Iguana Death Cult

Iguana Death Cult plays Hyde Park Book Club on 23 October 2026 at 6:30 pm.

With Iguana Death Cult’s latest iteration, the band reflects on personal stories of hardship and doubt while fixing their gaze on the world around them. Guitars, percussion, synths and soul-searching shape their recent direction. As part of a personnel change, the band gained a new line-up, including drummer Uri Rennert (previously in Häxxan and Brian Jonestown Massacre). This era channels their earlier punk and garage style while simultaneously feeling unmistakably current. It is characterised by razor-sharp and highly rhythmic riffing by Tobias Opschoor and the drumming by Uri Rennert, by the percussion and synths by Jimmy de Kok, and by the hefty yet heartfelt voice of frontman Jeroen Reek, guiding the listener through feelings of despair, anger and solace.

Iguana Death Cult formed in 2014. On their new record Guns Out, released via Greenway Records, the band exercises self-reflection on multiple levels: breaking with the more indie-like, art-punk-funk sound of their previous album Echo Palace (Innovative Leisure, 2023) and returning to a punchy garage rock style; confronting patterns of escapism and the toll that way of living takes; and questioning their ways of writing music, returning to a faster, more spontaneous process. Guns Out is tough and rigid on the outside but soft and contemplative on the inside, telling the story of a band coming to terms with their place in the world.