangled up without apology. Arab on Radar and Chinese Stars get a nod too—bands that teetered on the edge of total nonsense and still made it work. Gas Lit walks a similar tightrope. Abrasive, fast, barely holding together, but never collapsing.
The opener, “I Will Sleep When I Am Dead”, comes in swinging. The band calls it “a gentle and subtle reminder to everyone, we’ve all made mistakes, it’s whether we learn and grow from our experiences. Just like you, we don’t forget.” The dual vocals and sweeping octave riffs don’t waste time. There’s weight in the delivery—raw and clipped, no frills.
“Secrets Do Not Make Friends” follows and clocks in under a minute. “Simple, sweet and straight to the point,” the band writes. “It highlights the fake, the clout chasers, the users, and the two faced friends in life, this is for you, cheers.” It lands fast and exits faster, a hit-and-run with enough bile to linger.
Closing out the tape is “You Were The Best Worst Mistake Ever”, a title that says a lot on its own. The intro leans more playful—sassy even—before dropping into what the band calls “a massive blast of grindy goodness,” then dissolving into a blown-out, droney mess. “It touches upon trust and how terrible experiences can leave us broken, empty and hopeless,” they write. “The worst feeling is losing trust in someone, we all fight that feeling, it’s a constant struggle.”
The band also puts it plainly: “Gas Lit capture the lofi feeling within these recordings without compromising audio quality, giving you that sweet sound of old school screamo nostalgia.”
Next up is a cassette release of the demo through Skramz Demon Audio. After that, they’re already in motion on an EP titled “Loneliness Is A Ghost”. Four tracks, by their words: “very noisy, chaotic and therapeutic songs for you to sing, cry and head bang to.”
Before signing off, they drop a few names to watch: Told Not To Worry, Sailboat, Live Longer Burn Everything, and Depopulate Montana—“all these bands are killing it and also are label mates on Skramz Demon Audio.”
