Hammok have shared a new single and video, ‘Blast Off (Blast Off) Blast Off’, ahead of their new album When Does This Place Become Our Scene, out 5 June 2026 via Sargent House.
The Oslo trio have built a reputation on the city’s post hardcore circuit for pairing aggressive energy with heavily textured production, and the new single is a frenetic highlight. Frontman Tobias Osland wrote it almost by accident, building a complete demo within hours around a lacerating lead line that sputters and glitches like a machine booting up, so alien sounding you could mistake the guitar for a synth.
The video is cut from footage of what the band call the Hammok House Party. “For every single release throughout this campaign, we have thrown an invite only house party show,” Osland explains, framing the parties as a way to build the community the album is about. “Finding your people, building a home, building a scene.”
Completed by drummer Ferdinand Aasheim and bassist Ole Benjamin Thomassen, Hammok fold pop sensibility into the energy of hardcore, with experimental textures and a love of emo and indie pulling them toward a forward thinking strain of punk. When Does This Place Become Our Scene swings between tongue in cheek ragers and more caustic, cathartic turns, equal parts scream along and nod along, and has already drawn praise from the likes of Stereogum and Consequence.
We like a band that treats scene building as the whole point, and Hammok make a persuasive case for it here.
After release the band play a run of shows, starting at 2000 Trees Festival in Cheltenham on 9 July and Pstereo in Trondheim on 21 August. A European tour with Sparta then lands in October, including Dublin’s Sound House (4th), Bristol’s The Croft (6th), Manchester’s YES (7th), Nottingham’s Rock City Beta (8th), Glasgow’s Stereo (10th), Huddersfield’s Parish (11th), Birmingham’s The Castle and Falcon (12th), London’s Downstairs at The Dome (13th), Brighton’s Patterns (14th) and St Albans’ The Horn (15th), before finishing in Paris on 17 October.
When Does This Place Become Our Scene is out 5 June 2026 via Sargent House.
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