London’s Troy the Band open their new single “Nothing” like they’re signalling the start of some slow-motion collapse. It’s a sudden plunge into blast beats and a mood that feels scorched around the edges. The track is the second glimpse of their 2026 album “(des)”, arriving together with its video premiere, and both pieces sit in that uneasy space the band has carved out: heavy music pushed until it becomes a kind of controlled disorientation.
Their sound leans into a blackened undertow without calling attention to it—doom weight dragging at the frame, shoegaze haze softening nothing, noise-rock angles cutting through whenever things start to feel stable. It’s a vibe built from pressure points rather than atmosphere, something that keeps shifting underfoot but always stays rooted in the darker corners of their palette. The band doesn’t treat genre as a map so much as a set of structures to knock down: blast-driven openings, noise-rock verses, and those dragged-out, dissonant riffs threading through the center.
That mix of blunt admission and amused disbelief sums up the track’s shape; it leans into abrupt turns, treating structure like something to be pushed around until it finally snaps. A perfect treat for fans of Agriculture, Chat Pile and Shellac.
Jake Packham—known from Black Groove and Outback—brings that ferocious, twisted delivery the track needed. His vocals stretch and torque around the band’s asymmetric tension, clashing and colliding with Durbin’s voice while the instrumentation smears between annihilating black-metal beats and jagged noise-rock spikes. “Nothing” works because it refuses to settle; the band keeps moving the ground, shaping the chaos in short, deliberate bursts.
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The single also arrives at a moment of transition. After releasing their 2024 debut “Cataclysm” and unveiling last month’s track “Porous”, the group ended up rethinking the entire framework of “(des)”. Losing their original vocalist shortly after entering the studio forced a shift, and instead of filling the gap in a conventional way, they reshaped the album into a collaborative project.
Members of Elephant Tree, Believe in Nothing, Black Groove, Codex Serafini, Black Orchids, and others appear throughout the record, something the band frames as a reflection of London’s underground heavy-music community rather than a detour.
The new material was tracked at Bear Bites Horse Studio in Haggerston with producer Wayne Adams, known from Gum Takes Tooth, Petbrick, and Terminal Cheesecake. Those sessions also settled a long-running piece of the puzzle: drummer Jack Revans, who had been playing live with the band, became a permanent member. The recordings expand the sonic palette they built on “Cataclysm” but keep its core instincts—pushing weight, noise, and tension until they fray at the edges.
Troy the Band plan to release one track each month leading up to the full physical edition of “(des)” in 2026. For now, “Nothing” (featuring Jake Packham) is out to stream and share ahead of its official release on Friday, 28 November.
