Artist: Dead All Day
Album: Feeding Your Demons
Release:September 25, 2026; Punkerton Records
Ever notice that it is incredibly hard to find a band who has a perfect Scooby-Doo song? Like one that you can envision Scooby and the Gang scurrying through doors in hallways to? If you’ve ever felt that profound lack, I have good news for you! Dead All Day have managed to feed this incredibly niche desire in the song “Superzero” on their Feeding Your Demons EP.
While the other songs don’t have exactly that same Halloween night Mystery Inc. Vibe, it’s still a quintessential pop punk album. I’m talking mid-2000s bullshit you still have on your playlist for those days when you wish you could skip class and crush a generic energy drink at the skate park.
From Michigan’s upper peninsula, Nick Premeau has spent years expressing all that he thinks and feels but cannot say aloud through music. For a first go at releasing all that quiet suffering into the world, Feeding Your Demons is an incredibly solid start. Especially for just one guy! I have not one idea about the technical aspects of being a musician, but I know a vocalist who would absolutely stun in an acoustic basement show when I hear them.
Though I could talk about each song on the album and point out exactly what I like about each one, I’ll just name one other directly. The hopeless romantic in me loves “Sanctuary”, but the avoidant attachment style becursing me really, really identifies with it. Not to call anyone out unnecessarily here, but I think it will do that same thing to a lot of the genre-lovers out there. Which, again, has been Dead All Day’s mission from the start: confronting the pain and messy weirdness that are Feelings and turning it into something relatable and fun to sing along to.
Feeding Your Demons hits all the right beats. There’s ninja kicks, frustrated lamentation, missing someone who isn’t dead just beyond saving, and at least one space reference. Take this how you want, but it’s familiar and comforting in a nostalgic way. This genre of music raised me, basically, so I get really sappy when I find a musician that makes the kind of music I listened to and can make me feel the same as that weird alt kid in rural Ohio. Because in a lot of ways, I am still that weird alt kid in rural Ohio. I just, like, have a car payment now.
I am certainly awaiting more from Dead All Day as a four song EP just wasn’t enough to whet my pop-punk appetite.