Guiltless

Neurot Recordings presents the label’s first release of 2025 with the debut from West Coast US-based quartet GUILTLESS – formed by members of A Storm Of Light, Intronaut, Generation Of Vipers, Battle Of Mice, and more – titled Teeth To Sky.

Born from a love of experimental rock, noise rock, early industrial, sludge metal, and doom, GUILTLESS unites drummer Billy Graves, guitarist Dan Hawkins, bassist Sacha Dunable, and guitarist/vocalist Josh Graham, who collectively herald the coming of a heavy music which looks both inwards and out to convey the encompassing mixture of hope, despair and determination which comes from observing life as we know it today.

GUILTLESS released their debut EP, Thorns, via Neurot Recordings in early 2024. Crushing and cheerless, it seemed to welcome the apocalypse looming on our collective horizon. Now, GUILTLESS will unveil their debut full-length album Teeth To Sky via Neurot, a record more pulverizing, focused, and introspective than what came before.

“The EP had a pretty narrow focus starting from my ideas,” Graham explains. “With this record, my main goal was to really collaborate with Sacha, Dan, and Billy because those guys are great songwriters. The new album is meant to open up the sonic palette and explore more territory.”

On Teeth To Sky, as Graham explains, the overarching theme is taking advantage of your life while you have it. It's a crazy thing to really just be alive, floating through space on this little planet. The idea that Earth is already living well into its sixth extinction is an idea which has run through Graham’s work in particular for many years. Its wider acceptance into cultural conversations made the band want to look further afield, and to include elements of light on the album alongside humanity's propensity for chaos which still colors the music.

Teeth To Sky was recorded remotely by the members of GUILTLESS except for the drums, which were recorded by Travis Kammeyer at Fahrenheit Studios in Johnson City, Tennessee. The album was mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, Massachusetts (Converge, High On Fire, Old Man Gloom), mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon (Nails, The Armed, Locrian), and completed with artwork/visuals by Josh Graham.