Dearborn, Michigan band Prostitute announced details of their signing to Mute at the end of 2025 in addition to the first worldwide release of their debut album, Attempted Martyr. The band return with a video for its powerful opener ‘All Hail (Pressure)’.
Attempted Martyr, produced by Chris Koltay (The Armed, Mdou Moctar), will be released on CD and two vinyl editions – a special limited Arabic edition on Lebanese sunburst vinyl exclusively through Dinked, and a red vinyl edition – on 13 March. The five-piece have announced a spring 2026 tour of Europe and UK including two dates at the MOTH Club, London on 28 April and 29 April. All the UK dates are now sold out, and the band will be at Roadburn Festival on 18 April and Supersonic Festival on 26 April – full tour details below.
The group’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, has been steadily accruing devoted followers and accolades since its (very limited) original release. Loosely a concept album, Attempted Martyr is a full-spectrum blast of acerbic noise, sampler shrapnel, savagely mordant humour and bruised melancholy. Its complexity and simmered rage conjure a fever dream of hope, desperation and alienation, a riot of artful profanity, disturbing imagery and blacker-than-midnight wit. An album for these perilous, cursed times, even if it wasn’t conceived as such, Attempted Martyr isn’t noise for its own sake, it’s for everyone’s: a catharsis, a venting, a return of fire.
Based in Dearborn, MI, a town with America’s largest Muslim population, Prostitute were founded by Moe (frontman) and Andrew (drummer) who together write the group’s lyrics, and conceived Attempted Martyr’s thematic throughline. Moe explains:
“I had an identity crisis, growing up, 9/11 started a lot of xenophobia and Arab hatred and all that kind of shit. I hated being Arabic. I hated Arabs in general, just because people were hating me. Through much of my 20s I felt like, ‘How about I be the character you want me to be?’”
Andrew took that crisis and, explains Moe: “ran with it, and made the philosophy behind it, this ‘radical terrorism’, this crazed zealot thing.” To complete the band, Ross, Bret and Dylan soon came onboard. “It’s all a bit serendipitous,” says Andrew. Each of the members were raised in Dearborn, went to the same schools, orbited the same groups of people and crossed paths before eventually meeting each other and coming together as a band.
Prostitute Live Dates
April
17 – Liège (BE), KulturA
18 – Tilburg (NL), Roadburn Festival
20 – Berlin (DE), Urban Spree
21 – Cologne (DE), Bumann & SOHN
22 – Antwerp (BE), Trix
23 – Paris (FR), Petit Bain
24 – Rennes (FR), Ubu
26 – Birmingham (UK), Supersonic Festival
27 – Brighton (UK), Green Door Store – SOLD OUT
28 – London (UK), Moth Club – SOLD OUT
29 – London (UK), Moth Club – SOLD OUT
May
1 – Manchester (UK), White Hotel – SOLD OUT
2 – Glasgow (UK), Hug and Pint – SOLD OUT
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