IAMTHESHADOW releases ‘Bending Time’ single on Cold Transmission
Portuguese darkwave project IAMTHESHADOW releases “Bending Time” on 16 October 2026 through the German imprint Cold Transmission, its first new song since the single “So Long Lost” in December 2025. Pedro Code, the musician behind IAMTHESHADOW, wrote and produced the track himself.
An austere, monochromatic performance video accompanies “Bending Time”. Code said there is a quiet beauty in letting go, describing the song as about “watching time slip through our hands, trying to hold on to moments that are already fading.” The single follows IAMTHESHADOW’s 2024 album “To End What Never Began” and the June 2026 collaborative album “Future Echoes”, made with Antipole’s Karl Morten Dahl and Ja’kob.
“Bending Time” is available as a digital single on Bandcamp.
About IAMTHESHADOW
IAMTHESHADOW began in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2015 as a solo project of Pedro Code, who also records as The Dream Collision and Rainy Days Factory. The project describes its sound as a modern dark romance, drawing on the darkest and sharpest sounds of the 1980s. IAMTHESHADOW’s third full-length album, “Pitchblack”, arrived in 2020, followed by “To End What Never Began” in 2024.
Code has also worked as a remixer for other Cold Transmission-affiliated acts, contributing an IAMTHESHADOW remix to Massive Ego’s 2025 single “Hit the Kerb Running” alongside XTR Human. “Future Echoes”, his 2026 collaborative album with Antipole‘s Karl Morten Dahl and Ja’kob, arrived on 19 June. “Bending Time” is IAMTHESHADOW’s first solo single since that collaboration.
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