j:dead returns with eighth 2026 single ‘Draws My Blood’
UK industrial artist j:dead releases “Draws My Blood” on July 3, 2026, the eighth single in his monthly 2026 campaign on Infacted Recordings.
j:dead, the UK industrial and gothic-rock project of Jay Taylor, releases the single “Draws My Blood” on July 3, 2026 through Infacted Recordings. The j:dead “Draws My Blood” single is the eighth release in a monthly single campaign that Taylor launched in December 2025.
The track leans further into gothic and industrial rock, built on heavy guitars, dark atmospheres and introspective lyrics about the cost of letting other people take pieces of who you are.
j:dead’s 2026 single series and ‘Draws My Blood’
Taylor opened the year-long run in December 2025 with “Pressure”, the first of twelve planned monthly singles. The campaign continued through 2026 with releases including “Who Knows” and “Feeling Alone”. “Keep Walking” followed in June 2026 as the seventh single, and “Draws My Blood” arrives on July 3, 2026 as the eighth. Each single has been issued through Infacted Recordings.
About j:dead
j:dead is the solo project of UK musician Jay Taylor, launched in late 2019 with the single “Haunt”. Taylor signed to the German label Infacted Recordings soon after and has remained with it since. Alongside j:dead, he has worked as a live drummer for scene acts including Tactical Sekt and Tyske Ludder, and his live band has featured Matt Dunne on guitar, Hilger Tintel on bass and Andreas Schmitz on drums.
The project mixes industrial, gothic, electronic and modern-metal elements. After the 2022 EP “Vision of Time”, Taylor began a year-long monthly single campaign in December 2025 with “Pressure”, releasing a new track each month through 2026. “Draws My Blood”, out July 3, 2026, is the eighth single in that series.
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