Guiltless - Teeth To Sky (Album Review)

Release Date: March 07th 2025. Record Label: Neurot Recordings. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

Teeth To Sky - Dirtmother

1.Into Dust Becoming

2.One Is Two 

3.In Starless Reign

4.Our Serpent In Circle

5.Teeth To Sky 

6.Lone Blue Vale

7.Landscape of Thorns

8.Illumine

 Members

Billy Graves: Drums

Dan Hawkins: Guitar, Noise

Sacha Dunable: Bass, Noise

Josh Graham: Guitar, Vocals, Noise 

Review

Guiltless is a new band featuring members from Intronaut, Generation Of Vipers, A Storm Of Light and Battle Of Mice. Between them, they’ve made some of the most important and critically acclaimed Post-Metal records over the last two decades. They’ve left a wake of destruction in their midst and Guiltless continues that journey with their debut full length album Teeth To Sky. Guiltless did release their debut EP Thorns in 2024 to much critical acclaim. The record’s mix of Noise, Post-Metal, Experimental Rock, Industrial, Sludge and Doom was an exhilarating experience within the short run time of the record.

Guiltless sound has been amplified to the most destructive level possible with Teeth To Sky as the record is more vicious, aggressive and a deceiving level of melody. Taking cues from their love of bands such as SWANS, NEUROSIS, BREACH and even some Stadium Rock fare along the way.

For the most part, Teeth To Sky has quite a visceral and street level style of Noise Rock/Post-Metal with outbursts of aggressive Sludge Metal surroundings with a harsh Hardcore Punk sound which comes to life spectacularly well within the opening tracks of Into Dust Becoming, One Is Two and In Starless Reign sees Guiltless use each individual band members knowledge and history from the Sludge/Post-Metal scene to maximum effect.

Guiltless members maybe from other well known bands but this is a band creating their own identity and sound within the overall Post-Metal scene. Teeth To Sky is brutally original and superbly honest with the lyrics the band have written for the whole album where they preach a few home truths about today’s modern world and how it’s all going to shit at the moment. 

The industrial landscapes and soundscapes allows Guiltless to sell the bleak desolate journey to everyone that listens to the album. Distorted grooves and down-tuned Post-Metal sounds are put through the Industrial Rock/Noise Rock machine especially on tracks such as Our Serpent In Circle, Teeth To Sky and Landscape Of Thorns.

Teeth To Sky is deeply rooted in the Post-Metal lore of the last thirty years or so but there’s still a strong sense of modern day carnage to their overall sound with Guiltless allowing modern styles of Post-Doom, Ambient Rock and Post-Rock to form a chaotic style of Sludge Metal which allows Teeth To Sky to become one of the most important and prominent Post-Metal debut records to emerge in quite some time.

With one foot in the past and one in the future, Guiltless are paying huge respects to what has come before them whilst breaking new ground for future fans of Post-Metal to be inspired and influenced by. Teeth To Sky is a wake up call for today’s disillusioned generation and the music is KEY on how GUILTLESS will deliver their music to the Post-Metal masses.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Rarely Unable for the promo.

Teeth To Sky will be available to buy on DD/Vinyl via Neurot Recordings from Friday 07th March 2025.

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GUILTLESS: New Band From A Storm Of Light, Intronaut, Generation Of Vipers, Battle Of Mice Members To Release Thorns On February 23rd via Neurot Recordings

A new voice steps forward to put our concerns and frustrations into words; that voice is GUILTLESS. The band will release their debut EP, Thorns, February 23rd on Neurot Recordings, today sharing the cover art, track listing, preorders, and a video the lead single "All We Destroy."

Picking up where A Storm Of Light left off, GUILTLESS was born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge, and doom. The band is embodied by Billy Graves (Generation Of Vipers, A Storm Of Light) on drums, Dan Hawkins (A Storm Of Light) on guitar and noise, Sacha Dunable (Intronaut) on bass, and Josh Graham (A Storm Of Light, Battle Of Mice, Neurosis’ former visual artist) on guitar, vocals, and noise. Together they present a stripped down, visceral reaction to modern life; angular yet straight to the point, self-aware, surreal, and occasionally sarcastic.

Human singularity, a third world war, scorching deserts, rising seas – it’s all coming for us. The slow grind is already in motion, pushing concrete, bodies, Teslas, skyscrapers, shacks, banks, and Bitcoin into a collective abyss. Piles of discarded trash will inherit the earth. It’s anyone’s guess as to what happens next. Is this the end of the world? Who knows. Who cares? Stand by with the rest of us and watch it burn. We’re all guiltless. We’re all blameless.

GUILTLESS creates apocalyptic soundscapes in their imaginings of the surreal return to proto-human society, as well as what life might be like for the survivors of the next mass extinction event on Thorns. The opening track, “Devour-Collide,” is a song which addresses the decline of civilization, leaving time and space for the earth to heal, the band shouting, “Embrace the ruin, devour – collide, when the beasts dissolve, the meek revive.” There’s the bleak gut-reactional “All We Destroy” and the barren landscape conjured in “Dead-Eye,” and the EP ends with “In Radiant Glow,” a description of the unfolding of a hostile new world, post-extinction event. The conclusion of this narrative comes with the purgation of burning everything down to the ground and starting again.

Through this cycle of destruction and rebirth, GUILTLESS believes that art and music can give us solace or help us exercise our demons. GUILTLESS can be that cathartic release.

The first GUILTLESS single arrives with a video for “All We Destroy,” created by Josh Graham, who writes, “‘All We Destroy’ is the song that set the tone of the band overall and defines a large portion of this first release. It’s a stripped-down arrangement compared to the other tracks but has a clarified pummeling energy/driving force. Lyrically bleak, it feels like the current state and trajectory of our planet, and is influenced by the short story by Margaret Atwood, Time Capsule Found On The Dead Planet

Stream GUILTLESS’ “All We Destroy” at THIS LOCATION or below and find the song on all streaming services now.

Thorns will be released on CD, cassette, and digital formats through Neurot Recordings on February 23rd with 12” vinyl to follow in June. All Physical formats are spray-painted, hand-stamped, hand-numbered, with special paper elements: each copy is unique. Find preorders for all formats and merch HERE.

Watch for additional previews of Thorns to post over the weeks ahead and expect more news from GUILTLESS soon as the band plots sporadic live actions and constructs their debut LP.

You can pre-order THORNS from Neurot Recordings now

Thorns Track Listing:

1. Devour Collide
2. All We Destroy
3. Dead-Eye
4. In Radiant Glow

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