ThxSoMch, born Carter De Filippis on August 17, 2001, is a Toronto, Ontario singer-songwriter whose viral 2022 bedroom freestyle over an anonymous Brazilian producer's beat became “Spit in My Face!,” a song that reached the Billboard Hot 100, was certified 2× Platinum in Canada and Platinum by the RIAA, and turned a first-time collaboration into one of the defining hits of the 2020s post-punk revival. Signed first to Elektra Records and later to Atlantic Records, and placed by The Guardian on the same darkwave map as Artemas, ThxSoMch built a catalog exceeding a billion Spotify streams almost entirely on the strength of two songs, while keeping his social footprint and personal biography deliberately sparse.
ThxSoMch's real name is Carter De Filippis, and he is consistently identified across Wikipedia (in five languages), Genius, Apple Music, AllMusic, Coda Music, and Qobuz as a Canadian artist from Toronto, Ontario.
In a 2025 interview with REVERIE, ThxSoMch traced an early musical memory back to riding in the car with his father and hearing Toronto's alternative radio station, where he first discovered Crystal Castles, the Canadian electronic duo whose avant-electro textures would later echo through his own production. By his own account to Dazed, he was, before his pivot into post-punk-adjacent music, a “die-hard Yeat and Playboi Carti fan,” situating his taste squarely inside the 2020s rage-rap and SoundCloud continuum rather than any classic goth or post-punk lineage. Dazed's 2022-era description of him as a “20-year-old aspiring rapper and university student” is the only reference anywhere to his education; no institution, program, or outcome has ever been publicly documented, and one biography aggregator notes plainly that details of his educational background and personal life “are not publicly available,” describing him as someone who is “always keeping a low profile.” His official Wikipedia genre tags are post-punk revival and indie rock, while press coverage elsewhere variously calls his sound emo rap, darkwave, hyperpop-inflected post-punk, and alternative rock, a genre-elasticity he has embraced rather than resisted.
ThxSoMch's origin story is internet-native and cross-continental almost by accident. In a joint Dazed interview with his eventual full-time producer Grayskies, he described browsing YouTube's recommended videos in 2022 and clicking on a “type beat” that looked “super different to anything I'd ever clicked on,” despite not knowing the term post-punk at the time. He recorded a freestyle hook over the instrumental that same night and posted it to TikTok, a decision that connected him with the beat's anonymous maker: a Brazilian high schooler working under the name Grayskies out of São Paulo. Grayskies told Dazed that his manager alerted him a song using his beat was “blowing up” on TikTok and needed formal clearance, at a point when neither party understood the basics of music-industry rights. “I was literally figuring out actual music industry terms,” ThxSoMch said. “On both of our sides it was just craziness and confusion.”
His first official single, “Runaway (Move Quick),” dropped independently on September 4, 2022, followed within weeks by “Only Need My Baby! (SMOAGT),” “Like I'm British” featuring Yxng LJ, and “How You Always Look So Good?,” an unusually fast release cadence typical of an artist testing songs directly against short-form video feedback. The breakthrough came with “Spit in My Face!,” independently released November 1, 2022 (Wikipedia's broader career narrative also cites a December 7, 2022 date, reflecting some re-release or promotional-date ambiguity common to viral tracks). The song's TikTok spread is documented by an official “SPIT IN MY FACE! (Official TikTok Compilation)” video, and Ones to Watch praised it as a “dark indie rock anthem.”
The commercial trajectory that followed was fast and international. “Spit in My Face!” peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart and debuted at No. 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the chart week of February 4, 2023, his first Hot 100 entry. In that same tracking week, Billboard noted the song climbing from No. 7 to No. 6 on Hot Alternative Songs, from No. 10 to No. 9 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, and moving on the Billboard Global 200 from No. 123 to No. 121, alongside a rise on the Billboard Emerging Artists chart from No. 23 to No. 21. It went on to reach No. 56 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 1 on the UK Independent Singles Breakers Chart, No. 67 on the Canadian Hot 100, No. 82 on the ARIA Charts, No. 67 in Austria, No. 76 in Germany, No. 50 in Ireland, and No. 7 on the Latvian Music Producers Association chart, a spread across ten-plus territories for a song that began life as an unpaid freestyle. It was released via Elektra Records, indicating ThxSoMch had signed to the Warner-owned label around the time of the single's push.
ThxSoMch's debut EP, Sleez, arrived via Elektra Records on May 19, 2023, an eight-track project anchored by “Spit in My Face!” alongside “Hate.,” “Swap Places,” “Vile,” “Crumbled,” “CAROLINE,” “Keep It Tucked,” and “screws.” Glasse Factory's review called the EP an “eerie edge” showcase, noting that every one of the eight tracks received a companion video or visualizer, an unusually visual-forward approach for a debut project, and singled out “Vile” as an “intoxicating” post-punk cut. Ones to Watch described the project as blurring “the angst of '90s alternative and the raw energy of 2000s SoundCloud rap,” and separately called lead single “Crumbled” a “fervent” showcase of the EP's aggressive, emotionally raw direction. The “Crumbled” video, directed by frequent collaborator Tommy Killjoy, was described by Glasse Factory as “dizzyingly dark,” built from “intentionally shaky camerawork, fast cuts, short clips, and sharp zooms” alongside blurred-out faces, bloody hands, night-vision nature shots, and a burning car, imagery the outlet called “overwhelming in the best way possible.”
“Spit in My Face!” itself has become one of the defining darkwave and post-punk-revival tracks of the 2020s. Genius' annotated lyrics describe it as a “post-punk and alternative rap track, describing the emotions of love, drug influence and an event that happened in his life while at work.” Songtell's analysis reads it as delving “into the emotional chaos of a toxic relationship, exploring themes of love, pain, and self-destruction,” built around a refrain insisting mistreatment “won't phase” the narrator even as he “has gone mad.” Song Meanings and Facts goes further, reading the addressee as a drug user, potentially the narrator's girlfriend, inside a relationship saturated by “hard drugs and liquor.” In his own Genius “Verified” breakdown, ThxSoMch downplayed any grand artistic intent, saying he “had no idea how big the song would be” when he made it, and that the opening verses began as an attempt to mimic “Playboi Carti ad-libs” before evolving “into like a real song.” He also revealed that a lyric fans commonly heard as “crank” was actually “crack,” inserted somewhat arbitrarily to signal the other person's self-destructive behavior.
Following the EP, ThxSoMch embarked on his first-ever live performances, the Sleez World Tour, playing sold-out shows across the US, UK, and Europe, a striking milestone for an artist who had never performed live before the trek. On December 6, 2023, he played his first hometown show in Toronto at the Bovine Sex Club, a sold-out gig livestreamed in 360-degree format via Discord and YouTube.
ThxSoMch's debut studio album, The Sound of You Laughing, was released via Atlantic Records on August 29, 2025, produced almost entirely by Grayskies and mixed by Mike Crossey, whose credits include The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys. The album grew out of what was planned as a two-week trip to Brazil that stretched into a six-month stay (other outlets cite seven months), during which the pair worked from roughly 2,000 raw voice-memo recordings of Grayskies playing guitar with ThxSoMch singing over it, later building finished songs from the strongest fragments. The 13-track album runs “No!,” “A Sharp Pain,” “Unhinged,” “Aim For The Bushes,” “Uno Uno Uno,” “Hide And Seek (interlude),” “Bad Dream,” “Everyone Dies In A Costume,” “Keep It To Yourself,” “I'll Love Who I'll Love,” “Awfully Sad,” “Would You?,” and the title track “Sound Of You Laughing,” featuring Flawed Mangoes.
ThxSoMch told Dazed the sequencing was intentional, moving “from brighter to darker” across the tracklist, opening with the Flawed Mangoes-assisted love song and closing on the “sludgy and distorted” self-lacerating “Aim for the Bushes.” The title track originated when producer Flawed Mangoes sent an open sample pack to ThxSoMch's team; a collaborator known as LMG added drums, and ThxSoMch “freestyled over it, sitting on the couch off a couple edibles,” with the finished lyric written in a single sitting and recorded two days later, before Grayskies restructured it in Brazil and Flawed Mangoes added a closing guitar line. “Bad Dream” drew from a real hotel incident in Brazil in which a maintenance worker drilled into a wall near his room at 9 a.m. and, unable to communicate in English, simply laughed at his complaints. Wonderland Magazine called the album a “sad boi banger” with “snappy, emotive vocals and heady, guitar-led instrumentation.” ThxSoMch himself described the album's concept as one built on isolation: “no phone, no English, no sense of time, just a flow state,” and framed its emotional register in an interview with REVERIE as “a very anxious body of work.” He explained the title's double meaning to Dazed: “I'm insecure. There's insecurities in these songs. There's still a fear of mine of being laughed at, but I'm also always trying to make other people laugh because I'm insecure. So that's the duality of the name.”
The album cycle included a full world tour across North America and Europe through fall and winter 2025, with stops in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Austria, Poland, and Czechia, including London's Scala, Manchester's Gorilla, Berlin's Lido, and a third Chicago stop at Reggies. In October 2025 he played Canadian dates in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, and by spring 2026 he was routing through San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, New York's Palladium Times Square, Los Angeles's The Vermont Hollywood, Seattle, and Portland.
ThxSoMch's visual identity favors deliberately raw, “grimy” aesthetics that mirror his music's lo-fi post-punk and emo-revival sensibility: stark, dark-toned videos and TikTok edits, shaky handheld camerawork, and imagery built for mood over polish. Press around Sleez consistently framed the project as “eerie,” and his own language emphasizes authenticity over slickness, explicitly contrasted against “AI music” production in his 2026 Rolling Stone Canada interview.
His placement within the broader darkwave revival is externally validated rather than self-applied. The Guardian's June 2024 feature on the movement situates ThxSoMch on an official Spotify darkwave playlist alongside Artemas, Mareux, Boy Harsher, Ekkstacy, Twin Tribes, the KVB, Molchat Doma, and Pastel Ghost, tracing the aesthetic's lineage back to the Cure, Depeche Mode, and Clan of Xymox (see What Is the Darkwave Revival? Artemas, Mareux and the Genre Lighting Up Pop). Notably, The Guardian observes that both ThxSoMch and Artemas cite a strikingly non-1980s set of foundational influences, Nirvana, grunge, SoundCloud rap, Crystal Castles, and the Weeknd's “shimmering neon pop,” rather than the classic goth and post-punk canon typically associated with darkwave, suggesting the genre tag is applied for sonic mood rather than direct lineage. ThxSoMch himself told The Guardian: “It's hard to say what darkwave is... Artists, especially nowadays, we're not really thinking of genre when making music. We're just pulling from things we like and the music from the past kind of becomes music of the future,” adding, “I was just doing this in my bedroom and then I'm getting a million streams a day. It's like, how is this happening? ... I like it when things are a little grimy.” He distinguished his own use of the sound from Artemas's more clubby framing, describing his tracks as “a way for me to make darker, more melancholy music that I can still move around to while still being true to myself,” tying the brand to physical, danceable catharsis rather than pure introspection. The KVB's Kat Day, describing the same scene, noted that music production “becoming more democratic with digital audio workstations and cheaper synths” enabled a movement that is “at its heart... absolutely DIY,” consisting of “bedroom-written and produced songs which, with the internet, have the power to traverse borders,” a description that maps precisely onto ThxSoMch's own path from an unpaid TikTok freestyle to a Billboard-charting single.
In his REVERIE interview, ThxSoMch was explicit that he does not consciously navigate genre: “I try not to navigate genres. I let the genres come to me. I like a whole lot of different music genres so I'm inspired by a lot of music.” He cited Lil Peep's “rawness” as an influence he related to without fully articulating why, and Crystal Castles as a formative Toronto-radio discovery.
ThxSoMch's earliest commercial releases, including “Spit in My Face!” and the Sleez EP, went out via Elektra Records, a Warner Music Group imprint. By 2025 he had moved to Atlantic Records, also Warner-owned, for his debut album: the July 14, 2025 press release announcing The Sound of You Laughing describes him as a “Toronto, Canada-based punk artist” releasing “via Atlantic Records.” Because Elektra merged with 300 Entertainment into Atlantic in October 2024, this represents an internal transition within the same corporate structure rather than a defection to a rival major. No sourcing supports a signing to Interscope Records at any point in his career; his documented label history runs independent releases, then Elektra (2022 to 2024), then Atlantic (2025 to present).
His album campaign publicity was handled by Big Hassle Media, with named contacts Leigh Greaney Bush and Romy Bayhack on the announcement release. For touring, industry newsletter ROSTR reported in October 2023 that ThxSoMch had signed with Daniel McCartney, Adam Sylvester, and Nikos Kazoleas of United Talent Agency. McCartney, a veteran music agent who also founded the mental-health-focused Continuance Foundation for touring musicians and has represented artists including Young Thug, DaniLeigh, and grandson, moved his roster, ThxSoMch included alongside Jeris Johnson, Point North, and Zero 9:36, from UTA to a new agency, 33 & West, in December 2023. His European touring runs through Germany-based agency Propeller Music GmbH.
ThxSoMch (credited as Carter De Filippis) holds sole or primary songwriting credit on his major singles. His virtually exclusive producer and co-writer across the catalog, including the entire debut album, is Grayskies, who is also credited on projects by d4vd and Wisp. The debut album's mix by Mike Crossey signals a deliberate move toward a more legitimized studio pedigree for the album cycle, even as ThxSoMch's public messaging continues to emphasize raw authenticity over polish. At least one track, “When The Devil Speaks...,” has reportedly appeared in EA Sports' NHL 25 video game soundtrack, per a fan-maintained wiki, a sync placement that would represent a further revenue and exposure channel if confirmed, though it lacks direct confirmation from EA or Atlantic.
Public net-worth and revenue figures for ThxSoMch vary wildly across unofficial trackers and should be treated with caution. One low-authority biography aggregator estimates his net worth at roughly $450,000, attributing earnings to streaming, live shows, and merchandise. By contrast, royalties-calculator.com estimates his minimum Spotify-only earnings at roughly $12,720 a month, or about $152,640 a year, a figure that alone would exceed the $450,000 estimate within three years. Streamclout.io separately estimates cumulative Spotify-only lifetime revenue at $17.32 million and daily Spotify revenue at roughly $12,400. No audited or label-disclosed revenue, royalty, or advance figures exist in the public record, consistent with standard major-label confidentiality practice.
Per Kworb's Spotify artist tracker, ThxSoMch's catalog had accumulated over 1.03 billion total streams across 27 tracks as of late June 2026, with total daily streams running at roughly 735,868 per day. “Spit in My Face!” alone accounts for more than 714 million of those streams, his overwhelming primary driver, followed distantly by “Hate.” at over 140 million and “Keep It Tucked” at over 53 million. Kworb's peak-tracking table pins “Spit in My Face!'s” all-time Spotify chart high to January 20, 2023, with a documented 214,498,824 cumulative streams logged by that snapshot and country-specific chart peaks of No. 1 in Ukraine, No. 3 in the United States, No. 5 in Poland, No. 6 in Germany and the UK, No. 3 in Estonia, No. 9 in the Czech Republic, No. 10 in Canada, No. 29 in Finland, and No. 39 in Austria.
Streamclout.io's mid-2026 snapshot reports 4.7 million monthly Spotify listeners, 613,400 followers, 4.33 billion total streams, and an estimated $17.32 million in cumulative Spotify revenue, with top listener cities including Mexico City, São Paulo, Bonn, Istanbul, and Frankfurt am Main, figures that fluctuate meaningfully across trackers and dates; Music Metrics Vault logged monthly listeners around 5.5 million and followers around 494,924 in a February 2025 snapshot. ThxSoMch's own REVERIE interview cited “over four million monthly listeners,” while a November 2025 Chicago radio recap cited “more than 5 million.” Streamclout.io's track-level breakdown shows streaming momentum shifting toward newer material, with the title track and “Unhinged” each pulling six-figure weekly streams in a recent window, while catalog stalwarts “Sleez,” “Crumbled,” and “Hate.” continued generating roughly 3.1 to 3.2 million streams apiece in the same week, evidence that his 2023-era EP material still substantially outperforms even his newest album cuts in raw weekly volume.
Across other platforms, TikTok following is reported at roughly 413,000 to 420,000 depending on snapshot date, Instagram at over 100,000 (likely a stale figure), X at a comparatively small 3,702 followers against 1,233 posts since joining in October 2022, and YouTube at more than 310,000 subscribers. The gap between his hundreds of millions of streams and his modest, largely faceless social footprint is a dynamic he has addressed directly: “I know artists with real fanbases who have never toured or even shown their face,” he told Rolling Stone Canada.
Live milestones include an August 2024 slot at Reading and Leeds Festival in the UK alongside Fred again.., Lana Del Rey, Blink-182, Liam Gallagher, and Fontaines D.C., and a March 2025 appearance at Rolling Loud California on the Zig-Zag Stage alongside Sematary, TiaCorine, and Luh Tyler, a notable crossover booking given his rock and post-punk-coded sound appearing at a hip-hop-centric festival.
| Certification | Body / Territory |
|---|---|
| 2× Platinum | Music Canada |
| Platinum | RIAA (United States) |
| Platinum | New Zealand |
| Platinum | Poland |
| Gold | BPI (United Kingdom) |
| Gold | ARIA (Australia) |
| Gold | Austria |
| Gold | SNEP (France) |
All certifications above are for “Spit in My Face!,” as of the most recent Wikipedia update at time of writing.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Debut single “Runaway (Move Quick)” released Sept. 4; three more singles follow within the month |
| 2022 | “Spit in My Face!” released independently Nov. 1; goes viral on TikTok within weeks |
| 2023 | “Spit in My Face!” debuts at No. 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 (week of Feb. 4), his first Hot 100 entry |
| 2023 | First official recorded interview, Genius “Verified” (May 17) |
| 2023 | Debut EP Sleez released via Elektra Records (May 19) |
| 2023 | First-ever live shows, the Sleez World Tour, across the US, UK, and Europe |
| 2023 | First hometown show, sold out, at Toronto's Bovine Sex Club (Dec. 6), livestreamed in 360 degrees |
| 2024 | First in-person studio trip to São Paulo to record with Grayskies after two years remote |
| 2024 | Performs Reading and Leeds Festival (UK) alongside Fred again.., Lana Del Rey, Blink-182 |
| 2025 | “Spit in My Face!” certified 2× Platinum by Music Canada |
| 2025 | Performs Rolling Loud California, Zig-Zag Stage (March 15–17) |
| 2025 | Debut album The Sound of You Laughing announced via Atlantic Records (July 14) |
| 2025 | Debut album released (Aug. 29), recorded over six to seven months in Brazil with Grayskies |
| 2025 | Fall/winter world tour through North America and Europe; Canadian dates in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal (Oct.) |
| 2026 | Continued North American tour dates including New York's Palladium Times Square and LA's The Vermont Hollywood |
| 2026 | Profiled by Rolling Stone Canada's “FOM” (Faces of Music) series (June 5) |
ThxSoMch presents in interviews as introspective, anxious, self-deprecating, and deliberately private, a persona that maps closely onto his music's emotional register. He has repeatedly framed songwriting as a coping mechanism rather than a performance: “The reason I share so openly is because I use songwriting as my journal. When I'm not making music, I lose my mind. I need creation to keep myself sane and honest,” he told REVERIE. He has spoken candidly about the psychological toll of sudden virality following “Spit in My Face!”: “On my side, it was blowing up and I was waking up every day sick to my stomach. I was nervous because it was a lot of pressure,” he told Dazed. In Rolling Stone Canada, he described the early rush of attention as “intense... the rush of attention and pressure was overwhelming, and it would influence the creative. It still does sometimes, but I try to block it out and create as myself.”
He has pushed back openly against label pressure to chase repeat virality, recalling a direct message from his A&R: “You need to constantly emulate 'Hate' and 'Spit,' which are my two biggest songs. No surprise there. But I think it comes down to finding time to create for yourself, not just for your business.” He distinguishes between songs written from “past stories” that carry weight regardless of when they're released and songs written “in the moment... almost like I'm venting them out,” arguing both approaches “can make equally good songs.” His creative process embraces imperfection as a value in itself: “Polished sound is for AI music. Preserving mistakes and raw moments is important. It makes the music more real. I've lost my voice recording songs to the point where I couldn't even hit the notes, and some of those takes are still in my songs,” he told Rolling Stone Canada. Asked what he wants a first-time listener to feel, he answered simply: “Scared. Or at peace.”
He is bullish on his home scene: “There seems to be a nice scene coming up in Toronto right now, especially in underground music. It feels like the strongest it's been in that sense. Every year I see more and more Canadian artists winning, and that feels good,” he told Rolling Stone Canada. His dating life and family background remain undisclosed; one biography aggregator notes there is no public information regarding his relationships and that he has never discussed family on social media.
Canadian. He is from Toronto, Ontario, and every corroborated biographical source, Wikipedia in multiple languages, Genius, Apple Music, and AllMusic among them, identifies him as Toronto-born and raised. A claim that he is from Waltham, Massachusetts under the name Tyshaun Aldridge has no supporting source anywhere and is not used in this profile.
Carter De Filippis, born August 17, 2001.
No source supports that. His documented label history runs from independent releases in 2022 to Elektra Records (2022 to 2024) and then to Atlantic Records (2025 to present), both under the Warner Music Group umbrella.
Almost his entire catalog, including his debut album The Sound of You Laughing, is produced by Grayskies, a Brazilian producer based in São Paulo whom ThxSoMch met after freestyling over one of his beats on TikTok in 2022. The two worked remotely for roughly two years before recording together in person in Brazil starting in 2024.
As of mid-2026, Kworb tracked it at more than 714 million Spotify streams. It is certified 2× Platinum in Canada, Platinum by the RIAA, Platinum in New Zealand and Poland, and Gold in the UK, Australia, Austria, and France, and it reached No. 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2023.
Yes, in the sense that The Guardian's 2024 feature on the darkwave revival placed both artists on the same official Spotify darkwave playlist alongside acts like Mareux and Boy Harsher. ThxSoMch has said he does not consciously navigate genre labels, and both he and Artemas cite non-traditional darkwave influences, including grunge, SoundCloud rap, and Crystal Castles, rather than classic 1980s goth or post-punk acts.
His early releases, including “Spit in My Face!” and the Sleez EP, came out via Elektra Records. His 2025 debut album The Sound of You Laughing was released via Atlantic Records instead. Because Elektra merged into Atlantic within Warner Music Group in October 2024, this reflects an internal corporate transition rather than a move to a rival label; no source explains the specific business reasoning beyond that structural merger.
ThxSoMch's story sits inside the broader 2020s darkwave and post-punk revival covered in What Is the Darkwave Revival? Artemas, Mareux and the Genre Lighting Up Pop, and his catalog-defining hit and internet-first origin invite comparison with other TikTok-to-major-label pipelines documented across The Ring's wiki, including Artemas, whose own 2023 pivot and A&R instincts are detailed on his page.