Libricide’s Kismet Review: A Raw, Thoughtful Rock Album That Demands Attention

Libricide has released their new EP titled Kismet, which debuted on Friday, December 26, 2025, featuring four singles that showcase the band’s evolving sound and continued creative momentum.

The release includes the singles “Nothing’s Missing,” “Existension,” “Side Quest (Steal the Night),” and “Long Gone,” each contributing to the album’s emotional and sonic range without relying on a single formula.

“Nothing’s Missing” serves as the emotional center of the rollout, capturing the moment of emotional clarity when confronting the exhausting cycle of trying to fix what isn’t broken, with lyrics pleading for acceptance and a resonant message that sometimes, nothing is wrong—some people just can’t stop searching for flaws.

The track was released on August 8, 2025, and is accompanied by a mini music video available on Instagram.

Built on haunting riffs and goosebump-evoking lyrics, “Existension” erupts with gut-wrenching solos and driving choruses that are both vulnerable and speculative, tethered to accepting one’s fate and acknowledging that anything worth fighting for comes with its own price, challenges, and struggles.

Libricide has supported the Kismet release with a series of promotional efforts, including professionally produced photographs highlighting the album’s aesthetic and mini music videos for each single.

The band has been actively performing live, recently opening a show featuring LFO and Trevor Penick of O‑Town, and is scheduled to share the stage with Powerman 5000 and 12 Stones in Frenchtown, New Jersey, on May 9, 2026, with additional performance dates expected throughout the year.

Kismet was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Nada Recording Studio in Montgomery, NY, in tandem with Libricide Studios, marking a new level in quality for the group.

The album is exclusively available via the Libricide webstore and Patreon page, with links provided for direct access to the release.

As of April 2026, the album has surpassed 100,000 streams on Spotify, with the band encouraging fans to help reach a million streams through continued listening and sharing.

Libricide’s name, derived from Latin roots associated with the destruction of books and knowledge, reflects the band’s engagement with a cultural moment where truth feels fragile and attention is constantly being pulled apart, a concept that informs their larger identity without tipping into overstatement.

That identity centers on Harun Gadol, the band’s producer, writer, and frontman, though the music maintains a full-band energy that absorbs various traditions into the writing, making the record feel broad without sounding scattered.

The album keeps returning to melody, pressure, and emotional weight, even when arrangements shift, offering enough movement to keep it interesting technically while ensuring the songs hit with force and clarity.

Libricide’s live reputation hangs over the album in a positive way, with the songs feeling built to move a room, and even the more inward moments retaining muscle to avoid collapsing into stillness or sounding moody for its own sake.

For listeners beginning with the album, “Nothing’s Missing” is the obvious entry point, followed by “Existension,” “Side Quest (Steal The Night),” and “Long Gone” to gain a fuller sense of what the band is doing across the record.

Libricide wants fans to feel like they’re a part of the music, inviting engagement through their official Patreon page.

Kismet feels like the kind of album people stumble onto and then act weirdly proprietary about afterward—a sign the band views as positive validation of their work’s resonance.

The record is available through Spotify and Apple Music for streaming.