Beautiful Monsters: Makes My Blood Dance’s Genre Rebellion “Time and a Place”
Brooklyn's musical mutineers, Makes My Blood Dance have returned to terrorize genre purists with their latest single "Time and a Place," which dropped just now. It's another middle finger to convention from the self-proclaimed "DiscoMetal" architects who refuse to color within the lines.
Recorded with producers Mikal Blue (OneRepublic) and Brett "Epic" Mazur (Crazy Town), the track is a disorienting cocktail of contradictions—screaming guitars and pulsing beats, vulnerability and aggression, all crashing together like colliding planets. It's messy, it's jarring, and that's precisely the point.
Lead vocalist EV0's lyrics cut deeper than their previous work: "How can I compete/There is no one left to ask now/When I'm down here on my knees." There's a raw desperation here that punches through the theatrical facade the band typically employs, revealing the bleeding human underneath all that makeup and swagger.
Their accompanying video continues their tradition of visual excess—described as a "Dancing with the Stars meets Burning Man" fever dream. As 360 Magazine aptly put it, this is "Saturday Night Fever meets Guitar Hero 2099," and the description couldn't be more perfect for their chaotic aesthetic.
The single precedes their upcoming nine-track album Z3r02LGHTSp33D, with the band hitting the road March 20th in West Palm Beach before tearing through Florida and Texas alongside nu-metal survivors like Josey Scott (Saliva) and Hed PE.
Makes My Blood Dance exists in the uncomfortable spaces between established sounds, creating something that simultaneously feels familiar and alien. It's this willingness to embrace contradiction that makes them one of the most genuinely interesting acts in today's alternative landscape—where true experimentation has become increasingly rare.
