American EBM virtuosos Youth Code— the product of multi-instrumentalists Sara Taylor and Ryan George— welcome their first proper musical output in five years: Yours, With Malice, released May 16 on Sumerian Records. Yours, With Malice roars and tramples out of the gate like an armor-plated, weaponized bulldozer– pulverizing skulls into fine powder, while bubbling sub-bass, bone-snapping snare hits, sizzling hi-hats and rib-rattling kicks bounce off of the floors like spent shells.
King Yosef, born Tayves Yosef Pelletier, first earned attention as a producer. Pelletier began releasing music as a solo artist under the King Yosef name in 2017, combining his early love for heavy music with his experiences in the hip-hop realm.
Dry Drunk, the long awaited third record by the acclaimed industrial hardcore duo Street Sects, comes with a surprise: the introduction of their new band, Street Sex, and its debut LP.
Youth Code
During some of the time Youth Code set aside for themselves, out came the wolves and legions of soundalikes, swarming like vultures on the assumed corpse of the high court of modern EBM. However, the joke’s on them: Youth Code have spent those years of self-reflection stewing in a simmering cauldron of bile and vitriol, as Yours, With Malice is clearly their most intricate, well-crafted and blood-thirsty release to date. What has changed is Youth Code’s attention to detail and their hyper focus on execution in songwriting, two things that can only come from the wellspring of knowledge found in a band that has been at it for more than a decade. The group began in 2012 as a project between partners George and Taylor, inspired by the classic sounds of New Order, Depeche Mode and the hardcore punk that soundtracked so much of their youth. What emerged was a demo cassette that led to a 7” release on Angry Love, the first band unrelated to the legendary Psychic TV to be released on that label. A self-titled album followed, then 2014’s A Place to Stand EP, and 2016’s Commitment to Complications LP, all while touring with a diverse groups like Chelsea Wolfe, HEALTH, Skinny Puppy, and more, in addition to arena shows with My Chemical Romance and main stage appearances with Nine Inch Nails. Heaps of press accolades followed before the pandemic hit, and now, in 2025, the band returns with their magnum opus. Look for Youth Code to support the new release heavily and extensively in every corner of the world, basically wherever there’s a working PA and a crowd to watch.
King Yosef
A 2019 article in Revolver Magazine states: "Yosef animates the lo-fi, blown-out brood-scuzz of SoundCloud rap with the vein-popping screams of hardcore and the mechanical noise of industrial.” In the following years, Yosef sharpened his sound over the course of two EPs, several singles, and collabs with the likes of Youth Code, leading ultimately to the 2023 release: An Underlying Hum. Recorded and mixed by Converge's Kurt Ballou and Steve Evetts (Deadguy, Sepultura), An Underlying Hum is a deep dive into a broken psyche – a concept album born out of Yosef's experiences in therapy, digging deep into his childhood traumas. Yosef followed up the release of An Underlying Hum by touring the West Coast with Converge and Deaf Club, then returned to the studio to work once more with Ballou and Evetts on a handful of new tracks. With the "Cut the Cord/Shame’s Mirror" single unleashed upon the world in January 2024, Yosef immediately launched into a whirlwind of world touring with HEALTH, Greg Puciato, Trace Amount, and more. In 2025 followed his most recognized and acclaimed work yet: Spire of Fear - A full length album released on Bleakhouse.
Street Sects
The first mainline Street Sects album in seven years arrives alongside Street Sex’s Full Color Eclipse, which introduces the pair’s radiant new outlet for their shared love of pop, melody, hooks, and higher production values. While Dry Drunk finds Leo Ashline and Shaun Ringsmuth pushing Street Sects’ familiar abrasive sound to new extremes–lyrically, it details a period of hellish sobriety following Ashline’s relapse and recovery from crack cocaine addiction–Full Color Eclipse weaponizes pop conventions to tell a story about indulging in fantasy and exploration without fear of consequence. The group’s most intentional and powerful works to date, place Dry Drunkand Full Color Eclipse across the street from each other, and the former’s ballistic rage registers as envy of the latter’s vibrant hedonism.
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