After teasing the collaboration earlier this week on social media, Bad Omens have teamed up with Poppy on a new single known as “V.A.N.,” and it already looks like one we’ll keep in mind for a very long time.
The observe fuses Bad Omens’ pulsing industrial-metal manufacturing with Poppy’s ethereal croons, jostling between glitchy blast beats, throbbing synth grooves, and explosive surges of digitized guitar.
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The music’s title, “V.A.N.,” is an acronym for “violence against nature,” and its theme is a part of the bigger narrative on Bad Omens’ forthcoming album, Concrete Forever, an extension of 2022’s THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND stuffed with remixes, acoustic renditions, and collabs with different artists — identical to this one.
“That’s a song that started just with the hook, ‘violence against nature,’” Bad Omens mastermind Noah Sebastian says of “V.A.N.” “And then after saving the project with the acronym and seeing it we realized it could be fun to think of ‘V.A.N.’ as a name. Thus the rabbit hole of ideas began that led us to decide to write lyrics from the perspective of an artificial intelligence gone rogue.”
In only a few days, Bad Omens will kick off their European leg of the “Concrete Forever” tour, during which Poppy will function direct help.
“V.A.N.” might be making an look at each date, however don’t fret should you stay the world over and might’t attend.
On the Jan. 28 and 29 reveals in Germany, Bad Omens and Poppy will carry out “V.A.N.” collectively at their Concrete Forever international streaming occasion, which might be premiering on Veeps. Get entry to the particular livestreams right here.
See the music video for “V.A.N.” under.
This article was initially revealed on RevolverMag.com and has been edited by Alternative Press.
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