Wailin Storms

Gothic Rock - United States

Born the son of a church pianist and Baptist preacher, Justin Storms founded Wailin Storms in his hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. After a pass through New York City, Storms hunkered down in Durham, North Carolina circa 2014, where he and his bandmates have caught fire with their noisy, bluesy explosions of Southern gothic rock.

Debut full-length One Foot in the Flesh Grave laid a solid foundation for Wailin Storms in 2015 with an East Coast and Midwest tour that led to their first appearance at The Fest. 2017 follow-up Sick City infected more ears with coverage spreading from CVLT Nation to NPR. It was their third album, though, that really opened the floodgates. Rattle was featured by The Needle Drop and named one of the best albums of 2020 by Treble, Riff Magazine, Angry Metal Guy and Machine Music. More attention from Decibel and Metal Hammer came two years later around The Silver Snake Unfolds, which was followed by shows and tour dates with everyone from City of Caterpillar, pageninetynine and This Will Destroy You to Acid Bath, Eyehategod and Young Widows.

“If Bauhaus, Killing Joke, and Black Sabbath had a child, this would be it”, Metal Injection proclaimed about Wailin Storms.

Brooklyn Vegan concurred. “It’s just loud, heavy, dark rock music, and it’s awesome”.

Hot on the heels of critical high praise and thunderous applause from crowds on both sides of the Atlantic, Wailin Storms are ready to fan their flames with reckless abandon. Recorded by Matt Talbott of Hum in full analog, their upcoming fifth album and first for Season of Mist promises to deliver a fiery baptism of Southern gothic rock.

“Our upcoming album was forged in the fires of love, death, fear, anxiety and other pangs of the heart”, Storms says. “The songs draw from blues, folk, punk and metal, as well as René Magritte, Flannery O’Connor, David Lynch and my own obsession with fire as a kid”.