Qual’s next offering, Love Zone, kicks in like a steel door hurled off its hinges: no fanfare, no polite introduction, just a blunt plunge into William Maybelline’s personal funhouse of ruin. The album—Qual’s fourth LP, arriving November 28, 2025 via Fabrika Records—extends a decade-long descent that began with 2015’s Sable, where Maybelline first carved out a lair of minimal synth, old-school EBM, and analog-scarred industrial electronics.
Built entirely from hardware and steered by Maybelline’s sharpened instinct for abrasion, Love Zone continues his excavation of digital decay, A.I. aftermath, and our dopamine-fried dependence on the screen’s hypnotic glow—a world where there’s always a pill for every ill, and every cure tastes faintly like corrosion. Mixed by Owen Pratt of Uncanny Valley—whose clientele spans Post Malone, Alice Cooper, Arcade Fire, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Lana Del Rey—the album bears a full, organic punch that meshes cleanly with Maybelline’s hardwired vision.
Come With Me hurls its weight forward, thick with industrial clang and synthetic bile, as if Maybelline has found a way to grind paranoia into powder and shoot it straight through the speakers. Technoid hammers land with the force of a factory floor in free-fall, calling back to the industrial tribalism of Sleep Chamber. There’s a rough electricity in the air—the kind you feel before a substation fails and the whole block goes dim. Hardware piles high, knobs twist with missionary zeal, and a voice scraped raw from nights staring down the future like it owes him money.
The self-directed lyric video for Come With Me cranks the delirium further. Scenes dart between toppled monuments, sterile corridors, and warped lo-fi fragments of nature. It’s George Orwell poured into a blender and spiked with a smirk: bleak yet weirdly playful, like a cosmic prank pulled on a dying world. Qual stands in the center of it wearing the expression of someone who has read the last page of the book and doesn’t care for the ending.
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If Sable hinted at a disposition for murk and menace, Love Zone grabs that thread and knots it tighter. The A-side traces a vicious arc: technoid punishment, deranged circuitry, and splintered emotion. Come With Me fires first, followed by the bruised throb of For a Moment of Happiness—a slower, more mournful descent than Qual devotees might expect, revealing a facet of Maybelline’s palette that usually hides behind steel plating.
Flip to the B-side, and the floors cave in. Death and Destruction and Beyond This Madness arrive as studies in rancid deterioration, stomping through rusted ruins like condemned machinery still clinging to function. The title track, Love Zone, is abrasive eroticism incarnate—metal meeting flesh with intent. And then there’s Scrolling Your Brains Outs, a classic Qual closer saturated in hard-driven gloom that hits where it hurts, a final message from a brain drowning in the infinite scroll.
Love Zone lands with two vinyl variants—magenta and cyan, each limited to 500 copies. The album scorches, scrapes, provokes, and cackles through the wreckage…a transmission from a bunker where the calendar has collapsed, and the machines have taken over the night shift. Maybelline lurches through these tracks like a doomsday courier, delivering cracked messages from the fringes.
Listen to Love Zone on Spotify and order the album here.
Qual will tour Latin America and the US in spring 2026 and will perform at Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany in May. See Dates below.
Tour Dates — 2026
February — Latin America
- 06/02 — Amón Solar, San José (Costa Rica)
- 07/02 — Ansia, Bogotá
- 08/02 — (TBA) Lima
- 12/02 — Unione e Benevolenza, Buenos Aires
- 13/02 — Santiago Gothic Event, Santiago
- 14/02 — Madame Club, São Paulo
- 27/02 — Blue Shell, Cologne
April — USA
- 03/04 — The Rebel Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
- 04/04 — Numbers, Houston, TX
- 08/04 — HQ, Denver, CO
- 09/04 — Substation, Seattle, WA
- 11/04 — The Farmhouse Collective, Riverside, CA
- 12/04 — La Santa, Orange County, CA
May — Europe
- 24/05 — Wave Gotik Treffen, Stadtbad Leipzig
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