Perhaps my all-time favorite band, duly sparring for the position with the Ramones, the mighty Rudimentary Peni will have an album out in two months. It's been four years since they released anything. Check out their newest song on the DieSpace, ....er MySpace, otherwise known as Best News so far this year

The song is called "No More Pain", the title track from the album,due to be released in May. It sounds much like the Archaic EP from 2004, and I am beyond stoked.

Rudimentary Peni has a special place of my heart and will always be my champion, the survivor of perseverance of art through mental illness. The Underclass, the underdog. Lead singer Nick Blinko is the Edgar Allen Poe punk rock. He has creative energy that seems like it is loose from hell, and banished to the earth. The album art is always intense beyond comprehension, small deliberate lines meant to exorcise and perhaps contain the ghastly images depicted. The music itself stands out in my opinion from much else that I listen to. I am thrilled by the sparse electric grief as heard on Death Church ("Three quarters of the world are starving/The rest are dead"), the psychiatric meltdown on Pope Adrian("I'm a dream, and I'm nightmare"), the frenetic charge of EPs of RP and the maelstrom of mental illness as heard on Cacophony. For outsider art, you can't go wrong. Buy the vinyl for the larger reproduction value of the album art, or download the songs off Soulseek for instant listening (dis)pleasure, and fuck yourselves up (in a straight edge sense, of course, or otherwise) with Rudimentary Peni.

Yes!