Iguana Death Cult

With Iguana Death Cult’s latest iteration, the band laments on personal stories of
hardship and doubt whilst fixing their gaze on the burning world around them.
Guitars, percussion, synths and a whole lot of soul-searching is all that Iguana Death
Cult needed for their recent resurrection. As part of a personnel change the band
gained a strong new line-up, including the dazzlingly virtuous drummer Uri Rennert
(previously in Häxxan and Brian Jonestown Massacre). This new era of Iguana
Death Cult’s existence is channeling their earlier punk and garage style while
simultaneously feeling unmistakably like a product of today. It is characterised by
razorsharp and highly rhythmic riffing by Tobias Opschoor and the relentless
drumming by Uri Rennert. By the ever-groovy and effortlessly cool percussion and
synths by Jimmy de Kok and by the hefty yet heartfelt voice of frontman Jeroen
Reek, guiding the listener through feelings of despair, anger and solace, in that very
order.
Iguana Death Cult is a band who have made quite the miles in the last decade.
Started as a group of young friends in 2014 wanting to make rock ‘n roll, the band
has risen to great heights including touring with Osees, Frankie and the Witchfingers,
supporting Jack White, playing SXSW, Levitation Festival and Desert Daze and
doing multiple successful US tours.
On their new record Guns Out, released via Greenway Records & The
Reverberation Appreciation Society, Iguana Death Cult is exercising self-reflection
on multiple levels: by breaking with the more indie-like, art-punk-funk sound of their
previous album (Echo Palace, released through Innovative Leisure in 2023),
returning to a more ‘in your face’ punchy garage rock style. Secondly, by confronting
a behaviour of escapism, and the toll that way of living takes on the self. And finally
by ways of questioning their ways of writing music, returning to a faster, more
spontaneous process. Guns Out is an album that’s tough and rigid on the outside but
soft and contemplative on the inside. Moreover, it is the story of a band coming to
terms with their own existence in the world they live in.

Iguana Death Cult is:

Jeroen Reek - Guitar / Vocals
Tobias Opschoor - Guitar / Keys / Vocals
Sam Pols - Bass / Vocals
Uri Rennert - Drums / Vocals
Jimmy de Kok - Keys / Percussion / Vocals