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Sealer is a new, hardcore-adjacent noise punk band from Cincinnati, OH consisting of:

Dustin Bingaman - Guitar
Michael Latella - Bass
Ronnie Patterson - Drums
Erik Ziedses des Plantes - Vocals

Their debut, self-titled release was recorded at Culture Vacuum Recordings in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood by bassist Michael Latella. Saxophone on “Seeing/Peeling” and “Headlong” was provided by Jon Lorenz (Wasteland Jazz Unit).

Following an encounter as teenagers playing in wildly different bands in a small Ohio town, more than twenty years of friendship and other collaborations passed before this combination of people found themselves in the same room working on something together. Each member stayed busy in the interim, creating and touring around the United States on a DIY level in projects such as White Walls (Video Disease), RIVE, Darkroom Ignite, Fourth Wife, Till Plains, and Hissing Tiles (Whited Sepulchre).

Pairing the queasy sense of unease found in noise rock with the blasting force of hardcore, Sealer embraces an experimental, exploratory approach to the lane they have chosen to travel, allowing the more violent elements of their sound to collide with moments of unabashed melody, sensitivity and beauty.

Lyrically, the songs are rooted in near-feral states of fear, confusion, anxiety and other emotional viscera, using this foundation to blast into abstract, character-driven narrative directions centering around departure/escape from today’s blighted reality. Members of a forest cult suck down hallucinogenic tree sap in order to cross into a new realm, an extraterrestrial true believer self-lobotomizes, the rich find themselves beaten to death by the help at an orgy. Others eulogize a world slipping increasingly out of control, howling against forces that practically beg for humanity’s detachment and apathy.

Pressing Information

First Pressing limited to
100/ Black LPS
Ship before first week of March