After teasing the collaboration earlier this week on social media, Bad Omens have teamed up with Poppy on a new single called “V.A.N.,” and it already feels like one we’ll remember for a long time.
The track fuses Bad Omens’ pulsing industrial-metal production with Poppy’s ethereal croons, jostling between glitchy blast beats, throbbing synth grooves, and explosive surges of digitized guitar.
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The song’s title, “V.A.N.,” is an acronym for “violence against nature,” and its theme is part of the larger narrative on Bad Omens’ forthcoming album, Concrete Forever, an extension of 2022’s THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND filled with remixes, acoustic renditions, and collabs with other artists — just like this one.
“That’s a song that started just with the hook, ‘violence against nature,’” Bad Omens mastermind Noah Sebastian says of “V.A.N.” “And then after saving the project with the acronym and seeing it we realized it could be fun to think of ‘V.A.N.’ as a name. Thus the rabbit hole of ideas began that led us to decide to write lyrics from the perspective of an artificial intelligence gone rogue.”
In just a few days, Bad Omens will kick off their European leg of the “Concrete Forever” tour, in which Poppy will serve as direct support.
“V.A.N.” will be making an appearance at every date, but don’t fret if you live across the world and can’t attend.
On the Jan. 28 and 29 shows in Germany, Bad Omens and Poppy will perform “V.A.N.” together at their Concrete Forever global streaming event, which will be premiering on Veeps. Get access to the special livestreams here.
See the music video for “V.A.N.” below.
This article was originally published on RevolverMag.com and has been edited by Alternative Press.
