collapse, by lowheaven

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1.	cancer sleep 03:06	lyrics	buy track
Witness the light And move farther from the face and align We shift, retry And move to the left of guilt And pride Empty deny Retrain the night To carry the damned along safe, certain Escape, deny And follow the hate to the depths We despise Reform A shallow grave keeps the cold Repent through weakness and gold We tire outside the forced shame Eliminate the name to fall Resign to the everlasting rot Foreign bred, fast light to fall Die
2.	retreated prime 04:13	lyrics	buy track
We’ve settled This rate of pace We’ve left the light Too early Just medicate To safe survive It haunts us An omen to a holy hell Burn slowly Retreat from home No more prayers Our words refuse the peak now Like a body dead in time The saints are Aligned with work Without a shrine No courage No subtle hope A strangled flame I struggle with the poisoned end Cut me up, I’m disconnected Show me hell, my flesh is charred I’m ready for the welcome These eyes don’t flicker now These hands don’t provide I will suffer for the weight I’m no consequence When everything comes up lost I will be the first to starve I’m condemned for the moment I finally ignite
3.	buried in 04:38	info	buy track
4.	of us away 04:35	lyrics	buy track
Shear those lies for me As I pull the heaven-sent away Bleed callous and cold These lines don’t come back full Torch it for god to see Far, forward light Repent, repent, intent Oh, when the preacher falls The role is paved in gold Remorse will carve their own For the mass to suffocate awake Shutter to the touch Repent til you’re regrets full Agonizing lies A horror to streamline Ruled a fraction What’s now, What’s left Purely vacant Circumvent the system Undue error Carry the mourning The facts follow suit The obliteration must come true Aftermath, the decay Hope is wasted truly A frozen fantasy Destroy all the pouring remorse Reconcile the degrade I’m forever sick from what I’ve made The truth, replayed I gave my guilt a name Reconcile

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Formed in the spring of 2020, beneath the dark clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, lowheaven’s sound oscillates somewhere between post-hardcore, screamo, blackened noise, and metal. The Toronto band consists of Dan Thomson (vocals/guitar), Mikey Buchta (vocals/bass) and Alex Pley (guitar/keys). Thomson, formerly of Canadian post-hardcore band Sparrows, explains candidly, “We’re not a happy listen, lowheaven is something that has got a lot of weight.” Their debut EP, collapse, is scheduled to be released this fall. collapse explores the sensations of unease and pain through its ever shifting style, with aggressive screams one moment and ominous metal guitar work the next.

Sonically, lowheaven is difficult to place. They take just as much influence from bands like Converge and Isis as they do from acts like Deftones. Similar to the latter, lowheaven refuses to be constrained by their heavy image, preferring to experiment with genre and dynamics on each release. collapse, while undoubtedly earnest in its intensity, is underscored by a sound that can best be described as metalcore nostalgia, likely due to their 90s influences. In fact, bassist Mikey Buchta once described the group as “if Radiohead was equal parts black metal and flower fields.”

The band, who watched David Cronenberg films on repeat in the studio while recording, casts an eeriness over the EP. This can best be heard on the outro of “buried in.” The octave runs channel the soundtracks of films like A Nightmare on Elm Street or Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. This anguish hangs heavy over the rest of the tracks as well, swelling on the final song, “of us away”, where Thomson’s tortured screams intertwine with bellowing, black metal vocals.

collapse showcases lowheaven’s range, where melodic post-hardcore tracks catapult into screamo. The EP begins and ends with its two heaviest songs, and offers a reprieve from the ear splitting vocals and overdriven guitars with “retreated prime” and “buried in.” On these softer tracks, lowheaven reflect on narcissism, religion, and self-medication. The heavier tracks offer a taste of lowheaven’s brutal force. Like a true vinyl EP, each side demonstrates just who lowheaven is.

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released August 25, 2023

lowheaven is
Dan Thomson
Mikey Buchta
Alex Pley

Recorded at The Barbershop Studios in Hopatcong, NJ Jan-Feb 2022
Produced, Recorded, and Mixed by Brett Romnes
Assisted by Rob Chiarappa
Additional edits and vocals by Hannah Wrocklage
Additional tracking by Dan Thomson and Mikey Buchta
Mastering by Magnus Lindberg in Stockholm, Sweden Jan 2023
Drums performed by Dante Fotino

All songs written by lowheaven
All lyrics written by Dan Thomson
All songs published by Sonic Death (SOCAN/ASCAP)
Publishing administered by Skeletal Lightning Publishing

Cover photo & band photo by Riley Taylor

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lowheaven Toronto, Ontario

Oscillating somewhere between post-hardcore, screamo, blackened noise, and metal, lowheaven consists of Toronto punk veterans Dan Thomson (vocals/guitar), Mikey Buchta (vocals/bass), Alex Pley (guitar/keys) and Justin Hebb (drums)

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The Mill - Underground

Tillsonburg, ON

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