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“The Lie That You’re Holding to Your Heart” — Hot Hail! Laments the Poison of Hate in “Article of Faith”

So cast it out of heaven, but don’t look it in the face It’s simpler to reduce it to the lie That you’re holding to your heart, like an article…

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Dark Synth Act Hot Hail! Sings a Love Song to The Feminine Within in Video for “WYRD”

The self is a house with many windows, some curtained by habit, some thrown open by courage. Gender, like weather, moves through us. The masculine and the feminine are not…

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Hot Hail! Returns With Dark Synth Pop Manifestations of Misfits Classics on “Glennda?” EP

In the dim phosphorescence of Seattle’s subterranean pulse, Billy Sigil, the restless mind behind Hot Hail!, steps into their own mirror maze of camp, chaos, and catharsis. Glennda?, their Halloween-season…

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Seattle Artist Hot Hail! Releases Smoldering Synth-Pop Single “My Own Private Weimar”

Tears for the present, tears for the past The future is uncertain so we smoke another pack And we pick apart the details as we dance around the beast Sweating…

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Hot Hail! Reigns with Gorgeous and Grim Dark Synth Pop Full-Length “All The Blood You Wanted”

The fiercest joy we have is gagged and boundThe rope is fraying and the fangs come outWe keep it caged up with the fear and doubtI wanna see it when…

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Seattle Synth-Pop Act Hot Hail! Debuts Powerful Subterranean Dirge “Rat King”

Mental illness coils and knots itself into something monstrous: the proverbial ‘rat king’ of tangled thoughts, gnawing anxieties, and reflexive ruin. Each impulse, each wound, each need, bound so tight…

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Hot Hail! Celebrates the Feminine in us all with Gothic-Laced Synth-pop Anthem “WYRD”

From the first breath, a male child is usually taught that softness is sin, that tenderness is weakness, that anything delicate must be buried beneath a harder, colder self. Hands…

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Seattle Dark Synth Pop Act Hot Hail! Debuts Apocalyptic Single “Horrific”

The world groans under the weight of its own undoing, a slow-motion calamity met with rage as raw as the earth’s wounded skin. Despair courses through veins like a bitter…

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