When Noisey asked Warren Jones and Parker Black in 2018 to explain the title of their album O Fucc Im On The Wrong Planet, they replied: “The title comes from that realization that our entire situation [on Earth] is just so bizarre… We are living in a complete Idiocracy. Like, what is going on?” The EP Screaming Crying Throwing Up (2016) then reveals a little more about the politics of this Virginia duo, and about where we’ve ended up over the past few years.

Distorted club-rap hybrids, industrial noise-rap experiments, horror-glitch collages and beats destroyed through screamo, just as the times demand. Prison Religion are masters of agitation.

Someone has to do the dirty work: Jones and Black have spent recent years tearing apart the established clichés of noise, rap and dance music. Although they occasionally experiment with conventional song structures, their most chilling and powerful moments come when their tracks implode into chaotic collages, noisy abstractions and ultra-distorted rhythms.