Welcome to the Club … again.

Deaf Club, the cacophonous hardcore-punk band led by Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, the Locust, Retox) announced Monday that it will release a new EP called Bad Songs Forever. Due May 6 — roughly four months after the Los Angeles group issued its Productive Disruption LP — the new EP will be available in part through Pearson’s Three One G.

The Big Takeover broke the news Monday morning courtesy of Pearson.

The label also revealed Monday that the lead track from Bad Songs Forever will be “If You Eat a Rat, It Might Taste Good.” The eardrum-eviscerating song is available today as an instant-gratification bonus for those who buy the four-track EP digitally via Apple Music.

Listen to it here:

Of particular interest to underground-music fans will be Deaf Club’s take on “Broken Face,” the Pixies cut that sounds like an AOR tune compared with their warped, bombastic version. For those keeping score at home, Deaf Club’s cover is two seconds shorter than the Pixies version, which appeared on their iconic Surfer Rosa album in 1988. According to Deaf Club, Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago said, upon hearing the cover, “Love it! Going to steal that feedback pedal effect.”

The other two new slices on Bad Songs Forever are the maturely titled “But Does It Fart?” and tongue-in-cheek “Ride With Cops, Shoot With Robbers.”

Also featuring Brian Amalfitano (ACxDC), Scott Osment (Weak Flesh), Jason Klein (Run With the Hunted) and Tommy Meehan (The Manx, Chum Out!), Deaf Club debuted in 2020 with their Contemporary Sickness short-player and a cassette EP of bonus remixes. Shortly thereafter, they put out a cover of Killing Joke’s “The Wait” with all initial proceeds going to the runoff-election campaigns of then-prospective Democratic Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia. Thanks in part to Deaf Club, Warnock and Ossoff claimed victory in early January 2020.

The band recorded Bad Songs Forever with Meehan and Alex Estrada at Pale Moon Audio, then let Brent Asbury step in to handle mixing and mastering. The EP was pressed on limited-edition color vinyl and released by Three One G and Sweatband Records.

With the volume knob turned to 11, Deaf Club sound like a modern-day Brainiac put through the thresher. The relentlessly chaotic band incorporates “blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channeling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities,” per Deaf Club’s own description. More succinctly, they call their music “sci fi crust punk from the future.”

Between the releases of the Contemporary Sickness EP and Productive Disruption LP, the killer quintet performed a smattering of gigs in Southern California. They staged one gig underneath a bridge in downtown Los Angeles, with a spotlight shining down from a police helicopter hovering overhead.

The band also forged a collaboration with clothing brand Brain Dead to release limited-edition test pressings of Productive Disruption on vinyl.

Deaf Club will perform a week from today with Negative Approach at Midnight Hour in downtown San Fernando, California. Two days later, they’ll play at Ghengis Cohen in L.A.

For more on Deaf Club, go to their Facebook page and their Instagram page.