Crestfallen Records

18/03/2025

Stoked to be helping out my friends in The Emblem Faction on doing the CDs for their upcoming album!

There's only 20 available through the store and they're up right now

15/03/2025

Cretaceous Carnage is out now! Available for streaming through Bandcamp, Spotify, etc

Thank you to everyone who came through yesterday to pick something up! There's only about 50 vinyl / 25 cassettes / 25 CDs are left!

14/03/2025

The new Terrordactyl EP is available now!

Vinyl, tapes, CDs, and shirts! Literally something for everyone!

10/03/2025

It feels like it's been forever since I've gotten to do a Raymond project, and something tells me I'm not going to be saying that after this year. He has so many ideas up his sleeve that it might as well be Year of Raymond Martin over at CFR HQ.

The first of many potential 2024 Raymond releases is the next entry into the Terrordactyl catalog, Cretaceous Carnage.

This feels like the next logical step in the project's evolution. Just as self-aware as Extinction Event, but still very much it's own thing.

Production wise, it's gritty and visceral. It's not an approachable production. It's very much in the vein of The Stygian Complex - Suffer With Me. It's boomy. It's not clean and polished. It truly feels like the musical embodiment of a t-rex going on a bloody rampage.

There's features from bands that musically might not fit with Terrordactyl, but in terms of the feel, they fit perfectly. I mean, when I tell you that Mudcrab and Krocophile are on this EP, you know it's going to be a ride.

We really wanted to hold the same ideas from Extinction Event's spread into this one. Which is why we got Cory Curly Swope to whip up an alt cover inspired by the final song of the EP. This will be an O card that will slide over the jacket (think Carnivorous Diadem's packaging) with it's own /50 variant. In addition to the alt, there will be a shirt with the artwork available as an open preorder for two weeks.

200 total copies (screen print + numbered OBI strip)
15 cassettes per color painted by Vamonos Tapes
50 CDs
Two shirts (Available from Friday until the 28th)

All go onsale on Friday! We pulled out all of the stops for this one and I hope you all enjoy it!

03/03/2025

A couple of small updates for everyone:

- Oracle Spectre and Sunscourge merch should be finishing up any day now. The printer ran into some issues with their equipment and had to wait for repairs. I believe everything is printed outside of a handful of shirts

- Snake Father is on press today. Dunk! Just put up a livestream of some of it which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/live/lOYM3k3iJ0I?si=7BAfJkecAJ0M_RJN

- CFR045 will be announced tomorrow. Originally it was going to be today, but there's a couple things that need adjusted before it can go up

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13/02/2025

In Dying Arms cassettes should be showing up to your places now!

Huge thanks to David Norman over at ZBR for painting the /15!

09/02/2025

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07/02/2025

Hiraeth is live! Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy as well as The Wind Covenant and Seek and Strike for making this happen!

Tag us in your order confirmations

03/02/2025

I'm sure some of you saw this one coming from the Conjuration announcement. But if you don't mind, there's a lot of things I need to discuss in this post, so strap in and get ready for one of the best Crestfallen releases.

As someone who discovered heavy music through the likes of albums such as Born of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die Alive and Monuments - The Amanuensis, I've always been drawn to the more aggressive side of djent. Mixing in the Phrygian Scale, and I couldn't believe anything better could exist. If there was a way to inject that sound into my veins, I would have.

Unfortunately, with a lot of great sound movements, they pass and become a timestamp on the genre's history. So when I heard that The Wind Covenant had that sound that was so formative to me in my early days of metal, I had to have it on repeat as often as possible.

Now, don't get me wrong, Conjuration is a phenomenal album start to finish, but Hiraeth is truly something next level.

The Wind Covenant took everything great about Conjuration and that aggressive mid-2010s djent sound, turned it up 10x. The heavy parts are heavier. The choruses are more epic and soaring. Strings and synths are present but not overbearing or the main focus. The bass? Even more apparent than it was on Conjuration.

They made sure that every song on this EP served a purpose while still feeling fresh. There's no filler. No songs that feel unfinished or like a copy/paste of other songs on the EP. Nor does it feel like a rehash of 2010s djent. It's a faithful rendition done through a modern interpretation.

Hiraeth will be live this Friday at 12pm ET.

200 copies / 5 variants / OBIs

While you're shopping, grab a copy of Conjuration! This is one of the few bands that I'll say it's necessary to own both parts of the catalog.

And thanks again to Seek and Strike for being willing to let me work together with them to bring this discography to vinyl

17/01/2025

The first ever physicals of The Wind Covenant are live!

Huge thanks to the band and Seek and Strike for making this happen

13/01/2025

It’s no secret I love anything djent related. Crestfallen’s original goal was to just be a bedroom djent label that evolved into doing mid/late 2010s to modern core. So whenever I get the chance to press anything djent, especially djent with some bite and aggression, I get overly excited. My first taste of djent was Monuments, so whenever I come across a band that scratches the same itch that they did, I have to take note since they’re few and far between.

Seek and Strike has been absolutely on top of the modern core world. They really have their ear to the ground and are picking up the smaller bands that are going to start to make waves in the coming years. I mean just look at how much traction the Ruins of Perception and Assemble the Chariots releases had last year! So it’s no surprise that The Wind Covenant is already signed to them even though they’ve only been around for a couple years at this point with an album and one EP.

In simplest terms, feels like if you took the musical qualities of Shokran and applied them to the aggressiveness of Monuments - and honestly, what more do you really need in a djent album?

I really want to gush over their newest EP Hiraeth (seriously, it's perfect!), but I’m going to have to hold back and just zero in on Conjuration. Because what’s great about it is that it’s heavy without feeling like that’s all it's relying on to be good.

There’s vocal variety - plentiful highs (proper ones, not just tunnel throats or highs for just one word here and there), mid/lows that don’t break into the toilet territory just to sound brutal, and cleans that aren’t cookie-cutter. The guitar work is on point without being so noodly that the entire album becomes one long guitar solo. Oh! And there’s bass! Like a proper bass that you can hear and it’s doing its own runs instead of just following the guitar!

When I say that Conjuration is one of the strongest debut albums from any djent-adjacent band, I mean it. This album is going to be a pivotal milestone in the djent revival movement in 50 years! I’m calling it now!

I’m beyond happy to be able to be able to work with Seek & Strike and give this album a proper vinyl treatment.

200 copies across five variants all go live this Friday at 12pm ET

10/01/2025

The Arbitrary, In Dying Arms CDs, and Sunscourge/Oracle Spectre CDs were just dropped off at the post office as well as any orders placed during the holiday break.

Any CDs ordered with a vinyl will ship when the vinyl come in.

I also hope you like djenty aggressive metalcore since January is going to be packed with it 💨

28/12/2024

Deprivation is down to about 35 copies left before it's sold out!

A few more sold while making the post so act fast!

27/12/2024

Deprivation is live!

Happy to be working with In Dying Arms for round two. Who says we need a round three? 👀

23/12/2024

Happy Holidays everyone! It’s that time of year where I do the yearly final Friday release of the year. I know that it’s super close to Christmas, but that’s just how the days fell – but I promise this one is going to be worth it!

I know you’ve all been wanting some more In Dying Arms, so here you go – a full-blown release of the band’s debut full length, Deprivation! And it’s officially the oldest release in the catalog so far.

If you’re a fan of MySpace deathcore (metalcore? Whatever you want to classify Deprivation as), then this is the release for you. Gang chants, obnoxious breakdowns, melodic lead guitars, chugging two-stepping breakdowns, gutturals, it’s all here. Anything you could want in a MySpace release is contained within this album.

There will be a new CD pressing for the first time in eight years in jewel cases. Then for the first time ever, vinyl and cassettes. All of these will feature a brand-new reimagining of the album’s artwork created by Charlie Smith. He really crushed this project and I can’t thank him enough for the work he put into it!

Preorders go live this Friday the 27th at 12pm ET! See you there!

20/12/2024

Thank you all for another amazing year. This year was a bit of a shift to the space where I want Crestfallen to operate in with doing more new releases and less throwback titles.

2025 is looking to have a good selection of albums (new and old) and I'm excited for everyone to hear them!

We'll be rounding out this year with one last drop as usual on the final Friday of the year so keep a look out for the announcement for that one coming soon - it's a big one!

Thanks to Dunkpressing for always putting out some of the best quality vinyl and really making this whole thing possible.

Thanks to all of the bands this year who allowed me to press their music. It's an honor as always and I can't wait to work with all of you again in the future The Wise Man's Fear Tyrant_US deadvectors THE ARCHAIC EPIDEMIC The Senate The Arbitrary By the Thousands Bone Crown In Dying Arms Snake Father Underneath Lost Conduit Oracle Spectre, and Sunscourge

Thanks to all the people in Crestfallen Cuties and all of the other people and label personnel that I bounce ideas off of

And finally, a huge thank you to all of you who constantly come out to support the bands and pressings! I hope you all have a great holiday season and a good New Year!

16/12/2024

A while back I asked what older CFR releases should get the Dunk treatment. There's been a lot of sUggestions and I can happily say that a couple have been confirmed.

Are there any releases from CFR001-015 that you WoulD like to see get the Dunk treatment?