Wax Vessel

09/27/2025

What a day yesterday! Thanks again to everyone who grabbed a copy! Just wanted to reiterate that this is a pre-order and they will probably ship end of Q1 next year. As always, if you need to change your shipping address or anything, please just email me.

The number one piece of feedback that I see about this is that the price was very high. I would counter and say that since they sold out that the price was perfect. This was never meant to be widely obtainable and super accessible. The band themselves have had every opportunity over the past 20 years to do something with this material and they told me they were never going to. It was this or nothing! I think it’s cool that something like this can exist on only 500 copies - and by pricing them this high, it takes a lot of of the flip incentive out. I basically priced them at the flipper price upfront so instead of that money just going into a flipper it goes directly to the band!

Speaking of, the band as an entity owns this material and music. It’s been a lot of months of back-and-forth with Garza, the band, their management, their merch guys, their lawyers, etc. something like this is a production to be honest. Make no mistake - everyone that needs to be paid will be paid, and everyone who needs to be credited is credited in the record. But if you are the type of person that thinks that I am going to be personally sending Venmo’s to everyone in Su***de Silence, then I guess it doesn’t matter what I say, haha. I know we have seen a lot of hack license jobs without band consent recently, but in case you forgot, WV is the real deal haha.

Anyway. I think this whole thing has been overwhelmingly positive and I know the band is super pleased with how everything turned out. I know I am as well. And I know everyone who bought a copy is going to cherish it! I promise I won’t have another drop this expensive for a long, long time, haha.

Enjoy your weekend and come back on Monday for Lifeforms pics!

09/26/2025

Today is the day! Happy Su***de Silence drop day!

In an effort to make my life easier, I'm going to do this post again. This will be redundant for a lot of you, but if you're new to the WV thing, i think this might clear up some of your questions! Maybe consult this before you send me a mean message!

- This is a preorder. A preorder! Shipping Q1 of 2026. But maybe later! Who knows!
- No, it wasn't bots. No listing is made before the drop, and i have a dozen plugins/etc on the backend to combat this. Additionally, every order is manually reviewed (yes, I check social medias/etc).
- Yes, orders are capped per household
- It doesn't matter that you had it in your cart - it is the first 300 people to check out.
- Yeah, they are going to go in pretty quick! This was always imagined by everyone involved to be a low run, cool collector's item. Thats by design! Nope, not making more!
- Yes, they were expensive! Before you complain about the cost, please just remember that 100% of the profit goes to the band. An awesome way to support everyone’s favorite band and give people some money in the music industry, which is the hardest thing in the world.
- If you missed out or thought they were too expensive, have no fear! The band will also have some cheaper variants up for sale at some point here today too!

Thanks again to everyone who is grabbed a copy! I know they are expensive, but in order to get the band they money they need on a vinyl run, I have to make them as much off of 500 copies as they would make on 5000 or whatever, haha. Thats the trade off for having material like this be this limited. Not for everyone, and thats ok!

Remember, the best place to see updates about this and all special pressing is on Facebook. I make production posts like every day!

waxvessel.com

suicidesilence.store

09/23/2025

Ok small update!

Lifeforms gets delivered tomorrow, and TOR merch is done. The gold is to ship both this coming weekend, but it may be one or the other depending on time/energy levels haha. In either case! They’re both good to go!

Hoping to have Lifeforms pics on Thursday, but if not it’ll be next week. Have a big Friday planned!

09/22/2025

First Lambgoat, now Metal Sucks! Very cool!

I just wanted to do a quick reminder for everyone that pre-orders for this go live this coming Friday at 1 PM. CST.  it will be a pre-order and it probably won’t be shipping until early Q1 of 2026. 

Please keep in mind that my copies will be eye-watering on expensive. As it stands, I don’t know if the band is going to put up their copies (which will be cheaper) at the same time as well. Maybe they’re gonna take some on the road, who knows!

I’m gonna make one more big post before this drops just with all the additional details once we have them locked in. Thanks again in advance to everyone who is thinking about grabbing a copy!

Su***de Silence's 2005 EP to Get 20th Anniversary Vinyl Release

09/21/2025

You know the drill! It's art day!

I know I spent like 15 paragraphs talking about this over the weekend, but I wanted to hit it again. It was so important to me to have this feel liek a fun lil time capsule here. I knew from the get-go that I wanted the OG logo, but! I was prepared for the fight, haha. We had a couple prepared, and honestly it took way more placement renditions than you'd expect to get this correct.

Of course, I have to give a huge thanks to Dan Mumford on this one. Always was a dream of mine to work with him. And while yes, this is very 2008-coded, i think its such a fun way to redo the art for this. I hope you enjoy!

Preorders go live on Friday, at 1:00pm CST. See you there!

09/20/2025

Haven't done one of these in a minute - but if not for Su***de Silence then who??

Thanks again to Kai over at Lab 13 for the logo rip and the FB layout. It's always a special occasion when its dedicated layout for a drop!

If you missed it yesterday, Su***de Silence goes up for preorder this coming Friday at 1:00pm CST. If you have any questions please let me know!

09/19/2025

Ladies and gentlemen! It’s here! The impossible dream! A release so important from a band so legendary that I never even dared think about doing it - and yet here we are! It’s not every day that Garza hits you up to do a release for Su***de Silence like, I’m still pinching myself to be honest! But before I start pontificating and making everyone mad, this one comes with a little prefix:

THIS IS A PREORDER! IT COULD TAKE LIKE, MONTHS! IT WILL CERTAINLY SHIP IN 2026! I’VE DONE OVER 150 RELEASES OVER ALMOST A DECADE - I PROMISE IT WILL SHIP! DO NOT BUY IF YOU CANNOT WAIT FOR A PREORDER!

Now, with that out of the way, lets chat about this EP!

This might be the one release where I don’t really have to wax too poetic. Like, its literally Su***de Silence, haha. I know everyone has to remember the first time they heard a SS song and how that changed the trajectory of their musical development. I think I was on The Gauntlet? There was a music blog back in the day. Maybe Duckcore chat? But ever since that Family Guy demo broke, it was over. They set the groundwork. The undeniable founding fathers. Not that I need to get in to the Total Deathcore stuff again, but like, there was truly a pre-Su***de Silence and post-Su***de Silence shift in the scene.

Destruction of a Statue was my ringtone. Zach from Third Eye Studios and I camped at FYE on release day of The Cleansing. SS has been like, this omnipresent force - an invisible hand that kind of pushed me through my teenage years. Absolutely feels liek an insane full-circle moment for me, and im still kind of pinching myself that this is happening. One of the most important and historical EPs ever. A true piece of lore. Definitely get to hang my hat on this one, its the realization of the WV dream - small run vinyl releases of the most important heirloom stuff that isn’t on vinyl. There we go! Enjoy!

Honestly, one of my favorite parts of this whole presentation and experience (and one of my favorite parts of WV) is getting to redo the art. I’m in such a privileged position where I get to play tastemaker a bit, and honestly I think this new one for Su***de Silence is one of the best ever. I think if you to the entire context of this material in to account, the year it was released, the year its being re-released in to account its perfect. I’ve always wanted to work with Dan Mumford on something but his style is so specific and so rooted din like, 2008 that I knew it would have to be a very specific release. When we were fist talking about doing this material with the band, it felt liek such a perfect opportunity for Dan - he did the original Euro edition art for this release back when he was like, 16 year old lmao. He told me it was one of the first covers he ever did. Seemed liek such a cool opportunity to have him return and redo the art. Plus, I think this is really such an “early 2000s incarnate” type of release, that big colorful and brash Mumford art just works so well. The gravitas! The history! And in addition to the art, it was important to me that we use the OG OG logo. It never appeared on any physical releases, so it felt like a great opportunity to finally use it. Gives it some panache! So history! Ah! This whole thing is just so cool!

Kai over at Lab.13 of course did an incredible job with the layout. He actually remade most of the OG CD layout and presentation texture for the expanded gatefold packaging on this. Plus, Mumford did an ADDITIONAL full panel that is a complete recreation of his original artwork for this release. Only way to see it is in the packaging for this, haha. Just a lot of stuff going on here!

In addition to the art, it was also a great opportunity for Zach over at Third Eye Studios to work on the audio as well. He’s truly a master of the craft, and when I asked him to run down the most significant changes he did on this, here’s what he said: “OG version was literally -4 LUFS which is ….. WAY too loud. Standard these days is -7. I brought it down to about -6.3 just to give it a little extra kick as opposed to -7, but it’s much better balanced now. When you A/B it, it may sound a little quieter than the originals, but I had to. If I pushed it to -4 it would just be noise and also not really how we do things these days.” I think what we have here is a much more balanced mix - more headroom, better dynamics and staging. It’s more than subtle, and I think you’re really gogin to love it!

Contextually, this makes so much sense as a WV title. Su***de Since is not one too like, dwell on nostalgia and just represses everything in to the ground or put out 1000 anniversary editions of things. They’ve always pushed forward and like, grown their discog. We are approaching the 20 year anniversary of this material and its literally never been pressed or repressed - thats by design! They’re not that band! aIts the perfect release for Wax Vessel - the one and done mindset aligns with what they’re all about, and how they want to treat this EP. It started it all (for all intents and purposes yes I’d love to do the Family Guy demo leave alone you know what I mean) and this is how they want to pay homage to this material. A super deluxe, one time pressing of this seminal EP. Everyone is happy! The band makes as much as if they did a multiple thousand piece run, and it gets to exist in a cool limited way. So just like, before you start complaining please just zoom out a bit and release everyone is having a good time! It’s records! They’re fun and collectible! Like this is a collector piece! If you’re the worlds biggest fan, then make Sure you get one!

I will have the 300 “Signature Series” variants (the very ornate, very expensive ones) available and fulfilled form my store. The band will have 200 copies of less ornate (but still very cool) and 180g true audiophile variants in their store. They will be priced MUCH lower. If you think that what I’m charging is too much, no problem! Go buy one from them! I’m allocating them cheap copies for just such a reason! If you don’t want to play the expensive record collector game, go listen on YouTube! There’s no barrier to entry to listening to it, its ok!

Anyway. Sorry for all the logistics, but every time I do a release like this I get yelled at. Trying to mitigate that as well as I can. And like, if you think Su***de Silence is going come to me and do a release and not like, have whole teams involved looking at every document and every tern, you are stupid! I’ve been saying its nonprofit, and all the money goes to the band for years and like, here we are yet again! Yes they’re expensive, but its the tradeoff for being this limited. I think the band deserves to make a f**kton of money off this material, and if you’re a SS fan you agree! Why wouldn’t you want your favorite band to have a ton of money?? You’re not lining my pockets its all for them! We’re all on the same team here! 100% of the profit to team Su***de Silence!

To recap: It’s 500 copies. One time, ever. Everyone thinks that rules. Lots of pricepoints - you can get a crazy copy and support a lot, or a cheap one. Its a preorder, albeit a fast one. Probably early 2026. It’s for the 20 year anniversary! It’s exciting! Records will be pressed by Wax Mage and Gotta Groove. If you want some examples of what you can expect, go check out my instagram or Wax Mage instagram. They’re the best in the biz, and for the occasion they’ve let me dramatically increase my allotment of Sigs - 300 copies! 6 sigs! All gas! And in addition, we will have that 180g natty PVC as well if you really don’t care about all that and just want to hear it as good as it can sound.

This one time pressing is presented across 550 copies:
50 Ending is the Siginning (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Swarm (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 About a Plane Crash (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Sigstruction of a Statue (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Sigstorted Thought of Addiction (Wax Vessel Signature)
50 Sigicide Siglence (Wax Vessel Signature)
100 (Nonsig)
150 Band Edition 180g Natural PVC

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

Just insane to me still to have gotten a message from Garza on this. That this EP is seeing the light of day on a 12” record in 2025, 20 years after its release. That I get to represent this piece of scene history here. Feels liek the past 6 years have been a leap to this - thanks to everyone who has ever bought a record or checked out WV along the way. My pièce de résistance! I’ll think no matter what your opinion on how I do things, you can agree this is being presented intentionally and with love. Its very important to me and the band, and we know you’re goign to love it! And if not, go listen to “Rare Ass Sh*t” which has all of this for free! Literally nothing is stopping you from listening or being a fan of this material!

Preorders go live for this on Friday, September 26th at 1:00pm CST at waxvessel.com. See ya there! Shipping before Q2 of 2026.

09/18/2025

I have been waiting for the day for a long time! Thank you again for the patience through all the delays and everything but Weeping is shipping tomorrow! It’s done!

Thank you again to everyone who had a hand in this. It took a lot of people to make this happen, and I am so thrilled with the end result. Absolutely was my favorite released album last year (by anyone) and I think the records have done it justice!

Stay tuned for Lifeforms next week! These are shipping right now!

09/17/2025

Lifeforms is wrapped! Shipping to me end of this week? Shipping to you next weekend? Something like that!

Additionally, Weeping is IN MY HANDS and I’ll do photos Thursday. Those are shipping this weekend!

09/12/2025

Merry Christmas!!

As is the yearly tradition, the full suite of Christmas stuff is now up for preorder! We did it really early this year so that way you will get it well in advance of the holiday season and can wear it to every Christmas party you have this year.

Christmas sweater bundles are super limited, as are the tote bags. But if you miss out, we have some cool shirts that are first time shirts with some interesting logos from previous layouts. Plus a wonky shirt color again!

Everything is a pre-order, but will ship pretty soon to be honest. Thanks again for grabbing something and indulging me and my favorite yearly tradition!

We know. Christmas drops are getting earlier each year. We've cut shipping too close the last few years and really want to make sure we get this all to you as early in December as possible to wear through the whole month! Expected delivery date is sometime in early December! Never to be printed agai...

09/11/2025

We’re talking releases! First off, Christmas Sweaters TOMORROW! But with that out of the way, here’s what 2025 and 2026 will look like a bit!

October has a brand new album from a brand new band. WV debut.

November has a brand new WV exclusive release from a returning band.

2026 will also have new releases (at minimum) from:

Killing of a Sacred Deer
LILA
Drowned Under Concrete
hereisaropegoodluck

… and more!

I think things are gonna get generally a bit more spaced out and a bit more affordable an a bit more curated and a bit more new in 2026. Can’t wait to show you!

09/10/2025

Sorry for the slow week! All this extra spacing for the drop on the 26th is killing my flow! But it’ll be worth it I promise! Can’t wait to tell you all about it next Friday!

In the meantime, just wanted to drop a little update. First and foremost, this weekend will have most (if not all) of the tests from the last Mega Raffle shipping out. I think we’re also going to get TOR out or at least finish the last of the garments.

GGR has like, fast seasons and slow seasons, and I just have to ride the wave. I apologize for the delay and a lot of these things. It seems like the last two months I’ve only had like one job ship 😩. But they’re all percolating behind the scenes! Really all I can say for now is that in September the following will ship:

Weeping
Lifeforms
Casket Dealer

And don’t forget the Christmas Sweaters this Friday! Still a very busy couple of weeks here, but I’m just waiting for jobs to come off the line so I can start shipping them out! Thank you as always for the patience and between September only having one release and nothing happening in December, I should have everything wrapped up by the end of the year through MAHCIU.