Born in the dark times of pandemic-imposed lockdown, Portland, Oregon’s Stress Test originated in the soul of Brandon Hill—bassist for metallic Goth-Rock band Unto Others. A musical vehicle to exorcise disgust at humanity’s worst impulses and actions, Stress Test expanded into a full band early in 2024. Prior to the album’s release next month Ghost Cult is proud to be sharing an exclusive stream for one of the album’s most relentless and fast-paced auditory assaults, “God Sucks”. Check it out! 

Of the track, the band’s Brandon Hill says the following, “At the end of every sufficiently long religious “debate,” it inevitably comes down to faith. Complete confidence in the absolute truth of something without, and in spite of, evidence. 

“But to humor the subscribers of Abrahamic belief, because the best arguments against any religion come straight out of their own source material: God advocates slavery, rape, genocide, infanticide, child abuse, and human sacrifice, to name just a few of the more frequently obfuscated parts of His word. Hell of a source of morality you’ve got there.”

Wrap your ears around this fearsome track and keep up to date with all things Stress Test here. 

A musical vehicle to exorcise disgust at humanity’s worst impulses and actions, Stress Test expanded into a full band early in 2024. 

With the band’s lineup featuring a former member of Black-Metal band Drouth, Stress Test have the tools at their disposal to carve their own musical path, gleefully raising a middle finger to any simple genre classification on their debut self-titled record.

Eleven tracks of hammering, sneering, metallic-punk vitriol (dipping under the minute mark more often than they creep past three minutes) show Stress Test have no time to waste. 

Listeners might hear strains of Napalm Death, both in the grinding music as well as the barbed social commentary. The band also show their varied metal roots, as the album showcases a treasure trove of rapid-fire riffs to satisfy the Thrash fans out there.