The living, fire-breathing titans of Indiana punk rock are at it again.

After playing the occasional reunion show since 2000, the Zero Boys have recorded eight new songs and plan to release a new album after they’ve recorded some more.

Is the band trying harder, to quote the final track on landmark 1982 album “Vicious Circle”?

Vocalist Paul Mahern, drummer Mark Cutsinger, bass player David “Tufty” Clough and guitarist Vess Ruhtenberg say they’ve never left the circle — a path that has no beginning or end.

“We’re doing the same old thing we’ve always done,” Mahern says.

“It’s still Monopoly,” Ruhtenberg says. “We’re just trying to play the game better.”

The band that once shared a stage with the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat played a two-night stand earlier this month at 924 Gilman Street, the Northern California venue where Green Day and Rancid rose to prominence.

On Feb. 28, the Zero Boys will headline a hometown all-ages show at ES Jungle. The quartet is picking up the pace to promote a reissue of “Vicious Circle” and the release of new compilation “History of.” The two projects, released in January by Bloomington-based label Secretly Canadian, assemble every recording the band made from 1979 to 1983.

With the teenage Mahern being a few years younger than the torrential rhythm section of Cutsinger and Clough, youthful energy and adept musicianship meshed on songs based on the seedy side of Los Angeles (“Dirty Alleys, Dirty Minds”), the shootings of Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and John Lennon (“Civilization’s Dying”) and the oversaturation of the Beatles and Rolling Stones (“Livin’ in the ’80s”).

Recalling the one-day recording session for “Vicious Circle,” Mahern emphasizes the preceding month of daily rehearsals.

“That record is a really great performance of those songs by a well-rehearsed band,” he says.

Clough — who later left the band to join Toxic Reasons before opening Broad Ripple clothing store Future Shock and Fountain Square nightclub Radio Radio — had an inkling that “Vicious Circle” would have staying power.

“After I listened to it back then, I got goose bumps,” he says. “It’s kind of weird, but I knew it was good.”

At 45, Mahern is an esteemed record producer and yoga instructor. He says it’s strange to sing lyrics he wrote nearly 30 years ago, but he also appreciates a fan base that includes fortysomething parents, their children and all punk-loving demographics in between.

“There are fans of these songs,” he says. “People want to come see the band, and it’s fun. But it’s completely bizarre to be revisiting that time of my life.”

Ruhtenberg, known for his work in bands such as United States Three and the Pieces, joined the Zero Boys for the band’s early-’90s revival, which featured the albums “Make It Stop” and “The Heimlich Maneuver.”

He refers to founding guitarist Terry “Hollywood” Howe, who left the band in the mid-1980s and died in 2001, as an enduring inspiration.

“(Howe) had this effortless way of being perfect,” Ruhtenberg says. “It was tuneful and fierce.”