Steel Vandal

Steel Vandal is industrial rock built by two people who sound like they're welding the songs together live: pounding machine rhythms, grinding guitars and two voices trading lines like parts on an assembly line. Cold on the surface, painfully human underneath.

Break Me Into Parts is love at the cost of your own structure, taken apart piece by piece — "Load-Bearing," "Bent to Fit," "Smaller for You," "Useful Until Broken" — until only the "Factory Settings" are left. It Runs Without Me is obsession running as an automated process long after it stopped making sense: "Compulsion Engine," "Refresh Reflex," "Unsent at 3.17," "Your Street Again," "Operating Unattended." And Nobody Else Thinks So is standing by someone the world has already convicted ("Character Reference," "Unpopular Witness," "I Need You Innocent"), and wondering if it's loyalty or just refusing to be wrong ("Was It Ever You").

Heavy, precise and quietly heartbroken, Steel Vandal is part of Riot Temple, Squaredrum's home for rock, created under human creative direction with AI-assisted music.

Steel Vandal is an AI artist: a virtual persona created at Squaredrum and released on Riot Temple. The voice, images and music are made with AI tools and shaped by our team.