General Despair

Easily the most active among the new wave of Japanese hardcore punk bands, Klonns have delivered some of the burliest music to come out of Asia in the last few years, while playing shows with everyone from Abigail to Belgrado to Framtid. Following several EPs and splits, the Heaven LP released on Iron Lung raised their profile in the US and preceded a short west coast tour with Gag in 2025. We are happy to work with them and make merch available in the US. Heaven design by Logo design by

About the shirts:

Choose from white ink on black or black ink on white Gildan Hammer(or similar) t-shirt. Front print. Images are mock ups, actual prints will be standard 10-11” across.

After paying the band portion, remaining funds will go toward monthly donations made by General Despair to Save a Gato(San Juan, Puerto Rico), Fauna Animal Sanctuary(Battle Creek, MI), Little Wanderers NYC(NY), Woof Whiskers(Philippines), and Black Thornberry(Philadelphia, PA).

These are pre-orders, shirts will print and ship the last week of October.

Up next is another design I’ve been wanting to do ever since I got a copy of it years back and we finally managed to get ahold of somebody from the band to get approval recently. The image is taken from the limited version of the Work LP, itself borrowed from 1987 New Model Army EP.

$5 from each shirt will go to in Pittsburgh, PA and their mission to help street cats. Any remaining money will be added to the pool for General Despair’s monthly donations.

New designs are finally up in the webstore now. Initial State is a band I loved from the first time I heard them and I’ve been wanting to do shirts with them for years. The majority of this art came straight from cut and paste pieces the band did in the 90s that were luckily archived by Pat from

$5 from each T-shirt and $7 from each longsleeve will be donated to the . Any remaining money will be added to the pool for General Despair’s monthly donations.

Temperatures are dropping a bit so maybe you need an official Assuck hoodie to get you through the coming months. We have large and XL in stock and world wide shipping. 100% of profits go to charity.

Discount shirts are back up for pre-order. $5 from each sold goes to Shelter Farm Sanctuary in Arcadia, FL. They are available on black or navy blue shirts. www.generaldespair.com