Buzzard Premieres New Single “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace”
Massachusetts doom-folk/folk-doom solo outfit Buzzard will release the oldschool-7″-style two-songer The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace b/w Cinderella’s Midnight Surprise this Friday. Consistently productive, the band identity helmed by DIY multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Christopher Taylor Elliott continues to bask in your-radicalized-English-teacher resistance-poetic righteousness, as Elliott/Buzzard did for much of 2025, with the two full-lengths Satiricus Doomicus Americus (review here) and Mean Bone (review here) preceding the late-in-the-year-arriving EP Everything is Not Going to Be Alright (review here), the latter of which codified a politically-themed catharsis for our times in doom-casted, richly melodic and still Americana-rooted metal.
The last several months have found Elliott contributing tracks to charity compilations and releasing the collaborative track “Man of Stated Age (Normal Habitus Version)” working with Hidden Since the Foundation of the World from the Netherlands, and hopefully more such collabs follow, and I hear there’s an album (it seems like maybe there’s always an album) in the works, but at the end of March, the two-songer Take the Tyrant Down (Acoustic Mix) b/w Hunchback, Vicar, and Wizard was released, revisiting a cut from the late-’25 EP and sneaking in a highlight twice-Mellotronned B-side. It’s from this model that The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace b/w Cinderella’s Midnight Surprise moves forward, pairing a timely political A-side with an arguably also socially conscious but more narratively framed complement.
There’s no dip in the established and at this point expected pointedness and depth of Elliott‘s lyrics as in “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace,” where lines like “The orphan and the widow will be dancing in the streets,” and “A fleet of F1 fighter jets promises relief” reflect the absurdity of peace-through-war policymaking with a protest song’s satirical bent. He’s not wrong, and being pointedly antifascist while living under fascism is probably lower risk when you’re a self-releasing solo artist tucked away in the comparative progressive haven of the Bay State than if you’re freedom fighting on the streets of Minneapolis (you know, the things you find yourself saying sometimes…) in a civil war that only really stopped if you don’t consider the aligned interests of cops and the KKK, neither is it entirely without risk.
Heavy and marked by harpsichord sounds, “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace” brings a chugging verse structure and releases that tension in a lush melodic chorus, wherein “It’s ‘Kumbaya’ all around/If we could only see us now,” that becomes the manifestation of the kind of peace that can only result from killing everybody. The Star Trek fan in me has an episode reference to make. I’ll refrain. The self-harmonizing in the chorus is a point where Elliott‘s growth in the form is demonstrated. Having launched Buzzard with the mostly-acoustic declarative 2024 full-length Doom Folk (review here), his sound has grown into a statelier doom, an emergent heaviness of tone speaking specifically to a heavy underground audience. This let “The Lunatic Lighthouse Keeper” on the last EP become a swirling doom epic, but Buzzard‘s sound is malleable and “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace” sounds like it was still written on acoustic guitar.
To complement, in “Cinderella’s Midnight Surprise” the title character is more or less sold off to wedlock by her father and all ends in tragedy, but I don’t want to spoil story particulars for anyone who wants to actually dig into it, so I won’t. The Mellotron brings consistency of atmosphere coming off of “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace,” and the arrangement all around reminds a bit of Mean Bone or even “Hunchback, Vicar and Wizard” in its electric/acoustic blend, programmed drums arriving late in the procession to help move into the story’s denouement. I don’t know when it was written or recorded, but it feels of a kin to Buzzard‘s aesthetic in a way that puts to light just how established that aesthetic is for a project that’s two years and a month removed from its initial public offering.
Elliott provided insight into where “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace” came from. It’s where you thought.
Please enjoy:
Buzzard on “The Bombings Will Continue Until There’s Peace”:
The song is based on a spittle-flecked Truth Social Post by the deranged POS POTUS.
Preorder link: https://buzzarddoomfolk.bandcamp.com/album/the-bombings-will-continue-until-theres-peace-b-w-cinderellas-midnight-surprise
