Collapsing Illness Tour: Genital Shame + Stander + Teardrinker

GENITAL SHAME | Bandcamp | Instagram
A little over a year after releasing Chronic Illness Wish, Genital Shame, the experimental black metal project of Erin Dawson, is coming to Europe. Dawson’s focused and razor-sharp debut full-length arrived on the heels of multiple acclaimed EPs. Each of her releases were met with great accolades: Lion Piss + Arm Vulnerability was Bandcamp Album of the Day, Gathering my Wits was in Best Metal on Bandcamp May 2023, Chronic Illness Wish was on Bandcamp’s Shortlist March 2024 and also Best Metal on Bandcamp February 2024. While it started as a bedroom black metal project, it has since been augmented and brought to the stage with the incorporation of Stander as a live band.

STANDER | Bandcamp | Instagram
Stander’s most recent album Vulnerable was The Garrote’s (Mat Ball, Shit & Shine, Supplicant) first release. The trio are heavy and delicate, dynamic and meld elements of sludge, black metal, doom and beyond. Vulnerable was in Best Metal on Bandcamp February 2022. Collapsing, their ambitious follow up LP, is coming out early 2025 and features guest appearances by Dylan Walker (Full of Hell), Patrick Shiroishi, Mathieu Ball (of BIG|BRAVE), drummer/vocalist John Kerr (Pyrithe, Noltem, Seidr, Majesties) and also Erin Dawson from Genital Shame. This album sees Stander reach beyond their instrumental aesthetic, adding vocals and denser arrangements.

TEARDRINKER | Instagram
In a world that seems to only get more brutish, more despondent and more ruthless. Where marginalized and downtrodden peoples are abused, exploited and dehumanized more and more, and in the face of a total collapse of natural systems and biodiversity, there seem to only be three options left: apathy, assimilation or rebellion. Teardrinker is a band that in style and in substance chooses the third. Composed of members of varying local acts (NûH, Lijkschouwer, Void Diver) and headed by Kim Hoorweg, the ever-pugnacious frontperson of VULVA they play songs of revolt. Their music proves that subversion comes in many flavours: rage and desperation, naturally, but also hope and belligerent joy.
Musically their songs can be described as a mix of post-hardcore, sludge and screamo. As the old saying goes: “If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.” so Teardrinker wears their conviction on their sleeve. Their music speaks truth to power. with themes like overcoming personal trauma, the beauty and legitimacy of the trans experience and justice and liberation for dispraised and disregarded people everywhere.

“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” – Marsha P. Johnson