You get your hands on a CD, and the cover depicts skeletons, tentacles, and brains floating in strange liquids before an apocalyptic hellscape. You smile, expecting chaos—and Zero Again’s Ever-Changing Is the Art of Death, released by Engineer Records, delivers exactly that and so much more.

Think Fall of Efrafa’s ecological fury, but sonically closer to a brutal mash-up of Agnostic Front and Hatebreed. Zero Again have made a vicious record. The riffs are jagged and primal and the vocals sound genuinely dangerous.

The themes—ecology, animal rights, societal decay—are clear, but never feel forced or preachy. Recorded in November 2024, the album manages to capture the chaos of the here and now. Tracks like Uneasy Reflection don’t just play in the background, they confront the new reality head on. This is punk as a mirror and a warning and a timely reminder that we probably have more in common with the displaced and discarded of this world than we’d like to admit.

Zero Again aren’t here to vent. This is punk for the apocalypse—unflinching, furious, and unwilling to go quietly. And with Ever-Changing… Zero Again have crafted the perfect soundtrack for whatever hell 2025 has lined up next. Georgios V.

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