Six-member wrecking crew PSYCHO-FRAME recently announced their debut album SALVATION LAUGHS IN THE FACE OF A GRIEVING MOTHER. The album arrives July 25 via SharpTone Records and is available for pre-order here.
Drawing influence from classic American death metal while channeling a chaotic, present-day urgency, the band’s sound is as deliberate and technical as it is aggressive. Now, they share the new single BLACK_WAVE II. It’s a literal easter egg, as it’s a bit of an homage to BLACK_WAVE, a song by guitarist/vocalist Hunter Young‘s other band MOODRING. MOODRING also feature on vocals on the track.
“Much of the record is very anti-religious,” says Young about the song. “But that extends to idols in politics and the music scene. No one is above you.”
Viscerally technical, and crushingly heavy, PSYCHO-FRAME are comprised of several veterans of metal’s various sub-genres with a purpose of creating aggressive and immolating music. What began as a casual collaboration between Hunter Young, of MOODRING, and Michael Sugars, formerly of Vatican, quickly grew into something more serious. Both were getting off tours with their respective bands and playing games together. “The more that happened the more we said, ‘Let’s make something that we actually want to hear.'” The result was a series of early releases that gained fast traction.
Debut single 24 Hours Left arrived in April 2023, followed two highly acclaimed EPs — Remote God Seeker in May 2023 and Automatic Death Protocol in December 2023. The FEED double single dropped in early 2025, while the band also landed on Revolver’s list of “Top 5 Deathcore Bands Right Now.”
PSYCHO-FRAME recorded the new album throughout 2024, with a focus on clarity, heaviness, and a refusal to overcomplicate the message.
The vision is clear: Make a record that hits hard and says exactly what it means.
BLACK_WAVE II – OUT NOW
https://bfan.link/black-wave-ii
SALVATION IN THE FACE OF A GRIEVING MOTHER – OUT JULY 25
https://bfan.link/SLITFOAGM
