RESURRECTION MEN: “INTENSE, TRAUMATIC, CATHARTIC”

Bristol’s newest heavy hitters, Resurrection Men, may have only formed in 2026, but there’s nothing tentative about them. Built from members of SANS, Modern Rituals, Rothmans and Talons, the four-piece have arrived with a simple mission: make loud, immediate music and see where it takes them.

Their debut single ‘Holler’ lands September 8, bringing speaker-bulging guitars, jagged vocals and a healthy dose of noise. The track is the first taste of a self-titled debut album written in a couple of furious months and recorded live in a single day at Bristol’s Humm Studios.

That DIY urgency is central to the band. Their own motto — “minimum effort, maximum return” — neatly sums up a record that favours instinct over overthinking. Their influences might range from The Men and Part Chimp to Sparklehorse and Women, but Resurrection Men aren’t interested in neatly slotting themselves into anyone else’s genre.

They’ve already made an impression on the live circuit, picking up support slots with Part Chimp, ARSE, LÜLÜ and Shlug before even releasing their first single.

Ahead of ‘Holler’, Resurrection Men talk about the musical history that brought them together, recording an entire album in a day, embracing unpredictability and what they want their live shows to do to people.

Resurrection Men came together in Bristol in 2026, but between you, there’s already a lot of musical history. What made now feel like the right time to start something new together?

We started the band after Chris, Noah (the original drummer), and I (Harry) spent the last drive of a LIFTER (another band we're in) tour in the front of a van listening to The Men and some old UK bands like Human Hair and Claw Marks. COVID really put lots of heavy music to bed, and we were getting nostalgic for how the scene looked in the 2010s, so we thought it was right for us to start a new band with that kind of sound.

Thom (the fourth member) was the obvious choice to complete the lineup, as he and I used to be in a band together called SANS, which broke up in 2020, and, though life had been in the way for the intervening years, we always knew we'd play music together again at some point.

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“Holler” is a pretty immediate introduction — loud guitars, jagged vocals and plenty of bite. What did you want people to understand about Resurrection Men from that very first track?

Holler was the last song we wrote for the album, and it came together so quickly and felt so immediate that it just felt like the right track to start with.

You wrote the album in a relatively short burst, then recorded the whole thing live in a single day. Did that urgency shape the sound of the record?

Yes, our motto is "minimum effort, maximum return". I think in Latin that is "Minima opera, maxima merces".

Your influences stretch from Part Chimp and The Men to Sparklehorse and Women. Where do you think Resurrection Men sits in that mix — and what sounds or ideas were you deliberately trying to avoid?

We said we'd do a band that had a massive range of sounds, and not feel limited by anything. I have done that in most of the bands I've been in - for example, in Modern Rituals we didn't really worry about genre, we just wrote songs. So the bands you mention in your question are the bands we know we all like and have had conversations about, but we haven't really intentionally tried to sculpt our songs into anything that resembles them; it's more a reflection of the fact that our songs will naturally sound very different to each other over time. I suppose that's why The Men would be our biggest influence here - they just make albums that they feel like making.

You’ve already landed some strong support slots despite being such a new band. What do you want a Resurrection Men live show to feel like, and what can people expect from the band next?

Intense, traumatic, cathartic.