Wax Vessel

11/14/2025

Happy False Body day! Honestly might be my favorite release of the year - I hope you dig it! Last in hand, and second to last thing for 2025. I'll have these out before December! Thanks again to anyone who grabs one - it goes such a long way for like, and active, touring band made up of a bunch of people from the Wildrose WV extended universe: Abrupt Decay/Killing of a Sacred Deer ... and more!

The band will have a full variant for Canadians as well. Stop by and grab one from them in the future!

Nik please! More culture! Less deathcore! You used to be different but now you’re different again! Like ok damn sorry that deathcore rocks and people buy it! But you can’t deny I’ve been racking up the good boy points recently! Here’s another little gold nugget! False Body is here with a big...

11/13/2025

I hope you've had enough time to sit with False Body here over the past few days! If you weren't familiar before, whats the verdict? I'm really happy to end out the year with this one, and I think its an insane entry in to an insane block of post-SS/post-deathcore block here, haha. I'm sure you've noticed all the musicians around here are geeking on it, haha.

These go up tomorrow at 1:00pm CST. They'll ship before the holidays. And be warned - I'll only have 200 copies going up. The band will have a full variant for themselves for Canadians! SO save yourself some cheddar if you're international. But also do please buy one from me!

11/10/2025

ICYMI: False Body has a new collected works semi-discography (with some new songs) going up this Friday at 1:00pm CST. They are on press now, and should ship to me in time for me to ship them next weekend. All is right in the world!

If you are interested, take a listen to the work Zach at Third Eye Studios did on this material. The track pacing and general audio work really does make this play like an "album". I think its the definitive False Body!

10 track album

11/09/2025

Hello! Happy Sunday! Just wanted to give a little update on Su***de Silence. We are well underway! These were advertised as a quick preorder to ship in Q1 of 2026, and i think we'll hit that 100%. Already have plating complete, with test presses approved. I anticipate this entering pressing in late December? Who's to say! But looking good!

11/08/2025

The choice for which panel to be the cover was effortless, and the new logo was also so easy. But this placement kicked my ass. I think Lab 13 and I spent a week and 30 iterations, haha. Of course I’m sure many will disagree but such is life! It was hard!

I know I’ve been doing art posts for a week now, but! I really think Kai did an exception job with this full layout, and are are WAY more panels than you’d expect on this. Stay tuned! False Body is on Friday!

11/07/2025

Nik please! More culture! Less deathcore! You used to be different but now you’re different again! Like ok damn sorry that deathcore rocks and peopel buy it! But you can’t deny I’ve been racking up the good boy points recently! Here’s another little gold nugget! False Body is here with a big collected works/discog but also arranged in to an album with also some new tracks! Yay!

“Quietly, Its Gone” is the collected works of Abrupt Decay/KSD-adjacent FALSE BODY. IT’s their INSANE serious Eps, as well as a two new single to wrap it up in to a full new thing. If it wasn’t for the slight differences in production quality, you could call this an album - and to be honest it kind of plays like one. The pacing is great, and it feels so intentional. Their EPs are already so curated that I think its the perfect way to listen to them tbh. I’m calling it an all new thing! You can call it collected works. Whatever you want! I’m just amped to add yet another feather in to the cap of this little Canadian/Wildrose WV universe here!

Just a real feedback laden genre-bender, which is like, so lame to say but it really is the case. Similar to how Bridge Burner kind of occupied this intersection of grind and sreamo, False Body really is an insane take on hardcore if it had a lot of grind overtones. There’s this like, actual punk-forwardness to it that I think really works well with a lot of feedback and blasts, haha. I guess just a long way of saying this might be the most criminally underrated band ever in the WV roster. Certified slept on but also completely universally loved upon discovery? When I sent Zach this audio for the remaster he literally called me a few days later to say howe good it was?? He never comments on this stuff, lmao. Just absolutely the most cultural release of 2025 perhaps!

Two minute songs. Just blistering. Staccato vocals that have that very wretched shout quality. Just absolutely strained on top of that classic kin dog Abrupt Decay adjacent guitar work. It’s absolutely f**kign nuts who fast this collection of material is lmao. You think you’re going to get lulled in to like, a jangly type of “real punk” or “noise hardcore” type of thing but that is ABSOLUTELY not the case. Sure, you get 15 seconds of like, general purpose hardcore influence but then OH NO here’s just a 300bpm blast. It’s not a Spy or a Gel or any other type of modern one-word-band-named punish hardcore project - it’s more akin to what Totem Skin is doing or like, what Fluoride is doing; actual intersectional genre nonsense. But then you’re dropped back in to a swinging two-step and you forget everything I just said and you start crowd-killing. It’s a lot.

LIke, yes, you have that thing where they hold open a guitar chord and do the “dun dun dun dun dun” drum thing. It’s a real band. Like, perfectly suited for basement shows but then it’s at the same time oh so harrowing and mean and evil in so many spots. Like I know a band is a sum of all its parts, but its so vocal forward and so drum forward that you kind of have to keep snapping out of it every time guitars kick in like, it’s goign to take you a few listens here. It’s an insane body of work that is so diverse in all its performances that you can’t just absorb it all in one listen. Nor should you!

We’re hitting everyting. My favorite peeps from AD/KSD/etc as well as a phenomenal set from GGR. The last of the in-hand release for 2025! And lets not forget what might be my favorite part of this whole thing - that art! I spoke on it earlier, but i’ve been excited to use these panels for years. These were originally gonna be for a project that ended up not materializing, but then when I was able to confirm the release with this False Body, it was just pure serendipity. Just so happens to be best case scenario because I think this art is much better for this release than any other thing it could’ve been. Nothing brings me more joy than bands just letting me do my thing, and it really just came together in such an insane way here. Eternal thanks to Syzygy aka lumierebelge for these panels (was worth like, setting up a Western Union transfer to the middle of rural Argentina and like, spending weeks getting all this coordinated). Kai did an insane job too and when you see how many drafts this took you’ll understand! We STRUGGLED lmao.

To sum it up. Amazing art and layout. Phenomenal tunes. Great peopel doing great stuff. WV universe expanding. Grant getting more powerful. These are in press next week, and will ship before I stop shipping orders this year. I don’t want this hammered in the holiday mail! And even better - there will only be 200 on drop. The band will have a full /50 variant to themselves for Canada. Canadian VIPs only!

This one time pressing is presented across 250 copies:
50 Stage Four (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Peace of Mind (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Chokehold (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Loudmouth (Wax Vessel Signature)
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50 Dandelion (Wax Vessel Signature & Band Exclusive Canadian Variant)

All of this housed in:
1.5x thickness Matte jackets
Double sided matte gatefold full color insert
Black polylined inner-sleeves
Gold foil numbering
Stuffed into polybags
Hype Sticker’d
Custom WV Mailers
Matching WV Album art sticker
Download Code

The new songs are up on streaming now! These are on press, and should be in my hands late next week. These will 100% be shipped before the holidays here - it will ship on normal insta timelines! We hit it!

Orders go up on Friday the 14th at 1:00pm CST. See ya there!

11/06/2025

Ok! Finally! SONGS - BAND records have been photographed! Here are! Honestly such a fun color palette and as usual, Wax Mage Records went crazy. Also one of the first by design “all sig” sets! Exciting! Ah!

You’ll notice that last weekend *all the rebalance went out. This weekend SONGS and the remainder of the BAM tests will ship. MENSIS next weekend. I think we’re going to make it!

Thank you as always for the patience! I think it’s always worth it! Enjoy!

*all except like, 15 of the mystery and a few multi-bundles. Relax!

11/03/2025

The release this Friday is one that I’ve been sitting on for a long, long time. It is a very specific entry in to a member/bands kind of WV universe. It really expands a lot of sounds and genres and honestly might be too cool and too smart of a release for me to put out.

Music aside, though, I’m really excited for this one because it’s a set of artwork panels that i’ve been excited to use for years. These were originally gonna be for a project that ended up not materializing, but then when I was able to confirm the release with this upcoming band, it was just pure serendipity. Just so happens to be best case scenario because I think this art is much better for this release than any other thing it could’ve been.

Very exciting. I can’t wait to show you the full thing here. This is a very small drop and if everything goes well, should be very close if not in hand in the next two weeks.

11/02/2025

SONGS - BAND arrives on Tuesday. Full variant pics this coming week, shipping this weekend. All the rebalance stuff (including the surprise) will be shipped out *before* the weekend. Batches all week. Keep an eye on that tracking!

MENSIS was supposed to be WAY faster, so I really do apologize. Not to ever pass the buck, but GGR has had a lot of mechanical issues and are behind. Cest la vie. My grand plans involved me getting both of those at the same time and making a big in hand show about it. It’s just end of the year logistics and I appreciate the patience!

I don’t think I will really be shipping anything past November 20th or so. I don’t want anything to get lost or ruined in the holiday mail rush. So here is what I think should happen for the rest of the year in terms of records:

- SONGS ships
- Rebalance ships
- MENSIS ships
- This last in hand (see ya Friday) ships
- Casket Dealer ships (maybeeeee)

I’ve been given some assurances on expedited timelines on things. It really just works out to getting three releases completed this month, which has happened a lot. Worst case scenario it’s just like a normal two releases shipping (Mensis and new in hand) and then as soon as we get back in January, it will be a deluge.

I am not gonna have them stop pressing in December and my hope is that I can have like three or four things accumulate over the holidays and then I can just do a big push to clear up a lot of backlog in January. Grand plans, I know. I just hope at this point after more than six years and almost 150 releases like you will definitely get your stuff I promise! I have never been the fastest guy in the game, haha. I really do appreciate the patience!

All that being said: see ya Friday for a VERY limited, VERY niche, VERY fu***ng cool little insta here. Grinding, grinding hardcore with a ton of punk overtones. A very interesting little genre blender. Very smart stuff for cool screamo kids who want to fight! I am continuing on with my commitment to no more deathcore for a long time, haha.

11/01/2025

Just wanted to thank everybody who showed up yesterday to grab a copy of girlsbeinggirls. I know there was about 10,000 other drops going on and this is a brand new album from a brand new band at $100, lmao. Sometimes I still can’t believe how powerful the WV engine is where we get to do this every month.

All of the dogs are gone, and we are down to 11 copies of the PVC. This will be the one and only pressing this album so if you’re thinking, it’s gonna be something that you’re gonna end up, loving in the future I would recommend grabbing a copy!

Still absolutely insane that we could sell so many copies and give these guys this much money on a project like this. Absolutely eternal gratitude to the Wax Vessel community for always giving a vote of confidence and taking a chance on new things.!

Mathtober is still kicking! Its always such a treat when I get to do a BRAND NEW band to debut a BRAND NEW ALBUM that is created with WV in mind and designed around being released in this way. An honor. This one maybe even more cool than usual just given what type of materiel it is, and everything t...

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! As a spooky treat, girlsbeinggirls is no available to stream everywhere! I'd ask that you go listen to it and then come back and tell me what you think! Everyone loves to say that I've gone soft and don't do any math/sass/grind anymore, but I feel like October has been pretty stacked here! This might end up being your favorite WV title in 2025 who's to say!

Preorder for this go up today at 1:00pm CST. It is a new release so it will have a PVC. Never been less units on a new release! I promise you're going to want to grab one!

girlsbeinggirls · album · 2025 · 14 songs

10/30/2025

Ok, small update! A bit of a delay (classic) but we are rolling. SONGS - BAND has shipped, and I’ll have them Monday or Tuesday. I’ll take pics this coming week, and they’ll go out next weekend! So I will do rebalance this weekend/early next week then.

MENSIS is finishing up, I think that will ship early next week, and ship out the weekend after. I’m trying to have this last in hand of the year actually be in hand and it mighttttt happen, haha.

I know it’s just a slog, but I appreciate all the patience! Just a lot of stuff always going on but it’s breaking loose!