Out now: YHWH Nailgun – Magazine

YHWH Nailgun share their new album Magazine via 4AD, out now digitally with physical formats arriving on August 22.

Based in New York, YHWH Nailgun have built a reputation on music that is visceral, immediate, and impossible to neatly categorise. What began in 2020 as the raw collision between vocalist Zack Borzone and drummer Sam Pickard has since evolved into a full four-piece alongside guitarist/producer Saguiv Rosenstock and synth player Jack Tobias. Their new album Magazine further sharpens the band’s uncompromising vision.

Across 10 tracks that unfold in just 11 minutes, Magazine pushes YHWH Nailgun’s sound into even more skeletal and immediate territory. Opening with the slow fade-in of ‘Ghost of Love,’ the record feels less like a conventional album than a fragment pulled from an endless transmission. The band balances chaos with precision: frantic guitars, bruising percussion, air-raid synths, and Borzone’s now-unmasked vocals, delivered with a newfound clarity that brings his surreal, religiously charged imagery into sharper focus.

While their acclaimed 2025 debut 45 Pounds introduced the band’s feral intensity, Magazine strips away abstraction in favor of something even more direct. Pickard’s drums are leaner, Rosenstock’s production more exposed, and Borzone’s lyrics—filled with visions of blood, serpents, God, and the Devil—take center stage. Despite the extremity of their sound, the band approaches their music with instinct over self-consciousness, building what they describe as an autonomous creative world unconcerned with trends or reactionary impulses.

Rooted in improvisation and the pursuit of “quick bursts” of inspiration, YHWH Nailgun continues to refine a sound that feels both confrontational and strangely transcendent—music that resists definition while fully committing to its own singular language.

Last month, YHWH Nailgun “previewed” Magazine at C2C Festival NYC with a performance that saw the band play the record’s full 11-minute runtime before exiting the stage. Known for their dynamic and volatile live shows, the performance generated equal parts confusion and excitement. Paste wrote that “those who loved 45 Pounds will find much to love in what we heard of its follow-up, expanding into more dynamic territory even as it carried the same blistering, scorched-earth punch,” while Stereogum praised the group “as a live band, YHWH are in incredible lockstep with one another, displaying a certain cacophony and chaos that only comes from immense and seemingly counterintuitive precision.”

The band also performed three new tracks, ‘Give Blood,’ ‘Ballerina,’ and ‘Hips on a Wheel’, live on The Adam Friedland Show last month. Watch the live performance here.

Purchase / stream Magazine here.

YHWH Nailgun Tour Dates

11 July – Unsound Adelaide, Adelaide SA

14 July – The Night Cat, Melbourne VIC

15 July – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW

16 July – The Brightside Brisbane, Fortitude Valley QLD

18 July – The Great South Pacific Tuning Fork, Auckland NZ

Tickets on sale via yhwhnailgun.com