Process//Sleep
Photo Credit 📷 : @process_sleep
Something malicious is boiling over the surface in Carolina. A new band by the name of Process//Sleep have formed and they’re ready to claw their way into the worldwide screamo scene and the DIY communities.
Their unrelenting and abrasive instrumental assault is the aftermath of infecting emoviolence with black metal influences. This maelstrom of mayhem is paired perfectly with feral shrieks and blood curdling screams that carve through the mix like a surgical incision. The full effect of it is hair raising. This will leave you with goosebumps and the undeniable urge to run into your nearest dark forest and scream back into the void.
Process//Sleep have written some seriously sinister tracks for their upcoming EP Wherever You Think You Belong, You Probably Don’t and we’re honored today to be premiering their first single titled Love Sosa by Chief Keef. We had a chance to chat with their guitarists and vocalists, Isabelle and Jackson, about what inspired this EP, their writing and recording process, and where they see Process//Sleep in the near future.
Bands like Majority Rule, Letters To Catalonia, and Ostraca are noticeable key influences to the swirling of turpitude that is Process//Sleep. “The past few months I’ve been listening to a lot of that metallic screamo sound, it’s what I’ve been super into recently. Lots of ambient sounding screamo and general emoviolence are in my wheelhouse.” Isabelle tells us of her influences and the bands writing & recording process:
“Usually, Jackson or I will come up with a track and then workshop it at practice together as a band. We trade lead vocals pretty 50/50, usually he sings his songs and I sing my songs (not including backing vocals). This new EP was our first time going into an actual studio. In the past we just used a cheap mic in the center of the room, or just Reaper at home. This time we had our friend Nick Futral from the band Bluegill mix and master the EP for us. We recorded in his little studio space in his band house.”
This is the first release as a full band, something they’ve been working on for at least three years now. Overwhelming feelings are the overall theme surrounding the EP and it’s evoked a great deal of emotions within the guitarists and vocalists of the band, but both for very different reasons. Jackson says the EP features a handful of the very first songs they’ve ever written..
“One of my personal favorites on this release was the title track Wherever You Think You Belong, You Probably Don’t, as it covers my experience as a mixed Asian-American, specifically with not feeling like I belong into any of the cultures I am a part of because of those minor differences. I hope that I’m able to contribute to the growing Asian-American community in the genre through my music.”
Isabelle tells us that the overarching lyrical theme is loss. “The track Love Sosa, it’s about losing your teenage years to addiction. When you’re spun out during what is supposed to be your formative years, you don’t mature the way humans are supposed to. Once you quit, you are left at the maturity of the age you began using, plus the traumas of addiction that you have to work through. This is something I’ve personally dealt with and feel isn’t a topic ever brought up.”
“WE DON’T WANT TO BE ANOTHER BAND THAT JUST SELF-FLAGELLATES ABOUT THE WORLD AROUND US. WE WANT TO INSPIRE THE FEELING OF ANGER TOWARDS ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD. THE ‘EMO’ IN ‘EMOTIONAL’ DOESN’T HAVE TO MEAN JUST SAD MUSIC.
I HOPE PEOPLE CAN TAKE ALL OF THE LOSS AND GRIEF THEY’RE GOING THROUGH CURRENTLY AND USE IT TO PUSH FOR UNITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE NEED IT THE MOST NOW.”
- JACKSON @PROCESS_SLEEP
SO WHAT MORE CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE BAND THIS YEAR?
“A split with our friends, the Michigan based band Abuse Repression is in the works and hopefully after that we can work on our debut album next!”
ANY CLOSING WORDS FOR THE READERS?
“Things are getting scary in America right now, and they will continue to get worse. If you are trans, POC, or any group that is being targeted, arm yourself. If you are a person with privilege, protect your friends and community. Be vigilant, and stay safe.”
Wherever You Think You Belong, You Probably Don’t is being released on CD via Middleman Records and Tomb Tree Records will have tapes that will also be available by sometime in April this year. We’re honored to be premiering their first single with the lyric sheet below.
If this band keeps writing music on the insane level they’re currently at then I speculate they’ll be on a quick rise to becoming a new household name in screamo, and hopefully that means their next move isn’t to split up immediately after releasing their full length album.
Love Sosa by Chief Keef:
Dish wash safe mistakes
A rerun with the dial stuck
Flowers and credit
Synthetic performance
Dosed away tremors
Slice the nerve and kill all your reason
For forgiveness
One broken word
Five more crossed
Two burnt voices
Six times over
Three times a day
Four years that I will never get back
Lose your heart
Kill your mind
Nothing's sorry
Lose your heart
Kill your mind
You said it's no good
You are
What you are
Find a way out
Kill your heart
Cut the mouth
And you always said that you
You follow
I don't lie down
To my peers
Four years I will never get back
Four years I will never get back
Four years I will never get back
Four more years I will never get back
I'm close
I've been
Fighting for you
I've been
Nothing to you
I'm a fraud
Lose your heart
Kill your mind
Process//Sleep is Isabelle Karina & Jackson Chang on vocals and guitar. Matthew Patteson does bass and backing vocals and Carter Beacham is on drums.
