The Voices in My Head Is shawN's Fourth Single in Ten Days
A German Father Who Wrote His First Song for His Son’s Birthday Turns to Metalcore
Four singles in ten days is the run shawN has built since 25 October 2026. The Voices in My Head, out on 3 November, is the fourth and the longest, at 5 minutes 17 seconds. The masked artist from Dorsten, Germany, began with a song for his son’s birthday. Since then he has moved into emotional modern metalcore and post-hardcore.
shawN’s The Voices in My Head is in the playlist below with the rest of this desk’s metalcore, and his artist profile follows the whole four-single run. It came to RockCharts.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Press play, then read on for the four-single run behind it.
From Der kleine Krieger to Building My Throne, shawN’s First Three Singles Came Out in Four Days
The run started as a present. His son loves loud rock, Skillet’s Monster above all. So shawN went into his own studio, wrote the words and recorded his vocals for a song of his own. That song became Der kleine Krieger (The Little Warrior), released on 25 October. In his own account of how it began: “I never planned to become an artist. I just ran out of birthday gift ideas.”
His son loved it, and the songs kept coming. The Darkness Is Calling followed on 26 October, a song about pain, inner conflict and the will to keep fighting. Then Building My Throne arrived on 28 October, about rebuilding yourself after life knocks you down, stone by stone.
The catalogue also shows how fast the sound turned. Apple Music files Der kleine Krieger as rock and the next two as metal. So the move toward heavier music took a single day. The running times hold a pattern too. At 5 minutes 4 seconds, 4 minutes 57 and 4 minutes 51, all three sit close to five minutes.
The Voices in My Head Turns the Run Inward, Toward Sleepless Nights and Choosing to Stay
So what changed with the fourth single? The subject moved inside. Where The Darkness Is Calling fought and Building My Throne rebuilt, The Voices in My Head looks inward. It deals with inner battles, sleepless nights and the pull between giving up and staying alive.
The sound follows the subject. shawN sets sung lines against screams he places with care, over heavy guitars and hard-hitting drums. In his own account, a soft line can carry pain that a scream would blur. A scream, in turn, can say what words cannot, and the single is built on that exchange.
shawN, credited as Pierre Klinger, wrote the words and sings them, and he produced the session in his own studio. The music itself was composed with generative AI. The mask is part of the act’s look, but the person behind it is real. In his words, he is a father and a music fan learning to tell his own story.
The Voices in My Head and the Through-Line of Four Singles
Read in order, the four songs make one story of survival. It runs from courage for a child to darkness, then rebuilding, and now the fight to stay. That through-line matters, because it makes the run read as a catalogue rather than four separate releases.
The family’s own reference point is Skillet. Monster, the song shawN’s son loves, became the American band’s breakthrough single in 2009. It also reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart. Its radio edit even drops the growled section. shawN keeps both halves, the melody and the harsh vocal, inside the same song.
The title has a better-known neighbour as well. Falling in Reverse released Voices in My Head as a standalone single on 31 May 2022. It later landed on their fifth album, Popular Monster. Listeners who came to metalcore through that band’s mix of clean hooks and screams will find the same split here.
So who is it for? Listeners who want metalcore with the clean singing left in. Parents who know what a song for a child can start. And anyone following an artist from his first weeks. Ten days in, the run that began as a birthday present already has four chapters.
RockCharts.News’s curator team: “We added The Voices in My Head to our Hard Rock, Metalcore, Trash Rock playlist. At 5 minutes 17 seconds it is the longest of his four singles. It is also the clearest statement yet of what shawN writes about.”
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