Wax Vessel

06/09/2026

Hello hello! Happy Tuesday! Just a small update for the week! The big one being that almost all KOASD has shipped, and the remaining will ship on Friday. BLoodbather shirts should ship this weekend as well! Moving right along!

My goal is to also have DROWNED UNDER CONCRETE and ABRUPT DECAY ship this month as well. Should be a big one!

I updated the shipping section with all this stuff, so as always if you have questions just go take a look over there.

ICYMI: the anniversary merch is still up for sale all week as well! I'll keep it up until Friday just because this Friday will have a BRAND NEW ALBUM from a new WV band. A cool debut! Another new release! Lets go! See ya Friday!

Happy Anniversary! Time for a quick merch drop. Never to be printed again! These are printed on Espresso Comfort Colors Heavyweight Tees. Size Chart To try and better improve turnaround times, if some sizes are simply unavailable for an extended period of time, brand may be substituted. Because thes...

06/08/2026

Happy Monday indeed! I just want to start off by saying that it’s not lost on me that everything has been a pre-order and everything takes forever. I really do appreciate all the patience for the most part and I think in spite of it being a lot of pre-orders it’s kind of hovering it around the same amount and things are shipping out from last year pretty quick!

KILLING OF A SACRED DEER has shipped! Well, all the PVC and swirls has anyway. It’s a pretty big order so we will finish the SIGs this week.

06/05/2026

Happy Friday ladies and gents! It’s WV anniversary and everything is live!

The limited stuff is gone, but everything else is available until next Friday! If you end up buying a shirt or something, I really do appreciate it and I know you’re gonna love it and as always, it’ll come with a bunch of extras and be very cool!

I promise we will get back to doing cool records with cool bands soon lmao thanks for indulging me!

Happy Anniversary! Time for a quick merch drop. Never to be printed again! These are printed on Island Reef Comfort Colors Heavyweight Tank Tops. Size Chart To try and better improve turnaround times, if some sizes are simply unavailable for an extended period of time, brand may be substituted. Beca...

06/04/2026

Hello hello! Just a few updates here if you’re keeping track!

First things first, the WV seven year anniversary bonanza goes up this Friday! I’ll have it run for a week, and then NEXT Friday it’ll come down and there will be a brand new announcement for a new album debut from a new WV band! Semi-established band made of some members of existing WV bands. They’re touring and have some material out already but we’ve got a new one! Friday!

This weekend we will be shipping all of the KOASD2 records that aren’t sigs. All the PVC/etc. also doing the Bloodbather shirts! And then the following week and weekend we’ll ship sigs and Anniversary stuff. All very quick!

In terms of the rest of June, both DROWNED UNDER CONCRETE and ABRUPT DECAY2 will be in my hands the last week of June. Maybe the 22nd based on what I’m seeing? My goal is to have both of these shipped out in a double weekend in June. Stay tuned!

As always, if you missed out on anything keep an eye on Silverback Gorilla Records and Meteor Gem. SGR will have KOASD2 and CRUCIFICTION. MG will have DUC. The band will have copies of AD2.

July is shaping up to be such a big month as well. And August might be even bigger! It’s WV summer baby so stay tuned!

Also please make sure to wish Pepper a happy preschool graduation and congratulations on her first art gallery installation! Go pep!

06/03/2026

I know I’ve been going hard to the cards recently, but I just think they’re so fun! And to make it even more exciting, not only is it the first and only time you’ll be able to get the OG10 as cards, but it also has the return of the very first WV layout from Ben Hoagland Art & Design LLC as a new updated card pack!

We’ve been hard at work on the anniversary stuff for Friday, and everything that isn’t a shirt is already done. Packs are in hand as well as the new jibbitz! So we just have to whip up some shirts and this will be a quick one!

Thanks again for celebrating year 7 with me this year!

06/02/2026

Hello hello! We’ve got some stuff going on at WVHQ here, so thank you for the patience on KOASD2 pics and whatnot! Should have the full set before the weekend. But don’t forget! In addition to the Meteor Gem variant (that is long gone already) Silverback Gorilla Records will also have a dedicated /100 with an alt going up at some point? Same with CRUCIFICTION (but also the band will have /50 too).

Lots of good stuff breaking free! And not to mention the next installment of the WV booster pack series! The OG10 pack (with art by Ben Hoagland Art & Design LLC) goes up Friday!

06/01/2026

Hello! Happy Monday!

Just wanted to pass this along. CRUCIFICTION is out. KOASD2 is in hand and should go out this weekend. Bloodbather merch is finishing up and that should go out this weekend too.

I went ahead and updated the website with everything that is currently outstanding so keep those eyes open! As always, I try to update the shipping section at least once a month so that will always be the best place to stay up-to-date.

I will have deer pics this week and don’t forget to stop back in on Friday for some anniversary stuff!

05/30/2026

CRUCIFICTION is out the door! We are chipping away at it all ladies and gents!

Stay tuned because KILLING OF A SACRED DEER is up next!

05/29/2026

You know what time it is! It’s Wax Vessel anniversary! Hooray! Can you believe it’s been SEVEN years now??? Never thought that I’d still be doing this when it started up in 2019. Just a man with a dream! And now, just a tired man with a different dream, but here we are haha.

My instructions for Nick on this one where that we had to not have black T-shirts haha. Wanted to do something brown specifically so I could work that in to my real life wardrobe! Plus I haven’t done anything with that logo which is a waste!

We also have the debut of a WV tank! It’s soon to be a summer classic and plus you can trick Gen Xers with your cool Salt Life inspired wares!

The rest is just little tchotchkes just to have some cheap stuff to pad it out! The institution of Wax Vessel exists to give money to bands, but a few times a year (this, Christmas, mega raffle) I am able to use the clout that is generated by this infrastructure for my own personal gain! “ Nik, why do you have a label where you don’t make any money” well sometimes I see WV merch! Granted you’ll notice everything is pretty cheap it’s not a punished by any means, but I really do appreciate anyone who grabs anything!

Lastly, now that the card mechanic is out there this will also be the first and only time that the OG 10 will be getting a booster pack. Will come with all OG10, plus a random “rare” holo of one of those 10. 12 cards in the booster!

This all goes up next Friday, and of course everything is very limited. Happy Friday!

05/26/2026

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone ended up having a great memorial day weekend! I wanted to pop in with a few updates, the first of which being that CRUCIFICTION is shipping this week! Ended up not really getting anything done this weekend between the holiday and family time and stuff like that so thanks for the patience!

Additionally, KILLING OF A SACRED DEER will be in hand on Thursday, so we might even get the PVC out this weekend as well. But full ship on that next week. And stay tuned for the Silverback Gorilla Records variant of KOASD and CRUCI going up sometime soon! Last of the last!

All that aside, I am so happy with how this set of records turned out. It would’ve been so easy to just go black and red, but you guys have to be sick and tired of that. Thankfully Wax Mage Records has a great understanding of context and color theory. I think pulling all of the green and blue undertones out of the art was a big risk, but these came out fantastic and I think it is more impactful than if it was just black and red!