Press release –
New Jersey’s Torn Open will make the baby fine hairs on your neck stand upright. They hold nothing back in their brutal, deathcore music or their sanguine imagery. Solidifying their lineup in 2025, the quintet has shared stages with legends like Mortician, as well as Torture and more. They released TORN THE FUCK OPEN, VOL. 1. in 2025 and followed with the single “None So Vile.”
Along the way, the band caught the attention of Blue Grape Music, which is pleased to announce it has added the band to its global roster. Torn Open will continue to tear into the metal scene with full ferocity and fangs bared moving forward. The band recently announced the TORN THE FUCK OPEN, VOL. 2 EP, which will arrive on May 1.
Torn Open also shared the gloriously gory (and NSFW) video for the primal new single “The Way Things Should End.”
It’s vicious and visceral, grabs you by the throat, and doesn’t let go. You won’t make it out unscathed.
“The Way Things Should End” is intended to be a hard-hitting introduction to a new era, and not just musically. The single checks all the boxes — creative riffing, a groove that makes you want to punch the guy next to you, and meaningful lyrics that address about how political power needs to be directly combatted with violence. Working in tandem with the imagery from the music video, the song creates an astoundingly strong statement, calling out and denouncing the malice inflicted upon many as a product of greed. It aims to point out that there are little to no distinguishing factors between businessmen and politicians anymore, and we are running out of peaceful options when it comes to stopping tyranny.
ABOUT BLUE GRAPE MUSIC:
In 2022, industry veterans David Rath and Cees Wessels formed Blue Grape Music. The name will be familiar to rock music fans, as it was the merchandise company also launched by Wessels, who founded the venerable and esteemed record label Roadrunner Records in the ’80s. Rath spent 21 years in the A&R department at Roadrunner, working on albums by a variety of RIAA-certified and culturally important acts, including but not limited to Slipknot, Korn, Turnstile, Gojira, Coheed & Cambria, White Reaper, Slash, Trivium, Dream Theater, and more.
When the label changed management and ownership, Rath guided the company and oversaw the signings of bands like Young the Giant and Vance Joy. Ultimately, the Blue Grape executive team is powered by experience and a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-your-hands-dirty, by-any-means-necessary work ethic. Blue Grape’s inaugural signing was the two-time Grammy nominee Code Orange and since then, the label has gone on to sign an array of rock, punk, metal, and hardcore acts, that include White Reaper, Spiritual Cramp, Superheaven, Silly Goose, Fugitive, Gridiron, Bike Routes, GEL, DoFlame, GASKET, Heavy//Hitter, Flatwounds and most recently Texas thrash juggernauts Power Trip, with several new signing announcements expected next year. Blue Grape is distributed globally by The Orchard.
TORN THE FUCK OPEN, VOL. 2 EP TRACK LISTING
“A Testament To Stoicism”
“Denial (And So It Begins)”
“The Way Things Should End”
“…And So We Rise”
