If there’s one thing Mimi Barks doesn’t do, it’s play it safe. Fresh off the chaos of her debut album THIS IS DOOM TRAP, she’s back with a raw, guttural reimagining of Linkin Park’s Crawling—and it’s less a tribute and more a full-blown sonic possession.
Released via Easy Life Records, Mimi’s version of the 2001 nu-metal anthem doesn’t just tip its hat to Chester Bennington’s pain—it digs into the scar tissue and screams from inside it. This isn’t nostalgia. This is resurrection. With punishing beats, bone-rattling distortion, and the kind of vocals that sound like they were dragged through hell, Crawling is transformed into something darker, stranger, and completely her own.
“The track isn’t reborn, it remembers,” Mimi says. “A raw phantom in the wires, a resonance of the silence Chester left behind. Because some wounds don’t heal; they echo.” And honestly? You feel that. Her version drips in grief and rage, turning every note into a growl of resistance.
If you’re unfamiliar with Mimi Barks, you’re about to get acquainted. She’s not just making noise—she’s forging a whole new genre. Her self-coined DOOM TRAP sound blends the venom of metal, the chaos of electronica, and the brutality of trap into something that doesn’t just push boundaries—it devours them. And if THIS IS DOOM TRAP was her manifesto, Crawling is the sermon.
This release also arrives right before she storms the stages of some of the biggest alternative festivals in Europe this summer—including Boomtown, Wacken Open Air, and Rockstadt Extreme. So if you haven’t seen her yet, this summer might just be your chance to witness the DOOM TRAP revolution in the flesh.
Linkin Park fans, trap heads, and metal lifers alike—don’t miss this one. It’s haunting, it’s loud, and it hits where it hurts.
