Dead Poet Society Explore Resentment and Revenge on New Single “Roach”
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Dead Poet Society have shared a new standalone single offering fans another glimpse of the band’s increasingly shifting sound. Under the name “Roach” the song comes with a haunting video and deals with feelings of resentment and emotional chaos. Produced by Paul Meany, the track highlights the band’s ongoing desire to take their sound in darker, more experimental directions.
A press release from Dead Poet Society’s management disclosed that “Roach” was produced by Paul Meany (Twenty One Pilots, Pierce the Veil), mixed by Adam Hawkins (Turnstile, Yungblud), and recorded at Valley View Studios and The Park, both in Los Angeles.
Roach is more of a shape-shifting song that arrives alongside an eerily captivating video co-directed by frontman Jack Underkofler and Mindreader.
“Resent. That is what this song is about,” the band shared. “It’s about those who have wronged you, taken advantage of you, hurt you. Let the feeling fester and consume you.”
Listen to “Roach”:
Those same themes of resentment, festering, and consumption come to life in the accompanying clip, a strikingly cinematic visual where unease steadily gives way to dread.
Early last month, the L.A.-based foursome shared their first new song since 2024’s FISSION, releasing the single “Sinner Systems,” which arrived in tandem with a video directed by Mindreader and Darren Craig. The band explained that they were inspired to “hold a mirror up to modern excess and emotional numbness” and the result was the dark, brooding single featuring heavy, detuned, fretless grooves.
Dead Poet Society is Jack Underkofler (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jack Collins (guitar, backing vocals, drum programming, keyboards), Dylan Brenner (bass, additional guitars), and Will Goodroad (drums). The Los Angeles-based band have released a pair of albums, 2024’s FISSION, and their 2021 debut, -!-. Kerrang! described their music as “fuzzed-up alt.rock” with “swaggering confidence,” New Noise awarded FISSION a perfect 5-star score, and Rolling Stone France dubbed it “explosive.”
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