SWOLLEN TEETH have unleashed their emotionally charged new single “Foster“ and the accompanying music video (via Blowed Out Records). Amidst punishing grooves and haunting melodic tension, the track highlights an often overlooked topic in modern heavy music: the importance of a safe home, particularly for children. Today’s release is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album “Ask Nothing”, out on Friday, September 5th and produced by legendary producer Ross Robinson (KORN, GLASSJAW, AT THE DRIVE IN) and SLIPKNOT’s Sid Wilson.
When asked about the inspiration behind “Foster“, the band commented: “Home is a place where you feel safe and plant your roots deep enough to grow. We want to provide a permanent home for feelings and emotions. Every child deserves to know they are loved, protected, and cared for unconditionally.“
The sound, the look, the atmosphere, the lore. SWOLLEN TEETH are as much a ritual as a performance, summoning primal ferocity in clouds of intrigue with a thundering rumble. Each musical outburst arrives shrouded in mystery, enveloped by a sense of dread, with passion and purpose. Heavy percussion, riffs, punk gang chants, dive bombs, turntables, breakdowns, shrieks, guttural screams, and powerfully unashamed anthemic melodies coalesce in SWOLLEN TEETH. The collective absorbs the raw intensity of the most potent subculture and spits it back with a determined uniqueness. They’ve spent countless hours in the lab, lobbing out occasional missives online like Molotov cocktails. Each of the scattered, chopped-up, and explosive clips unleashed to the world, culled from a handful of shadowy live appearances, built anticipation for the group’s inevitable ascension. They travel in our dimension but are not of it. This is otherworldly chaos without apology.
Pre-save “Ask Nothing” HERE and pre-order the vinyl HERE, first pressing limited to 300 copies
SWOLLEN TEETH burst onto the scene in 2021 with their self-titled EP, a visceral blend of brutality and raw emotion that garnered praise from heavy music outlets and fans alike. Singles “Empty“, “Lethal”, “Car Crash” and “Swollenteeth“ showcased their unpredictable, frenetic energy, which Revolver Magazine described as “brutal as hell”, with Metal Hammer enthusing that “there’s an air of grotesque Nu Metal nastiness that feels like a re-vamped take on the misanthropic nihilism of Iowa’s finest“ and Kerrang! musing “What’s really heavy, masked, mysterious, sounds like it was made by complete lunatics, and involves SLIPKNOT DJ Sid Wilson and producer Ross Robinson?”
Don’t miss your chance to see SWOLLEN TEETH at their newly announced show in Old Town, Maine, on Saturday, July 5th, before hitting the stage at this year’s FEQ Festival in Quebec on Monday, July 7th and Inkcarceration 2025 in Mansfield, OH, on Saturday, July 19th. For ticket information, please click here.
SWOLLEN TEETH line-up:
Megaa – Vocals / Sampler / Turntable
Sun – Vocals / Bass
Skutch – Drums
HOG – Guitar
“Ask Nothing” tracklist:
1. Family
2. Money & Greed
3. Four Wars
4. Medicine
5. Foster
6. Don’t Give Up
7. Ask
8. Car Crash
9. Nothing
10. Unite
