Los Angeles-based industrial hard rock act Kidneythieves have revived their social media pages and begun teasing their first new material since 2016's The Mend. The band announced a new single, "Winners," which will be released on October 30th, the first of at least 2 planned EPs of material.
Frontwoman Free Dominguez explained in a post that the decision to start recording and re-releasing music came out of a chance meeting at a restaurant with her former A&R:
I was at a restaurant one day, and I ran into my A&R who signed Zerospace. He signed Madonna, no biggie. But he said, "You know, your music's making a comeback." And I looked into it, we have 12 to 18 million streams on Spotify Wrapped over the years. 120,000 Spotify listeners every month. And the crazy part is that a lot of them are Gen Z on TikTok, discovering Queen of the Damned and everything else.
Kidneythieves gained a small but dedicated cult following in the late nineties and early aughts, helped in no small part by a pre-credits needle drop in Nu Metal Cinema classic Queen of the Damned with "Before I'm Dead." With a new generation of fans discovering nu metal and the cultural production that sprung up around it for the first time, the industrial rock outfit is in a perfect position to benefit from the ongoing revival.
