Toronto pop-punk mainstays The Mendozaz return with their most ambitious and unhinged release yet, the eight-song concept EP ‘The Completely Fictional History of This Great Nation of Canada’. Fronted by guitarist-vocalist Jonny alongside Michael on vocals and bass and Dic on drums, the band double down on everything they do best: breakneck energy, razor-sharp hooks, and self-aware humor dialed to absurd extremes. Built to turn basements, bars, and festival stages into full-blown chaos, the EP captures the reckless spirit that’s made The Mendozaz a staple of Toronto’s punk underground.
Recorded between This Place Needs A Name and Arc Recording Studio with producer Matt Gauthier, the EP pushes their storytelling into stranger, louder territory, with help from members of Joan Smith and the Jane Does and The Meringues on its most profane moments. The video single “A Piercing Shriek of Death” sets the tone, inspired by what Jonny describes as “a very-true Canadian legend that we made up” involving ice fishers, great white sharks, and a blood-curdling scream that left their engineer in hysterics. Across all eight tracks, the EP barrels through tall tales, late-night disasters, and satirical folklore with feral guitars and gang-shout choruses, cementing The Mendozaz as one of the city’s loudest, funniest, and most fearless punk outfits.