Skin On Flesh don’t like the looks of things on their new single and video Terrible And Sad — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The opening title from from the Berlin alt-punk duo’s fiery, scathing new EP arriving May 5, Terrible And Sad deliver a short, sharp, noisy shot of pessimism about the state of the world, your mom and dad and even your household pets. Although their sound is front-loaded with revolutionary vitriol — and themed around intense frustrations with life on both a personal and societal scale — this is the sound of a band having a riotous good time expressing themselves.
“Terrible And Sad is a compilation of three songs talking about terrible and sad events,” Michiel Sybers and Laura Jiménez say. “Aquí Está Tu Pendeja talks about a terrible scene inside a relationship, and Se Perdió Mi Corazón talks about how sad it is to fall out of love. The music is inspired by mid-2000s emo punk rock with a mix of Spanish and English lyrics.
“We recorded this EP in Coyoacán, Ciudad de Mexico while we were visiting, we prepared four songs for Terrible And Sad in total, three of them will be released by ourselves. The other one (El Tiempo) will be featured in the new expansion of the video game: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.
“This release is is special to us since we had a rough couple of months back in 2021 and we had to let go of some frustrations. The next year we ended bad work relationships, lost most of our savings and Michi finished his MA writing his rock opera album (which was a rollercoaster on its own) before we left to Mexico for a month in September 2022, where we recorded Terrible And Sad.”
Jimenez comes from Mexico City and Sybers comes from Antwerpen, Belgium. They met at music school in Berlin, 2017 and have played in local rock bands in the underground Berlin scene together ever since. They started writing their own music in 2020 when other projects were on hiatus. The music of Skin On Flesh is truly greater than the sum of its parts, combining Lau’s Riot Girl/punk attitude with Michi’s emo/punk roots to form a cohesive and unified front.
Watch the video for Terrible And Sad above, listen to the EP below, and find Skin On Flesh at their website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
