Dutch witch rock artist Annicke Shireen premiere new single and music video »Loud Hag« from upcoming debut album »Delirium«
Dutch witch rock artist Annicke Shireen premiere a music video for the second single »Loud Hag« taken from her debut solo album, »Delirium«, set to release on October 23rd, 2026 on Bandcamp and on November 13th, 2026 on all streaming platforms and on digipack CD.
Tracklist:
01. Paper Skin Rite
02. Heresy
03. Come To Light
04. False Gods
05. How To Cure A Feeling
06. Not Your Mother
07. Loud Hag
08. To Belong
09. The Circle
10. Queendom
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»Loud Hag« is the second single from Annicke Shireen’s upcoming album »Delirium«: an alternative rock anthem driven by heavy, metal-influenced riffs and commanding yet ethereal layered vocals. Reclaiming a historically derogatory term, the song turns being “too loud” into a statement of confidence, resilience and feminine power.
Annicke has developed a career that moves between music, performance and visual art. She joined Heilung as a singer and makeup artist in 2018 and has toured and recorded with the group since, including a performance at The Game Awards in 2023. She has also appeared on stage with Wardruna and continues to work with Shireen alongside her solo projects.
Her solo work brings those disciplines together. Annicke writes and produces her own music while creating the visual world around it, from music videos and styling to stagewear. She holds a degree in fashion design and has worked with custom-made clothing inspired by folklore, avant-garde design and dark fairytales. She designed th first draft of Senua’s armour for Ninja Theory’s Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga, and created costumes for the 2017 arthouse feature Kill Mode. Annicke’s visual approach has long been closely connected to her music. Rather than treating visuals as an addition to the music, she uses them to build a recognisable world around each project. She has produced music videos for Shireen and her solo work that reached millions of views (‘UMAI’ 6.3 million views and ‘So Human of You’ 1.7 million views).
Photo credit: Olivia Harriet
Her debut solo album »Delirium« moves across ten tracks between alternative rock, metal, synthpop, folk and dreamy grunge, while maintaining a recognisable core of heavy guitars, layered vocals and moody synths. It’s concept grew out of Annicke’s interest in how we construct our understanding of reality, particularly through the perspective of a neurodiverse mind. »Delirium« looks at the frameworks people inherit and the expectations they learn to live by: ideas about femininity, relationships, belonging, emotional behaviour and what is considered “normal.” Rather than presenting fragmentation or difficult emotions as things that need to be fixed, Annicke explores what can be learned from them.
That idea connects the album’s different subjects. »Delirium« moves through love and obsession, personal growth, female empowerment, anger, belonging and the difficulty of trying to find change in yourself while the world around you seems to be set in its ways. Annicke is particularly interested in the relationship between feminine rage and what she describes as a softer kind of revolution: not necessarily becoming louder for the sake of it, but questioning why women are so often expected to make themselves smaller, more agreeable or easier to accept. The album’s title reflects that tension. Annicke originally considered calling the record Hysteria, but chose »Delirium« as it was more fitting to the genre of the album. For her, »Delirium« describes the uncomfortable point at which the framework you have been living inside stops making sense.
Annicke Shireen about her debut solo album:
“»Delirium« is about the moment when the framework you have been living inside no longer fits. It’s the magic of the moment where we stop being acceptable and start becoming ourselves. I wanted to explore that uncomfortable space between losing control and finally taking the power back.
I wanted to give words to the beauty of a mind that does not always move according to the expected rules. Rather than presenting fragmentation as something that needs to be fixed, I wanted to shed light on the wisdom, knowledge and power inside it. The songs of my debut album give shape to feelings of rage, grief, fear, euphoria and love, and I believe music is the best medium to speak from heart to heart.”
Pre-order »Delirium« HERE.
Upcoming live dates:
Oct 14, 2026 – Online – Listening Party
Oct 23, 2026 – Ede NL – Astrant
Oct 31, 2026 – Capelle aan den IJssel, NL – Capsloc
Nov 12, 2026 – The Hague, NL – Grey Space (record release show)
Line-up:
Annicke Shireen – Vocals
Davy Knobel – Guitars
Jos Driessen – Bass
Wouter Macare – Drums & Percussion
Kati Rán, Anna Baumann – Backing Vocals
FFO: Wolf Alice, Chelsea Wolfe, Florence + The Machine, All Them Witches, Enya
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well