Mimi Barks returns with new single "Crawling"
Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut album “This is Doom Trap”, alternative trailblazer Mimi Barks returns with a haunting reimagining of Linkin Park’s iconic Crawling, released via Easy Life Records. Known for pioneering the DOOM TRAP genre - a visceral fusion of trap, industrial, and metal - Barks channels her raw emotion and sonic intensity into this tribute to one of nu-metal’s most emotionally charged anthems.
Originally released in 2001, Crawling captured the inner torment of Linkin Park’s late frontman Chester Bennington, and Mimi’s version preserves that anguish while reinterpreting it through her uniquely harsh, atmospheric lens. With ghostly textures, punishing beats, and guttural vocals, the track feels less like a cover and more like a seance - summoning the pain, resilience, and unhealed scars that still resonate decades later.
Speaking of the release, Mimi Barks, shares,
“Crawling isn’t reborn, it remembers.
A raw phantom in the wires, a resonance of the silence Chester left behind.
Because some wounds don’t heal; they echo.”
Check out the official video for Crawling below:
If trap metal came screaming out of the digital womb - a sonic disruptor hardwired to corrupt the code of everything that came before - then Mimi Barks is its future. Her from-the-heart-guts-and-soul fusion of trap beats and raw, venom-laced vocals has been christened DOOM TRAP, and the name fits. It’s the bitter pill she intends to smear across the genre, punk and louder than hell.
This is the sound of music eating its young: hip hop’s wordfire, electronic chaos, and slashing guitars chewed up and spat out through trap’s chopped beats, distorted basslines, and off-kilter weirdness. Like the Borg said—resistance is futile.
In 2024, Mimi Barks released her long-awaited debut album, “This is Doom Trap”. Co-produced by Barks herself alongside MorgothBeatz, Brian Spencer, Kenny Graves, and KOEN, it’s a genre-demolishing statement built on dread, defiance, and a razor-edged sense of purpose.
Backed by support from BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders, Dan P Carter, Alyx Holcombe, Nels Hylton), Kerrang! Radio (Alex Baker, Johnny Doom), championed by the likes of Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Metal Hammer, Knotfest, Revolver and Clash and seen live on stages at Download Festival, Bloodstock Festival, 2000 Trees Festival and more, Mimi’s vision has taken root in the underground and grown wild.
Photo (c) Thilo Swora
The release of Crawling comes just weeks before Mimi Barks takes the stage at a string of major festivals this summer, including Boomtown Festival, Wacken Open Air, Tolminator Festival, and Rockstadt Festival. Full details below:
JULY
26 Tolminator Festival, Slovenia
AUGUST
01 Wacken Open Air, Germany
03 Rockstadt Festival, Romania
08 Boomtown Festival, UK
