Axon Breeze Unleashes Gaudete — When Joy Sounds Like Reckoning

The first single from their debut album drops June 17, and it's nothing like you'd expect.

Axon Breeze has built their reputation on making extreme music that refuses to stay in its lane. Their latest move? "Gaudete"—a song that redefines what heavy music can sound like when it stops trying to be heavy.

“A hymn for the haunted”

Recorded in Tasmania with Aaron Cupples (The Drones, Spiritualized), who flew from London after hearing their impossible-to-categorize debut track "You Snake," this is doom-rock stripped to its emotional core. Vocalist JR Brennan doesn't just sing—he claws through personal wreckage toward something that might be redemption.

Gaudete means rejoice in Latin, but this isn't a celebration—it's survival. Joy arrives not as comfort but as a violent breakthrough, light that burns rather than soothes.

The music video, shot spontaneously on an iPhone during Guatemala's Semana Santa, captures the "Virgin of Solitude" procession as it moves through a volcanic haze and crumbling cathedrals. It's the perfect visual match for a song about finding grace in ruins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2pmYHpMXk

This is Axon Breeze at their most dangerous—and most necessary.

"Gaudete" is out now.