13/04/2026
NEW BAND ANNOUNCEMENT: WREX
Brighton-born duo WREX make electro-charged alternative rock to turbocharge heart beats, snap necks and fill both dancefloors and mosh pits. Shades of punk, nu-metal, pop and trance collide and coalesce but never clash; a wild explosion of riffs and synths that pulls from influences as diverse as While She Sleeps, Faithless and Linkin Park. This is the WREX blueprint: a fierce, all-enveloping wall of sound with little time for music’s outdated boundaries or conventions; creativity, joy and emotion unbound. “WREX is about letting go-It’s a release from everything that’s going on in the world around you, a purge of everything you’re thinking and feeling.”
When George Donoghue and Mae Seaton met as perfect strangers on a night out, neither of them could have known how much they needed one another. But WREX, the band born of the pair’s chance connection some years later, has come to be exactly that: not simply a creative outlet but a need, an urge, a calling, a pure expression. Together, Donoghue and Seaton make electro-charged alternative rock to turbo charge heartbeats, snap necks and fill both dancefloors and mosh pits. Shades of punk, nu-metal, pop and trance collide and coalesce but never clash; a wild explosion of riffs and synths that pulls from influences as diverse as While She Sleeps, Faithless and Linkin Park. This is the WREX blueprint: a fierce, all-enveloping wall of sound with little time for music’s outdated boundaries or conventions; creativity, joy and emotion unbound. At its core sits the dynamism of Donoghue and Seaton’s creative spirit. Donoghue has lived and breathed band life since the age of 13, when he’d set up on the streets of his hometown of Doncaster to busk, before hitting the road on his first nationwide tour at 17. A burgeoning career in production, however, led him to think his creative future lay in the studio, rather than on the stage. The desire to express and create something of his own, however, never went away. He simply needed someone to help him unlock it–unlock himself–and release that pressure valve in ways he knew not how. In turn, fledgling songwriter Seaton, arriving in the band’s hometown of Brighton from Norfolk, was in need of a muse to help bring to life the songs and ideas sketched out in her head, and to liberate her as a performer. Coming together as WREX would provide answers for both.
“Working with someone that has as much excitement for making music as Mae is invigorating and inspiring for me,” Donoghue says. “Neither of us has any sort of ego when it comes to making music. No idea is ever off the table. A big part of the WREX ethos is never asking permission–that cuts to the core of both our sound and our DIY sentiment. WREX is ultimately about making art for the sheer joy of creating, and we want to convey that excitement on record and in our live show.” ‘This Hell Goes A Long Way Down’ exhibits all of that boundless energy and vision, its six tracks embodying the full spectrum of WREX’s shapeshifting sound. That goes, too, for the tracks’ lyrical heart, too–serving as an emotional counterweight to ‘This Hell...’’s sonic intensity.“ These songs explore some of our darkest, hardest times,” Donoghue explains. “The title is a reference to how deep-rooted the impact of those experiences truly is. Personally speaking, Mae has been able to give a perspective and a voice to my feelings I’ve never been able to express before. It’s testament to her ability as a songwriter and why we work so well together. It’s cathartic to us, and for those coming to our music that need it, we hope it’s cathartic for them, too. ”Such personal empowerment has given strength to WREX to tackle themes including isolation and disconnection brought about by panic attacks (‘S.A.D’); the suffocating nature of social media (‘Shallow’); and deep-seated childhood trauma (the EP’s title track, and the closing ‘TheEnd’).“WREX is about letting go,” Donoghue says. “It’s a release from everything that’s going on in the world around you, a purge of everything you’re thinking and feeling.”
