Leipzig modern metalcore outfit blacktoothed are back with “PORCELAIN,” a bruising new single from their forthcoming album FERAL BLOOM, due January 15, 2027 via Arising Empire.
The track is a blunt look at emotional emptiness, toxic attachment, and the wreckage that follows when old wounds start dictating every relationship. Love here is not rescue. It is something the narrator tries to consume in order to plug a hole that never closes. The opening demand — “Give me all you got / I need your constant love” — frames a bond built on need, with the other person reduced to a stand-in for everything already gone.
That hunger turns inward as the song develops. Insecurity, self-deception, and bad habits smear the line between real affection and emotional survival. The narrator sees the harm and still cannot step out of the cycle, admitting, “In my mind, I can’t detect my lies.” It is a self-aware portrait of someone chasing connection while poisoning it at the same time.
Musically, blacktoothed match that split. Crushing riffs and raw screams slam into one of the band’s biggest choruses to date. The turning point is a clean vocal duet between frontman Hendrik Rathgeber and guitarist Matti Keitel. Their voices cut through the violence and expose the fragile core underneath.
“PORCELAIN” continues a run that has steadily pushed the Leipzig trio into darker, more exposed territory after JULI, Headway, and the Antidote EP. Recent singles including “TELL ME I’M NOT ALONE,” “CYCLONE,” “ADRENALINE,” and “WILL YOU SURVIVE WHEN I DEVOUR YOUR HEARTBEAT” already pointed that way. The band has racked up millions of streams and shared stages with Bad Omens, The Ghost Inside, The Amity Affliction, Emmure, Polaris, Wargasm, Annisokay, and Thundermother.
FERAL BLOOM tracklist:
- Will You Survive When I Devour Your Heartbeat
- Embers
- Tell Me I’m Not Alone
- Cyclone
- Scar Tissue (feat. Annisokay)
- Monsters
- Porcelain
- Adrenaline
- Dead Ends Meet
- Gold Digger
- Feral Bloom
Heavy, vulnerable, and uncomfortably human, “PORCELAIN” is another sign that blacktoothed are willing to strip the armor off and sit with whatever is left.
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