{"id":26488,"date":"2025-05-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:49:50","slug":"submit-self-titled-avenue-recordz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26488","title":{"rendered":"SUBMIT \u2013 \u2018Self Titled\u2019 (Avenue Recordz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-1140x1140.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec-65x65.jpeg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/82b62dc1-9858-48ef-87af-add01a0f2fec.jpeg 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Just when I was starting to think that things had gone a little bit quiet release wise on the Spunk Volcano front, up pops this ten-track debut release from SUBMIT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUBMIT are an all-new power trio featuring the masked marvel on vocals and guitar alongside his brother Maff Fazzo on drums, and this time around they are joined by long term Dirt Box and Eruptions producer John Kettle (who himself was once in the Tansads and right now Merry Hell) on just about everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Straight from the off with opening track (and video) \u2018Haunted by The Ghost of Myself\u2019, it\u2019s obvious that SUMBIT is a sonic split from the glam punk anthems of Dirtbox Disco or the punk metal thrash of Spunk Volcano &amp; The Eruptions. There\u2019s an almost gothic undertone to this mid-paced rocker, and is that a slight whiff of grunge I detect too, especially in the vocal coda that precedes the song\u2019s guitar solo. Whatever it is, this is not really what you might have expected from Spunk Volcano as a songwriter, and it doesn\u2019t stop there either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SUBMIT - HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF MYSELF\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/snR4cVVgAIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Wankers At The Weekend\u2019 might come wrapped up in a Volcano approved song title and subject matter but once the jaunty riff kicks in you have to forgive me if I get the immediate feel that this is what Blur might have sounded like around their \u2018Parklife\u2019 era if Spunk had been penning their tunes, and the lyric about \u201cif it ain\u2019t punk metal then I can\u2019t be arsed\u201d makes me smile every time I hear it, &nbsp;largely because this record is about as far away from punk metal as he could ever get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In saying this though there\u2019s always been signs of what SUBMIT might sound like, especially if you were to put all the album curveballs the Eruptions have thrown at us over the years together as one compilation. The subtler more understated sounds of \u2018Used By Date\u2019, \u2018Somehow It Feels\u2019 or \u2018I Can\u2019t Swim\u2019 have always been there hidden just under the surface, and in \u2018The Bits I Lost\u2019 SUBMIT sound not unlike The Barstool Preachers at their most contemplative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SUBMIT - LET THE RAZOR SLIDE\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-ap42B9dys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the previously untapped inner goth within the masked man that I love though as \u2018Let The Razor Slide\u2019 turns self-harm into a potentially chart bothering subject matter via an almost Dave Gahan like vocal and \u2018Soil And Blood\u2019 manages to meld the metallic overtones of mid 90s Paradise Lost with Volcano\u2019s pop sensibilities. &nbsp;I hope we can look out for some kohl eyes under that mask if we ever get to see SUBMIT perform these songs live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I were to draw a parallel with any other UK songwriter out there right now then SUBMIT\u2019s debut has the same kind of multiplicity you would expect from a solo Ginger Wildheart album, thankfully minus the prog rock overtones, and \u2018Motherfucker Days\u2019 perhaps sums this up best, as whilst it\u2019s obvious that it\u2019s Spunk singing it\u2019s a song that sits way outside any genre stereotypes. Oh, and those backing vocals at the end are just pure pop genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which just leaves us with album closer \u2018The Devil\u2019s Game\u2019, a ballad that could easily fit on any of &nbsp;Metallica\u2019s multi-platinum selling records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SUBMIT - THE DEVILS GAME\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4QEmdp-wzq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Submit\u2019 is a brave release in that whilst it stands shoulder to shoulder with Mr Volcano\u2019s prolific back catalogue it is also clearly defining a different, some might say, more refined side to his songwriting and whilst it\u2019s no \u2018Legends\u2019 or \u2018Shit Generation\u2019 it\u2019s most certainly still 100% Spunk rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Submit is released on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of June 2025 on CD, digital download, and all the usual streaming platforms. You can order the CD from the band via their webstore link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SUBMIT_band\">https:\/\/x.com\/SUBMIT_band<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61571749070502\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61571749070502<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instagram &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/submit_band\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/submit_band\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHOP &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/avenuerecordz.bigcartel.com\/\">https:\/\/avenuerecordz.bigcartel.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I was starting to think that things had gone a little bit quiet release wise on the Spunk Volcano front, up pops this ten-track debut release from SUBMIT. 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