Oddfellows Release “The Burden” From Upcoming Self Titled Album

Before Marked Men sharpened hooks into cult currency, before Mind Spiders wired synths into the bloodstream, before O-D-EX and High Tension Wires lit up basements far beyond Denton, hell, even before The Reds, there were Oddfellows. In December 1994 Chris Pulliam, Mark Ryan, and Mike Throneberry stepped onto a local stage in Denton and struck the first match. The flame burned brief and bright, mostly contained within city limits, but its sparks scattered wide, igniting a lineage of bands that would come to define a certain strain of razor-edged American punk. Now spin the clock forward thirty years. In December 2024 Oddfellows reassembled. No nostalgia trip, no museum-piece resurrection, this was something far more kinetic. In the space of three months they wrote and recorded a brand new album, recruited guitarist Peter Salisbury (Mind Spiders), and took it straight back to the road.

Today, that story cracks open with The Burden, the first single and a two-minute jolt of pure voltage, lean, urgent, and stripped to the bone. It lands alongside the official announcement of the vinyl presale, a first glimpse of what’s coming. The 2026 Oddfellows deal in compression and impact: thirteen sharp cuts, most of them clocking in under two minutes, plus a reworked Reds classic that ties past and present in a tight knot. These songs don’t feel like evolution so much as origin, the raw schematic of a sound that countless bands would later refine, reframe, and amplify. Self-titled and unapologetic, Oddfellows will arrive on June 12th via Dirtnap Records and Wild Honey Records.