Stain The Canvas Claws Back at Platform Censorship with New Single "GATTINI" ft. KLAUS NOIR

What do you get when you cross internet kitten with a middle finger to censorship? Stain The Canvas has the answer with "GATTINI" featuring Klaus Noir, their devilishly clever new single dropping Friday, June 27th via InVogue Records, complete with a music video to come that’s as colorful as it is confrontational.

“This song is an invitation for everyone to always express their thoughts and stand by their beliefs,” Stain The Canvas explains. “It addresses the hypocrisy of censorship and online content restriction.” The track was born from frustration after their “Dead Circus” video faced widespread platform bans, leaving them unable to promote their work. Instead of backing down, Stain The Canvas doubled down with surgical precision.

Stream "GATTINI" HERE

The title says it all—or does it? “GATTINI" means “kittens” in Italian, and yes, the band chose one of the internet’s most universally beloved and completely uncontroversial search terms for a song that’s anything but user-friendly. It’s peak irony, and that’s exactly the point. "GATTINI" is a deeply personal battle cry against creative suppression. The song explores the exhausting cycle of artists constantly questioning whether they’ve crossed invisible lines, only to realize those lines keep moving. The maddening experience of watching your work disappear to digital black holes while sanitized content thrives. The band channels their frustration into something that feels both vulnerable and defiant—addressing the mental toll of self-censorship and the hypocrisy of platforms that claim to support free expression while systematically burying anything that challenges comfort zones. There’s a raw honesty in how they confront the reality that standing by your artistic vision often means accepting that you’ll never fully “get it,” that you’ll never crack the code of what’s acceptable.

Stain The Canvas mentions:

“We wanted to be deliberately ironic about the whole situation. That’s why we made a totally blood-free video, added fake flowers to the same masks we used in “Dead Circus,” and set it all in a colorful, confetti-like context—in total contrast with the song’s extreme lyrics.”