photos by Robby Grodin
New Noise Magazine is hosting an exclusive stream of Dose, the mentally mauling second LP from Brooklyn-based electronic/metal crew TRIP VILLAIN, on the verge of release this Friday on Seeing Red Records.
TRIP VILLAIN’s Dose surges with the vibe of Brooklyn’s eclectic musical underground. A teleportational whirlwind of inspiration that sucks the listener into a Bushwick alley for a pop-up rave hosted in the center of a circle pit at 4am on a Tuesday with the cross-pollution of stimulants coalescing in the best way possible. An energetic thirty-six-minute prescription of fist-pumping electrodirge with equal parts unhinged unpredictability and nostalgic bliss that should be on the radar of fans of Boys Noize, Nine Inch Nails, Static-X, Slayer, Gesaffelstein, Sepultura, Mindless Self Indulgence, Atari Teenage Riot, Health, and Frontline Assembly.
Dose was recorded and produced by Josh Musto at The Tea Factory, mixed by Joe Ippolito and Damien Moffitt, mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios (The Body, Fugitive, Magrudergrind), completed with artwork by Jon Ehlers, with guest vocals by Danny Eberle (Lip Critic, Post No Bills) and actor/vocalist Jacob Lumet-Cannavale (Vixen Maw, The Mandalorian, Scarpetta) scattered across the record. Upon completion of Dose, the band expanded to a quartet, adding synth virtuoso Peter Duke to fill out the album’s complex layered production.
Founding guitarist/vocalist Josh Musto states, “Dose is the soundtrack to having a bad acid trip and absolutely loving it. TRIP VILLAIN is a metal band that makes dance music. I’ve felt for a while that the two genres at their best evoke the same feelings – different languages, but the shared purpose is to move peoples’ bodies.
“We built this album on two pillars. Number one: every single moment of music exists in service to the groove. There are no soft, clean, filler parts awkwardly shoehorned in to appeal to radio, or big flamboyant choruses that undermine the gravity of the main riff. Number two: every riff deserves respect. I thought a lot about the similarities between ‘riff drops’ in metal and ‘beat drops’ in dance music. Pantera and Gojira are the absolute GOATs of creating high-pressure situations to heighten the drama before dropping into an enormously heavy riff. The way the drops in ‘Domination,’ ‘Throes Of Rejection,’ ‘Backbone,’ and ‘Flying Whales,’ spike your heart rate is, to me, exactly the same feeling as a psychotic beat drop in a Boys Noize or Skrillex track.
“This is not a 50/50 dance/metal album, it’s 100% of both sonic palettes blasting at every moment. And it’s meant to be listened to EXTREMELY LOUD.”
Stream TRIP VILLAIN’s Dose early courtesy of New Noise Magazine RIGHT HERE.
The videos for “Lowbender,” “You Flew a Plane Into My Heart,” “Villain Maw,” and “Cyan Spirits” are playing HERE.
Dose will be released on LP and digital formats this Friday, May 8th through Seeing Red Records. Find preorders for all formats at Bandcamp HERE and digital presaves HERE.
TRIP VILLAIN continues performing across NYC regularly, with more extensive live plans coming together.
TRIP VILLAIN Live:
5/15/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY w/ Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol [tickets]
6/04/2026 The Broadway – Brooklyn, NY w/ Loss Becomes, The Supposed, Contract [tickets]
Electronic-infused metal quartet TRIP VILLAIN melds ferocious thrash riffs with the thunderous weight of modern industrial techno on Dose. Building on the doom-laden, psychedelic textures of their debut LP, Won (2022, Seeing Red Records), TRIP VILLAIN has sharpened their edge — pioneering an uncompromising electro-thrash sound inspired by crossover icons like Static-X and Atari Teenage Riot, yet pushing both aggression and danceability to new heights.
TRIP VILLAIN was formed in 2021 by guitarist/vocalist Josh Musto and drummer Damien Moffitt – lifelong musical partners since the 4th grade. Musto and Moffitt honed their speed chops in the teenage thrash band ShitKill from 2009 to 2018, played as the rhythm section in avant-doom project Netherlands from 2018-2020, then began writing as a duo during the pandemic. Jon Ehlers, the mastermind behind Industrial drum and bass duo Bangladeafy joined the band on synthbass in 2022. The trio began writing more aggressive new music, drawing inspiration from Brooklyn’s post-COVID electronic renaissance, having played alongside Lip Critic, Moon Tooth, Flatwounds, Blu Anxxiety, Melted Bodies, President Evil, and countless local acts around the NYC area. This expansion comes to a boil on the second TRIP VILLAIN album, Dose.
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