Wagon Burner
Dead Pioneers
Wagon Burner is the third full-length album by Dead Pioneers, released in June 2026 on Hassle Records and fronted by Native American artist Gregg Deal. Across twelve tracks, the band refines its fusion of hard-hitting punk rock with narrative and spoken-word elements, using terse, hook-filled songs as platforms for pointed critiques of white supremacy, colonial violence, political hypocrisy, and everyday forms of oppression. The record opens with Dead Presidents and quickly moves through pieces like Nazi Teeth, No Kings, Animals That Roam the Earth, Seeing Red, Circle Jerk the Wagons, Zealots, Nobody, and LFG, constructing a sequence that alternates explosive bursts of speed with slower, tension-building frameworks that foreground Deal’s lyrics.
Collaborations play a notable role in Wagon Burner, underscoring the band’s position within a wider network of contemporary punk and post-punk. Stephanie Byrne of Cheap Perfume appears on Nazi Teeth, lending additional vocal firepower to its denunciation of fascist and racist structures, while members of The Interrupters join Never Alone, a track that celebrates chosen family and the sustaining power of music. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods contributes to The Worst Among Us, whose moody basslines and post-punk textures highlight the album’s dynamic range and its willingness to move beyond straightforward hardcore tropes. Commentaries surrounding the release emphasize that Wagon Burner is heavier and harder than the band’s earlier work but also more accessible, with vicious hooks and clear, authoritative vocal delivery making its urgent calls for equality, solidarity, and resistance feel musically immediate as well as politically necessary in the cultural climate of 2026.
Wagon Burner is the third full-length album by Dead Pioneers, released in June 2026 on Hassle Records and fronted by Native American artist Gregg Deal. Across twelve tracks, the band refines its fusion of hard-hitting punk rock with narrative and spoken-word elements, using terse, hook-filled songs as platforms for pointed critiques of white supremacy, colonial violence, political hypocrisy, and everyday forms of oppression. The record opens with Dead Presidents and quickly moves through pieces like Nazi Teeth, No Kings, Animals That Roam the Earth, Seeing Red, Circle Jerk the Wagons, Zealots, Nobody, and LFG, constructing a sequence that alternates explosive bursts of speed with slower, tension-building frameworks that foreground Deal’s lyrics.
Collaborations play a notable role in Wagon Burner, underscoring the band’s position within a wider network of contemporary punk and post-punk. Stephanie Byrne of Cheap Perfume appears on Nazi Teeth, lending additional vocal firepower to its denunciation of fascist and racist structures, while members of The Interrupters join Never Alone, a track that celebrates chosen family and the sustaining power of music. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods contributes to The Worst Among Us, whose moody basslines and post-punk textures highlight the album’s dynamic range and its willingness to move beyond straightforward hardcore tropes. Commentaries surrounding the release emphasize that Wagon Burner is heavier and harder than the band’s earlier work but also more accessible, with vicious hooks and clear, authoritative vocal delivery making its urgent calls for equality, solidarity, and resistance feel musically immediate as well as politically necessary in the cultural climate of 2026.
Wagon Burner
Dead Pioneers
Wagon Burner is the third full-length album by Dead Pioneers, released in June 2026 on Hassle Records and fronted by Native American artist Gregg Deal. Across twelve tracks, the band refines its fusion of hard-hitting punk rock with narrative and spoken-word elements, using terse, hook-filled songs as platforms for pointed critiques of white supremacy, colonial violence, political hypocrisy, and everyday forms of oppression. The record opens with Dead Presidents and quickly moves through pieces like Nazi Teeth, No Kings, Animals That Roam the Earth, Seeing Red, Circle Jerk the Wagons, Zealots, Nobody, and LFG, constructing a sequence that alternates explosive bursts of speed with slower, tension-building frameworks that foreground Deal’s lyrics.
Collaborations play a notable role in Wagon Burner, underscoring the band’s position within a wider network of contemporary punk and post-punk. Stephanie Byrne of Cheap Perfume appears on Nazi Teeth, lending additional vocal firepower to its denunciation of fascist and racist structures, while members of The Interrupters join Never Alone, a track that celebrates chosen family and the sustaining power of music. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods contributes to The Worst Among Us, whose moody basslines and post-punk textures highlight the album’s dynamic range and its willingness to move beyond straightforward hardcore tropes. Commentaries surrounding the release emphasize that Wagon Burner is heavier and harder than the band’s earlier work but also more accessible, with vicious hooks and clear, authoritative vocal delivery making its urgent calls for equality, solidarity, and resistance feel musically immediate as well as politically necessary in the cultural climate of 2026.
Wagon Burner is the third full-length album by Dead Pioneers, released in June 2026 on Hassle Records and fronted by Native American artist Gregg Deal. Across twelve tracks, the band refines its fusion of hard-hitting punk rock with narrative and spoken-word elements, using terse, hook-filled songs as platforms for pointed critiques of white supremacy, colonial violence, political hypocrisy, and everyday forms of oppression. The record opens with Dead Presidents and quickly moves through pieces like Nazi Teeth, No Kings, Animals That Roam the Earth, Seeing Red, Circle Jerk the Wagons, Zealots, Nobody, and LFG, constructing a sequence that alternates explosive bursts of speed with slower, tension-building frameworks that foreground Deal’s lyrics.
Collaborations play a notable role in Wagon Burner, underscoring the band’s position within a wider network of contemporary punk and post-punk. Stephanie Byrne of Cheap Perfume appears on Nazi Teeth, lending additional vocal firepower to its denunciation of fascist and racist structures, while members of The Interrupters join Never Alone, a track that celebrates chosen family and the sustaining power of music. Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods contributes to The Worst Among Us, whose moody basslines and post-punk textures highlight the album’s dynamic range and its willingness to move beyond straightforward hardcore tropes. Commentaries surrounding the release emphasize that Wagon Burner is heavier and harder than the band’s earlier work but also more accessible, with vicious hooks and clear, authoritative vocal delivery making its urgent calls for equality, solidarity, and resistance feel musically immediate as well as politically necessary in the cultural climate of 2026.