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The Dark.FM release new music video for ‘Thai Angel’

THE DARK.FM have released a new music video!

The Los Angeles modern metal outfit have unveiled Thai Angel, a brand new single released via Arising Empire. The track follows the band’s 2025 self-titled debut EP.

Speaking about the new single, vocalist Craig Johns Jr. shares,Thai Angel was the name of an (alleged) after-hours in Koreatown that I would frequent after getting off work at the nightclub around the corner. It was very much a ‘if you know, you know’ type spot. The door was locked, it was hot, crowded, and the DJ was loud as hell. Lyrically, the song is about a particular night I had there. Rather not dive into that too deep. Sonically anyway, I wanted it to feel like the highs and lows of being in a place like that at 6am in Los Angeles. It starts with this 80’s-esque octave chorus guitar, almost sounds like a synth, followed by an absolutely stacked riff – simple as ever but it’s like ‘Oh hell yeah, we’re finally here’. You’ve entered the club, you made it. The verses come in as this beat-driven moment of intimacy and scene-setting, the vocals are soft like we’re right next to each other, and then the pre-chorus rises into a familiar feeling of adrenaline. The chorus feels like a moment you’ve been waiting for, that hit of dopamine, and then it all cycles around again until the end of the song becomes this unrelenting wave of intoxicating intensity that you didn’t expect, only to close out with a classic DJ exit transition, leading seamlessly into epoch.exe.”

Watch the official music video for Thai Angel here:

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James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.

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