A WILHELM SCREAM: Cheap Heat, The Crucial Sixth LP From Massachusetts’ Melodic Hardcore Punk Veterans, Out Today On Creator-Destructor Records + International Tour Underway

photos by Brittany Rosequeen

The ripping and infectious sixth album from New Bedford, Massachusetts’ hardcore punk trailblazers A WILHELM SCREAM, Cheap Heat, is out today through Creator-Destructor Records and is streaming everywhere, while the band takes the new songs out on the road.

A WILHELM SCREAM arrives swinging harder than ever with ten tracks of their adrenaline-fueled melodic hardcore/punk rock on Cheap Heat. Combining the dark nihilistic mood of the band’s classic 2005 album Ruiner with the technicality, ferocity, and sharp precision of 2007’s monumental Career Suicide, the Cheap Heat LP is a unique hybrid of the darker, more aggressive elements of the band’s sound.

Cheap Heat was produced and mixed by A WILHELM SCREAM’s own guitarist/vocalist Trevor Reilly at their hometown Anchor End Studio, with mastering handled by his father Joe Reilly at Black & Blue Mastering. The new album also marks the first for the band’s newest member, Ben Murray (Light This City, Heartsounds, Darkness Everywhere) on second guitar, who joins vocalist Nuno Pereira, vocalist/guitarist Trevor Reilly, drummer Nicholas Angelini, and bassist Brian Robinson. Group vocals are delivered by Jon Teves, Sean O’Brien, and the band.

**Let every song on A WILHELM SCREAM’s Cheap Heat get stuck in your head for the foreseeable future and stream the record everywhere including Bandcamp HERE, YouTube HERE.**

If you missed them, scope the official videos for “Midnight Ghost,” “Let It Ride,” and “I Got Tunnel Vision” HERE.

Cheap Heat is out now on three 12” vinyl variants, CD, tape, and digitally at the Creator-Destructor Records webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.

A WILHELM SCREAM is already out on tour supporting Cheap Heat, currently wrapping up their West Coast US run with Death By Stereo and labelmates Doomsday before raiding Australia for a week of shows March 6th through March 15th, followed immediately by a tour through Japan from March 18th through March 22nd. Just announced is a run of dates in Canada and the Central/Eastern US April 23rd through May 2nd. And just a few days after, they’ll hit the East Coast tour May 5th through 8th, co-headlining with The Flatliners. See all currently confirmed dates below and expect widespread dates in support of the album to post through most of the new year.

A WILHELM SCREAM West Coast US Tour w/ Death By Stereo, Doomsday (remaining dates):
2/27/2026 Neck Of The Woods – San Francisco, CA
2/28/2026 The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
3/01/2026 The Casbah – San Diego, CA
Australia Tour:
3/06/2026 Republic Bar – Hobart, TAS
3/07/2026 Ed Castle – Adelaide, SA
3/08/2026 Stay Gold – Melbourne, VIC
3/11/2026 Hamilton Station Hotel – Newcastle, NSW
3/13/2026 Crowbar – Brisbane, QLD
3/14/2026 Crowbar – Sydney, NSW
3/15/2026 La La La’s – Wollongong, NSW
Japan Tour:
3/18/2026 Shinjuku Catshole – Tokyo
3/19/2026 Tsurumai Daytrip – Nagoya
3/20/2026 Yogibo Holy Mountain – Osaka
3/21/2026 Kofu Conviction – Yamanashi
3/22/2026 Shinjuku ACB – Tokyo
Spring 2026:
4/23/2026 Foufounes – Montreal, QC
4/24/2026 Overflow Brewing Co. – Ottawa, ON
4/25/2026 Dance Cave – Toronto, ON
4/29/2026 Sanctuary – Detroit, MI
4/30/2026 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL
5/02/2026 Little Giant – Pittsburgh, PA
East Coast US Tour w/ The Flatliners, Signals Midwest:
5/05/2026 The Pearl – Washington, DC
5/06/2026 The Bunker – Virginia Beach, VA
5/07/2026 The Meadows – Brooklyn, NY
5/08/2026 Middle East – Cambridge, MA

There’s no one quite like A WILHELM SCREAM. Never bowing to trends, riding anyone’s waves, breaking up and reuniting, they’re the underdogs that can’t be killed. Their amalgamation of punk, metal, and hardcore has always seen the band doing things their way since their beginning, and with Cheap Heat, the quintet delivers an absolute ass-kicker of a new album to bask in their glory of over twenty-five years of holding it down on their own terms. Unapologetic in their delivery, Cheap Heat reminds the music world that no one does it like the boys from New Beige.

The Cheap Heat album artwork by Tyler DiPaola paints a scene of a protagonist in the band’s version of a cinematic thriller, up against the odds of the world, seeking vengeance and what’s theirs, destroying anyone in their path who has done them wrong. Thematically, Cheap Heat – in wrestling terms referring to a villain or “heel” getting a quick, easy negative reaction from the crowd – takes a storyteller approach in its ten tracks.

Throughout the ten crushing tracks on Cheap Heat, the vibe is abundantly clear. Nonstop riffs, soaring hooks, an unrelenting and incomparable rhythm section, and more piss and vinegar than ever before. Taking dominance over the West Coast style of melodic punk music that originally shaped the band’s sound, A WILHELM SCREAM injects their cold-as-ice New England approach in their lyrical content and musical compositions. As some of the last real ones from that era left with the fire still burning inside them, A WILHELM SCREAM isn’t stopping anytime soon. Clocking in at just under thirty minutes, Cheap Heat album doesn’t overstay its welcome. A straight-to-the-point street delivery of moody existentialism, and a testament to the venom and spirit of the band.