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Colombia’s Poison The Preacher have never cared much for genre boundaries. Since emerging from Bogotá’s underground with a volatile blend of thrash, hardcore, death metal and Latin-infused aggression, the quartet have rapidly built a reputation as one of South America’s most exciting heavy exports and with their forthcoming EP Things I Want, due 17th July via Seek and Strike, they sound ready to kick the doors off entirely.

First single ‘Chicken Out’ arrives as the perfect introduction to the EP’s sharper, heavier direction. Serving as the emotional core of the EP it’s a song vocalist/guitarist Juan Pablo Carrera describes as his most personal writing to date. Built around regret, fear and emotional self-sabotage, the track explores how the fear of vulnerability can destroy something meaningful before it ever truly begins.

“I was so afraid of falling in love and felt that I wasn’t good enough for her,” he says. “I was so afraid of being hurt that I didn’t want to get involved emotionally and ultimately that was the mistake that ruined everything. The song really speaks to this regret. I now want to convey the simple message to love as much as you can. It’s better to try than to live with the regret of not trying.”

Mixed and mastered by Charles Toshio (Sunami, Big Boy, Spy, Gulch), Things I Want pushes Poison The Preacher beyond straightforward crossover worship into something far more personal and explosive.

“We started working on these songs as soon as we finished writing our debut album, Vs The World, and these songs just came naturally to us,” explains vocalist/guitarist Juan Pablo Carrera. “This new EP is easily the next step for us, a real evolution towards a more definitive and unique sound. It’s more refined, aggressive, harder and heavier. We are pulling inspiration from all over the place and this is a more accurate representation of all our influences.”

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.”

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.

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

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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