Rabbit Junk

Rabbit Junk emerged from Seattle, Washington as a digital hardcore and industrial metal unit whose sound merges glitched-out electronica with incendiary riffs, organic blastbeats, and stuttering sound effects. J.P. Anderson launched the project in 2004 once his prior group the Shizit had disbanded, completing the lineup by bringing in his spouse, vocalist Jennifer "Sum Grrl" Bernert. The stated goal was to blend industrial, metal, and hip-hop with the abstract textures of glitch, gabber, and electro-punk. Late that same year the duo issued their self-titled debut LP on an independent basis, an eclectic collection that incorporated N.W.A. samples alongside a cover of the Police’s “Walking on the Moon.”

In 2005 they secured a deal with Chicago-based Glitch Mode Recordings, issuing their label debut ReFRAME the following year. The record’s opening track “Demons” quickly gained favor among listeners for its inventive interpolation of “Duel of the Fates” from Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace by composer John Williams. Combining trem-picked guitar riffs, black metal guitar tones, and raucous breakbeats, the album broadened the band’s audience throughout the United States and Europe. Shortly afterward they supplied a cover of Atari Teenage Riot’s “Start the Riot” for an ATR tribute collection and contributed the original track “Industrial Is Dead” to Glitch Mode’s Hordes of the Elite compilation.

The Michigan-based Full Effect Records released their 2008 album This Life Is Where You Get Fucked, a conceptual work divided into three suites each drawing inspiration from distinct artistic or literary sources. The same label handled their fourth LP, Project Nonagon, in 2010. After parting ways with Full Effect the next year, Rabbit Junk entered a period of inactivity while Anderson pursued other projects, among them reviving the Shizit under the new name the Nameless and forming the steampunk outfit Fighting Iron alongside Ice. Between 2011 and 2013 the duo kept the Rabbit Junk name active through a string of standalone singles. Encouraged by fan response, Anderson chose to revive the band with fresh material oriented toward a fully electronic aesthetic.

The Pop That Pretty Thirty EP appeared in 2014 and was followed later that year by their first live recording, Live 2014, again via Glitch Mode. January 2015 brought the Invasion EP together with the declaration that the group would cease producing full-length albums and concentrate exclusively on EPs. Early 2016 saw the release of the compilation Singles from the Lost Years: 2011-2013, after which they issued the remix EP Like the Flesh Does the Knife in 2017. Contrary to their prior announcement, Rabbit Junk returned in 2018 with a fifth studio album, Rabbit Junk Will Die: Meditations on Mortality.