Almighty Trigger Happy Raise “The Ghost Of Jim Cherry” On New Single

Toronto’s Almighty Trigger Happy have issued their new single, The Ghost of Jim Cherry, via Cursed Blessings Records, the releases is backed up with a cover of Chronic Submission‘s Cops Ain’t Tops. The band originally crawled out of Toronto in the early ’90s, loud, fast, and just fucking wrong. The wrong kind of music for the time, the wrong look, and the wrong attitude. They weren’t built for longevity or good behaviour, just for ripping through songs, stages, and whatever goodwill happened to be left in the room when they showed up. Central to that sound was guitarist Mark Gibson, the band’s primary musical force and songwriter, everyone who knew Mark was crushed by his sudden death in 2013. The 2025 version of the band doesn’t pretend that loss didn’t change everything, or that his presence isn’t still embedded in the DNA of the songs.

In 2025, vocalist Al Nolan is joined by guitarist Jason King, who has been in and out of the band since 1993, drummer Ruston Baldwin, who appeared on the band’s most important albums, and longtime friends Steve Brown (guitar) and Nick Gosso (bass), who are all connected by decades of overlap, side bands, and shared brain damage. The Almighty Trigger Happy are currently finishing a new full-length, Everything Evil Is Good Again, and will be releasing a split EP with fellow Torontonians Het Up! in the near future. For the Almighty Trigger Happy this isn’t nostalgia, it’s unfinished business.