"Jeff Rosenstock makes anthems. It’s what he does." - Stereogum

“…a tireless, super-prolific and critically acclaimed workhorse.” -The Guardian

"We're living in hell, baby. Whether it makes you want to laugh, cry or rip a bong, Rosenstock's got you covered." - Exclaim!

"Rosenstock just wants to consider a world where we’re no longer numb to the violence and fear that now plagues our dreams of tomorrow—and, on his latest effort HELLMODE, that want for human grace reveals itself in some of the most graceful and delicate gestures of his career." - Paste

In true Jeff Rosenstock fashion, the influential punk pioneer surprises fans by sharing his new album HELLMODE a day earlier than expected. Listen to the record now and save when you order your limited edition copy of the Crazy Ass Multicolor Mix vinyl bundled with a truly batshit collection of merchandise that changes color, literally. 

PLUS… join the full Death Rosenstock crew on Bandcamp this Friday, Sept. 1st @ 11AM CST for the official HELLMODE listening party - RSVP for the online event now and get your tickets for his massive North American tour that kicks off imminently. 

Jeff’s rising profile and critical acclaim over the last decade have been something of an anomaly. He’s a proud torchbearer of the punk sonics, aesthetics, and ethos of his youth, leaning into pop punk and ska sensibilities that were deemed Decidedly Uncool by the gatekeepers of the time. (On any given day at a big outdoor music festival, he is likely the only musician who will bust out a saxophone solo.) But when Rosenstock celebrates these styles, he somehow ends up getting praise from tastemakers and landing on prominent year-end lists. Maybe it’s because his appreciation doesn’t feel like cheap nostalgia or surface-level cosplay. Everything he does is just so damned sincere.

That success is something Jeff has been conflicted about, and fuels some of the anxiety that runs through HELLMODE. “It’s weird feeling success at the worst possible time, while the world falls apart,” he says. “These things I’ve been unintentionally working towards for the last two decades have come to fruition now, when everything is on fire.”

To record HELLMODE in the summer of 2022, Jeff once again enlisted his longtime studio collaborator, Jack Shirley, the Grammy-nominated master of heaviness who has recorded all of Rosenstock’s studio albums. But this time, they took a slightly more ambitious approach, booking time at the legendary EastWest Studios in Hollywood. They recorded to tape in Studio 2, the same hallowed ground where System of a Down recorded Toxicity, and where Whitney Houston laid down vocal tracks for The Bodyguard soundtrack. The newfound studio resources produced the biggest and most expansive Jeff Rosenstock record to date.

“I looked at it like: Well, we’re never gonna make a major label debut record. But I really like the sound of a lot of those records from the 90s—the Rob Cavallo stuff, the Jerry Finn stuff,” Jeff says. “So what would we do if we were in the studio trying to make that kind of record? It’s funny, I feel like in 2023, you can write an unabashedly poppy punk song and it’s probably not gonna be on the radio anyway, so it doesn’t feel like a sellout move. We felt free to make something that just kicks as much ass as possible.”