Meet NOT ENOUGH SPACE: Florida band bringing moans, gore and PARAMORE pop to deathcore

For Not Enough Space co-vocalists Liv Mitchell and Lizzie Raatma, extremity isn’t just a sound — it’s a lifestyle.

The duo unleash an intense barrage of bleghs and brees on Weaponize Your Rage, the debut album from their Orlando-based melodic deathcore band — but their boundary-pushing goes far beyond what they do on the mic. It manifests mu­sically, emotionally and even physically. Case in point: In their music videos, Mitchell and Raatma don’t just scream like demons — they devour hyper-realistic organs with feral glee. And they want you to see every splatter.

That gore isn’t just for show. It’s rooted in a deep love of horror. The band are all diehard fans of old-school slashers and modern-day shockers like the Terrifier series, and few things look sicker on-screen than practical effects — whether it’s stabbing into plated hearts in their “Goth Girl Dinner” video, or a wild-eyed Raat­ma sinking her teeth into intestines in their viscera-slickened clip for “Devil Left Me on Read.”

“We hired a special effects artist for the video,” Mitchell recalls of the latter shoot, which finds her pig-squealing her lines while bound up by ropes and doused in fake blood. Of the guts, she continues: “We took paper towels, ran liq­uid latex over them, rubbed them out [to make] them look realistic, and then we put blood on them… It was fucking disgusting watching it from the background and seeing Lizzie just tear into it.”

But behind those fetid visual feasts is a band that’s deadly serious about their craft.

Since forming in 2018, Not Enough Space have shapeshifted from their earlier pop-punk leanings into a maximalist strain of metalcore — with Mitchell and Raatma leveling up their glass-shattering shrieks, sub-sonic growls and soaring melodic refrains to match. That evolution has helped turn the band into viral stars on TikTok, with their single “Primitive” — and Mitchell’s now-infamous breakdown moan — accidentally birthing the internet’s favorite new subgenre: moancore. The group’s unique approach has racked up millions of streams and likes, landed them tours with the Funeral Portrait, Dark Divine and Capstan, and fueled a mission to make each song heavier than the last.

All that extremity takes a toll — especially on the voice. Without proper tech­nique, an untrained singer’s vocal cords could take a beating over it. But offstage, Raatma and Mitchell both double as professional vocal coaches, and they’ve got their own regimen for keeping their throats in furious fighting shape. One key? You gotta eat your meat.

“Protein is so important,” Raatma explains. She and Mitchell stick to chicken and broccoli to power-load those pipes — much like how gym-rats bulk up around heavy lifts to replenish muscle mass. “You’re using a lot of muscles that you typ­ically wouldn’t be using while talking. Increasing your protein intake … actually repairs your voice faster.”

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(SOURCE REVLVER MAG)