Antwerp, Belgium, might be famous for its harbour, cathedral, and diamond trade, but dig a little deeper and you’ll find a city with a thriving underground pulse. In recent years, the great output of hardcore and garage punk bands makes one suspect that — besides massive PFAS pollution and record-breaking cocaine residue levels — there must be something in the water.

Mitraille crashed into that scene in 2018 with a sound that takes the bursting-at-the-seams energy of modern-day basement hardcore and injects it into a strain of diseased garage and post-punk. Think Uranium Club if they were Motörhead roadies with anger management issues. Since day one, the band has been tearing through Europe, dropping three EPs and two full-lengths without ever taking their foot off the gas.

Less than a year after releasing their second full-length ‘MITRAIILLE’, the group returns with a shit-hot new EP. Lead single “Fuck You I’m Going On Tour” – aptly titled, as the band preps for an 18-day European run – is a blistering, one-minute-twenty blast about ditching the daily grind to live the dream: sit in a van all day, hang in humid basements all night. With its pummeling delivery and crunchy analog grit, the track is a fierce harbinger of MITRAILLE’s most untamed, primitive, good-ol’-rawk’n’rolling release yet. On the five-track ‘EP IV’, the band taps into early influences like Zeke, New Bomb Turks, and – of course – Motörhead, without losing any of the vivacity of their usual garage punk/hardcore blend.

With the brand new EP (out on Belly Button Records) under their arm, and an insatiable appetite for performing live, the trio is embarking on their busiest year yet.

Mitraille is ready to spread the Belgian garagecore gospel once more.