Meshuggah hoor ik niet meteen, eerder bands als Neurosis. Die verpletterende mokerslagen op drums, het brutaal teisteren van de gitaarsnaren en dat vocaal uitbraken van de lyrics. Guiltless gaat helemaal die postmetaltoer op, zij het versneden met wat sludge en noise. Josh Graham drukt ook meteen zijn creatieve stempel op het grafische luik van de band en zorgt voor instant herkenning.
Teeth to Sky verschijnt op 7 maart 2025 via Neurot Recordings
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"The spellbinding video for “One Is Two” was directed and edited by Josh Graham with cinematographer Brian Sowell and lighting technician Jason Watkins.
Graham reveals, “This was the first song to come together on Teeth To Sky. Experimenting with an abstracted, head-on song structure and more seasick guitar bends (as heard on the Thorns EP), we are in a sense channeling our love for Meshuggah, played our more Kiss It Goodbye lo-fi/less-technical approach. The lyrics discuss the duality of humanity as a species, and how, while some of us are good, we are still part of the human assault on our planet. It’s not meant to deter the idea of fighting for environmental change, as much as it acknowledges that every single person on earth is using natural resources, and contributing, either directly or indirectly, to climate change. The lyrics themselves also work in duality - a sort of self-recognized defect merging with the acceptance of both our role and the consequences that are sneaking up all around us.”
Born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge, and doom, Guiltless (featuring members of A Storm of Light, Intronaut, Generation of Vipers and Battle of Mice) heralds the coming of a heavy music which looks both inwards and out to convey the encompassing mixture of hope, despair and determination which comes from observing life as we know it today. Guiltless released their debut EP, Thorns, via Neurot Recordings in early 2024. Crushing and cheerless, it seemed to welcome the apocalypse looming on our collective horizon.
The band:
Billy Graves: Drums
Dan Hawkins: Guitar, Noise
Sacha Dunable: Bass, Noise
Josh Graham: Guitar, Vocals, Noise
