Machine Girl, the newly trio’d New York-based electronic hardcore project helmed by Matt Stephenson have dropped the final single from their forthcoming PsychoWarrior (MG Ultra X) due October 24th via Future Classic. LISTEN HERE + PRE-SAVE THE LP HERE.

‘Dread Architect’ [feat. Drumcorps] is a relentless drum-n-bass barrage crashing into manic screams underlined by groans of fuzzed-out feedback and laser-precise synths. Stephenson notes: “To me, ‘Dread Architect’ is almost the antagonist of the whole double-LP,” he states. “It’s the worst of our war-hungry billionaire class leaders who are seething to create a horrible future. We’re witnessing the destruction of the environment worldwide. Mark Zuckerberg and all of these billionaires have already built bunkers for the apocalypse. They’re trying to get out of here and go to Mars. It’s grim and fucked up. Drumcorps is the de facto metalcore breakcore producer extraordinaire. He provided some super gnarly guitar tracks for us to chop up and use too.” The track follows ‘Rabbit Season‘, a brain-rattling crafted beat with neon keys and a snappy hook, and ‘Come On Baby, Scrape My Data‘.

Their second album in two years, PsychoWarrior (MG Ultra X) is part of the same arc as 2024’s incredibly successful MG Ultra, an album that garnered 15+ million streams and sold 55,000 tickets on the subsequent tour. Whereas MG Ultra explored mind control, PsychoWarrior (MG Ultra X) delves into the collective unconscious. Stephenson explains, “I’d been reading analytical psychology and the writings of Joseph Campbell and Jung. There’s a concept of the collective unconscious and these archetypes that we innately have. We adopt different personae in order to get through the day. In essence, you complete yourself by facing your shadow self. To do so, you must accept the less savoury aspects of who you are. There’s a lot of validity to these theories. Right now, we’re a very psychologically damaged culture and society. We’re being pushed over the edge with social media and technology. Any chance of resistance against these systems starts in the mind, so this was the genesis of PsychoWarrior (MG Ultra X).”

Machine Girl carved out an incomparable lane upon arrival in 2012. Stephenson’s 2014 full-length debut LP, Wlfgrl, achieved bona fide cult status, shocked to life by ‘Out by 16, Dead on the Scene’, ‘Ghost’, and ‘Mg1’, which have reeled in north of 43 million Spotify streams and counting. Their sound proceeded to completely reinvent itself across each LP that followed—Gemini (2015), …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For (2017), The Ugly Art (2018), U-Void Synthesizer (2020), and 2022’s two-part Original Soundtrack for the video game Neon White. Most recently, 2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far.