The Philadelphia-based group known as the HIRS Collective make frantic, intense, chaotic hardcore, and they do it from a ferociously pro-queer and trans perspective. Two years ago, the band followed up a string of 7″ singles and cassettes with their debut album Friends. Lovers. Favorites. It featured guest appearances from luminaries like Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Alice Bag, Martin Crudo of Los Crudos and Lim Wrist, and Screaming Females guitar hero Marissa Paternoster. In a surprise twist, Garbage’s Shirley Manson also did a spoken-word interlude on the album. And today, the HIRS Collective have rumbled back to life, saluting Manson’s band.

Today, the HIRS Collective released a new four-song EP called COVID Covers Vol. 1. On the first two songs, HIRS once again team up with Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster — who once teamed up with Garbage on a cover of Patti Smith’s “Because The Night” — to take on a couple of Garbage classics. First, HIRS take on “Sleep,” a brooding interlude from Garbage’s self-titled 1995 debut. Then they also do their version of “Push It,” the supremely kickass single from Garbage’s 1998 follow-up Version 2.0. On both tracks, Paternoster sings lead, and she and HIRS reinvent the two Garbage tracks as seething, stomping, howling face-rippers.

The EP also has the HIRS Collective transforming Björk’s 1995 anthem “Army Of Me” into a grindcore freakout and covering “Kilbot Factory,” an obscurity from the ’90s Michigan mathcore band Enkephalin. Check out the EP below.

The Covid Covers Vo1. 1 EP is out now, and you can get it at Bandcamp. That title has me looking forward to more volumes.