No Warning wasn't just an early '00s incubation chamber for beloved hardcore bands, even though its members went on to play in Fucked Up and Terror. The group itself was a standard-bearer of the Toronto scene thanks to releases like 2001's self-titled debut EP and follow-up album Ill Blood, which affirmed No Warning's legacy in the years following its 2005 split.

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Thirteen years after the release of its second album Suffer, Survive, and the year after a hometown reunion show, No Warning are back in full effect with a new single "In The City," premiering today on The FADER, taken from the upcoming LP Torture Culture. "In The City" is toxic sludge-coated thrash transmitted from a dive bar in a John Carpenter dystopia. As rising cost of living and gentrification stack psychic pressures on urban dwellers, the song's palpable rage feels timely, and so all the more cathartic.

Over email, No Warning's Ben Cook further contextualized the song: