{"id":44289,"date":"2026-02-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44289"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:41:28","slug":"piss-are-not-a-band-theyre-a-detonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44289","title":{"rendered":"PISS are not a band \u2014 They\u2019re a detonation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vancouver\u2019s self-described \u201ceasy listening\u201d punk band PISS don\u2019t so much play shows as reconfigure rooms<\/strong>. From the first note, the atmosphere snaps. Conversations die. Drinks are forgotten. Something heavier takes over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since emerging with just three demos floating around Bandcamp, PISS \u2014 Taylor Zantingh, Tyler Paterson, Gavin Moya, and Garreth Roberts \u2014 have spent the latter half of 2025 dismantling audiences across North America, the U.K., and Europe<\/strong>, leaving behind stunned silence, tears, and an overwhelming sense of catharsis. Their live sets blur music, poetry, performance art, and confrontation into something closer to an exorcism than a gig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exclaim! put it plainly: \u201cWhat PISS delivered wasn\u2019t a set at all: it was a penance, an exorcism, a resistance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the core of PISS is the fearless presence of vocalist Taylor Zantingh, whose lyricism navigates sexual violence, coercion, memory, rage, and survival \u2014 without ever slipping into victim rhetoric. As Far Out<\/em> noted, the power of PISS lies in refusal: refusal to sanitize, refusal to soften, refusal to accept that anyone should simply \u201cstomach\u201d cruelty instead of raging back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musically, PISS operate in extremes. Screeching guitars tear through sheets of distortion. Drums hit with skull-rattling force. Then suddenly, tension stretches unbearably thin \u2014 patient chords pulling you into a narrative before spitting you back out bruised and breathless. The Georgia Straight<\/em> described it perfectly: \u201clike a car bomb going off in a sheet metal factory.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live, the effect is overwhelming. Range Magazine<\/em> called the band \u201ca pack of open nerves<\/em>,\u201d recounting audiences openly crying as Zantingh screamed and spoke through the ugliest realities of gendered violence and sustained cruelty. Northern Transmissions<\/em> observed how quickly PISS seize control of a room: background noise screeches to a halt as cathartic fury takes over. Line Of Best Fit<\/em> summed it up best \u2014 pure, unfiltered release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, after months of international shockwaves, PISS are finally putting something tangible into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band has announced an exclusive, limited edition 7\u201d vinyl release<\/strong> via London-based vinyl creators State51<\/strong>. The record collects the band\u2019s only recorded material to date \u2014 the three demos that sparked all this chaos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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