In Effect Hardcore is pleased to bring you the music video premier for "Jah Is Dead" by the Poughkeepsie, NY 3-piece RBNX. The track is the first single off of their upcoming 10 song release titled "Nothing Here Is Yours" which will first be available on all streaming sites on September 29th with CD, cassette and colored vinyl versions all available through PATIENT ZERO RECORDS. We got in touch RBNX's drummer Phil to give us a little more background to the song and video for "Jah Is Dead" and here is what he had to say.



“We’ve lost a lot of people close to us, we try to raise awareness to drug addiction and mental health. it’s part of why we do what we do. This song is about struggling with addiction, overcoming, and having a support system that picks you up when you’re at your rock bottom... as for the video itself, it was shot by Steve Miele last summer at Good Time Film Company in Poughkeepsie NY. It took one day to film and we are currently working with Steve on our next two singles to be released later this summer!"

"World To Burn" is a call for environmental action, specifically in getting rid of the infrastructure (and people) that are causing the current problems and advocating for a fresh start. In many ways, it's a familiar DIY mantra: through working together, people are capable of enacting greater change.

“Jah is Dead” already starts out with a clever title, riffing off the common Nietzschean phrase “God is Dead.” Musically, it’s unabashed hardcore at its finest, beating you around the head with simple guitar riffs and faster-than-light drumming. The song’s false ending at approximately the 90-second mark is a big part of what makes this song so successful because, after tying everything up with a musical bow on top, the song unleashes its fury once again to end in a much less perfect—and, therefore, much more punk rock—manner.

“The radio stuff never did it for me,” he says. “No 12 year-old wants to listen to Hall and Oates. I wanted the angry stuff, especially as a pissed-off kid. It’s still my therapy.” To Dietz, the scene is a backlash and an antidote to bland, digitized pop, rap, and dance music on the radio, just like in punk’s early years. “Most new guitar-driven music is hippies or metal,” he says. “Right now, kids are getting into hardcore as an alternative to the mainstream stuff.”

“The ska/hardcore fusion greats, RBNX, who always put on a super energetic set and get the crowd riled up and dancing.”

This Poughkeepsie NY based band kind of patterns itself after the 90s Lookout Record bands on the Op Ivy take, but have cleverly self defined their own way with it.

what’s most important to me is that they have a style that is distinctive. I think any band that makes me think of Richard Hell is not only great but also, distinctive. There’s lots of energy and fun in this recording and a lot of guts and passion coming from a band that is not afraid to veer off the beaten path.