The hyena has always made cowards nervous. Neither obedient symbol nor tidy specimen, she arrives laughing at the limits men have drawn around nature, gender, hunger, hierarchy, and fear. For Mz Neon, that creature has become a crown, a curse, a calling card, and a kind of sacred threat: the beast at the center of her own glam-industrial mythology.
Queen Hyena is the first single from Mz Neon’s long-awaited debut album MAXIMASCHINA, expected later this year. Released independently in conjunction with her upcoming U.S. tour supporting Lords of Acid, the track introduces the next phase of the Los Angeles-based artist’s cult lore: a 16-song record she will preview on the road, with more new music planned for the coming months as she seeks label support for the full album release.
The Queen Hyena name has already stalked through Mz Neon’s catalogue as the title of her first two EPs, Queen Hyena Vol. 1 and Queen Hyena Vol. 2, but this marks the first song to bear the name outright. The single draws from her archetypal relationship to the matriarchal hyena: an anomaly of nature, intersex, femme-dominant, warrior-like, feared by men, and gloriously resistant to evolutionary categorization. Here, the figure steps fully into the spotlight as moniker, alter ego, and origin myth, no longer a hint at the edge of the frame but the reigning beast at the center of the ritual.
Musically, Queen Hyena comes on like an electronic pop anthem built for the club, the catwalk, and the coliseum. It churns with seductive command, stacking chant-like hooks, and a beat that moves with predatory poise. Mz Neon sings like she is addressing worshippers, rivals, prey, and subjects all at once, turning the refrain into a coronation: “Bow down to the sound of the Hellhound: Queen Hyena.” The track is vulgar, theatrical, funny, feral, and fiercely trans femme, wielding erotic power as both provocation and protection.
There is a delicious old-school electroclash menace in the way the song struts, but Queen Hyena is bigger than pastiche. It folds industrial-pop muscle, glam-punk excess, and performance-art provocation into a single high-voltage sermon from the femmepire. The lyrics bare themselves as full of teeth and trouble: bloodlust, gloves, lairs, golden vampires, alpha-bitch declarations, and a chorus that knows exactly how much danger it is dragging onto the dancefloor. Mz Neon does not ask permission to be monstrous. She sharpens the crown and makes everyone else kneel.
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Born in New York City and now based in Los Angeles, Mz Neon is a genre-bending musician, multi-instrumentalist, and performance artist whose orbit has already crossed paths with Poppy, Egyptian Lover, Marc Almond, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Lydia Lunch, and Linda Perry. With Queen Hyena, she takes that history—clubland sleaze, punk theater, pop spectacle, and queer survival instinct—and feeds it through the jaws of her latest incarnation.
Queen Hyena features lyrics, vocals, and guitar by Mz Neon, with production and mixing by David Sisko and mastering by Joe Lambert.
Mz Neon will support Lords of Acid on their 2026 U.S. tour from April 26 through May 31, debuting Queen Hyena and additional new material from MAXIMASCHINA along the way. The run cuts from California through the Southwest, Midwest, East Coast, South, Texas, and back west, with additional support from Dead on a Sunday, Princess Superstar, and Jonny & The Kiki.
Tickets are available via www.mzneon.com.
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