Following the release of ‘Thai Angel’ and their recent appearances at both Furnace Fest and Sick New World Festival, ‘Redline’ sees the THE DARK.FM push their sound into an even more aggressive territory, combining crushing low-end riffs, dense electronic production and Osborne’s rapid-fire vocal delivery.
Speaking of the new single, vocalist Craig Johns Jr. shares, “I first heard Kent Osborne’s music a few years ago when we were set to play a show together, and became a fan on the spot. He’s doing some seriously cool shit. As I was building out the instrumental for “Redline,” it was becoming pretty clear there wouldn’t be any singing on it, and I was set on the idea of having him jump on it with me. The man’s a powerhouse, he has all these different voices and can come up with whole verses in seconds, it was a blast to record. The song started with this giant Drop-E riff which became the intro and chorus, and then I wanted the verses to sound like the song was exploding so I put a distortion right on the mix bus, set up to saturate when the verse kick hits so it breaks up while he’s rapping. It comes together as this hyper-aggressive track, densely layered, electronic and riffy, but still leaves a lot of space for Kent’s vocals. Before he left the session I had him record a “sample pack” of spoken word lyrics from the song so I could scratch them up across the track, and that, to me, felt like the final touch it needed. Not to discount that ending, of course..”
THE DARK.FM occupy a space that has been begging to be occupied within heavy music.
A bridge between sounds, communities and cultures that has been ready and waiting for someone to build it.
What started as a collaboration between vocalist Craig Johns Jr. and guitarist Alan Ashby that transcended music quickly became about appreciating not just moments in time, but how worlds are built. From flicking through old PlayStation magazines to grasp the visuals that defined the beginning of the Millennium to scouring Rick Owens collections and pondering which daring pieces best represented their intent, the pair quickly found that the strands connecting their passions for music, fashion, and film were deeply intertwined. Throw in childhoods spent being obsessed with The Matrix as much as Slipknot, Korn and Limp Bizkit, as well as a shared appreciation for the universe created within Cyberpunk 2077, and the foundations for something truly exploratory were in place.
The first pieces of those exploratory pursuits resulted in 2025’s The Dark EP, a frenzied blend of rampant beats, guttural breakdowns and uncanny croons, its tracks racking up over 3 million streams, as well as festival appearances at Vans Warped Tour, Sick New World and Furnace Fest.
Catch the band live:
09.12.2026 I The Roxy Theatre I Los Angeles, United States
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