Texas metal quartet GORE. — vocalist Haley Roughton, guitarist Alex Reyes, bassist Devin Birchfield, and new drummer Wills Weller— have returned with “SEPSIS,” the band’s first new music of 2025. “SEPSIS” follows GORE.’s Spinefarm debut, the A Bud That Never Blooms EP (2024), which saw the band tipped as a “Band You Need To Know” by Revolver and described as “cutting-edge modern metal at its most vulnerable” by NME in their 2025 Essential Emerging Artists list.
“This song is about a friend who was in a relationship with someone diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BPD) that went untreated,” Roughton explains. “I attempted to write it from his perspective, after seeing him try to salvage a relationship where he was constantly challenged and abused. I could only imagine how difficult it is knowing that the person you love is ill and staying by their side, even when the relationship feels like torment.”
Regarding the accompanying visual, Roughton shares, “The music video reflects that isolation and what it’s like to be trapped inside your own head and thoughts. Hence why it’s just me and a double the whole time.”
