Canadian punk/post-hardcore provocateurs Midnight Peg will release their highly anticipated sophomore album Skinning on October 3rd, 2025 via Thousand Islands Records.
Recorded by Rob Lawless and Cody Blakely, mixed and co-produced by Blakely at Half Stack Studios, and mastered by Stuart McKillop (Rain City Recorders), Skinning features the singles “Swallow,” “Thirstland,” and “The Hag.”
Stream/Order here: https://bfan.link/skinning
With over 20,000 streams on their debut album Horn Colic and praise from outlets like DIY Conspiracy, Cups N’ Cakes, and Reverie Mag, Midnight Peg have established themselves as a vital force in the modern underground. The band has toured Western Canada with Pussy Riot and shared the stage with punk legends D.O.A.— building a reputation for genre-bending performances that swing from riotous punk aggression to avant-garde post-punk atmospherics.
Now, Skinning promises to be their most dangerous and addictive work yet. RANGE described Midnight Peg’s sound as “Nods to the fury of early ’90s grunge greats like The Gits while racing ahead on a futuristic bullet train of their own design... pulse-pounding.”
On Skinning, Midnight Peg double down on intensity with twelve high-strung cuts of paranoid contemplation and shredded anger. Louder, sharper, and scuzzier than their debut, the record weaves together noise, post-punk, emo, and experimentalism — underpinning motifs of sexuality, survival, absurd ritual, and the ubiquity of violence.
“Skinning is the apotheosis of our songwriting style; it takes frenzied, but refined risks across the board... Melodic themes recur and reference each other, so as a whole, the album resolves its own chaos. It’s meant to be listened to front to back. The instrumentation is only a backdrop when compared to Rocky’s vocals — she’s really expanded on the voice she developed in the first album.”— Eric Neilson (Guitarist/Composer/Vox)
“We really wanted to push what we were doing in the first album. It feels like an exciting time right now in heavy music, and bands are popping out all the time here; the diversity is exciting. Skinning grew out of that experimental, cross-genre moment where it all feels a bit unstable but totally alive. It’s a mash of pit-banging hardcore noise and aggression, sly melodic hooks, and ephemeral scuzz... But at the heart of each track is a quiet, guttural despair at the ubiquity of violence and how we survive it.”— Rocky Mann (Vocals, Lyricist)