Music

No Warning is releasing a new 7-inch

by Mark Teo

Legendary Toronto hardcore band No Warning, who released the seminal Ill Blood LP in 2002, are back in the studio recording a new 7-inch. The cause? To “help a friend and his family in need.” Ben Cook, the band’s singer, leaked the news today on Twitter:

When we asked Cook if he was serious, he responded with, “This is real.” He also posted the following photo on Instagram, indicating that one of the songs will be called “Resurrection of the Wolf.”

Next, he posted this photo of ex-No Warning member (and current Terror guitarist) Jordan Posner rolling “studio herbage” in his “guido mobile.”

According to an interview with Exclaim!, the session was recorded at DNA Studios with Chris Tedesco and Steve Chahley, and will be released by Cook’s Bad Actors label. The flip side will be a cover.

No Warning—who, along with Cook and Posner, included Shark Attack bassist Zach Amster, Yacht Club guitarist Matt Delong, and a rotating cast of drummers—were one of Canada’s most celebrated hardcore acts, after releasing a debut 7-inch, Ill Blood, and Suffer Survive. (The latter of which, thanks to its glossier production, earned the band the nickname “Nu Warning.”)

It’s unlikely, however, that No Warning will play any reunion shows. In interviews, Cook has repeatedly shot down the idea of reuniting—even if certain promoters have approached him with large sums of cash.

“I always thought people hated us. I cared about [No Warning], but I didn’t care about pleasing anybody,” Cook told me in an interview last year. “It’s cool now that, 10 years after the fact, people want to talk to you about the band every day.

“I’ve been offered [money to reunite] a couple times a year. People have offered a large sum of money, too. But I can’t take it seriously. That band had meaning to me, but it doesn’t mean the same thing now. I don’t like the idea of dudes jumping on me and screaming in my face—hence the other kinds of music I’m doing.

“I’ve never really seen a reuinon I thought was cool,” he continued. “Except for KISS, which I saw when I was 12. It always seems like there’s an element of lameness to it.”

Too bad. Nonetheless, here’s a video of No Warning performing in 2003.