Denver’s Dead Pioneers are done being polite. Their new single “Nazi Teeth” is out now, and it’s exactly what it sounds like — loud, direct, and swinging.
Released via Hassle Records, “Nazi Teeth” marks the first strike from the Indigenous-fronted punk band’s upcoming third album. The track arrives in three versions: the original explicit cut, a radio edit, and an instrumental. However you take it, the message doesn’t soften.
Dead Pioneers have built their name on spoken-word tension colliding with post-punk pulse and full-force punk aggression. “Nazi Teeth” leans hard into that formula. The guitars grind. The rhythm section hits like a blunt object. Frontman Gregg Deal delivers his lines with the urgency of someone who’s not interested in metaphor when the problem is standing right in front of him.
The single features Stephanie Byrne of Colorado feminist punk band Cheap Perfume, whose voice slices straight through the track. Her presence isn’t decorative — it sharpens the blade. The collaboration reconnects with the spirit of confrontation both artists have never shied away from. This isn’t nostalgia-core outrage. It’s current, pointed, and aimed.
Dead Pioneers have never treated punk as costume. Across their 2023 self-titled debut and last year’s PO$T AMERICAN, the band fused identity, resistance, and raw noise into something confrontational and hypnotic. “Nazi Teeth” pushes that further. It’s less commentary and more confrontation.
The band — completed by Josh Rivera and Abe Brennan on guitars, Lee Tesche (Algiers) on bass, and Shane Zweygardt on drums — continue to channel Deal’s larger performance art ethos into something physical and immediate. This isn’t subtle protest music. It’s a siren.
Dead Pioneers are also heading out on their first UK and EU headline tour later this month, bringing the track overseas with them. If this single is the tone-setter for album three, expect it to land hard.
“Nazi Teeth” is available now. No winks. No coded language. Just volume and a line drawn in the sand.
