If grunge is going through a revival then Impossible World is one of the most exciting dispatches from that resurgence. Seattle’s Filth Is Eternal have made a record that channels the massive punch and uneasy darkness of Nirvana but refuses to slow down and brood. Twelve tracks in twenty nine minutes with barely a moment to breathe, most of these songs are done in two and a half minutes rolling forward with a relentless energy that never takes its foot off the gas.

You wait for the quiet number where the album exhales and lets you settle, but it never comes and it’s all the better for it. Lis DiAngelo’s choruses are built on rich, dark harmonies that call Alice in Chains to mind, layering a sung line with a scream to create a texture that’s simultaneously melodic and unsettling. Lis captures angst with conviction, and the harmonies give the record a weight and richness that goes well beyond what you might expect from a twenty nine minute punk record. The band are an unmistakable riff machine playing the hell out of everything, and the guitar solos are delightfully eighties carrying an Iron Maiden quality that grunge itself never had, an unexpected touch that gives the record an extra dimension of fun amid all the darkness and fury. Stay Melted opens the album with huge swagger, Weather & Rose spends most of its runtime at a hardcore pace before a massive chorus breakdown dripping with angst, and Desire is heavy as hell. Total War is a skate punk blast that’s gone at barely a minute twenty, whilst Bad Faith chugs with enormous force. Stylistically the album never slows down enough to fully commit to grunge but constantly calls back to Nirvana and Alice in Chains, feeling authentic and done for the love of it. The fury of the music on Impossible World feels like exactly the right response to the authoritarianism and creeping dystopia of daily life in 2026.