Face Yourself – Martyr
Release Date: 18th April 2025
FACE YOURSELF don’t just make music, they carve it into your fucking skull. With their new EP Martyr, the transcontinental deathcore wrecking crew has officially levelled up, delivering five tracks of emotionally gut-wrenching, sonically pulverising chaos that somehow manage to be both soul-baring and completely unhinged.
Let’s be clear, this isn’t your standard “heavy for the sake of heavy” release. Martyr takes the genre’s most vicious elements and slaps a raw, bleeding heart right in the middle of it. The band has never shied away from talking about mental health, but this EP? It feels like a breakdown inside a breakdown, and it hits hard. There’s no clean narrative arc here, just the ugly, real shit – backsliding, survival, and the fucking mess in between.
Lead single “Predatory” drops like a punch to the throat. It’s dark, it’s nasty, and it’s dripping with tension, channelling that feeling of not knowing who you can trust, while the walls close in. The track swings between crushing breakdowns and eerie melodic moments like a psychopath with a mood disorder, and that’s exactly the point. It’s brutal, but it’s not mindless. There’s intent in every riff, every shriek, every unsettling silence.
Produced by Joey Sturgis (the guy behind some of the biggest names in metalcore), Martyr sounds massive without feeling overpolished. You get the low-end filth, the blast-beat insanity, the clean/unclean vocal whiplash, but also this surprising emotional weight. Face Yourself aren’t just trying to wreck your neck, they’re trying to make you feel something while you’re bleeding out in the pit.
And yeah, this band is on a fucking tear right now. Three EPs since 2023. Millions of streams. Tour slots. Award nods. And now a Sumerian signing that feels like a natural fit. Face Yourself is the rare kind of deathcore band that doesn’t just tick boxes, they set the whole damn checklist on fire and write their own rules.
With Martyr, they’ve proved they’re not just part of the new wave. They’re steering the goddamn ship.
For Fans Of: Brand of Sacrifice, Lorna Shore, Make Them Suffer
Recommended Track: “Predatory”