Nine years in the making, the new album from Pyramids is a daring study in genre synthesis. The band continues to push boundaries in both sound and aesthetic, blending jagged fragments of black metal and shoegaze as they have done since their influential 2008 debut.

With their forthcoming LP Pythagoras (The Flesner) releasing on May 2, 2025,  Pyramids add unconventional layers of reggaeton and neoperreo to both voice and rhythm. Named after the ancient Greek philosopher, Pythagoras represents the band’s ongoing commitment to innovation, and the perpetual juxtaposition of the delicate and the devastating, embracing complex musical structures and rhythms that both challenge and captivate the listener. At the heart of the album lies an intricate balance between aggressive blast beats and the syncopated pulse of reggaeton’s signature dembow rhythm—a concept born from founder Rich Loren Balling’s own immersion in both extreme music and pop genres. 

Of their latest single, “Pretty Pigs,” Rich Loren Balling shares: “Sometimes songs just happen, so it is hard to capture just how this one went down… but the pieces definitely fell into place here.  If I was to lead with a question for context, it would be ‘Why do the wicked prosper?’ ‘Pretty Pigs’ is for those that share a high sense of injustice.  An inner monologue constructed within the crosshairs of melody and misfortune.  This is one of the most vivid realizations of genre juxtaposition on ‘Pythagoras.'”