There is a specific kind of intensity that only seems to come out of the Sacramento concrete, and DONT YOU DARE are leaning right into it. The duo—frontman Noah Duarte and guitarist Matt English—have just shared the visual for ‘I LOVE THE MISERY’, a track that feels less like a polished single and more like a heavy-handed exorcism.
Styling themselves without the apostrophe, the pair have been building a bit of a reputation for music that prioritises raw, unfiltered emotion over industry sheen. ‘I LOVE THE MISERY’ is their darkest output yet, a track that navigates the claustrophobia of isolation and that bleak moment of standing on a cliff edge. It’s heavy, certainly, but there’s a melodic sensibility buried under the distortion that keeps it from feeling one-note.
Duarte, a poet who eventually found his way to a microphone, treats the track as a form of therapy. “It’s the pause in the set, the moment everyone opens their eyes,” he says of the song. It’s an approach that seems to be working; their previous releases like ‘S.O.S.’ and ‘DIE4ME’ have already started picking up traction on Sirius XM and across the usual streaming suspects, largely because they don’t sound like they’re trying to sell you anything—they’re just letting it out.
The duo are currently backed by the rebooted Artery Foundation, a name that carries a fair amount of weight for anyone who grew up on the 2010s metalcore boom. While that association brings a certain level of expectation, DONT YOU DARE feel like they’re doing their own thing, swapping the neon-drenched tropes of the past for something a bit more grounded and grey.
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