“Jazz For Gen X” by The Revenge Society is Not Just an Album, It’s a Sonic Archive that Bites Back

You can’t contain Jazz For Gen X in a few words. Whether you’re on a quest for a new sound, or just want to hear something good and familiar, The Revenge Society delivers it all. With fourteen tracks featuring groove metal, ska punk, acoustic ballads, shoegaze, and stoner rock, Jazz For Gen X is both a celebration and rebellion.

The Revenge Society is led by songwriter Steven Katz, assembling an elite collective of musicians from across the world. And after the two-year extensive work? Jazz For Gen X—a love letter to all the music that has come before.

The Revenge Society wastes no time and immediately locks you in with Ex Machina. It kicks off like a cassette tape rolling in an old radio with a conversation playing beneath. It keeps you in check with distorted guitars and heavy percussion hits that grabs you by your collar. There’s no salvation, no divine intervention here, just pure descent into grim and destruction. It’s part metal, part super villain arc anthem that rings post-modern nihilism.

Lifesaver comes crashing in with harrowing images dressed in tight guitars and beats. And warning: there’s no time to breathe. If you like tracks that feel like blood rushing to your head, Lifesaver will deliver that dizzying edge. Every riff amplifies tension and panic while shamelessly dragging you under its surge. Think of the USS Indianapolis disaster where the sea is already swallowing you whole, but it does not end there because circling beneath are sharks waiting to gnaw its prey. Brutal, aggressive, and suffocating without any hope in the middle of it.

Ghosts & Goblins has that retro video game concept wrapped in whiskey-soaked sonic layers. The coins dropping into the machine, the distorted guitars, and dynamic thump of drums all blend into a dark, brutal snapshot of defeat. And the vocals? Superb. It brings a lot of drama and visceral chaos that amplifies the theme more. Whether it’s literal or metaphorical, it’s clear that every verse surpasses a small screen. It’s a game with no pause, no saves, nor any room for mistakes.

Unlike the other tracks, Shoegaze, School Daze comes in without kicking the door. It drifts in with textured guitars and ethereal vocals that unfolds like a letter from a memory box. It has that soft, delicate sound that builds up, not with its loudness but with its emotional edge. The track echoes with tenderness from high school except it’s wrapped in metaphors like a daydream. Swaying like a fragile plea that drops like poetry more than a song.

Be Someone is like a track born out of the never ending traffic and noise of the city. Dominating the album with its jagged, tight elements while trying to find meaning in the flawed system.

What Becomes Of Us At Midnight? ends the album at a slow pace. But despite its warm notes, each pluck, strum, and beat carries a restless undercurrent like an internal chaos. You know the kind of thoughts that keeps you up at 3AM? It’s part lullaby, part self-destruction anthem from the void. Sitting in between peaceful notes and spiraling thoughts. That’s exactly how it goes.

There’s never a dull moment in this album. All fourteen tracks carry a distinct sound that makes the narrative whole. One moment, you could be banging your head with their rendition of Berlin’s Take My Breath Away, and next, you’ll be pulled under the dreamy haze of shoegaze until it shifts again. Just when you thought you’ve figured it out, it reinvents itself into something new—constantly pushing boundaries while staying cohesive at the same time. And more than its unpredictability, it sticks because it’s lived in.

Jazz For Gen X is less about the genre, they don’t just echo their influences—they breathe new life to it. It’s a homage to the boundless artistry of each generation that shaped the landscape today.