Dearborn, MI band Prostitute have announced details of the first worldwide release of their acclaimed debut album, Attempted Martyr, alongside news of their signing to Mute, a European tour and a new video for Mr Dada.

Attempted Martyr will be released on CD and two vinyl editions – a special limited Arabic edition on Lebanese sunburst vinyl exclusively through Dinked, and a red vinyl edition – on 13th March 2026. Pre-order HERE.

After last month’s incendiary tour of Europe and the UK that included two London shows that sold out in a matter of hours, plus a performance at Le Guess Who?, the Dearborn, Michigan five-piece have announced a Spring 2026 tour of Europe and UK that will include two dates at the MOTH Club, London on 28th April (SOLD OUT) & 29th April, Roadburn Festival, and Supersonic Festival – full details below.

The group’s debut album, Attempted Martyr, has been steadily accruing devoted followers and accolades since its (very limited) original release. Loosely a concept album, Attempted Martyr is a full-spectrum blast of acerbic noise, sampler shrapnel, savagely mordant humour and bruised melancholy. Its complexity and simmered rage conjure a fever dream of hope, desperation and alienation, a riot of artful profanity, disturbing imagery and blacker-than-midnight wit. An album for these perilous, cursed times, even if it wasn’t conceived as such, Attempted Martyr isn’t noise for its own sake, it’s for everyone’s: a catharsis, a venting, a return of fire.

Based in Dearborn, MI, a town with America’s largest Muslim population, Prostitute were founded by Moe (frontman) and Andrew (drummer) who together write the group’s lyrics, and conceived Attempted Martyr’s thematic throughline. ”I had an identity crisis, growing up, 9/11 started a lot of xenophobia and Arab hatred and all that kind of shit, Moe explains. ”I hated being Arabic. I hated Arabs in general, just because people were hating me. Through much of my 20s I felt like, ‘How about I be the character you want me to be?’”

Andrew took that crisis and, explains Moe, ”ran with it, and made the philosophy behind it, this ‘radical terrorism’, this crazed zealot thing.”

Each of the members were raised in Dearborn, went to the same schools, orbited the same groups of people and crossed paths before eventually meeting each other and coming together as a band. And to complete it, Ross, Bret and Dylan soon came onboard. ”It’s all a bit serendipitous,” adds Andrew.

The reaction has been incredible: the audience they have found are dedicated to investigating the infinite nuances within their attack, especially as the themes have swung to the fore of the culture in the years since they conceived it. ”When we started the album, the war in Gaza hadn’t begun yet,” says Andrew. ”But the world was still pretty fucked up. It already felt like the car was going off the cliff, with no-one at the wheel. There’s an angst to the album. I’m not religious, but I’ve always been drawn to art and stories about religion – this yearning for transcendence, for an answer, for forgiveness. The album is about someone trying to transcend in some way. This character is reprehensible. But we’re not trying to tell anyone what to think. This isn’t some manifesto – this is art, it’s an outlet for things we were feeling.”

Check out the video for Mr. Dada below – 

~

UK/EU Tour dates –

17 April – Liège (BE), KulturA
18 April – Tilburg (NL), Roadburn Festival
20 April – Berlin (DE), Urban Spree
21 April – Cologne (DE), Bumann & SOHN
22 April – Antwerp (BE), Trix
23 April – Paris (FR), Petit Bain
24 April – Rennes (FR), Ubu
26 April – Birmingham (UK), Supersonic Festival
27 April – Brighton (UK), Green Door Store
28 April – London (UK), Moth Club – SOLD OUT
29 April – London (UK), Moth Club
1 May – Manchester (UK), White Hotel
2 May – Glasgow (UK), Hug and Pint

Photograph | Steve Gullick ©

Prostitute | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp