Bad Omens and Poppy have teamed up on the new single “V.A.N.” Watch the music video below.
Written and produced by Bad Omens frontman Noah Sebastian, the song is the first glimpse of what the band will offer on its upcoming album, the “Concrete Forever” project also known as “Concrete Jungle OST.” The project is an experimental extension of Bad Omens’ hit 2022 LP “The Death of Peace of Mind” and the soundtrack to its “Concrete Jungle” comic book universe.
“V.A.N” is an industrial metal track about an artificial intelligence entity set out on a course to destroy humanity, with Poppy taking on the role of the AI character “V.A.N.”
“That’s a song that started just with the hook ‘Violence against nature,’ and then after saving the project with the acronym and seeing it we realized it could be fun to think of ‘V.A.N.’ as a name,” Sebastian said. “Thus the rabbit hole of ideas began that led us to decide to write lyrics from the perspective of an artificial intelligence gone rogue.”
Playing off the AI concept of the track and taking additional visual inspiration from the video game “Portal,” the film “Ex Machina” and “Stranger Things,” the story is brought to life by a visually stunning sci-fi thriller. In the mini film written by Noah Sebsastian, Poppy and Garrett Nicholson, Poppy portrays a synthetic human being held captive and subjected to experiments in a laboratory, eventually escaping and embarking on a murderous rampage.
Fans will get to experience “V.A.N” live for the first time on the European leg of Bad Omens’ Concret Forever tour with Poppy. The tour kicks off in Berlin Friday, Jan. 27, and international fans can tune in to livestreams of the sold-out shows from Cologne, Germany, on Jan. 28 and 29 exclusively on Veeps. (Access night 1 and night 2.)
Bad Omens 2024 tour dates:
Jan 27 – Columbiahalle – Berlin, Germany*
Jan 28 – Palladium Cologne – Cologne, Germany*
Jan 29 – Palladium Cologne – Cologne, Germany*
Jan 30 – Zenith, Munich, Germany*
Feb 1 – Halle 622 – Zürich, Switzerland*
Feb 2 – Stadthalle Offenbach – Offenbach Am Main, Germany*
Feb 4 – Poppodium 013 – Tilburg, Netherlands*
Feb 5 – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, Belgium*
Feb 6 – Salle Pleyel – Paris, France*
Feb 8 – Messe Dresden – Dresden, Germany*
Feb 9 – SaSaZu – Praha, Czech Republic*
Feb 10 – Congress Innsbruck – Innsbruck, Austria*\
Feb 11 – Alcatraz – Milan, Italy*
Apr 21 – Boeing Center at Tech Port – San Antonio, TX\
Apr 23 – Revel Entertainment Center – Albuquerque, NM
Apr 25 – Mesa Amphitheatre – Mesa, AZ
Apr 27 – Sick New World – Las Vegas, NV
Apr 30 – Tulsa Theater – Tulsa, OK
May 2 – The Factory in Deep Ellum – Dallas, TX
May 3 – The Factory in Deep Ellum – Dallas, TX
May 12 – Welcome To Rockville – Daytona Beach, FL
May 18 – Point Fest – St. Louis, MO
Jun 7 – Rock im Park – Nüburg, Germany
Jun 8 – Rock am Ring – Nüburg, Germany
Jun 12 – Rock For People – Hradec, Czechia
Jun 13-16 – Nova Rock – Nickelsdorf, Austria
Jun 14-16 – Download Festival – Derby, United Kingdom
Jun 26-29 – Resurrection Fest – Viveiro, Spain
Jun 27-30 – Hellfest – Clisson, France
Jun 28-30 – Tuska Festival – Helsinki, Finland
Jun 29 – Provinssi Festival – Seinäjoki, Finland
Jul 5 – Rock Werchter – Werchter, Belgium
Jul 7 – I-Days Festival – Milano, Italy
*with Poppy
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