Bad Omens released “Dying To Love” through Sumerian Records on October 22, 2025. Frontman Noah Sebastian helped shape both the recording and the film that accompanied it, sharing songwriting and production duties before stepping behind the camera. The single continued a run of releases that followed the band’s third studio album, The Death Of Peace Of Mind.
The song made room for the extremes of Sebastian’s voice. His high, melodic singing carried much of the track before the bridge broke into harsh screams. That change gave the arrangement a sharp escalation, putting the band’s heavier approach inside a song with a substantial melodic center. The contrast was a defining part of the release’s contemporary coverage, which emphasized both Sebastian’s falsetto and the force of that bridge.
Sebastian wrote and produced “Dying To Love” with guitarist Joakim Karlsson and Michael Taylor. Its recording connected work in Nashville and Los Angeles: drums were recorded at Blackbird Studio, with Alex Prieto and Matt Dierkes handling drum engineering, while Zakk Cervini mixed and mastered the song at MDDN Studios. Dierkes also held the song’s engineering credit. Those collaborators helped turn the three writers’ work into the finished recording.
For the video, Sebastian reunited with filmmaker Nico Poalillo. Their third collaboration placed Bad Omens inside a deteriorating concrete structure, performing below a gathering of spectators. Alongside those scenes, a separate narrative followed a man through a dark maze. The setting gave the performance an uneasy audience of its own, while the other character’s journey extended the film beyond footage of the band playing.
Sebastian’s involvement included writing the video with Madeline Leary. Pulse Films handled production, and Miha Jakovljevic played the lead character. With Sebastian contributing to the script as well as directing alongside Poalillo, the visual story became another substantial part of his work on the release.
That interest in filmmaking came into clearer focus when Sebastian discussed the period in a December 2025 interview with Kerrang!. “These days, the visual and storytelling components get me way more excited than anything,” he said. He described enjoying treatments, scripts and time on set, while acknowledging that he had less technical control over filmmaking than music. What interested him was watching the different elements combine into an image that supported the feeling of a song.
“Dying To Love” arrived between “Impose” and “Left For Good” in the band’s 2025 release sequence, which had begun with “Specter” in August. By the time of that December interview, Sebastian was still working through the shape of a larger body of music. The singles offered individual pieces of that work while its eventual album form remained unsettled.
The October release also collected “Impose” and “Specter” alongside its title track on digital services. Listeners could hear the three songs together as the band continued developing material beyond The Death Of Peace Of Mind.
“Dying To Love” subsequently reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated February 14, 2026. “Specter” had led the same chart the previous October, giving Bad Omens another radio success from that sequence of releases.
