Raunchy Debut “Designed Despair” Music Video From Upcoming Comeback Album ‘Prisoner’

Raunchy have released an official music video for their latest single “Designed Despair,” further building anticipation for the Danish industrial groove metal band’s long-awaited comeback album, Prisoner.

The song initially premiered in April as the first taste of the band’s first new full-length record since 2014. Prisoner is currently expected to arrive this summer through Mighty Music.

Recording sessions for the album took place with acclaimed producer Jacob Hansen, whose résumé includes work with Volbeat and The Black Dahlia Murder.

According to the band, “Designed Despair” explores themes of systemic oppression, social division, and institutional neglect.

“‘Designed Despair‘ sheds light on the arcane mechanisms of systemic oppression and the engineering of invisible borders that divide, confine, and silence.”

The group continued by describing the song as a reflection on marginalized voices and societal systems designed to maintain imbalance and isolation.

“Voices rise from the margins only to vanish into a void built to ignore them, as redlined boundaries and hierarchical design trap those hidden in plain sight.”

“Ultimately, this song reflects the reality of a system that creates roads to nowhere, where escape exists only through the narrow cracks of a broken foundation.”

With Prisoner set to mark their first album in over a decade, Raunchy appear poised to return with a darker and more politically charged direction than ever before.

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