If what we fear is all we have
I hope that god isn’t coming back
Rising from the sprawl of Dallas/Fort Worth, deathrockers All Clean cut through the clatter with jagged teeth and a livewire fury, carving out a niche where post-industrial noise collides with the raw nerve of human unrest. Their sound doesn’t glide: it claws, scrapes, and snarls, dragging listeners through corridors thick with tension, where anxiety hums like an exposed wire and aggression flares like a back-alley brawl waiting to break loose.
Born in 2018 as the fevered vision of Zachary Edwards, what began as a solitary pursuit has since swollen into a full-force quartet, with Charli Mireles twisting guitars into contortions, Miguel Santana anchoring the low-end with a relentless thrum, and Ivan Beltran hammering out rhythms that threaten to break loose from their chains.
Stress Palace crawled from the wreckage of Dallas’s noise-rock underground, a snarling beast born from the battered remains of Blitzer, Things of Earth, The West Windows, and Death Stairs. They began their march in 2018, guitars tuned to fury, drums primed for battle, but just as the stage beckoned, the world buckled. The pandemic struck, lives unraveled, and the band found themselves staring down the long, dark hallway of upheaval. From that wreckage, they forged something fierce—songs laced with sorrow but sharpened to cut.
The bands latest double single, This Is A Deathwatch/See You In Hell, thrashes against unseen tormentors, a blistering battle cry released in tandem with Stress Palace, doubling the dose of discord and defiance.
This is a Deathwatch swings wide the doors and storms in, fists clenched, teeth bared, dripping with the sweat of defiance. A song that snarls and seethes, it shakes like a fever dream, rattling between suffocating doubt and a reckless thirst for freedom. Guitars don’t so much sing as they scrape, lurch, and shudder, colliding with a voice that howls from the abyss, a battle cry against unseen tormentors. It thrashes and writhes, twisting in its own anguish, cutting between moments of raw panic and the unsteady drumbeat of rebellion. Fans of Deftones and Pissed Jeans will hear echoes of the past, but the fury here is freshly sharpened, newly unhinged. All Clean doesn’t smooth the edges or soften the blows, a wrecking ball of angular post-punk and industrial noise rock, rolling forward, unrelenting. The lyrics dig deep, clawing at the bones of despair, a breathless rant against the absurdity of existence. Apathy slithers in, whispering surrender, but resistance roars louder, refusing to buckle. Faith crumbles, meaning flickers like a dying bulb, and yet, even at the brink, there’s a refusal to bow.
The track was recorded and mixed by Alex Bhore (This Will Destroy You, Power Trip) at Elmwood Studio in Dallas, and seared into permanence by Dave Cooley (Deafheaven, Madvillain) at Elysian Masters in Los Angeles.
Likewise, See You In Hell, recorded at a studio called Sunland Sound in Dallas by Jay Michael Smith, is a scorched-earth sermon, a fevered howl from the depths of despair. The lyrics don’t plead; they spit fire, blistered by frustration, strangled by circumstance. The singer is shackled to a place that grinds them down, a purgatory where regret festers and ghosts refuse to fade. Alienation seeps through every syllable, self-doubt curdles in the gut, and a nihilistic farewell rings like a closing door.
Listen to This Is A Deathwatch/See You In Hell above and order the 7″ vinyl version here via The Ghost is Clear Records. Down From The Inner Work is also out now. Order the album here.
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