There’s deathrock—and then there’s deathrock. (Emphasis: mine.) California’s New Skeletal Faces help remind of the existence of the latter, and with their new EP, “Sextinction,” they’ve tapped back into the roots of a classic, “trad” gothic rock & deathrock sound. Their new “Sextinction” EP arrived June 25, 2021. And the band recently announced dates with ex-Christian Death members’ (Rikk Agnew, Gitane Demone, et. al.)’s revivalist Only Theatre of Pain Christian Death project. NSF’s debut LP, Celestial Disease, came out on Halloween, 2019—a testament to the band’s dedication to the darker side of traditional gothic rock. “People always assume we just worship Christian Death and Rudimentary Peni,” vocalist Errol Fritz says in the interview below. “But there’s a lot more than that to us.”