Ando San

The prog-hop artist will be touring with Periphery and more this fall.

One of those songs drew inspiration from a Darkthrone record.

After spending the past year posting up supportive guest spots with vianova and PRESIDENT, hip-hop-and-prog-merging rapper-guitarist Ando San has just delivered a pair of singles for his new label home, Sumerian Records. The musician’s “Hype Man / Triggas” arrived on platforms and through a double-sized music video earlier today (September 10th), marking Ando San’s new path forward with Sumerian. His last solo single was this past February’s “iLL”, though he also semi-recently showed up on a remix of vianova’s “Oh No” and appears on “Hate Figure” from PRESIDENT’s newly-released album, Blood of Your Empire. “Hype Man” begins with lo-fi-effected, hyper-fast snares and super-screeched vocals before Ando San fully leans into boom-bap rhythms, chunked-and-grooved seven-string riffs and cooly spat lines about being not only the “right man,” but the guy with the “right plan.” The artist adds that the grimy, fuzz-forward sounds were in part inspired by Norwegian black-metal vets Darkthrone’ Ravishing Grimness release from 1999. “I thought it would be cool to start the song with a black metal vibe and then lead into a heavy beat,” Ando San explains in a statement. “I named it ‘Hype Man’ because at the time of recording the song I needed to hype myself up. I’m usually alone in my room making these songs and this one in particular needed that energy! I feel like you need to be your own personal ‘Hype Man’ to get through things when you really don’t have anybody around to pump you up. It’s a super power!” While armed with a similar musical motif, “Triggas” slows the pace even further, and features both Ando San and guest rapper Mazbou Q hitting the mic. San adds that the song is about things that trigger past traumas, and how to work through those feelings constructively. The video for Ando San’s double-single — which presents a corpse-painted push pit taking place around the artist — can be seen up above. It’s unclear what’s next on his release schedule. His last album was 2023’s Seeing pastures. Ando San takes off for a U.K tour with Don Broco later this month, and will support Periphery on their North American run later this fall. You’ll find all the date details below. Ando San tour dates 2026:9/27 Watford, UK – Colosseum ^ 9/28 Lincoln, UK – Engine Shed ^ 9/29 Sheffield, UK – Octagon Centre ^ 10/1 Edinburgh, UK – Corn Exchange ^ 10/2 Manchester, UK – Academy ^ 10/3 Liverpool, UK – Guild Of Students ^ 10/4 Newcastle, UK – O2 City Hall ^ 10/6 Cambridge, UK – Corn Exchange ^ 10/7 Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy ^ 10/8 Portsmouth, UK – Guildhall ^ 10/10 Norwich, UK – University Of East Anglia ^ 10/11 Folkestone, UK – Leas Cliff Hall ^ 10/12 London, UK – Here At Outernet ^ 10/13 Leeds, UK – Testbed ^ 10/14 Bristol UK – The Prospect Building ^ 10/16 London, UK – The Lower Third (Sold Out) 10/22 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore * 10/23 Worcester, MA – The Palladium * 10/24 Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore * 10/26 Toronto, ON – History * 10/27 Montreal, QC – Mtelus * 10/29 Mckees Rocks, PA – Roxian Theatre * 10/30 Chicago, Il – Ramova Theatre * 10/31 Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore * 11/2 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium * 11/3 Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center * 11/5 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater * 11/6 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre * 11/8 Sacramento, CA – Channel 24 * 11/10 Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues * 11/11 Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren * 11/13 San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center At Tech Port * 11/14 Dallas, TX – The Studio At The Bomb Factory * 11/16 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live * 11/17 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle * 11/18 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz * ^ w/ Don Broco * w/ Periphery