Cody Jasper releases “Dirty” today via Megaforce Records, the latest single from his forthcoming third album ‘Rock Is Dead,’ arriving April 10. The track is exactly what the title promises: huge distorted synth bass, fuzzed-out guitars, and amps pushed to the edge of collapse. Jasper wrote it about a toxic relationship with a narcissist, and the production channels that experience into something that sounds, as he puts it, like revenge.
“‘Dirty’ is a personal song about a very toxic relationship I was in,” Jasper shares. “It ruined me but also forced me to look inward and figure out who I really was. In the end, it brought me out on top.” The song features one of the most ferocious guitar solos of his career, and the sonic architecture around it holds nothing back. This is rock music with genuine grievance behind it, and that distinction matters.
‘Rock Is Dead’ was produced and engineered by Aleks von Korff, whose credits include Muse, Coldplay, and U2, and recorded at Red Room Studio, the home studio of Muse’s Matt Bellamy. The 10-track album moves through alternative, hard rock, punk, classic rock, and blues without breaking stride. Warren Haynes appears on “American Dream,” and the title track earned a notable endorsement from Billy Corgan, who called it “a banger.” RIFF Magazine described that song as “a swaggering middle finger” that “sounds like it was captured in one blistering take.”
The album is a deliberate argument. Rock is not dead. Jasper makes that case with guitar tone, songwriting muscle, and the kind of full-commitment performance that the genre was built on.