Born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge metal, and doom, GUILTLESS unites drummer Billy Graves, guitarist Dan Hawkins, bassist Sacha Dunable, and guitarist/vocalist Josh Graham, who collectively herald 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. Now, GUILTLESS will unveil their debut full-length album Teeth To Sky via Neurot, a record more pulverizing, focused, and introspective than what came before.
Teeth To Sky was recorded remotely by the members of GUILTLESS except for the drums, which were recorded by Travis Kammeyer at Fahrenheit Studios in Johnson City, Tennessee. The album was mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, Massachusetts (Converge, High On Fire, Old Man Gloom), mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon (Nails, The Armed, Locrian), and completed with artwork/visuals by Josh Graham.
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, playing 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.”
Metal Injection, dubbing the song “sludgy, plodding,” writes, “The single comes alongside a video directed by Graham, whose visuals only aim to disorient as you're steamrolled into the pavement.”
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