LA doom-metal trio Faetooth belong to the sludgy tradition of SubRosa, with contemporary groups like King Woman and Messa matching the deep-woods folk-horror of their sound. Three years removed from their debut, the band is returning on September 5 with a snakier set of tunes—aptly titled Labrynthine—which see the trio further exploring soft-loud dynamics while balancing doom and shoegaze and approaching subject matter familiar to both personal and historical mythologies.
The latest cut to arrive from the collection is called “Hole,” and its simmering opening verses do little to prepare listeners for its steep descent into crushing riffs, piercing percussion, and harsh screams later in the track. “‘Hole’ is a meditation on the choice of confronting the past, or burying it,” vocalist/bassist Jenna Garcia explains. “Sobering, waking, realizations of cycles find themselves bared, culminating in an invocation-like verse that declares severance to all ties to a creeping past.”
Meanwhile, the track’s music video documents a moment of evident childbirth-related anguish via interpretive dance as the cloaked band looks on. Check it out below, and pre-order the album digitally via AWAL here, or in physical formats via The Flenser here. You can also catch Faetooth on tour with the similarly witchy Slow Crush at the dates listed here.
