They’re All Around Us Tour — Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, NY — April 1, 2025

Shall we begin? 

Princess of Metal, Poppy commands the stage at a packed Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night. Backed with her Coraline-esque theatrics, including her own doll on stage; Poppy stays true to her unique haunting-yet-adorable aesthetic that she has built for years. 

Opening her set with “have you had enough?,” off her latest album negative spaces, she immediately has the crowd entranced in the palm of her hand. The juxtaposition of her adorned in a white doll-like outfit with a red, sparkly mic stand versus her band in all-black with ski masks makes her angelic and entrancing. There is something so powerful seeing a woman both sing and scream while also commanding the crowd split in half for a wall of death. 

Continuing the success coming off of her album release in November, as well as collaborations with Bad Omens on “V.A.N” and Knocked Loose on “Suffocate,” which was nominated at the Grammys for Best Metal Performance, and most recently “from me to u” with BabyMetal; Poppy has been making her mark across metal, rock and techno. The diverse crowd, spanning from old to young metalheads of all variations scream along to the entire set front to back. The walls of the venue almost shook during “Scary Mask” as the audience yells “M-A-S-K, Am I Okay?” 

Decompressing before the encore with “Surviving on Defiance,” Poppy showcases her entrancing vocals ahead of a killer exit with “They’re All Around Us” and “New Way Out.” She proves her mastery not only with her music, but with the theatrics she brings in her performance. 

​Words: Maryam Ragheb

Photography: Alana Lopez