pMAD spills ‘Blood’

After the albums ‘Who Why Where What’ and ‘I in Power’, Portumna’s pMad returns in 2026 with a new album led by an intense new single called ‘Blood’.

Paul Martin Anthony Dillon – ‘pMad’ – began his solo music-making project when the pandemic struck in 2020. Accountant, farmer and manager of Pallas Karting and Paintball in Tynagh, Paul pays homage to the music he was passionate about when growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s. His own music can best be described as post-punk, gothic indie rock that blends influences from The The, The Cure, Killing Joke and Rammstein.

The pMad project explores themes of survival, truth, life & death and global unrest. With ‘Blood’, pMad delivers a fierce anthem for a world at war — a world where faceless generals steal lives, children, and freedom.

The track is dark, urgent, and unrelenting, yet beneath the menace lies defiance: we will stand up, we will resist, we will find our way home.

Driven by pounding rhythms and a stark, brooding vocal delivery, ‘Blood’ channels the raw intensity of post-punk and grunge while capturing the paranoia of propaganda, mistruths, and the endless hunger of power.

QUESTION TRUTH

The single heralds Paul’s most ambitious work yet with ‘1 + 1 = -1’. An album that questions truth in an age of propaganda, fake wars, and mistruths, it confronts the lies we’re fed - or are they? - while urging us to believe only in ourselves. Dark, urgent, and unflinching, the record blends post-punk grit, gothic atmosphere, and metallic edge into a cathartic soundtrack of survival and resistance.

“Where post-punk meets metal-tinged darkness, pMad delivers with raw emotion and brutally honest atmospheric power.” – The Best of World Indie.

“pMad turns inner battles and global unrest into a powerful and pulse-driven post-punk anthem.” - The Best of Irish Indie

Fans on Bandcamp will hear the full album first in 2026, while streaming services will only receive it gradually, single by single — a statement as much as a strategy. The album is also available on CD and vinyl. ‘Blood’ was released on January 6 and can be heard on a variety of streaming platforms.

Visit the pMad website – pmadtheband.com – and visit the socials @pmadtheband for further details.