More Jet

Guitar Wolf — 2026

“More Jet proves Guitar Wolf still know only one speed: louder, faster, and completely over the edge.”

Thirty-three years after Goner put out Wolf Rock, Guitar Wolf are back on the label that started them, and this is an in-your-face reunion and a blast of pure noise. More Jet is ten songs in about twenty-five minutes, their first full-length in seven years, and Seiji spends every one of those minutes doing what he has always done: driving his guitar so far past the point of a clean tone that individual notes just stop existing, then howling over the distortion. New drummer Takuro makes his recording debut here, and he fits right in, demolishing his kit with screaming crash cymbals sitting super forward in the mix.

I like that the band refuses to “grow up” after being away for so long. There is no acoustic detour, no guest producer, and no attempt to make the low end behave. The songs come at you with titles that sound like they were pulled out of a hat at four in the morning, and the vocals stay somewhere between a scream and a bark with the rare understandable singing. With this short runtime, you put it on, it flattens you, and it ends.

“9PM Pornomag Planet” is the track I keep playing, mostly for the way the riff keeps pushing forward with Seiji’s voice cutting through the fuzz in short shouted bursts. “Bakkyaro The Moon” gives the record a rockabilly shuffle buried under enough fuzz that you feel it more than hear it. The repeated title callouts and a few howls make this one a keeper. Then there is “Long Tall Sally,” which is less a cover than a demolition, taken at a speed that turns Little Richard’s joy into something closer to panic with the pedal pinned to the floor. It should not work. It absolutely does.

The New Bomb Turks’ style of punk is in the guitar tone, that mean rumble that sounds like an amp with a knife through the speaker. Australian group C.O.F.F.I.N have a similarly roaring vocal swagger. The Ramones connection is strictly song structure, since these songs are built the same way: two chords, a countoff, and then done. Back in the day, The Mummies and The Gories chased the same combination of speed and blown-out recording, while Teengenerate remains another essential current Tokyo garage punk played at breakneck speed with hooks buried beneath distortion.

Guitar Wolf do not sound older on More Jet; they just sound louder. Forty years in, that counts for something.