“Today I’m heartless / and I like it like that” is a pair of opening lines fit for a bratty bubblegum single. Yet coming from babychaos, they’re a warning wrapped in rugged guitar riffs.
The Salem-raised vixen emerges from the shadows this week (July 19) with her new song and video “Guilty Hands (I Bleed),” a writhing incantation culled from babychaos’ musical grimoire. “Clean the dirt from guilty hands / Today I gave myself the reins,” she intones, her words ricocheting off the track’s barbed metal.
“Throughout 2022 I found myself constantly writing as a way to cope with occurrences in my life I couldn’t control,” babychaos shares. “I’ve found through experience that when we feel we don’t have control over an aspect of our lives, we resort to a need to control other aspects, sometimes in unexpected and disturbing ways. That was the inspiration for this track and video. Thanks to music producer Enrico Tiberi we created the complex beast of this song taking influence from European metal, American hard rock, and horror-movie-worthy soundscapes. And with music video producer Joey Durango we were able to bring these visuals to life.”
See what babychaos summons below.
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