TwoLips Blends Nu Metal and Emotion on “HONEY METAL”
“HONEY METAL,” the new single from singer-songwriter TwoLips, is drenched in a deep, almost mysterious darkness. Driven by nu metal, its lyrics capture that pivotal moment when hidden truths come to light, and everything changes.
Suspended by a thread that sways with the artist’s almost mournful voice, the maximalist track never lets up. Throughout its nearly four-minute runtime, it has the power to send chills down the listener’s spine and spark reflection.
“I’m a wise-ass, but somewhere along the way, the laughing stopped and the gravity set in. Sitting with the lyrics, I realized this song is about the loss of naivete and the grief of ‘knowledge’. It’s about regret, change, lack of self-control, and duality—the beautiful fear of life passing us by that motivates us to appease our deepest selves or lose them forever,” she explained.
Behind TwoLips is Kianah LongChase, a multidisciplinary artist whose creative sensibility allows her to move seamlessly between music, visual arts, dance, circus performance, and acting, shaping an artistic identity as expansive as her background. Driven by an open mind and a relentless appetite for authentic sounds, her work brings together influences from desert metal, rap, and afrobeat.
A multiracial Black and Indigenous woman with Dena’ina and Lakota roots, LongChase has transformed her lived experience into a creative force that is inseparable from her art. Raised in Tesuque Village, New Mexico, her artistic perspective is inevitably shaped by identity, memory, and resilience, elements that resonate throughout her work, even when they are not explicitly addressed in her lyrics.
As she ushers in this new chapter, the artist is also taking her music to audiences on the road. Her upcoming run includes a listening party in Los Angeles on July 24, followed by shows at The Echo in Los Angeles with Big Sis, San Diego’s Soda Bar alongside MAD HUNNY, dates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a stop in Phoenix this October. Find more dates and tickets here!
Born without warning but from deep within, as the artist herself describes the song’s origin, “HONEY METAL” stands as the introduction to the world of “DIE ON EVERY HILL,” TwoLips’ upcoming album. Created alongside her longtime collaborator Lightfoot, the project promises an intense, visceral, and at times unsettling sonic journey, one designed to stir emotions and linger in the listener’s memory long after the music fades.