After years of building a rep as one of the Gold Coast’s most explosive heavy acts, HAMMERS have officially announced their long-awaited debut album DEATH WOBBLES, landing Friday, 23rd January 2026 via Summerland Records.
It’s been a long road since the band locked in their lineup back in 2017, but the payoff looks worth it: 12 tracks of post-hardcore grit, alternative metal swagger, and the kind of personality that’s made Hammers a local cult fave.
HAMMERS – ‘Death Wobbles’
To mark the big announcement, the band have unleashed the album’s title track, a propulsive, riff-loaded punch to the throat, mixed and mastered by Forrester Savell (Karnivool, Sunk Loto, Animals As Leaders).
Vocalist/guitarist Lucas Stone describes it as “riffs, hooks and neck-breakers aplenty,” and he’s not exaggerating. Lyrically, ‘Death Wobbles’ uses skating and surfing as the emotional vehicle, exploring the instability, fear, pressure and weird clarity that hits when life shakes beneath your feet.
“The song traverses the heaviness of life and our imminent mortality,” Stone explains. “Love, hate, sex, violence, intention, outcome… and how we work through what tests us.”
The accompanying music vid – filmed in the iconic Death Bowl at Pizzey Park – brings that metaphor to life, pairing Hammers’ performance with skate and surf chaos, all captured by local friends and frothers.
“Spontaneous commitment, flow-state recovery,” Stone adds. “Drop in, hope for the best, and deal with consequences later.”
The album itself has been three years in the making, with no rigid plan beyond the band’s shared philosophy: serve the song. It was produced with Forrester Savell and engineered by Michael Campbell (She Cries Wolf, Vengeance, Deficit) and Luke Palmer (Dead Letter Circus). Stylistically, the record pulls from Every Time I Die, The Bronx, He Is Legend, Better Lovers, Thrice and Stray From The Path – but still lands squarely in Hammers’ lane: heavy, scrappy, groovy, thoughtful, and distinctly Aussie.
Sonically diverse and thematically loaded, the forthcoming DEATH WOBBLES LP digs into everything from nihilism and apathy to political frustration and the fragility of the human condition, all threaded with what Stone calls “fists full of love”.
It marks a significant leap for a band who’ve always walked the line between tongue-in-cheek mischief and genuine emotional weight. Their past EPs Homeblokes (2018) and Kicking Goals (2020) laid the groundwork, but this album feels like Hammers locking into their most realised form yet.
The band’s work ethic hasn’t slowed either – they spent 2024 headlining in New Zealand and Japan, have shared stages with Mammal, He Is Legend and The Butterfly Effect, and are currently in the middle of their Moment of Struth headline run before wrapping the year warming up the stage for Cog.
And yep, there’s more on the way – more videos, more touring, more merch, and, in their words, “more dumb pirate skullduggery.”
As Stone puts it: “I feel like where we are at globally as a species, we are straight-up mid Death Wobbles… Finally releasing a debut Hammers album feels kinda the same as the build up to ya first orgasm, only heaps better.”
You can pre-order the LP here, or take title track ‘Death Wobbles’ for a spin up above.
HAMMERS 2025 Tour Dates
Supporting COG
- SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER – KINGS BEACH TAVERN, SUNSHINE COAST QLD
- SATURDAY 20 DECEMBER – HOTEL NORTHERN, BYRON BAY NSW
Tickets on sale now via https://www.hammersofficial.com/
Further Reading
Cog Return With First New Music In Six Years, ‘Walk The Line’
Artist on Artist: He Is Legend & Hammers Get to Know Each Other Ahead of National Tour
Redd Kross & Hard-Ons Announce 2026 Co-Headline Australian Tour
