Devil Master Cover G.I.S.M.’s “Death Anthem” Ahead of Relapse Debut

Devil Master have shared a cover of “Death Anthem,” the title track from G.I.S.M.’s 1984 EP. It arrives ahead of the Philadelphia band’s own ‘Bloody Dreams,’ out September 4 on Relapse.

G.I.S.M. remains a chaotic pillar for anyone who treats the boundary between metal and punk as irrelevant. Their swirl of d-beat aggressiveness, Randy Uchida’s shredded lead work, and Sakevi Yokoyama’s unhinged presence gave underground music a language it still hasn’t exhausted. Devil Master, whose blackened punk already owes a debt to that tradition, don’t sanitise the material. They tighten the screws—sharper production, layered shrieks—without stripping the original’s sense of collapse.

The cover isn’t a detour. It fits inside a catalogue that has always pulled from goth, metal, and crust with equal urgency. Choosing G.I.S.M. reinforces where that hybridity leads when it’s done with force rather than pastiche.

‘Bloody Dreams’ promises to extend Devil Master’s trajectory beyond the claustrophobic murk of earlier releases. That they’d pause to voice someone else’s anthem right before their own says something about lineage. And about what they value when no one is watching the tracklist.