Gridiron don’t run a predictable playbook — and their brand new EP, Lights Out, out today via Blue Grape Music, is yet more proof that the Philly/Delaware/Michigan crew is happy to audible at the line of scrimmage whenever the mood strikes.

The four-song release pairs two brand-new bangers stitched together with the kind of pit-clearing hardcore grooves the band has built its reputation on, alongside a pair of remixes pulled from last year’s widely praised full-length Poetry From Pain (an album that earned love from Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, NO ECHO, and more). One of those reworks comes courtesy of Jami Morgan and Shade of NOWHERE2RUN, which should tell you everything you need to know about the company Gridiron keeps.

The title track is the centerpiece, and it’s a vicious one — built around vocalist Matthew Karll’s signature rap-influenced cadence and a riff that hits like a forearm shiver. The accompanying video is streaming now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3yEQRc5tPc

“‘Lights Out’ is a track about revenge, a track about counting your chickens before they hatch,” Karll says of the song. “A song about going out and getting back what’s yours.”

Lights Out Tracklist:
1. Lights Out
2. Long Haul
3. Tombstone (NOWHERE2RUN Remix)
4. Army Of None (Not A Friend Remix)

Featuring Matthew Karll (vocals), Will Kaelin (guitar/vocals), Xavier Wilson (guitar), Lennon Livesay (bass), and Tyler Mullen (drums) — with pedigrees stretching across Never Ending Game, Simulakra, and Scarab — Gridiron have always thrived in the space where corpsepaint-smeared death metal collides with blinged-out, braggadocios bars. It’s the kind of hybrid that wouldn’t have been out of place at OZZfest ’97 or Rolling Loud 2027, and Lights Out leans hard into that duality.

Crank it up, throw an elbow, and queue up the EP here: http://gridiron.lnk.to/lightsout