Fuming Mouth unveils new single, Jay Weinberg joins lineup

Fuming Mouth turned Cheat Death into more than a new single on June 24, because Jay Weinberg’s drumming is now part of the band’s next chapter. The track is the second preview of The Ringing Bell, due July 17 via Triple B Records, and it gives the Massachusetts death-metal and hardcore group a sharper, more visible identity heading into album release.

The record is set up as a proper statement piece. Triple B’s release lists 11 songs, with Cheat Death opening the running order alongside titles like A Blaze of Nihilism, Finally Fearless, The Ringing Bell and Respect Morality. The label’s Bandcamp listing caps the vinyl at 500 copies and the CD at 1,000, and the album was cut at Kurt Ballou’s GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, which fits the band’s taste for heavy records that hit hard and leave little excess behind.

Weinberg’s role is not being treated like a cameo. Mark Whelan said he first reached out to Weinberg through his website, then nearly lost the reply when it landed in spam, a detail that says a lot about how modern this collaboration began. Whelan also built the drum parts in MIDI first, then let Weinberg rework and improve them once the project came together, so the final version of The Ringing Bell was shaped by programming, rewriting and real kit chemistry. Whelan and Weinberg have known each other for about 16 years through hardcore circles, and Whelan has said they speak the same musical language across hardcore, death metal and punk.

That makes Cheat Death feel like the right kind of first public proof. The track follows A Blaze of Nihilism, released June 5 as the first song featuring Weinberg, and Revolver said those sessions pushed Fuming Mouth’s death-metal and hardcore blend to new extremes. The timing also matters because Whelan’s recent history has already made this band’s present feel hard-earned: he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in late 2021, secured a bone-marrow donor that year, and has been in remission since 2022. Fuming Mouth, formed in 2013 by Whelan, now heads into an August U.S. run with Six Feet Under and Flesher with Weinberg’s name attached to the kit, and Cheat Death makes the new lineup sound like a real restart rather than a reshuffle.