Flummox (band)

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Flummox

| image = FlummoxChicago.jpg

| caption = Flummox performing in Chicago, IL c. 2022

| landscape = yes

| background = group_or_band

| origin = Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.

| genre = {{hlist|Experimental rock|avant-garde metal|art rock|progressive punk}}

| years_active = {{flatlist|

2012–present

}}

| label = {{flatlist|

Needlejuice
Tridroid
Wood & Stone Productions

}}

| spinoffs = Edge of Reality, Others by No One, Unorthodox

| website = {{URL|flummoxed.bandcamp.com}}

| current_members = * Alyson Blake Dellinger

Alan Pfeifer
Chase McCutcheon
Jesse Peck
Max Mobarry

| past_members = * Matt Rose

Jody Lester
Shoney Martin
Justin Smith
Parker Lampley
Drew Jones

}}

Flummox is an American experimental rock band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee.{{Cite web |last=Weber |first=Austin |date=February 8, 2016 |title=FLUMMOX's Trippy New Album, Selcouth, Will Perplex You In The Best Way Possible |url=https://metalinjection.net/exclusive-2/flummoxed-by-an-early-stream-of-the-new-flummox-selcouth |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Metal Injection |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Aycock |first=Dylan Skye |date=May 6, 2015 |title=Flummox, Phlummoxygen |url=https://boropulse.com/2015/05/flummox-phlummoxygen/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=The Murfreesboro Pulse}}{{Cite web |date=November 23, 2019 |title=FLUMMOX: Artist Alyson Blake Dellinger finds community in music, artistry {{!}} Focus LGBT+ Magazine |url=https://focuslgbt.com/blog/flummox-alyson-blake-dellinger/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |language=en-US}} The band has changed their sound numerous times, ranging from the progressive metal, psychedelic, and stoner metal styles of their earlier days to avant-garde, extreme metal, sasscore, swing, hardcore, bluegrass, and art rock styles later implemented in their career.{{Cite web |last=Islander |date=March 16, 2022 |title=AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: FLUMMOX - "FLUMMOXING ACT I: GARBANZO'S LEAP" |url=https://www.nocleansinging.com/2022/03/16/an-ncs-video-premiere-flummox-flummoxing-act-i-garbanzos-leap/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=NO CLEAN SINGING |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Flummox |url=https://needlejuicerecords.com/pages/flummox |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Needlejuice Records |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Little |first=Jon |date=November 5, 2019 |title=Flummox, Intellectual Hooliganism |url=https://boropulse.com/2019/11/flummox-intellectual-hooliganism/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=The Murfreesboro Pulse}} Along with genre swapping and unconventional song structures in their music, the band is also known for their theatrical live shows that incorporate comedic skits, musical improvisation, performance art, and audience participation. They have commonly been associated with the queercore movement since the release of their song, "Trans Girls Need Guns."

The band has undergone numerous line-up changes since their formation in 2012. As of 2024, the line-up consists of Alyson Blake Dellinger, Alan Pfeifer, Chase McCutcheon, Jesse Peck, and Max Mobarry.{{Cite web |title=Flummox |url=https://www.bandsintown.com/a/3918196-flummox?utm_medium&utm_source&utm_campaign&came_from=251 |access-date=August 14, 2024 |website=Bandsintown |language=en}}

History

= Early years (2012-2016) =

After having played in multiple bands together throughout their teens, Alyson Dellinger and Drew Jones formed the band after graduating high school in the summer of 2012. They chose the name "Flummox" after sifting through several Dr. Seuss books to find a band name and finding a creature called "The Flummox" in If I Ran the Circus.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrts2bo2wsg |title="REPHLUMMOXED" Interview Pt 1: Introducing Flummox |date=March 7, 2022 |last=Needlejuice Records |access-date=July 12, 2024 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |title=Flummox |url=https://geekspinpodcast.castos.com/episodes/flummox |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=geekspinpodcast.castos.com |language=en}} Finding the English definition of the word "flummox" relevant to their sound as well, they decided it would be a good name for their band.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arV2XPOWwQU |title=Interview with our Band of the Week Flummox |date=October 3, 2017 |last=Murfreesboro Music Scene |access-date=July 23, 2024 |via=YouTube}} Along with local drummer Matt Rose, they recorded their first extended play The Mindrape.P. in August of that year. Catching the ear of Minnesota-based independent record label Tridroid Records, they struck a deal and released their first two records, Phlummoxygen (2014) and Selcouth (2016). During this period, Dellinger and Jones played live shows throughout the southern United States with a few different drummers, primarily operating as a trio with drummer Jody Lester, from 2014 to 2016.{{Cite web |last=Treppel |first=Jeff |date=March 10, 2015 |title=NO OXEN WERE FLUMMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS ALBUM: Flummox's "Phlummoxygen" |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2015/03/10/no-oxen-were-flummed-in-the-making-of-this-album-flummox-s-phlummoxygen/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Decibel Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=October 15, 2015 |title=FLUMMOX – To Release New Album |url=https://metalodyssey.net/2015/10/15/flummox-to-release-new-album/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Metal Odyssey > Heavy Metal Music Blog |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ricard |first=Jean-Luc |date=February 6, 2016 |title=Flummox - Selcouth Review |url=https://www.angrymetalguy.com/flummox-selcouth-review/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Angry Metal Guy |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Myglobalmind_Webzine |date=July 17, 2016 |title=The Maryland Doom Fest live at Frederick, Maryland, DAY 3 Highlights |url=https://myglobalmind.com/2016/07/17/maryland-doom-fest-live-frederick-maryland-day-3-highlights/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Your Online Magazine for Hard Rock and Heavy Metal |language=en-US}}

= ''Intellectual Hooliganism,'' signing to Needlejuice (2017-2019) =

By the beginning of 2017, Flummox had restructured itself as a quartet, with the addition of drummer Alan Pfeifer and guitarist Justin Smith. This line-up would record and release a demo entitled Garage Prog containing four of the songs they wrote for what would become their next record. They would follow this up with their first music video for the song "Tom Walker Blues".{{Cite web |last=Islander |date=August 29, 2017 |title=AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: FLUMMOX - "TOM WALKER BLUES" |url=https://www.nocleansinging.com/2017/08/29/an-ncs-video-premiere-flummox-tom-walker-blues/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=NO CLEAN SINGING |language=en-US}} The band began touring regionally up and down the south-eastern United States, occasionally opening for bigger acts such as Eyehategod and Chuck Mosley.{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Adam |date=August 16, 2017 |title=Review: CHUCK MOSLEY Live @ Maggie Meyer's Irish Pub in Huntsville, AL 8/10/17 |url=https://www.punkrockalabama.com/2017/08/review-chuck-mosley-live-maggie-meyers.html?m=0 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=GAD!ZINE}}{{Cite web |title=Facebook Event for Eyehategod performance in Huntsville, AL |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/1834056306923214/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |via=Facebook}} Expanding upon their sound and stage show, the band brought local musician and haunt actress Parker Lampley into the line-up to perform flute, keyboards, vocals, as well as contortion.

In late 2017, the band began recording their third record, Intellectual Hooliganism. Following the mid-recording departure of Justin Smith, the band recruited guitarist Chase McCutcheon, and the album was released on September 7, 2018, through a local production label, Wood & Stone Productions.{{Cite web |date=September 8, 2018 |title=Review: Local shock rock band Flummox summons best album yet {{!}} Sidelines |url=https://mtsusidelines.com/2018/09/08/review-local-shock-rock-band-flummox-summons-best-album-yet/ |access-date=September 3, 2024 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=August 29, 2018 |title=Exclusive Track Premiere: Flummox - A Bundle of Styx |url=https://echoesanddust.com/2018/08/exclusive-track-premiere-flummox-a-bundle-of-sticks/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=Echoes And Dust |language=en-US}} This small independent release later caught the attention of Needlejuice Records, who signed the band the following year and subsequently re-released Hooliganism on a double vinyl LP and cassette.

= ''Sabbat Worship and In Hindsight'' EPs'', Rephlummoxed'' (2020-2023) =

After Parker Lampley took leave of the band, Flummox recruited former Edge of Reality keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Peck.{{Cite web |date=February 19, 2020 |title=Facebook {{!}} Flummox post from February 19, 2020 |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2367734373326872&set=a.275399699227027&locale=ms_MY |access-date=August 23, 2024 |via=Facebook}} In January 2020, this iteration of the band recorded what would become their In Hindsight EP.{{Cite web |title=In Hindsight, by Flummox |url=https://flummoxed.bandcamp.com/album/in-hindsight |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Flummox |language=en}} The following month on February 13, 2020, the band released Sabbat Worship on Needlejuice; an EP featuring three bonus tracks from the Hooliganism sessions.{{Cite web |title=Sabbat Worship - CD |url=https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/sabbat-worship-cd |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Needlejuice Records |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sabbat Worship, by Flummox |url=https://flummoxed.bandcamp.com/album/sabbat-worship |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Flummox |language=en}} This extended play consisted of an original song and two cover songs (originally by Black Sabbath and Black Widow), with the cover art being a parody of the first Black Sabbath album - released exactly 50 years prior. A small east coast tour was booked to support its release,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/flummoxband/videos/come-to-the-sabbat-worship-tour/297532437876930/ |title=Come to the Sabbat Worship tour..... {{!}} Flummox is doing a little run in support of our little, limited edition EP, "Sabbat Worship." Soon to be released through Needlejuice Records 4/29:... {{!}} By FlummoxFacebook |language=en |access-date=July 16, 2024 |via=Facebook}} but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During that summer, they recorded a cover for Nashville Scene's "Nashville Song Swap"{{Cite web |last=Trageser |first=Stephen |date=May 20, 2020 |title=Local Musicians Give Each Other a Boost in Nashville Song Swap |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/nashvillecream/local-musicians-give-each-other-a-boost-in-nashville-song-swap/article_04780651-1faa-59ed-be51-a5449b44caa2.html |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Nashville Scene |language=en}} as well as dropping the first single from their then-forthcoming Hindsight EP, "Trans Girls Need Guns." Originally appearing on the label's Needlejustice charity compilation to raise money for the NAACP defense fund in midst of the then-recent George Floyd protests,{{Cite web |title=Needlejustice - Charity Compilation CD |url=https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/needlejustice-charity-compilation-cd |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=Needlejuice Records |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Needlejustice, by Various Artists |url=https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/needlejustice |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=Needlejuice Records |language=en}} the band made it widely available for streaming on the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall riots.{{Cite web |last=Trageser |first=Stephen |date=June 28, 2020 |title=Flummox Protests Violence Against Transgender People in 'Trans Girls Need Guns' |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/nashvillecream/flummox-protests-violence-against-transgender-people-in-trans-girls-need-guns/article_76ffab1b-3087-53b5-91a8-c0603768957b.html |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Nashville Scene |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Trageser |first=Stephen |date=August 4, 2020 |title=Nashville Scene's No-Contact Shows: Flummox |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/nashvillecream/i-nashville-scene-i-s-no-contact-shows-flummox/article_3df17fda-f005-5c72-b013-979d0115eec9.html |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Nashville Scene |language=en}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0yzVdDcOo8 |title=Aly Blake Dellinger of Flummox on Nashville's Rock Station 102.9 The Buzz |date=July 6, 2020 |last=Andy Herrin |access-date=July 16, 2024 |via=YouTube}} On October 16, 2020, Needlejuice released the second EP, In Hindsight, to general critical acclaim. They followed this release with a live-streamed performance of the entire EP that premiered during Fable Cry's Festival of Ghouls on twitch that Halloween; the following day it was released on their YouTube channel.{{Cite web |title=Festival of Ghouls |url=https://www.haunting.net/events/festival-of-ghouls/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Haunting |language=en-US}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuPOualU60A |title=Flummox - "In Hindsight" Live (Full E.P. Set) |date=November 1, 2020 |last=Flummox |access-date=July 16, 2024 |via=YouTube}}

While under quarantine, the band decided to continue work on their next venture: a full-length album of re-recorded and rearranged material from their Tridroid releases, entitled Rephlummoxed. Alyson Dellinger and Drew Jones had not been happy with the production of these previous records, so the decision was made to record re-arranged versions of their favorite songs from that era.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCZpSROE7dI |title="REPHLUMMOXED" Interview Pt. 3: Flummox On Rephlummoxed |date=March 30, 2022 |last=Needlejuice Records |access-date=July 16, 2024 |via=YouTube}} While finishing the album, Others by No One vocalist and guitarist Max Mobarry joined the band after filling in last minute for Chase McCutcheon after he had fractured his wrist before a show.{{Cite web |last=Dario |title="We are the statement": Alyson & Max from Flummox on Rephlummoxed and being trans icons in the metal community |url=https://theprogspace.com/progtalks/alyson-blake-dellinger-and-max-mobarry-flummox/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=The Progspace |language=en-us}} On April 1, 2022, Rephlummoxed was released on Needlejuice.{{Cite web |last=Scharf |first=Natasha |date=March 18, 2022 |title=Genre-fluid alt-proggers Flummox premiere epic The Unibirth Suite - check it out now! |url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/genre-fluid-alt-proggers-flummox-premiere-epic-the-unibirth-suite-check-it-out-now |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=louder |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Track Premiere: Flummox - 'Custodian Ralph' |url=https://newnoisemagazine.com/premieres/track-premiere-flummox-custodian-ralph/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=New Noise Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |date=March 8, 2022 |title='Pan's Daughter' by Flummox {{!}} New Album, 'Rephlummoxed' |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2022/03/pans-daughter-by-flummox-new-album-rephlummoxed.html |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine |language=en-US}} In support of the album, the band released a lyric video for the first single "Planet Cancer," two animated music videos for the songs "Flummoxing Act 1: Garbonzo's Leap" and "Hummingbird Anthem," and toured multiple times within the United States well into 2023.{{Cite web |last=Glide |date=March 15, 2022 |title=SONG PREMIERE: Genre Fluid Shock Rockers Flummox Create LSD Inspired Pysch Hijnks On"Hummingbird Anthem" |url=https://glidemagazine.com/271736/song-premiere-genre-fluid-shock-rockers-flummox-create-lsd-inspired-pysch-hijnks-onhummingbird-anthem/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=Glide Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Islander |date=March 16, 2022 |title=AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: FLUMMOX - "FLUMMOXING ACT I: GARBANZO'S LEAP" |url=https://www.nocleansinging.com/2022/03/16/an-ncs-video-premiere-flummox-flummoxing-act-i-garbanzos-leap/ |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=NO CLEAN SINGING |language=en-US}} Throughout some of these shows, Flummox supported bands such as Imperial Triumphant,{{Cite web |last=Nordheim |first=David Von |date=February 21, 2023 |title=In the Pleasure of Their Company: Imperial Triumphant {{!}} 02.03.23, The End (Nashville, TN) (with photo gallery) |url=http://theartsstl.com/in-the-pleasure-of-their-company-imperial-triumphant-02-03-23-the-end-nashville-tn-with-photo-gallery/ |access-date=July 8, 2024 |language=en}} Sarah and the Safe Word,{{Cite web |date=April 26, 2023 |title=Sarah And The Safe Word, Flummox, James Cornelia, Danbury Nobacon, Shayfer James |url=https://creativeloafing.com/event-523396-sarah-and-the-safe-word-flummox-james-cornelia-danbury-nobacon |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=Creative Loafing |language=en}} Daikaiju,{{Cite web |date=March 29, 2023 |title=Daikaiju w/ Flummox and Wax Brain |url=https://www.showclix.com/event/daikaiju-flummox-23 |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=ShowClix |language=en-US}} You Bred Raptors?,{{Cite web |title=Netherlands, You Bred Raptors?, Flummox, Sploot @ The Kingsland in Brooklyn on 06/21/2023 |url=https://www.ohmyrockness.com/shows/411003-netherlands-you-bred-raptors-flummox-sploot-the-kingsland |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=Oh My Rockness |language=en}} Pentagram, and The Obsessed.{{Cite web |title=Pentagram // The Obsessed // Flummox // IOD |url=https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=200023403508553 |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=allevents.in}} During this time, Flummox also recorded a performance for the UK-based High Taste at Home online music festival.{{Cite web |last=Ewing |first=Jerry |date=September 15, 2022 |title=Kyros, Azure, Inhalo, Grace Hayhurst and more to play High Taste At Home festival |url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/kyros-azure-inhalo-grace-hayhurst-and-more-to-play-high-taste-at-home-festival |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=louder |language=en}} The band later released this performance on their YouTube channel that December, and went on to release a remastered version of the set by Angel Marcloid to streaming the following September as Live at Hop Springs.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQxsETfWWI |title=FLUMMOX - Live at Hop Springs (Full Live Show) |date=December 14, 2022 |last=Flummox |access-date=August 23, 2024 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |title=Live at Hop Springs, by Flummox |url=https://flummoxed.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-hop-springs |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=Flummox |language=en}}

= ''Southern Progress'' (2024-) =

In February 2024, Flummox performed a few dates with Orlando-based alt-metal band, Flagman.{{Cite web |title=FLAGMAN reveal new single "Hollow" and handful of shows with FLUMMOX |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/41766/flagman-reveal-new-single-hollow-and-handful-of-shows-with-flummox/ |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=lambgoat.com |language=en}} That spring, they opened for British electronic rock band Enter Shikari at their Nashville tour stop.{{Cite web |title=Enter Shikari {{!}} Nashville, TN |url=https://charmmusic.net/home/entershikari-nash |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=CHARMMusic |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Enter Shikari Shares a Kiss for the Whole World with Nashville |url=https://wrvu.org/enter-shikari-shares-a-kiss-for-the-whole-world-with-nashville/ |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=wrvu.org |language=en-US}} On July 23, 2024, Flummox announced they would be supporting Black Sabbath parody band Mac Sabbath and Mexican avant-metal band Descartes A Kant for the former band's 10th anniversary tour.{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2024 |title=MAC SABBATH - Crescent Ballroom PHX |url=https://www.crescentphx.com/tm-event/mac-sabbath/ |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=crescentphx.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Flummox - JUST ANNOUNCED! Flummox is joining Mac Sabbath & Descartes a Kant for some dates on their 10th Anniversary Mctour. Here's where you can see us opening for the Fathers of Drive-Thru Metal 9/15: Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom 9/18: Katy, TX - The Wildcatter Saloon 9/20: Austin, TX - Meanwhile Brewing Company 9/21: Dallas, TX - Trees Dallas It's time to supersize, and it's time to get flummoxed! {{!}} Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/flummoxband/photos/just-announcedflummox-is-joining-mac-sabbath-descartes-a-kant-for-some-dates-on-/1033436405455156/?paipv=0&eav=AfbB8d9UdRAVSxVaoVvgTKlThqMqRSuDlD55jUtearRY7ioQA-BGX8sdhhbSb4Iv2ZM&_rdr |access-date=August 23, 2024 |via=Facebook |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Mac Sabbath's 10th Anniversary Tour - Review |url=https://www.punk-pack.com/ppt-1-1/mac-sabbath-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawFxA9NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbe2wIPINcX73prjhTvVH-OL-yQQ_xwpUubZyN054EiB-tM_ArxwC-zf1w_aem_erUjG6t9KmRD_3vnI6_jYQ |access-date=October 8, 2024 |website=Punk Pack Rocks |language=en-US}}

On October 8, 2024, the band premiered the first single & title track for their new album entitled “Southern Progress.”{{Cite web |last=Hanna |date=October 8, 2024 |title=Sex, Chugs and Rock'n'Roll: Flummox Premiere New Single, "Southern Progress"! |url=https://everythingisnoise.net/premieres/sex-chugs-and-rocknroll-flummox-premiere-new-single-southern-progress/ |access-date=October 8, 2024 |website=Everything Is Noise |language=en-US}} Along with unveiling the album art, a spring 2025 release window for the record via Needlejuice Records was announced. The album was partially recorded by Jason Dietz (Amigo the Devil, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Hank Williams III) at his Twin Oak studios with vocals & overdubs being recorded at Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner’s home studio in Nashville, TN.{{Cite web |date=October 11, 2024 |title=Queer / transfemme chaotic metallers FLUMMOX channels transformation through "Southern Progress" - IDIOTEQ.com |url=https://idioteq.com/queer-transfemme-chaotic-metallers-flummox-channels-transformation-through-southern-progress/ |access-date=October 11, 2024 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Spotlight Music Review Blog |first=Caitlyn |date=October 11, 2024 |title=Song Review: "Southern Progress" by Flummox |url=https://medium.com/@caitstoddard/song-review-southern-progress-by-flummox-50d8a82e3ddc |access-date=October 11, 2024 |website=Medium}} On November 18, Decibel magazine premiered another track & a music video for the song, "Executive Dysfunction." Along with this, the band announced the album pre-order with a release date of April 11, 2025.{{Cite web |last=Tepedelen |first=Adem |date=November 18, 2024 |title=Track Premiere: Flummox – "Executive Dysfunction" |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/18/track-premiere-flummox-executive-dysfunction/ |access-date=November 20, 2024 |website=Decibel Magazine |language=en-US}}

In January 2025 it was announced Flummox would be touring the United States with Mac Sabbath again with California punk bands, The Dickies & Guttermouth on select dates.{{Cite web |last=Pearis |first=Bill |title=Tour news: Father John Misty, Fred Armisen, Mac Sabbath, Miya Folick, Jason Narducy & Michael Shannon Play R.E.M., more |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tour-news-father-john-misty-fred-armisen-mac-sabbath-miya-folick-jason-narducy-michael-shannon-play-r-e-m-more/ |access-date=February 4, 2025 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Broerman |first=Michael |date=January 29, 2025 |title=Mac Sabbath Adds New 2025 Dates To 10th Anniversary Tour |url=https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/mac-sabbath-new-2025-dates-tour/ |access-date=February 4, 2025 |website=L4LM |language=en-US}} The following February, Magnet Magazine premiered the music video for another single, “Siren Shock”.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=MAGNET |date=2025-02-26 |title=MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Flummox's "Siren Shock" Video |url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2025/02/26/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-flummoxs-siren-shock-video/ |access-date=2025-02-28 |website=Magnet Magazine |language=en-US}} On April 11, 2025, Flummox released Southern Progress. In celebration, the band hosted an album release show in their hometown of Murfreesboro, TN. The album was met with mostly positive reviews. {{Cite web |last=Kenstrosity |date=2025-04-23 |title=Flummox - Southern Progress Review |url=https://www.angrymetalguy.com/flummox-southern-progress-review/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Angry Metal Guy |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Nicholas |title=Murfreesboro Music Makers: Flummox introduces ‘Southern Progress’ |url=https://mtsusidelines.com/2025/04/26/murfreesboro-music-makers-flummox-introduces-southern-progress/ |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=MTSU Sidelines}}{{Cite web |last=Stoddard |first=Cait |date=2025-04-18 |title=Album Review: Southern Progress by Flummox |url=https://medium.com/@caitstoddard/album-review-southern-progress-by-flummox-8020ae784dbe |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=Medium |language=en}}

Musical style and stage show

The band has primarily used the term "genre-fluid" to describe their music.{{Cite web |date=February 1, 2022 |title=Hear Flummox Channel Slayer on Anti-Capitalist Banger "Planet Cancer" |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-flummox-channel-slayer-anti-capitalist-banger-planet-cancer |access-date=July 8, 2024 |website=Revolver |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Hayhurst |first=Grace |date=June 17, 2021 |title=Pride in Prog: An LGBT+ Artist Showcase |url=https://proghurst.co.uk/2021/06/pride-in-prog-an-lgbt-artist-showcase/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=March 31, 2022 |title=EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Flummox - "The Whispering Banshees" |url=https://ghostcultmag.com/exclusive-premiere-flummox-the-whispering-banshees/ |access-date=September 3, 2024 |website=Ghost Cult Magazine |language=en-US}} When interviewed in 2019, Alyson Dellinger described their sound as, “....heavy, weird, theatrical, fusion, thrash rock? Sprinkle in some progressive, psychedelic, swing funk and avant-garde, death/doom jazz?” Austin Weber of No Clean Singing stated, "[they are the] perfect marriage between towering sludge heaviness and powerful psychedelic progressive-rock genius" calling their first album "a modern classic."{{Cite web |last=Islander |date=July 20, 2015 |title=AUSTIN WEBER'S BEST OF 2015 SO FAR: PRIME CUTS FROM THE UNDERGROUND OF THE UNDERGROUND (PART 3) |url=https://www.nocleansinging.com/2015/07/20/austin-webers-best-of-2015-so-far-prime-cuts-from-the-underground-of-the-underground-part-3/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=NO CLEAN SINGING |language=en-US}} Natasha Scharf, in an article for Prog magazine, referred to them as "alt-proggers." Metal Injection considered them "difficult to categorize" and said "few if any bands based in sludge and doom get as weird as Flummox do." Revolver remarked that they sounded "...like Slayer with a dash of Protest the Hero-esque prog wonkiness." For Decibel Magazine's Deciblog, Jeff Treppel wrote "[the band] clearly digs Primus, Mr. Bungle, and Mastodon," but added "...despite some fairly obvious influences, they never sound like a straight ripoff." Terrorizer referred to their sound as "Sludge-meets-psychedelic-meets-doom-meets-Monty Python-meets-Motown."{{Cite journal |last=Stewart-Panko |first=Kevin |date=February 1, 2016 |title=Flummox - 'Selcouth' |journal=Terrorizer |issue=268 |pages=66}}

Flummox is also known for their unpredictable and theatrical stage-shows that utilize a variety of props as well as musical improvisation, audience participation, choreographed gags, performance art, and sketch comedy. The complexity and theatrical nature of their stage-show is based on whatever is in their setlist that changes with every show, as Dellinger has a strict rule about "never playing the same set twice." A common bit in their song "Oh, Possum" is for Dellinger to "transform" into an opossum by disappearing behind the stage, returning costumed as the animal, and acting out various traits such as playing dead, jumping into trash cans, and crawling on all fours.{{Cite web |last=admin |date=March 27, 2023 |title=Nashville's prog-rock possums are back with the full length LP Rephlummoxed |url=https://crnews.biz/blog/nashvilles-prog-rock-possums-are-back-with-the-full-length-lp-rephlummoxed/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=CR News |language=en-US}} Because of this, the band has come to be associated with opossums and often uses the animal as a mascot in their merchandising and overall image. During live performances of their song, "Black Phillip" (a song inspired by plot elements from the 2015 film, The Witch), Dellinger dons a goat mask and performs a mock child sacrifice by cutting open a baby doll full of candy; hand feeding the candy into the mouths of audience members before she tosses the remains of the doll into the crowd.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ED8XhSaBE |title=Flummox - "Black Phillip" LIVE 9/21/2019 |date=April 17, 2020 |last=Flummox |access-date=July 23, 2024 |via=YouTube}}