Leather Laces unleash “Mind-Control Techniques.”

Leather Laces, the paramilitary-inspired music unit, is back with their most daring release ever: “Mind-Control Techniques.”

The single is a continuation of their signature industrial sound and storytelling and gives fans their fourth and last single before their album at the beginning of 2026. The track is laden with disturbing aspects, referring to both their made-up Devisal world and the real-life shadows. The song tells the terror using the fright of _SHOE as a metaphor, and the enigmatic history of MK-Ultra, the CIA's covert program for mind control over humans during the Cold War period. The merging of these two properties is what makes the track seem both haunting and mesmerizing.

“Mind-Control Techniques” is a blend of dystopian fiction and dark history, and it is Leather Laces at their most lethal.

On the sound level, the track "Mind-Control Techniques" is admirable and has no fault. The song is technically driven by the use of pounding rhythms, repulsive modulated synths, and overdriven textures that deliver to the listener contradictory feelings of suffocation and control. The song keeps the militant tone of the last three works — Rocket Launcher, Heavy Machine Gun, and Marching in the Fog — but it is also more engaging, granting the listener a stunning yet shocking journey. For the Leather Laces, music is not just art — it is a mission. Every song is an operation, and every release is a tactical strike. Every beat is a command — relentless, hypnotic, and no way out.