Teenage Joans have never sounded particularly interested in standing still, but new single Coming Up From Hell pushes the Adelaide duo into rougher territory altogether. Fast, jagged and deliberately confrontational, the track tears into a heavier sonic palette while keeping the sharp hooks and emotional directness that have driven the band since their breakout.
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Following recent singles Bandits and My Heart’s Dead!, the new release feels like a line being drawn. The riffs hit harder, the pacing barely loosens its grip, and the lyrics cut through with a kind of exhausted defiance. According to the band, the track was designed as a “bursting-out” moment, something punchy enough to announce that this next chapter won’t be playing it safe.
That shift makes sense for a band whose rise has rarely followed a slow trajectory. Since emerging in 2020 and taking out the triple j Unearthed High crown, Teenage Joans have moved quickly from local breakout to one of Australian punk’s most recognisable younger acts. Their debut EP Taste of Me swept the South Australian Music Awards, while debut album The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest landed ARIA recognition and cemented their ability to move between vulnerability and full-throttle chaos without losing momentum.
Live, that energy has only intensified. Over the last few years, they’ve shared stages with everyone from Foo Fighters and Sum 41 to PUP and The Chats, while building a reputation for sets that hit with the force of a band trying to outpace itself in real time.
Backseat Mafia recently caught Teenage Joans at Harvest Rock in 2025, where the duo’s mix of precision and chaos felt fully locked in against the scale of the festival stage. We also caught catch them supporting PUP at Metro Theatre, a set that turned the room into a sweat-soaked rush of distortion, hooks and crowd-surfing momentum.
Next up, the duo take their new material overseas for headline UK dates and appearances at The Great Escape and Sound City, before returning home to support Violent Soho on their long-awaited comeback tour. If “Coming Up From Hell” is any indication, Teenage Joans aren’t easing into this next phase. They’re kicking the door open.
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