SKiN GRAFT Records has never been a label to do things quietly, and Mark Fischer’s latest news desk dispatch is a noise-rock triple feature stacked high enough to warrant three separate press releases. Let’s break down why fans of punk, noise, and everything ugly in between should be paying attention this spring.

POINT LINE PLANE RESURRECTED — AND HITTING THE ROAD WITH DAZZLING KILLMEN

Twenty-two years after powering down, Portland synth/punk duo Point Line Plane are officially rebooted. Vocalist/keyboardist Joshua Blanchard (Major Hex) and drummer Nathan Carson (Witch Mountain) are bringing their self-titled debut LP — long unavailable and never before pressed on vinyl — back to the world on May 29th, 2026. The album has been extensively restored and remastered, with the first pressing on 8-Bit Blue Vinyl wrapped in a double-sided “Footlong” OBI designed by original collaborator E*Rock. The CD edition throws in a bonus track, “Descender 2003,” for the completists.

If you’ve never had the pleasure: Point Line Plane are what happens when noise music develops pop hooks. Think funereal organs, atonal repetition, and verge-of-a-breakdown vocals — a sound Alternative Press once described as “dance grooves, near-ambient soundscapes, synapse-frying noise hooliganism and near-prog workouts.” Fader called it “a soundtrack for urban paranoia,” which honestly doubles as a mission statement.

Their first shows in over two decades kick off May 1st in Eugene, OR at John Henry’s, followed by Salem on May 2nd. From there, they link up with the also-reformed Dazzling Killmen for a Pacific Northwest run (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland) before the two bands converge at Minneapolis’ Caterwaul Fest in June. Dazzling Killmen are also running a West Coast leg solo with Rhododendron from May 6th through 13th, hitting Pappy & Harriet’s, The Echo, Stork Club, and more.

HYPER GAL LAND IN EUROPE, DROP “MERE WISP” VIDEO

After what Mark describes as a 36-hour travel odyssey, Osaka duo HYPER GAL — Kurumi Kadoya (drums) and Koharu Ishida (vocals) — have touched down on European soil to support their new LP “Our Hyper,” out now on SKiN GRAFT. The tour launches April 25th at Luxembourg City’s Out of the Crowd Festival and sprawls through Lyon, Geneva, Brussels, Ghent, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and wraps May 9th in Berlin.

To mark the occasion, the band unveiled the official music video for “Mere Wisp” — the closing track on “Our Hyper,” directed by vocalist Koharu Ishida and featuring the unsettling masks created by contemporary artist Akina Tokiyoshi. It’s a perfect visual companion to the album’s stated mission of resisting the performative dualities of social media. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HYPER+GAL+Mere+Wisp+SKiN+GRAFT

Early reviews have been rapturous. Lambgoat called it “arguably the most interesting album I have had the pleasure of hearing in 2026,” while The Wire noted its “queasy kind of physicality, like being shoved around and jolted on the tracks of a cheap rollercoaster.” High praise for a two-piece with nothing but drums, vocals, and live-looped keyboards in their arsenal.

SQUID PISSER ANNOUNCE THE “INTERNAL VIOLENCE TOUR 2026”

And because SKiN GRAFT apparently does not believe in rest, North Hollywood’s Squid Pisser have announced a two-week June run across the West Coast and Southwest. In the band’s own inimitable words, via vocalist/guitarist Tommy Meehan: “Squid Pisser will be scraping whale-tail up and down the West Coast and Southwest on our Internal Violence Tour 2026. A quick and filthy two-week June run chock-full of tadpole-batter and cockroach-dumplings.”

Reader, we did not edit that.

The tour kicks off June 18th at Dive Bar in Las Vegas and winds through Mesa, Albuquerque, Denver, Salt Lake City, Missoula, Spokane, Portland, and San Francisco before wrapping July 2nd at San Diego’s Casbah. Flier art is courtesy of @cyberdreamss, and new music is reportedly on the way — so consider this your early warning.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Between a 20-year-lost Point Line Plane record finally seeing daylight, HYPER GAL exporting their minimalist noise-punk across Europe, and Squid Pisser promising “piercing sonic waves of torture for the masses,” SKiN GRAFT is stacking its spring and summer with exactly the kind of weirdo, high-stakes music the label built its reputation on. Pre-orders, tickets, and streams are live at the SKiN GRAFT Bandcamp page — and if you’re anywhere near any of these tour routes, clear your calendar.

Long live the loud stuff.