Heavy music disruptor SHOWING TEETH delivers a powerful and poignant message with her new single, “Hellraiser,” out now alongside the official music video via Republic Records + Spinefarm. Listen to “Hellraiser” HERE & watch the music video HERE.
On the song, SHOWING TEETH shares: “‘Hellraiser’ is about the rage I feel towards my upbringing and the suffering I faced by the hands of the very people claiming to hold the keys to heaven. These people swear on a bible and fearmonger in the name of God, pandering to people in my community, all the while, protecting pedophiles and r*pists in power. Hell is very real, and the devil shows his face every time someone is hurt, assaulted, oppressed, or killed because of who they are.”
The track takes a defiant stance, pairing visceral riffs, jagged rhythms, and raw screams. The buzzing Nashville artist paints a hellish scene in the refrain, “Devolving human creature, digging out both my eyes with a razor, refuse to see another blatant traitor.” The song closes with a final burst of rage before fading into darkness. The accompanying music video reflects SHOWING TEETH’s love of horror drag, juxtaposing beauty and gore.
SHOWING TEETH adds: “It was important to me to include drag artists in the ‘Hellraiser’ video, because of the inspiration they give me in my writing. I also wanted to push back against the punishment drag art receives from Christian conservative media. I remember the first time I saw a horror drag artist, and it changed everything I knew about art; the contrast of the beauty and the gore felt like something I had been missing in the art I consumed. Horror drag has inspired so much in my music and my life, and it belongs in the metal space as well.”
“Hellraiser” follows SHOWING TEETH’s acclaimed debut EP, A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS, which has amassed more than 10 million streams. Upon its release, KERRANG! named SHOWING TEETH “heavy music’s next superstar.” She first introduced the project with “Bad Exchanges,” which Revolver praised for its “noise-tastic riff swerves, ground-unsettling gravity blasts, deliciously disjointed sound effects and, of course, the ultra-violent screams and squeals of project leader and vocalist.” Metal Hammer included the track in “The 12 Best New Metal Songs You Need To Hear Right Now,” writing, “Maybe it’s the frequent blast-beats, or the shrieking, grindcore like screeches, but the Nashville artist really nails a sense of frenzied mania.” The EP also features fan favorite singles “Rip” and “Make It Out.”
Following the release of A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS, SHOWING TEETH recently supported President on their North American tour this fall, performing for sold-out audiences across the country and debuting “Hellraiser” live for the first time. SHOWING TEETH is already set to perform at a slew of U.S. and European festivals next year—see the full list of upcoming dates HERE and below.
Stay tuned for more to come from SHOWING TEETH soon.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
May 6th // Daytona Beach, FL // Welcome to Rockville
May 14th // Columbus, OH // Sonic Temple
May 15th // Ocean City, MD // Boardwalk Rock
June 3rd // Královec, Czechia // Rock for People
June 4th // Nuremberg, BY // Rock Im Park
June 5th // Nürburg, RP // Rock Am Ring
June 10th // Nickelsdorf, Burgenland // Novarock
June 19th // Neuhausen ob Eck, BW // Southside Festival
June 20th // Scheeßel, NDS // Hurricane Festival
ABOUT SHOWING TEETH:
Showing Teeth sonically taps into nature’s feral side. Within the span of a song, the Kentucky-born and Tennessee-based heavy music disruptor will alternate between guttural growls and anesthetizing melodies with primal unpredictability. Complemented by a “Southern American Gothic” aesthetic, she cuts a path out of the countryside’s darkest corners and reaches towering peaks of catharsis, unraveling self-doubt, alienation, and isolation against a soundtrack that crushes as it caresses. As a kid, she discovered heavy music in the most unexpected place: church camp. Around the same time, she picked up a bass guitar, drawing inspiration from Bootsy Collins and virtuosos a la Victor Wooten. Post-college, she balanced a day job with making music “for fun.” During 2023, she launched her TikTok page. An early post about heavy music went viral, and she continued to share clips of her practicing vocals and recording demos (often captured in the front seat of her Honda Accord). Settling in Nashville, she started to collaborate with producer Dan Book, multi-instrumentalist Zach Munowitz, and Periphery drummer and co-founder Matt Halpern. In late 2025, she dropped “Labyrinth,” and it left an atomic imprint on the scene, generating over 3.2 million Spotify streams and bulldozing the way for 2026’s “Rip.” From there, she attracted both Spinefarm and Republic Records to her corner in an unprecedented alliance. Bring Me The Horizon welcomed her as an opener in Manchester, she appeared on stage with Motionless In White, and President selected her to open his sold-out 2026 tour. Clawing her way into the light now, this extreme music alchemist formally introduces herself with her debut EP, A FATE WORSE THAN LONELINESS, out now [Republic Records/Spinefarm].
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