TRIP VILLAIN premieres video for “Villain Maw”!

Brooklyn genre cross-polluters TRIP VILLAIN deploy with their new single, “Villain Maw,” the latest preview of their incoming second album, Dose, out in May via Seeing Red Records.

 TRIP VILLAIN’s Dose surges with the vibe of Brooklyn’s eclectic musical underground. A teleportational whirlwind of inspiration that sucks the listener into a Bushwick alley for a pop-up rave hosted in the center of a circle pit at 4am on a Tuesday with the cross-pollution of stimulants coalescing in the best way possible. An energetic thirty-six-minute prescription of fist-pumping electrodirge with equal parts unhinged unpredictability and nostalgic bliss that should be on the radar of fans of Static-X, Slayer, Gesaffelstein, Sepultura, Boys Noize, Nine Inch Nails, Mindless Self Indulgence, Atari Teenage Riot, Health, and Frontline Assembly.

 “Villain Maw,” an ode to early-2000s industrial metal, and features guest Jake Cannavale, vocalist of local act Vixen Maw and actor who performs in Scarpetta, which just premiered on Amazon Prime. TRIP VILLAIN’s Josh Musto directed and edited the psychedelic audiovisual companion to the song.

 Cannavale writes, “‘Villain Maw’ is a collaborative effort by two born and raised New York bands that combines the fury of our city’s metal underbelly with the industrial thump of its’ techno renaissance. The result is absolutely incendiary and will make you want to breakdance in the eye of a circle pit.”

 Musto reveals, “The main riff in ‘Villain Maw’ came out of a jam I had in 2023 with my homies in Vixen Maw. Jon [Ehlers] then added a clubby synthbass line, which is probably my favorite thing he’s ever written. We started opening our shows with this song because those two riffs back-to-back are a perfect encapsulation of the genre-crossover on this album. I knew I needed to get my brother Jacob singing on it, so I sent him the track and a few days later he came in with the whole song written as a frantic back-and-forth duet. I’ve always wanted to use the word ‘abacinate’ in a song, and Jacob finally made it happen – Slayer fans, IYKYK.”

 MetalSucks writes, “If you’ve ever had the inclination to turn a metal show into a rave or vice versa, then you may have just stumbled upon the perfect soundtrack for that sort of subversion... this track hits on all cylinders.”

Electronic-infused metal quartet TRIP VILLAIN melds ferocious thrash riffs with the thunderous weight of modern industrial techno on their forthcoming second LP, Dose, confirmed for May release through Seeing Red Records. Building on the doom-laden, psychedelic textures of their debut LP, Won (2022, Seeing Red Records), TRIP VILLAIN has sharpened their edge — pioneering an uncompromising electro-thrash sound inspired by crossover icons like Static-X and Atari Teenage Riot, yet pushing both aggression and danceability to new heights.

 TRIP VILLAIN was formed in 2021 by guitarist/vocalist Josh Musto and drummer Damien Moffitt - lifelong musical partners since the 4th grade. Musto and Moffitt honed their speed chops in the teenage thrash band ShitKill from 2009 to 2018, played as the rhythm section in avant-doom project Netherlands from 2018-2020, then began writing as a duo during the pandemic. Jon Ehlers, the mastermind behind Industrial drum and bass duo Bangladeafy joined the band on synthbass in 2022. The trio began writing more aggressive new music, drawing inspiration from Brooklyn’s post-COVID electronic renaissance, having played alongside Lip Critic, Moon Tooth, Flatwounds, Blu Anxxiety, Melted Bodies, President Evil, and countless local acts around the NYC area. This expansion comes to a boil on the second TRIP VILLAIN album, Dose.

 Dose was recorded and produced by Josh Musto at The Tea Factory, mixed by Joe Ippolito and Damien Moffitt, mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios (The Body, Fugitive, Magrudergrind), completed with artwork by Jon Ehlers, with guest vocals by Danny Eberle (Lip Critic, Post No Bills) and actor/vocalist Jacob Lumet-Cannavale (Vixen Maw, The Mandalorian, Scarpetta) scattered across the record. Upon completion of Dose, the band expanded to a quartet, adding synth virtuoso Peter Duke to fill out the album’s complex layered production.

Bug out to TRIP VILLAIN’s pummeling “Villain Maw” video RIGHT HERE.

 Scope the prior videos for “Lowbender” HERE and “You Flew a Plane Into My Heart” HERE.

 Dose will be released on LP and digital formats on May 8th through Seeing Red Records. Find preorders for all formats at Bandcamp HERE and find digital presaves HERE.

 Additional videos and previews of the album will be leaked over the weeks ahead.

 TRIP VILLAIN continues performing across NYC with regularity, with more extensive live plans coming together.

 TRIP VILLAIN Live:

3/20/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY w/ MK Ultra [tickets]

5/15/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY w/ Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol [tickets]

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