Ex-Hyena

Ex-Hyena is human psychology set to music.

Formed in 2020 by longtime Boston music conspirators Reuben Bettsak and Bo Barringer, the project surfaced through the haze of a global pandemic, setting out to create a tense, neurotic soundtrack for a far-off dystopian landscape that suddenly felt all too real. Expressive lyricism rides a minimal, propulsive electronic foundation, tapping into the doom and gloom of our current climate while existing on its own sonic plane.

Debut album Artificial Pulse (2021), announced by the detached cool of "Shades," captured a mutant disco dance party of cold electronics and warm emotion. Brutal Resonance placed it in its Top 5 albums of 2021, and Ex-Hyena earned a Dance/Electronic Artist of the Year nomination at the 2021 Boston Music Awards. 2022's Moon Reflections (Brutal Resonance Records/HUSH LTD) bridged the physical into the psychological, followed by the 19-track Moon Reflections Remixed, built from remix exchanges with Hororhaus, BlakLight, Pleasure Policy, Jackson VanHorn, Denial Waits, Blood Handsome, RM Hendrix, The Mystic Underground, Sawtooth and others.

Ex-Hyena then signed to Oklahoma's Re:Mission Entertainment. Singles "In Slow Motion" (b/w a Child of Night remix) and "Spiral Down" led into third album A Kiss Of The Mind in June 2024, followed by "A Secret To Protect." The duo has kept a steady pace on Re:Mission since, with the Shapeshifter EP, "Vanishing Edge," "This Is Your Love," XX Your Love, and in 2026 "Dark Lights" and "Details Fade," along with a run of music videos.

Ex-Hyena has built a captivating, strobe-lit live show, sharing the stage with Korine, Haunt Me, Traitrs, Blood Handsome, Harsh Symmetry, Ultra Sunn, Male Tears, Komrads and others, and has been featured by Post-Punk.com ("a luxurious combination of shadow and sound"), Brutal Resonance, ReGen, White Light // White Heat, Blood Makes Noise, Darkness Calling and more.

XX Your Love