GENRE IS DEATH SHARE ‘I SEE RED’ SINGLE
‘ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE’ ALBUM OUT MAY 1ST ON IN THE RED RECORDS
Photo: Feo @feonyc
Genre Is Death is a limitation-destroying noise duo formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that feels both minimal and overwhelming. While comparisons to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks are inevitable (and quite welcome), Genre is Death build’s on NYC’s legacy without repeating it… eschewing nostalgia and nihilism in favor of total sonic liberation. What sets them apart isn’t just their sonic intensity, but the force behind it: the sense that their music emerges from the mutual esteem they hold for one another.
‘I See Red’ was written a week before the band’s annual Black Tie Party last year at Madame X – a sultry burlesque club in the LES. The duo felt that the space demanded a new, sexy song from them to match its seductive interior and, having been listening to Rowland S. Howard and Lydia Lunch’s Shotgun Wedding in the weeks prior, ‘I See Red’ was written in a spontaneous flash, without pause or challenge. Appropriately, Lydia Lunch offered to produce the video, and called on Jasmine Hirst to direct and shoot it. The video features Genre is Death wandering through NYC’s LES, posing a critical aside question: how much has NYC really changed?
The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements… Their move to NYC, coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… However, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played New Colossus Festival, toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. Their upcoming record was recorded by legendary sound engineer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) and is out May 1st on In the Red Records.
Southern Tour (Supporting Lydia Lunch)
4/16 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
4/17 Austin, TX - Far Out Lounge
4/19 New Orleans, LA - Siberia *with Mike IX of Eyehategod
4/20 Birmingham, AL - Saturn Club *with Mike IX of Eyehategod
4/21 Atlanta, GA - 529
4/22 Asheville, NC - Fleetwoods
4/23 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
4/24 Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
4/25 Philadelphia, PA - Ruba Club
5/3 New York, NY - Madame X - A Red Tie Nite of Noizz & Words: ‘Attractive People’ Album Release Show
ft. Genre is Death, Sylvia Black, Skull Practitioners, Erica Mancini’s Electronium, Bob Bert, Martin Bisi, Stu Spasm, Liz Lamere, Ron Ward & More
TICKETS
TICKETS
“Menacing and sexy, living in the dark urban corners where the roaches still roam” - Donita Sparks, L7
“Sexy Southern Fried Psycho-Sludge, Genre Is Death is heavy as hell, wonderfully weird and absolutely irresistible.” - Lydia Lunch
“A whirlwind of grinds, squalls, screams and power…” - Cynthia Sley, Bush Tetras
“Genre is Death is smart, feral, uncompromising, and diametrically opposed to an indie scene populated by floppy-hatted nepo babies content to recycle milquetoast rock music until the inheritance comes through.” - Erick Bradshaw, Bandcamp Daily
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