Pias news – The Haunted Youth – new single, ‘murder me’
THE HAUNTED YOUTH SHARE NEW SINGLE "MURDER ME"

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THE SECOND SINGLE FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING ALBUM "BOYS CRY TOO"
OUT MAY 8, 2026 VIA PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
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Off the back of triumphant packed-out shows at SXSW, The Haunted Youth return with murder me, the second single from their forthcoming album, Boys Cry Too, out via Play It Again Sam on May 8, 2026.

The band's new material is more fiery and red-blooded than anything that has come before, take the goth grunge thrash of the band's latest single murder me for example. When creating this record, frontman Joachim Liebens explains, "I was really in touch with the male side of my emotions. The first half of the record is basically how everyone sees a boy when he's heartbroken: he puts his walls up, he's paranoid, he's angry, he's aggressive. But then the second half is this whole other story – it's vulnerable," he continues. "I want to show the vulnerable part of men and boys and celebrate it instead of making it this whole stigma that's been going on for so long."

On Boys Cry Too, Liebens abandons the fragile, bedroom-pop innocence of Dawn Of The Freak — a debut that has since earned cult status back home — in favour of something far more confrontational and emotionally charged. The album lets go of restraint in favour of something more raw, blending fragile melodies with distortion and aggression to create a sound that feels both intimate and explosive.

"I was a kid on Dawn Of The Freak," reflects Liebens today. "It sounds almost like nursery rhymes to me – everything is so fragile and childlike, like a cry for attention." He pauses before breaking into a wide, Cheshire Cat grin. "And now I'm angsty and kicking in doors."

It's a wide emotional spectrum reflected in a change of instrumentation for Boys Cry Too, with live drums and guitar coming more into focus ahead of the layers of sun-bleached synths that characterised Dawn Of The Freak.

Yet despite its squalls of guitar noise, Liebens says he was largely listening to hip hop artists during the record's competition, citing emo-rap outlier Lil Peep as a key influence as he crafted his own set of lyrical signifiers. "The lyrics in a lot of non-hip hop music try to bring resolution, but it's so much more powerful to have these lines that people just instantly engage with," he notes.

For all the killer lyrics on the record that grab you by the scruff of the neck, it was crucial for Liebens to leave space in his writing for the listener to impart their own experience into the songs. Boys Cry Too may have been born from his own pain, but he wants it to resonate with other people's lives.