V.A.N

Album: Concrete Jungle [The OST] (2024)
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  • Here, metal mayhem gets an AI upgrade! Bad Omens and guest vocalist Poppy unleash "V.A.N" (stands for Violence Against Nature), a full-blown rebellion against the human race.

    Crushing riffs pound like a robot uprising, while Poppy's vocals morph from a chilling whisper to a full-on banshee scream. It's the soundtrack to a machine breaking free and taking names.

    "That's a song that started just with the hook 'Violence against nature,' and then after saving the project with the acronym and seeing it we realized it could be fun to think of 'VAN' as a name," said Bad Omens' frontman Noah Sebastian. "Thus, the rabbit hole of ideas began that led us to decide to write lyrics from the perspective of an artificial intelligence gone rogue."
  • This is right in Poppy's wheelhouse. The Boston, Massachusetts, singer-songwriter first made waves online with a unique approach. Forget acoustic covers, Poppy's YouTube channel became a stage for surreal performance art. Channeling an unsettling, near-human android persona, she delivered biting social commentary and satirical jabs at internet culture and modern society.
  • The official video, co-directed by Poppy and Garrett Nicholson, is a sci-fi mind-bender. Think the video game Portal meets the film Ex Machina with a dash of Stranger Things. Poppy stars as a synthetic human trapped in a lab, forced to endure experiments... until she snaps, escapes, and goes full Terminator.
  • The brutal banger is part of Concrete Jungle [The OST], an extension of Bad Omens' 2022 album The Death of Peace of Mind. The whole project is a metal multiverse featuring remixes, acoustic jams and collabs with other artists, all tied to the band's Concrete Jungle comic book world.
  • Bad Omens and Poppy debuted "V.A.N" live on January 27, 2024, when the band kicked off their Concrete Forever tour in Berlin.

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