With their breakout runs supporting Born Of Osiris and currently Lacuna Coil and Escape The Fate, millions of cross platform streams, and their explosive pre-album singles “selfish”, “fragile” and “dismay”, emerging Brazilian metalcore talent AXTY have been inescapable over the last year. Now, what it has all been building to, the band announce their Napalm Records debut, The Pain Made Me Who I Am, dropping August 21, 2026. Alongside the announcement, the band unleashes the record’s cataclysmic closer “end this”, an onslaught of aggression nu and core. Thunderous drumming, bone shattering breakdowns, and a truly inhuman vocal performance from vocalist Felipe Hervoso, this track is violently delicious. AXTY about “end this”:
“One of the most pessimistic moments on the record, this track serves as a closing statement that encapsulates the album’s overarching emotional arc. ‘end this’ portrays a character shaped by accumulated trauma, depression, and intrusive, self-destructive thoughts. Themes that unfold progressively throughout the release. Positioned as the final track, the song leans into a sense of exhaustion and finality, reinforced by the recurring line ‘please end this,’ while subtly subverting its own premise in the opening verse: ‘so here we go again, another song about how I hate myself.’ Musically, it stands out as one of the heaviest and most sonically challenging pieces on the album, featuring its most dissonant chorus to date. This deliberate stylistic contrast mirrors a state of dissociation, culminating in a drifting, almost delirious reflection captured in the line: ‘why try so long here if all we touch will rot and sear.’” | 
