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Atlanta hardcore miscreants Criminal Instinct have been around for a decade and a half, but they don’t release too much music, possibly because the band members are constantly getting into fights and getting thrown in jail. Actually, that’s not true; it’s just the vibe. People in the band seem to be busy with other projects. For instance, drummer Skull is the lead skinhead in Skinhead, whose It\u2019s A Beautiful Day, What A Beautiful Day<\/a><\/em> was one of last year’s best hardcore albums<\/a>. <\/p>\n Criminal Instinct haven’t released a full-length since 2019’s Terrible Things<\/a><\/em> \u2014 which, at 19 minutes, tests the definition of “full-length.” Before today, they hadn’t released any music at all since 2020, when they came out with the two-song single<\/a> “Skull Fucked” b\/w “6 More Miles.” Today, however, Criminal Instinct return with Is It Raining At Your House?<\/em>, a new EP that arrives today with, as far as I can tell, zero advance warning and no real hullabaloo. <\/p>\n It looks like Criminal Instinct’s current lineup includes all-star producer Taylor Young, of Twitching Tongues and God’s Hate and a million other bands, and Martin Stewart, of Terror and God’s Hate and a million other bands, alongside longtime members Skull, Josiah Hoeflinger, Gian Farahani, and Kaleb Perdue (also of Abuse Of Power and Foundation). It’s an all-star team! Is It Raining At Your House?<\/em> blasts through five songs in nine minutes. The thing that always set Criminal Instinct apart is that they play fast, no-frills old-school hardcore with all the fuck-you-up swagger and intensity of today’s heaviest bands. That comes through really cleanly on the new EP, which whomps a whole lot of ass. Hear it below.<\/p>\n The Is It Raining At Your House?<\/em> EP is out now on Closed Casket Activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Atlanta hardcore miscreants Criminal Instinct have been around for a decade and a half, but they don’t release too much music, possibly because the band members are constantly getting into fights and getting thrown in jail. Actually, that’s not true; it’s just the vibe. People in the band seem to be busy with other projects. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Criminal-Instinct-Release-Fast-Hard-New-Surprise-EP-Listen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502117,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502115\/revisions\/2502117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}