★★★★★
The World/Inferno Friendship Society has been at it since the '90s, having moved several dozen members through the ranks of their New York punk cabaret ensemble. Currently the touring band sits at around seven to 10 members, which is roughly the number of musicians that came together to record their latest album, This Packed Funeral...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-01-10
★★★★★
The fact is World/Inferno Friendship Society's Hallowmas show served as something bigger than just an annual celebration. It's no secret that since 2007's Addicted To Bad Ideas the band has struggled with its lineup and some inner-band turmoil. That's nothing new for the band of course, but for one reason or another, that particular stress seemed to weigh heavily on frontman Jack Terricloth, who made it the focus of 2011's The Anarchy and The Ecstasy...
- www.punknews.org
2014-11-03
★★★★★
The World/Inferno Friendship Society began October, the month that culminated in their yearly spectacle Hallowmas, on a positive note. Starting October 1, and following every day thereafter, bandleader Jack Terricloth released a reminiscence of one of his favorite bands from his youth, The Paranoid Style, and detailed his crush on the group's singer, Grace Talicious, the (first?) of his many crushes where he was "[her] younger man...
- www.punknews.org
2014-01-10
★★★★★
At first I was annoyed at World/Inferno Friendship Society for scheduling a show in some place called Stanhope, NJ, a remote location that was just barely within reasonable driving distance. Still, because I am a World/Inferno maniac, and because the band is about to take a few months off the road for recording, and because the band's lineup has peculiar way of altering dramatically between recording sessions, I made the trip to see the modern Gatsbys on June 28, 2013...
- www.punknews.org
2013-07-30
★★★★★
In this day and age, when MP3s rule the land, it's becoming increasingly hard for bands--especially independent bands on a small budget--to sell physical records. While vinyl has seen something of a resurgence in recent years, it's nothing like it used to be. That, obviously, is a shame, because releases like this demonstrate just how innovative, interesting and engaging physical formats can be...
- www.altpress.com
2013-03-12
★★★★★
The second issue of Mitch Clem's Turnstile Comix features World/Inferno Friendship Society. If there was ever a band deserving of preservation through larger than life comic story telling, it's the World/Inferno.
Using Inferno leader Jack Terricloth as the source for these stories, and using former Inferno member Lucky Strano as a fact checker, Clem reconstructs two particularly riotous World/Inferno adventures. Fittingly, the first story retells the classic tale of World/Inferno vs...
- www.punknews.org
2013-02-13
★★★★★
Lead singer Jack Terricloth was somewhat of a ghastly sight as he leered over the crowd during World/Inferno Friendship Society's signature opening tune "Tattoo's Fade." Between his hands hovering just over the heads of the audience, his pale skin, coal black eyes and shining teeth, Terricloth looked down right hungry. During the band's first show of their Winter tour at Oakland, Calif.'s Metro Opera House Jan...
- www.punknews.org
2012-02-02
★★★★★
The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a longstanding Brooklyn-based collective that plays cabaret punk spanning the themes of good times, political mindedness and their intersection. The Anarchy and the Ecstasy is their thirteenth release (fifth album), but the first offering since the Peter Lorre-inspired concept album Addicted to Bad Ideas, from 2007...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-07-04
★★★★★
Release Date: March 15, 2011 The World/Inferno Friendship Society, however unwieldy a name it may be, is as reasonable and accurate an explanation as any for this entity. More a collective than a proper band (the WIFS has gone through over 30 members since its inception), musicians cycle in and out from other bands. The group's lineup changes bring something new to their weird hybrid of a sound. The WIFS is a real "society," then...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-06-06
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