BAT LIPS is an Austin, TX industrial hardcore trio composed of Paris Mygatt on guitar and vocals, Lukas Magalee on drums, and Domonic Candy on bass. Bat Lips draws from a shared foundation of the late-90s and 2000s hardcore scene alongside industrial influences from genre forebears; Front Line Assembly, Ministry, and Throbbing Gristle. Built on brutal guitar work, blast beats, and machine-driven electronic carnage they are a relentless act pushing every boundary to controlled detonation. Their unique sonic onslaught welds together the immediacy of hardcore and the cold aggression of industrial machinery. In 2024, the band unleashed POWDER, a four-track EP that dragged their sound into punishing new territory, tighter, heavier, and more mechanized than anything before it. It laid the groundwork for what's next: BAT LIPS' first full-length LP, HESPERUS, set for release in October 2026 via Second Engine Records. Written in the months directly following POWDER the record was self-produced by Bat Lips, mixed and engineered by Dave Alcan and mastered by Jay Maas, HESPERUS pulls the band's sound further into uncharted territories fusing industrial, death metal, and drum & bass stylings. Drawing musical influence from an eclectic array of artists like Death, Underworld, The Locust, and Venetian Snares. Mygatt’s introspective lyrics dig into structuralist literary references and confront themes of imprisonment, surveillance, and the search for self within a chaotic, technology-saturated world. HESPERUS promises to be the band's most relentless and uncompromising work to date.
