Provoker

On Mausoleum (due May 9th via YEAR0001), Provoker’s signature darkness has grown even bolder, sharpened and synthesized with the addition of Kenny Beats production and other outside perspectives. Petty and Lopez’s songwriting partnership delves deeper on the album, shifting the focus from supernatural creatures and the sci-fi of their cinematic influences to a world more rooted in our own reality and the hauntings of our own personal struggles. Those revelations are couched in the band’s characteristically vivid imagery of grotesquerie but capture all-too-familiar feelings of the struggles of self-worth, relationships and redemption.