Shooting Daggers drop new single, Glow, featuring Dennis Lyxzén

Shooting Daggers have revealed a brand-new single, Glow, featuring Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén.

The punk trio explain that their latest effort is about “denouncing gender roles and respecting gender identity. Self-liberation, embracing femininity and fighting internal misogyny. Feminine isn’t weak, and masculine doesn’t have to be stereotypically strong.

“It doesn’t matter if you want to express strength in a more masculine or feminine way, anything is valid as long as you feel powerful from within. When we wrote this song we knew who we wanted to have a feature on it and we were just back from opening two shows for punk legends Refused and all of us were mesmerised by Dennis Lyxzén’s stage presence.

“Refused has been a band that never wanted to fit in in a specific sound, they are pioneers of experimental punk while still being rooted in hardcore. They believe in what we believe in – antifascism, veganism, social justice – and Dennis onstage is anything but a generic hardcore singer. He jumps, he twirls, he dances, he dresses fancy and we knew from minute one he was the one. Of course, we had no certainty he would’ve said yes but we had to try. He accepted straight away and has been super supportive and collaborative of the coming of Glow. We couldn’t be more grateful.”

“We brought Shooting Daggers with us for a couple of shows last year on the final Refused tour,” adds Dennis. “They were great of course. Radical and fun and they just seemed like great people. When they asked me if I wanted to sing on a track for their new album I did not hesitate for one second. It was a complete honour to be a part of this album and I am very much looking forward to seeing what Shooting Daggers does next. ”

Speaking of that next album, Shooting Daggers will reveal a new mini record, which consists of seven tracks and goes by the name The Real Life Thing, on June 5 via New Heavy Sounds.

Watch the video for Glow below:

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