If trap metal came screaming out of the digital womb – a sonic disruptor hardwired to corrupt the code of everything that came before – then MIMI BARKS is its future. Her from-the-heart-guts-and-soul fusion of trap beats and raw, venom-laced vocals has been christened DOOM TRAP, and the name fits. It’s the bitter pill she intends to smear across the genre, punk and louder than hell.
This is the sound of music eating its young: hip hop’s wordfire, electronic chaos, and slashing guitars chewed up and spat out through trap’s chopped beats, distorted basslines, and off-kilter weirdness. Like the Borg said—resistance is futile.
In 2024, Mimi Barks released her long-awaited debut album, THIS IS DOOM TRAP. Co-produced by Barks herself alongside MorgothBeatz, Brian Spencer, Kenny Graves, and KOEN, it’s a genre-demolishing statement built on dread, defiance, and a razor-edged sense of purpose.
Backed by support from BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders, Dan P Carter, Alyx Holcombe, Nels Hylton), Kerrang! Radio (Alex Baker, Johnny Doom), championed by the likes of Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Metal Hammer, Knotfest, Revolver and Clash and seen live on stages at Download Festival, Bloodstock Festival, 2000 Trees Festival and more, Mimi’s vision has taken root in the underground and grown wild.
