Destroy Boys have released a new single, “Beg For The Torture,” via Hopeless Records. Produced by Carlos de la Garza (Bad Religion, Paramore, The Linda Lindas), It is one minute and 25 seconds of the band’s signature punk rock female empowerment and marks the trio’s first bit of new music since 2021. Paper Magazine recently noted, “their songs possess a primal groove reminiscent of ’80s California hardcore juxtaposed with confessional, hilarious and poignant reflections of humanity and life’s passing moments that beg a second look.” This is exemplified in today’s song for which they purposefully recorded the instrumentals to feel as overwhelming and haunting as the lyrics; “‘Beg For The Torture’ is about being confused, like a lot of DB songs that came before it. However, this one is elevated heavily with new musical dynamics, and I think it conveys my feelings better than ever before,” says the band’s Vi Mayugba, “I wrote my part of the lyrics about going back and forth between resentment and adoration for a person. I often find myself in entanglements with people that I shouldn’t be in, and this song is a perfect representation of that. It encapsulates my feelings of obsession, rage, desperation, and catapulting between feeling like the sexiest woman alive and a neglected child’s plaything. Sometimes my crushes make me feel like the girl who is bound to die first in an 80s horror movie – this song represents that.”
The punk rock band started in 2015 by Sacramento teens Alexia Roditis and Violet Mayugba while they were still in high-school, dropping their first record Sorry Mom which remains a classic for the band’s fans. Their success continued to heat up with the release of their album Make Room, recorded by Martin Cooke (Death Cab for Cutie, Of Monsters and Men). In 2020, they signed with Hopeless Records, worked with producer Will Yip (Turnstile, Braid) and released their LP Open Mouth, Open Heart chronicling pandemic-frustration and the rise of online gossip and bullying.
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