Arising Empire have never been ones to play it safe but with their newest signing, they’ve doubled down on something far more volatile. Enter Banks Arcade and their ferocious new single Severance: a track that doesn’t just blur genre lines, it tears them apart and leaves the pieces smoldering.
Built on a collision of punishing metalcore, glitchy electronic textures, and the swagger of modern hip-hop, Severance feels less like a song and more like a system overload. It’s aggressive, cinematic, and calculated chaos—exactly the kind of statement you’d expect from a band that has never acknowledged the idea of staying in one lane.
And Banks Arcade didn’t arrive here by accident. What started as a project between two best friends—shaped by wildly different worlds spanning jazz academia and professional MMA—has evolved into one of the most unpredictable forces in modern heavy music. Their sound reflects that tension: precision meets violence, control meets collapse.
