Rabbit Junk

Core Members: JP Anderson, Jennifer “Sum Grrl” Bernert.
Members Past / Present: Amelia Arsenic, Coleman Thornburg, Dan Gardner, Kent Ames.
Genre: Digital Hardcore, Industrial Metal.
Biography:
Rabbit Junk is a Seattle based band, formed in 2004 by former The Shizit frontman JP Anderson and his wife Jennifer “Sum Grrl” Berner. Taking influences from diverse music genres such as hip hop, black metal and new wave, JP calls the sound of Rabbit Junk as “Hardclash.”

Rabbit Junk started in 2004 after the dissolution of JP Anderson’s former band, the Shizit. After adding additional vocalist Jennifer “Sum Grrl” Bernert to the band, the husband and wife electro-rock duo released their self-titled debut album titled Rabbit Junk in 2004. One year later, the band signed to Glitch Mode Recordings and released the follow-up to their debut album called REframe, which gained the band a stronger and more broad fan base.

In October 2007, the first two Rabbit Junk albums were remastered by Tom Baker (who has worked with Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails and the Bloodhound Gang), when the band signed onto Full Effect Records. The band released a follow-up to REframe titled This Life Is Where You Get Fucked on April 28, 2008. The album is a concept album, which consists around three ‘suites’, having their own themes drawing from specific influences for each facet. “Ghetto Blasphemer”, “This Death Is Where You Get Life” and “The Struggle” are the three separate pieces that formed the album This Life is Where you get F*cked into an entire presentation.

The second part of Rabbit Junk’s “Ghetto Blasphemer” suite, based on the works of HP Lovecraft, were released in July 2009 on their website. The full Project Nonagon album was released in 2010. JP Anderson criticized his time on Full Effect Records, stating that although the label did nothing intentionally wrong, he felt “isolated” by the label’s control over Rabbit Junk’s image and interaction with fans.

After the band’s departure from Full Effect Records, Anderson focused his efforts on various side projects throughout 2009 including steampunk-inspired Fighting Ice With Iron, folk metal Wolves Under Sail, and a revival of his old band the Shizit, later rebranded as the Named due to contract disputes with his former bandmembers. From 2011 to 2013, Rabbit Junk released a series of singles which Anderson claims were keeping the project “on life support” after the experiences with Full Effect. After the release of “Break Shins to This” in 2013, and the positive feedback that followed, Anderson decided to move Rabbit Junk’s music into a more electronic direction. The band released “From the Ashes” (which contained a sampled riff from “Dead Embryonic Cells” by Sepultura) on a 2013 Christmas sampler by Glitch Mode Recordings, who they would from then on work with on a regular basis, however the more theatrical metal direction was rejected for future releases. This era of the band would come to be known as “The Lost Years”.

In July 2019, Rabbit Junk confirmed that they had re-obtained the rights to their pre-2011 recordings and would be re-releasing the original albums Rabbit Junk, Reframe, This Life Is Where You Get Fucked, and Project Nonagon through Bandcamp with new original artwork by frequent collaborator Andrew Tremblay, and proceeded to release them over the next few months, alongside the Reveal EP. In December of that year, Anderson announced another album with a tentative release date for 2020, later titling it Xenospheres. The first single “Bits & Razors” was released in April 2020 and was followed by “Prismatic” in July.

Albums:
• Rabbit Junk (2004)
• Reframe (2006)
• This Life Is Where You Get Fucked (2008)
• Project Nonagon (2010)
• Rabbit Junk Will Die: Meditations On Mortality (2018)
• Xenospheres (2020)

EPs:
• Hare Brained: The Remixes (2005)
• Project Nonagon: The Struggle II (2008)
• Drek Kick: Cyanotic vs Rabbit Junk (2009)
• Project Nonagon: Ghetto Blasphemer II – From the Stars (2009)
• Pop That Pretty Thirty (2014)
• Invasion (2015)
• Beast (2015)
• Like the Flesh Does the Knife (2017)
• Reveal (2019)

LINKS:
Homepage: rabbitjunk.com
Bandcamp: rabbitjunk.com/music