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Colombian crossover heavyweights Poison The Preacher have unveiled their explosive new single, ‘Things I Want’, featuring guest vocals from Jem Siow of Australian hardcore sensation Speed. The track serves as the title track from the band’s forthcoming EP, Things I Want, due for release on 17th July via Seek and Strike.

Never ones to be confined by genre boundaries, Poison The Preacher have spent the last several years forging a sound that fuses thrash, hardcore, death metal and Latin-infused aggression into something uniquely their own. Emerging from Bogotá’s vibrant underground scene, the quartet have rapidly established themselves as one of South America’s most exciting heavy exports, and Things I Want sees them pushing far beyond straightforward crossover worship into territory that is both deeply personal and sonically devastating.

Accompanied by a video celebrating their hometown, ‘Things I Want’ serves as both a declaration of intent and a tribute to the city that shaped them.

“The title track is a love letter to Bogotá,” explains the band. “We wanted the video to capture all its chaos and all its glory, the things that have made us love it and hate it in equal measure. Everything we’ve experienced, from our best moments to our worst, happened in this city, and we wanted people to take a piece of where we come from with them.”

Mixed and mastered by Charles Toshio (Sunami, Big Boy, Spy, Gulch), the EP captures Poison The Preacher at their most ambitious and uncompromising. The new single is further elevated by a guest appearance from Jem Siow, a collaboration born from the band’s recent tour dates with Speed across Latin America and a friendship forged on the road.

That refusal to stay in one lane has become central to the band’s identity. Poison The Preacher’s sound crashes together pit-starting hardcore grooves, razorwire thrash riffs, death metal violence and moments of unexpected melody and atmosphere, music designed equally for hardcore kids and metalheads. “This is metal made for hardcore kids, but this is also hardcore made for metal-heads,” says Carrera. “With this new release, those lines between genres have blurred more and more.”

While Things I Want hits with all the violence fans have come to expect, its thematic focus digs far deeper. Inspired by obsession, ambition and unattainable dreams, the EP’s striking artwork features a mutilated Daruma doll, traditionally a Japanese symbol of perseverance and fulfilled goals, with one eye violently torn away.

“The EP talks about broken dreams, toxic purposes, things that you would give your entire life to, but they may never become true,” Carrera explains. “It’s a testament to obsession and ambition, in both a good and a bad way. It’s okay to have a purpose, to have a dream that you want with all your heart, but you can’t let it consume you and destroy your life.”

Track-list:
1. Things I Want ft Speed
2. Last Time I’ve Seen The Sun
3. Ran Out Of Options
4. Chicken Out 

That emotional honesty arrives at a pivotal moment for the band. Their 2025 debut album Vs The World earned widespread praise across the metal press for its explosive collision of crossover thrash, hardcore and Colombian musical identity, with critics highlighting the band’s ferocity, musicianship and refusal to sound like anyone else. Publications including Metal Hammer, Distorted Sound, Metal Temple and Dead Rhetoric praised the band’s ability to merge old-school crossover intensity with modern heaviness and distinctly Latin American influences, while their live reputation has continued to grow through shows alongside acts including Suffocation, Agnostic Front, In Flames and Overkill.

Now, with Things I Want, Poison The Preacher are preparing to take that momentum worldwide. The band will spend July touring across Europe, including appearances at both Wacken Open Air and Obscene Extreme Festival, landmark moments for a band becoming one of Colombia’s most vital heavy exports.

“It’s a huge achievement for us to be the first Colombian band to be directly booked by Wacken Open Air and Obscene Extreme,” says Carrera. “The live show is the most important part for us. The energy is different, it’s going to make you love us or love us even more.”

If Vs The World introduced Poison The Preacher as a rising force, Things I Want feels like the sound of a band fully kicking into overdrive, more dangerous, more ambitious and more emotionally fearless than ever before.

EUROPE & UK: UNDEAD TIME SUMMER TOUR 2026

01-04.07 Obscene Extreme, CZ
05.07 Cluj-Napoca, RO @ Flying Circus
06.07 Bucharest, RO @ Expirat
10.07 Trnje, SI @ Trnje Festival
11.07 Maribor, SI @ Dvorana Gustaf
12.07 Graz, AT @ Wakuum
14.07 Nuremberg, DE @ TBA
15.07 Basel, CH @ Quarterdeck
16.07 Charleroi, BE @ MCP Apache
17.07 Antwerp, BE @ Music City
18.07 Monheim, DE @ Sojus 7
19.07 Esch-sur-Alzette, LU @ MK Bar
20.07 London, UK @ Helgi’s Bar
22.07 Manchester, UK @ Star and Garter
23.07 Newcastle, UK @ Trillians
24.07 Burnley, UK @ Sanctuary
25.07 Glasgow, UK @ Ivory Blacks
29.07 Wacken, DE 

with more dates still to be announced. 

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