Los Angeles metallic hardcore band Lockslip have announced their debut full-length album, The Conversation, due out November 6 via Bleakhouse, the label founded by industrial-hardcore force King Yosef. Alongside the announcement, the band have just dropped video for the album’s first single, “Gray World,” a crushing introduction to The Conversation featuring guest vocals from King Yosef himself. Watch the video here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=R9sdOVkKj5I Stream the single here: https://bleakhouse.vyd.co/GrayWorldFtKingYosef Pre-order The Conversation: https://bleakhouse.co/pages/lockslip | https://lockslip.bandcamp.com/album/the-conversation From Los Angeles, Lockslip operate at the volatile intersection of metallic hardcore, mathcore, and metalcore, drawing from the raw emotional intensity of Converge and the dizzying rhythmic complexity of Car Bomb while forging something distinctly their own. “We think of ourselves as a blend of mathcore, metalcore, and hardcore, while not wanting to be limiting to those labels,” states vocalist Sara G, also known in some circles as the vocalist of Entry. On new album The Conversation, Lockslip’s songs are powered by inexorable momentum, like blind horses barreling down mountainsides. Noah Baxter’s breakneck drumming fuels Lockslip’s stampedes, leading to world-ending breakdowns courtesy of guitarists TJ Jaeger and Nick Pinder and bassist Enrique Isla-Eisenacher. Above the fray, lustrous melodic passages occasionally appear like sunlight through storm clouds. Sara G screams every word with absolute conviction, as if drawing from a bottomless well of horror. The Conversation is the sound of a band pushing all the way to the edge – musically, emotionally, in the red. “The state of the world is complex, it’s dark, and it’s unpredictable, so we want to write music that reflects those anxieties,” says G. The album’s first single, “Gray World,” was inspired by the book, The Giver, she reveals: “The Giver is a dystopian sci-fi novel about a seemingly perfect society where no one is suffering or in pain. It’s one of those stories where you learn pretty quickly that things aren’t as perfect as they seem. One of the biggest questions the book brings up is if it’s worth giving up a world of beauty knowing it will also numb all of the pain. It seems like in today’s world, there is no escaping pain. There is no distraction or no joy big enough to ignore it. When I’m able to enjoy myself, I immediately feel guilt knowing what is going on in the world. Sometimes I think I’d trade the good and the bad for something that is neither one.” Founded in 2022, with just one self-titled, self-released EP to its name until now, Lockslip has quickly grabbed the attention and respect of the scene in LA and beyond. In addition to King Yosef, the band’s champions include Todd Jones of Nails, who lent his vocals to The Conversation’s penultimate track, “Iconoclast,” and Kathryn Edwards of Thirdface who sings on “Paradise Is Not for Us.” Recent tour mates include Scalp and False Body. The band will travel to Gainesville, Florida this fall to play the legendary The Fest. “There’s such a huge community and passion for heavy music in LA and the wider country too, right now,” says G. “We’re incredibly grateful to be surrounded by such supportive and inspiring people.” The Conversation was recorded and mixed by Lockslip drummer Noah Baxter at his East LA studio, Dichotic Studios, and mastered by Nick Townsend (Nails, Angel Du$t). | 
