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Nashville-based artist and producer Mel Denisse has always leaned into duality. Whether she’s blending left-field pop with jagged alt-rock or threading delicate vocals through dissonant, distorted production, Denisse is drawn to the clash. With her newest genre-defiant single “Like a Fiend,” the song whiplashes between vulnerability and volatility, mirroring the internal war of a creature split between two selves.

Denisse’s influences range from the hard-hitting alt-rock of Failure and Deftones to the haunting introspection of Tori Amos—artists unafraid to explore emotional extremes and sonic experimentation.

Previous releases earned spins on BBC Radio 1’s Alternative Show, placement on Spotify’s All New Rock, and tastemakers from LADYGUNN praised her “singular approach to alt-rock and pop, setting her apart in a saturated landscape,” and called it “refreshing, an essential listening for those craving authenticity in an age of imitation.”

While others like EARMILK called Denisse’s vocal performance “striking and inviting, like it is dispatched from another dimension, in the best way possible, a cinematic, noir-drenched world.””