On October 30th, noisy, genre-bending four-piece PISS will release their debut effort, you made me / skin on linen, on LP/CD/DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Paper Bag Records. The Vancouver, B.C., band combines punk, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and visual art, creating a multidisciplinary body of work that blurs the line between personal and political. you made me / skin on linen, depicts a childhood shaped by structural, systemic, and intimate violence. Throughout the record, art-making motifs serve as metaphors for the myriad ways we carry the effects of this violence: each experience leaves an impression, gradually creating or deforming the self, much like a piece of clay molded by every mark it receives. The record resists simple conclusions; rather than offering a single perspective, it examines violence as a ubiquitous facet of our culture. It asks questions—how does violence impact our development? Are our wounds inextricable parts of us? And if not, then where do our wounds end and we begin?—and allows the listener to devise their own answers. Today, the band has shared their debut offering, “time loop at hot slit,” a frenetic noise-punk examination of girlhood in a culture of sexualization. The song pairs a danceable chorus with witty, poetic lyrics wailed in anguish and uncanny eroticism. This official video was co-directed by PISS frontperson Taylor Zantingh and Vivyen Sagsen. Filmed at the now-closed-down DIY space, Take Yr Time Back in Vancouver, BC, Zantingh shares: “Some of the people with whom I shared the earliest version of “time loop at hot slit” take the stage to sing it themselves . Our local scene has been singing this song with us for two years!! It’s very exciting to finally share it with the world, but no matter where it ends up, it will always belong to the femmes, queers, and weirdos in the Vancouver underground community <3”. Click HERE to watch. PISS will embark on an international headline and festival tour beginning on September 3rd in Margate, UK, at Where Else?, running through November 14th in London, UK, at the Moth Club. Highlights for this announcement include a 12-date run as direct support for Dublin post-punk group Gilla Band, with additional performances on September 6th in Salisbury, UK, at End of the Road Festival, September 25th in Toronto, ON at Second Summer Festival, and Thursday, November 5th, in Reykjavik, IS at Iceland Airwaves. See below for a full list of dates. Thu. Sep. 03 - Margate, UK - Where Else?
Fri. Sep. 04 - Brighton, UK - Brighton Psych Fest
Sun. Sep. 06 - Salisbury, UK - End of the Road Festival
Fri. Sep. 25 - Toronto, ON - Second Summer Festival
Sat. Sep. 26 - Kitchener, ON - Wrecker Fest
Wed. Oct. 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts*
Thu. Oct. 15 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere - The Hall*
Sat. Oct. 17 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall*
Tue. Oct. 20 - Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace*
Wed. Oct. 21 - Detroit, MI - Third Man Records - Cass Corridor*
Thu. Oct. 22 - Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge*
Sat. Oct. 24 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club*
Tue. Oct. 27- Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater*
Wed. Oct. 28 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court*
Fri. Oct. 30 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios*
Sat. Oct. 31 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl on Granville*
Sun. Nov. 01 - Seattle, WA - Neumos*
Thu. Nov. 05 - Reykjavik, Iceland - Iceland Airwaves
Sat. Nov. 07 - Paris, FR - Pitchfork Paris
Sun. Nov. 08 - Kortrijk, BE - Sonic City
Tue. Nov. 10 - Amsterdam, NE - Paradiso (Small Hall)
Wed. Nov. 11 - Nijmegen, NE - Merleyn
Sat. Nov. 14 - London, UK - Moth Club
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PISS is Taylor Zantingh (vocals), Tyler Paterson (guitar), Gavin Moya (bass), and Garreth Roberts (drums). The band recorded their debut album, you made me / skin on linen, in January 2025 with Colin Stewart at Hive Creative Labs. The album is forthcoming on October 30, 2026, via Paper Bag Records (Canada) and Sub Pop Records (worldwide).
you made me / skin on linen is now available to preorder from Sub Pop and Bandcamp. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK/EU, and your local record store will receive the album on Baby Pink vinyl, with a Baby Pink/Grey Blend available exclusively at their Bandcamp page and at the band’s live show, while supplies last.
In addition to the album pre-order, PISS are partnering with autonomous spaces and radical community hubs around North America to distribute free copies of the album. Until October 30th, customers can purchase an additional, discounted copy of you made me / skin on linen to be donated to one of these spaces. The band shares, “The purpose of this project is to increase the accessibility of physical copies of the record, but I also hope it will encourage anyone who enjoys our music to connect with other radicals in their communities! It is more important than ever to lean into offline, autonomous social spaces. We cannot build a real movement by communicating with tools built and controlled by the powers we aim to challenge!!!” |
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What people are saying about PISS:“ If you want a Dork guarantee, Piss are about to become *the* band everyone is talking about for the year to come.” - DORK“ PISS are fated to become leaders of the contemporary hardcore punk movement, returning it to it’s fierce roots of political candor and forthright rage.” - DIY Mag “Bathed in the intimacy of unrelenting emotion, PISS cuts to the bone with a blade of bass-laden dissonance and driving, hard-hitting rhythms. - Line of Best Fit “The world around us is a main character here, though, as I think what impacts me about PISS is that while Zantingh deals so vividly with the intense impact of sexual violence, she also refuses victim rhetoric, considering instead how no one should have to stomach it – they should be able to rage back.”
- Far Out “For now, PISS’s recorded output consists of those three tracks on Bandcamp. All of them sound like a car bomb going off in a sheet metal factory, the vocals screamed and road-rash raw, the guitars feedback-drenched and distortion-jacked, the drums and bass bombastically concussive. If you like music filed under “extreme and uncompromising”, PISS is very likely your new favourite band.”
- The Georgia Straight “What PISS delivered wasn’t a set at all: it was a penance, an exorcism, a resistance.” - Exclaim! “Tense, daunting and bursting with righteous anger, PISS seemed like a pack of open nerves, ready to engulf the entire room. There were people crying in the audience, as lead singer Taylor Zantingh spoke, screamed and scorched through the ugliest crevices of sustained cruelty, inter-gender violence and predatory behaviour.” - Range Magazine “A palpable atmospheric shift occurs when the band strikes its first note. Before PISS finish their opening song, the audience is no longer focused on their drink orders at the bar; background conversations screech to a halt as PISS screech in cathartic fury.” - Northern Transmissions “Merciless drums rattle skulls. Screeching guitar riffs stab and bite. At other times, agonising tension builds as patient chords pull you into the narrative and spit you back out again. All the while, Taylor Zantingh’s gut-wrenching vocals conjure feelings of fury and sadness. You will struggle to find a more intense band anywhere.” - Stereoboard “I was not prepared for PISS. This set from the newer Vancouver post-hardcore punk quartet should come with a trigger warning. The brutal passion and unruly rage are palpable as lead singer Taylor Zantingh runs around the stage, taking the role of a woman who has dealt with sexual trauma and coercion, usually from older men.” - Cult Mtl “Their sets feel less like shows and more like controlled detonations—tense, cathartic, and emotionally blistering. ‘A pack of open nerves’ is how RANGE described them after a Sled Island set that had people crying in the crowd. When they played with Lambrini Girls, Exclaim! called out their ability to completely shift the atmosphere from note one. It’s art. It’s punk. It’s chaos, turned surgical.” - Culture Addict
 PISS
you made me / skin on linen
Tracklisting:
1. kai and friends
2. i wanted to be a singer
3. andrea I
4. time loop at hot slit
5. manon on the trial of gisèle pelicot
6. a little girl’s horse craze betrays her
7. toni
8. there was a door
9. andrea II
10. how can you act opposite to this emotion?
11. blocking a scene you can’t remember
12. self-blame with thorn necklace and hummingbird
13. vikki
14. Rote Zora. “Resistance is Possible.” Emma, no. 6, June 1984, pp. 39-41.
15. i keep trying to change the ending
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PISS, the evocative, noisy, genre-bending 4-piece punk band from Vancouver, B.C are announcing today that they have signed to Sub Pop for the world and in Canada with Paper Bag Records. Ahead of the new material we are all eagerly awaiting, PISS has scheduled international headlining and festival dates spanning the spring, summer, and fall of 2026, beginning Saturday, May 2nd, in Liverpool, UK, at Sound City Festival and running through Thursday, November 5th, in Reykjavik, IS, at Iceland Airwaves.
Highlights of this announcement include headlining shows in Glasgow, London, Manchester, and Paris in May, as well as appearances at festivals like The Great Escape, London Calling, Pickathon, End of the Road, and Brighton Psych Festival. Additional live dates to be announced soon. Please find a current list of dates below.
Post-Trash says of the band, “PISS are a lightning bolt. The Vancouver-based punk band’s debut three demos blurs the lines between hardcore, art-rock, and experimental poetry. PISS hits with the same onslaught of being thunderstruck.” DIY offers this, “The group combine their music with spoken word poetry, visual art, and experimental performance, putting on a show that blurs the lines between wildly complex interpersonal and political themes, with a beautifully human feel to it.” Meanwhile, Exclaim says, “More than any other local hardcore band today, PISS place crucial emphasis on words, those of both singer and poet-at-heart Taylor Zantingh’s and, through audio samples, feminist activist Andrea Dworkin’s (ever committed to accessibility, the quartet also includes captions in its videos). Over corrosive noise and riffs that clench, wrench and tear like the jaws of life, Zantingh unpacks her experiences with body image issues and codependency as she shouts, growls, and shrieks in protest against enculturated ideas about female sexuality and the subjugation of women…with iron determination, PISS are putting in the work, learning skills and habits that can nourish anyone. Pay attention and follow along.” Finally, The Line of Best Fit says of the band’s music and live show, “Weeks after getting to chat with the members of PISS online, I am now here witnessing their live power. It is like nothing I have ever seen before… a sound that’s entirely new and stunningly raw.”
Sat. May 02 - Liverpool, UK - Sound City Festival
Sun. May 03 - Leeds, UK - Gold Sounds Festival
Wed. May 06 - Glasgow, UK - Hug and Pint
Thu. May 07 - Manchester, UK - Yes (Basement)
Sat. May 09 - Wrexham, UK - FOCUS Wales Festival
Mon. May 11 - London, UK - Lexington [Sold Out]
Thu. May 14 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival
Sat. May 16 - Amsterdam, NL - London Calling Festival
Sun. May 17 - Brussels, BE - Les Nuits Botanique Festival
Tue. May 19 - Paris, FR - Le Klub
Wed. May 20 - Rennes, FR - Antipode
Sat. May 23 - Bristol, UK - Dot to Dot Festival
Sun. May 24 - Nottingham, UK - Dot to Dot Festival
Thu. Jul. 30 - Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon
Sat. Aug. 01 - Sackville, NB - Sappyfest
Fri. Aug. 28 - Eindhoven, NL - Hit The City Festival
Fri. Sep. 04 - Brighton, UK - Brighton Psych Fest Festival
Sun. Sep. 06 - Salisbury, UK - End of the Road Festival
Thu. Nov 05 - Reykjavik, IS - Iceland Airwaves
PISS combines music, poetry, sound collage, performance art, and various mediums of visual art to address complex themes that blur the line between personal and political. Powered by a combination of thoughtful musicianship, energetic live performances, and a crystal-clear vision of a safer underground community, PISS writes punk music that aims to transcend the limitations of a well-established genre by pulling inspiration from a wide range of unexpected influences: literary giants, philosophers, filmmakers, painters, psychoanalysts, activists, children, members of a German anarcho-feminist militant group, and audience members from their shows, to name a few. These voices represent varying ideological beliefs about gender-based violence and enable PISS to create art that depicts challenging and controversial issues such as sexual violence and enculturated gender norms without reduction, romanticization, polemics, or dogmatism.
PISS comprises poet and teacher Taylor Zantingh on vocals, filmmaker Tyler Paterson on guitar, Gavin Moya on bass, and Garreth Roberts on drums.
