Richmond’s CANDY deal in throat-shredding hardcore that’s more extreme than most, and today they’ve announced their third album, It’s Inside You, which arrives June 7 via Relapse Records.
The follow-up to 2022’s Heaven Is Here was produced by their guitarist Michael Quick and Uniform’s Ben Greenberg and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios. There’s also a ton of collaborators who feature across the LP, including Aaron Melnick (Integrity), Justice Tripp (Angel Du$t, Trapped Under Ice), David Gagliardi (Trash Talk), Marisa Shriar (Fleshwater), and mmph (Sae Heum Han). For a preview of the new project, turn to its brutal first single, “eXistenZ,” where they dip into hardcore, metal, and industrial experimentalism in just over a minute.
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CANDY will also open for the Dillinger Escape Plan at New York City’s Brooklyn Paramount on June 21 and June 23. Grab tickets here.
Check out the lead single “eXistenZ,” album artwork, and tracklist below.
CANDY – It’s Inside You tracklist
“eXistenZ”
“Short-Circuit” (feat. Aaron Melnick)
“You Will Never” Get Me (feat. Justice Tripp)
“It’s Inside You” (feat. David Gagliardi)
“Love Like Snow” (feat. MIRSY & mmph)
“Dehumanize Me”
“Faith 91”
“Terror Management”
“Dreams Less Sweet”
“Silent Collapse”
“Dancing to the Infinite Beat”
“Hypercore”
