Running on Wires by Vampire Liver Therapy arrives on October 31st, 2025 as a raw, dystopian pulse straight out of Santiago, Chile, as a one-man descent into the digital apocalypse. The project is entirely shaped by its creator, who folds together the industrial abrasion of Nine Inch Nails, the theatrical unease of Bowieโs Berlin era, and the shadow-creeping weirdness of Marilyn Manson and David Lynch. Built alone in a home studio, Running on Wires revels in darkness, imagining the end of reality and humanity with a cracked, cybernetic poetry. Itโs an album about systems collapsing, identities glitching, and hearts turning to circuitry. Yet the emotional charge behind it moves us.
The opener, โKill Configurator,โ lays the blueprint. Steady jittery smacks and rumbling beats set a tense, metallic pulse while a cool, shimmering layer of synth hovers above like a dying signal. The vocals come sharp and eccentric, a grainy high tone that cuts through the noise with unnerving clarity. The song spirals through lines about voids, shattered hearts, and collapsing rights, building a world where even the music feels on the verge of falling apart, exactly as intended. Itโs confrontational but strangely hypnotic, like staring into a broken mirror and refusing to look away.
Then the titular track slithers in with a low, mysterious punchy rhythmic rap with its persistent rumble. The vocal delivery comes serpentine, high, slithering, trailing, to establish a seductive and sinister mood. The chorus hits like an existential malfunction, speaking of running on wires, hearts obsolete, echoes in circuits skipping their beat. The track feels like the thesis of the album, as it recalls humanity fading into its own inventions, memory reduced to static.
Running on Wires lingers as atmosphere, as a ghost in the circuitry, humming the last song before the lights go out.
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Review by: Naomi Joan