Militarie Gun formed in Los Angeles in 2020 around Ian Shelton of Regional Justice Center, bolting big indie rock hooks onto hardcore muscle. Life Under the Gun (2023) is the one — a defining record of the hardcore-indie crossover moment alongside bands like Drain and Gulch. Browse Militarie Gun vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Militarie Gun formed in Los Angeles in 2020 around Ian Shelton, who launched the project initially as a pandemic-era solo recording outlet during the dissolution of his touring activity with Regional Justice Center. The band rapidly became active with the full-band live lineup. They signed with Loma Vista Recordings for Life Under the Gun (2023), which received critical attention as a defining document of the contemporary hardcore-indie crossover scene alongside contemporaries like Drain, Spy, Gel, and Gulch.
Militarie Gun's sound combines hardcore punk, post-hardcore, indie rock, alternative rock, melodic hardcore, and noise rock with Shelton's distinctive shouted/sung vocal delivery, dense layered guitar arrangements, and lyrical content addressing mental health, identity, and personal experience drawing on classic 1990s indie rock alongside contemporary hardcore traditions.
Convulse Records and Loma Vista pressings of the Militarie Gun catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to Militarie Gun typically start with Life Under the Gun (2023).
