Stolen Gun’s Demo 2025 doesn’t play like a debut—it plays like a threat. Unfiltered, antagonistic, and absolutely feral, this isn’t a band politely introducing themselves to the world. It’s a sonic fist through drywall, a mission statement scrawled in blood and grime. From the very beginning, this demo feels less like a collection of songs and more like an unhinged manifesto—raw, chaotic, and deeply committed to its own filth.

The opening track, “SFG Intro,” wastes no time establishing the mood. Distant drums echo like someone pounding on the walls of a basement, while vocals howl through the static like a fight breaking out in the next room. The atmosphere is claustrophobic and violently grimy, and just as it builds, the whole track collapses into warped distortion. It’s not an overture—it’s a warning shot. That suffocating atmosphere gives way to speed with “The Glorious Arrival of the New Lord and Savior,” a track that surges forward with full-grindcore velocity. The riffs are jagged and gnarly, but it’s the drumming that slices through everything—sharp, articulate, and shockingly precise against the haze of distortion. The vocals snarl with feral energy, leaning into chaos without losing their footing. This balance—riffs that suffocate, drums that cut—is what gives the demo its backbone.

“Eat the Skull” plunges even deeper into oppressive territory. The bass is blown out and disgusting, the riffs feel like rusted blades grinding through sheet metal, and the vocals don’t just scream—they seem to consume. Just as the track becomes unbearably dense, it breaks into a warped vintage sample, like a forgotten recording resurfacing from a haunted reel. The moment of eerie calm doesn’t relieve the tension; it only deepens the unease. On “God Is Here,” the band shows they’re not just chasing speed—they’re weaponizing heaviness in multiple forms. A swaggering intro riff quickly crumbles into one of the most grotesque breakdowns on the demo, dragging listeners through a swamp of sludge, distortion, and primal weight.

That refusal to stick to one mode continues on “Abuse of Power,” which opens with a chilling spoken-word sample before descending into a punk-inflected, groove-heavy barrage. The shifting rhythms and blunt-force impact underline how comfortable the band is bending genre boundaries—grindcore, power violence, crust, sludge, and even elements of hardcore blur together in one dense assault. Even when the energy dips slightly, as on “Leland,” Stolen Gun finds new ways to suffocate. The mix is murky, the bass overwhelming, the riffs buried under thick layers of grime. The drums keep it all from falling apart, locking the chaos into something grimly coherent. Toward the end, ghostly vocal effects haunt the mix before the track collapses again under its own filthy weight.

The closer, “Run for Your Life,” opens with another eerie religious sample before launching into the demo’s final and most chaotic moment. Grind riffs stab like broken glass, pace shifts hit with power-violence urgency, and the drumming stays tight and impactful, even as the rest of the band rips itself apart. If there’s a mission statement hidden in this storm, it’s here: humanity at its ugliest, expressed through distortion, disgust, and outright rejection of musical safety.

Across Demo 2025, Stolen Gun delivers something messy, raw, and undeniably focused. The production is harsh by design, the riffs ugly on purpose, the vocals feral and deliberate. Beneath all the grime and noise, there’s a clear sense of intent—this isn’t chaos for its own sake. Their anti-authority, anti-reality, anti-self stance bleeds into every breakdown, every sample, every howl. For a first release, this isn’t just promising—it sounds like a band already swinging at full force, daring the listener to survive the beating.

Rating: 7/10