Brian Ennals

🌐🌐 Come with B. Do you wanna ride or die? 🌐🌐 Hip-hop heads Brian Ennals & Blockhead announce debut collaboration album Boatshoes. Check out the first single and pre-order from our bio link-> Photography by @jamesstonephoto Artwork by @infinityknives Animation by @lumborgjack

much to our chagrin, we’re back in the studio fussing over bits and bobs. this saturday, april 25, we’ll be at montgomery college at @930kingstreet with some mighty fine artists. for once, the universe has quit acting like a dumb bitch. life’s good.

Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals embody this ethos of cutting through pretence with their raw, unfiltered creativity and incisive commentary. Known for their boundary-pushing DIY approach, the duo has achieved a cult-level following in experimental hip-hop, blending chaotic, genre-defying production with unapologetic social critique and dark humour. @ #DMVWAVES III APRIL 25 @mcculturalarts @montgomerycollege @infinityknives

A City Drowned In God’s Black Tears turns one today ❤️ What a shit show this album was to make and release. I never thought I’d get so many death threats! Don’t tease me with a good time! Free Palestine forever and fuck Israel. Don’t kill yourself! We sold out all our records—possibility of represses of all our records in the near future.

Skaņu Mežs 2026:  Baltimore‑based artists Infinity Knives (Tariq Ravelomanana) and Brian Ennals create a fiercely expressive blend of experimental hip‑hop, classical‑leaning composition, and politically charged lyricism. Their 2025 album A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears received widespread acclaim from Rolling Stone, The Wire, The Quietus, Stereogum, and others. “City Drowned… is most definitely their boldest work yet together.” – The Needle Drop   “Among the most ambitious and expansive of the albums I loved this year.” – Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker Check our website for tickets and more info.

MON 4 MAY: INFINITY KNIVES & BRIAN ENNALS Baltimore, MD-based hip-hop experimentalists Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals' music is a masterfully executed expression of ferocity and joy, that doesn’t ask for your permission. Transcending beyond the generic idea of what a hip-hop producer can do, Infinity Knives (Tariq Ravelomanana) frequently demonstrates his oft-discussed love of contemporary classicalists. This can be felt in their latest record, A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears, one of the most fearless records released last year. It’s a collection of confessional rap colliding with metal, psych, folk and electro, all held together by Ennals’ sometimes shockingly unfiltered verses and Infinity Knives’ production that pulls from orchestral music, first-wave hip-hop and doom metal in the same breath. The kitchen sink production and Ennals’ unapologetic verses are equally hard to look away from. The record was shaped by grief - personal and political - and that weight carries into their live show. Ferocious, funny, riotously nihilistic and completely uncompromising. One of the most vital acts working in hip-hop right now. 🎟 £20 door / £17 advance / £13 members → Tickets via link in stories and cafeoto.co.uk → Doors 7:30pm

@infinityknives & @brianennals / THU 7.5 / BALZAAL, De Vooruit⁠ ⁠ If it's nice, invite them twice! After a first appearance at Out the Frame, we're excited to welcome back Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals. ⁠ ⁠ Transcending beyond the generic idea of what a hip-hop producer can do, Infinity Knives (Tariq Ravelomanana) frequently demonstrates his oft-discussed love of contemporary classicalists such as Max Richter and Jóhann Jóhannsson. The precise control over the cleverly formed layers of melody and harmony provides a relentlessly inventive backdrop for Brian Ennals' righteous poetry of vitriol, rage, philosophy, humour, and myth-making.⁠ ⁠ Tickets via link in bio or viernulvier.gent ⁠ ____⁠ ⁠ Double bill with @_.youniss who will be presenting his brand new album Good Effort! to be released on VIERNULVIER Records on 18.03.26⁠

@infinityknives x @brianennals headline @holyfrijoles in Baltimore, MD THIS SATURDAY, January 10th! @knub.band opens $15 at door 9PM 21+ 🎶 “Everyone I Love is Depressed” 📸: Director/Editor - Jeffrey Rettberg Executive Producer - Zack White Director of Photography - Walker Moore 2nd Camera - Rob Barnes Grips Ellen Rank Michelle Zerdellian Thanks to Liza, Margaret, Mickey , Alyx, Rob V, Jarrod, Becca and Mocha Mart

NAH @ RUBA CLUB 2/20/26 W/ @nah_is_nah @infinityknives @brianennals @edhochulihighskool @jewelssea A show for everyone. Except for fascists, fuck ICE a million times over. Support @vamos_juntos_ if you have the means Tickets available in our bio and are very limited. See you there 👋

First of all, I want to thank the @baltimorebanner for giving us their #1 spot as album of the year as well as Prometheus Brown on @kexp . In order to understand the story fully, you have to swipe through the pictures. Two decades ago, on Christmas, I came into the United States, and Baltimore became my home out of circumstances beyond my control, as it does for a lot of people. I was twelve. My punk neighbor Jessie, who was fourteen or fifteen and older and cooler to me, burned me a shit ton of CDs of what she called “American music,” and among them were Germs Anthology, Bad Brains’ self titled record, and Sonic Nurse by Sonic Youth. Those records shifted something in me, and they stitched me, slowly, into the dialogue of the music scene that raised me. So today felt unreal: on the same day the Baltimore Banner gave us album of the year, Thurston Moore put us on his best albums of 2025. If my friend Kristin had been alive today, she’d say, “duh.” This year was insanely turbulent, full of misfortunes, and by the miracles of my friends I am alive to witness any of it. I got here the way most people do: by enduring what I did not choose, and paying whatever the toll collector asked for at the moment, whether I had it to spare or not; but I can still see a pocket of good clearly enough to hold it, and that foolish toll collector knows not that I had pulled the old Mr. Krabs string on a coin trick.

Free Palestine. Fuck Tel Aviv.

Top Of The Pops 2025 Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals @infinityknives & @brianennals - A City Drowned In God’s Black Tears via @phantom.limb “The uncompromising leftfield experimental hip-hop duo are back with their boldest and best album yet!” - Barney. ROM