Poppy Unleashes Brutal "Dying to Forget" Video With Knocked Loose's Isaac Hale

If you thought Poppy was done pushing boundaries, the new music video for Dying to Forget should settle that real quick. The track is already one of the heaviest cuts on her seventh album Empty Hands, and the visual treatment matches that energy beat for beat.

The video, directed by Orie McGinness (who also helmed the visuals for Guardian, Bruised Sky, and Time Will Tell), opens on a dark industrial backdrop with Poppy and her band locked into a narrow corridor. Real fans were brought in as extras, and you can feel it. There's nothing staged about the way they're thrashing. It's chaotic, claustrophobic, and completely visceral.

Heavy Hitters in the Room

What makes this one hit different is who's involved. Isaac Hale, lead guitarist of Knocked Loose, and Stephen Harrison of House of Protection both appear in the video. They're not just making cameos either. Both are credited songwriters on the track alongside Poppy, Jordan Fish, and Julian Gargiulo, with Fish handling production.

If you know Harrison's resume, this collaboration makes a lot of sense. The former Fever 333 and The Chariot guitarist has been a recurring presence on Empty Hands, also co-writing the center's falling out on the album. House of Protection also opened for Poppy on the They're All Around Us Tour and joined the Goodbye, Friend Tour headlined by Bad Omens, so these worlds have been overlapping for a while.

And then there's the Knocked Loose connection. Poppy and Knocked Loose already proved they're a lethal pairing on Suffocate, which earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Metal Performance in 2025. They lost to Gojira's Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) at the ceremony, but the nomination alone cemented both acts as some of the most vital forces in heavy music right now.

About Empty Hands

Dying to Forget is the sixth track on Empty Hands, which dropped January 23 through Sumerian Records. The album has been described as metalcore, alternative metal, industrial metal, and nu metal, and honestly, all of those labels apply depending on the track. It's the most aggressive and diverse thing Poppy has put out.

Pitchfork said it best: "The versatile metalcore singer amplifies all her strengths on her seventh album. It's heavier, savvier, and quirkier than ever." The record debuted at number 137 on the Billboard 200 and spawned singles like Unravel, Bruised Sky, Guardian, and Time Will Tell, the latter of which is currently sitting in the top 25 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

I'll be real, the trajectory here is wild. Poppy made history as the first solo female artist ever nominated for Best Metal Performance at the GRAMMYs (for Bloodmoney in 2021), and she's now a 2x nominee. Her collaboration End of You with Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, marking the first time three women or women-led acts hit #1 in the chart's 45-year history. She's not just participating in heavy music. She's reshaping it.

The Constantly Nowhere Tour

Poppy is taking Empty Hands on the road this summer with the Constantly Nowhere Tour, a massive 56-city international run. The North American leg kicks off July 7 at Echostage in Washington, D.C. and wraps August 19 at Marathon Music Works in Nashville. Support comes from French metalcore act LANDMVRKS and post-hardcore band Thousand Below.

These are some of the biggest rooms she's headlined, including The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City, The Fillmore in Philadelphia, Riviera Theatre in Chicago, and the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. She'll also hit festivals like Upheaval in Michigan and Inkcarceration in Ohio.

Additional dates through August 19 in Nashville. Check poppy.com for the full routing.

Don't Sleep on This

Tickets for the Constantly Nowhere Tour are on sale now via Ticketmaster and poppy.com. You can stream Empty Hands here. If you've been paying attention to what Poppy has been building over the last few years, this is the moment where it all clicks. Go see this tour.

Cover photo courtesy of Ticketmaster