Review by glen parkes
Paleface Swiss close out 2025 with a clenched fist and a cracked heart, delivering The Wilted EP – a release that captures a band running on fumes, staring down burnout, and refusing to break. After a year that saw them bulldoze stages across Europe, the US, and Australia—with more than 35,000 tickets moved stateside and a completely sold-out Australian run—the Swiss heavyweights return not with victory laps, but with scars.
Written on the road between the chaos, The Wilted EP sits firmly in the emotional debris left by their career-defining Cursed era. If Cursed was the sound of impact, this EP is the ringing silence after the hit—the dizziness, the collapse, the attempts to stand again. There’s a rawness here that feels lived-in, not manufactured, and it shows across all five tracks.
Opening with “Intro”, a 23-second voice message of drying and checking in with someone, then a kick of pure power sets the atmosphere as bleak, setting the tone for the emotional detonation to come. “Withering Flower” quickly snaps the EP into full gear—Zelli spits venom with a kind of exhausted fury, the band weaving together beatdown brutality and creeping nu-metal melancholy. It’s one of their most dynamic tracks to date, leaning into the fragility hinted at in the EP’s concept without losing an ounce of heaviness.
“Let Me Sleep” drills into that theme even deeper. The riffs swing like wrecking balls, while the lyrics feel like confessionals muttered through clenched teeth. This is Paleface Swiss at their most human—broken, bitter, and brilliant. “Instrument of War” brings the EP’s most violent moment, a reminder that even at their most emotionally vulnerable, the band can still level a room. This track will be a pit-starter for the ages.
The final single, “Everything Is Fine”, is the emotional axis of the release. Its accompanying music video already turned heads, and within the EP it feels like the quietest scream of all—haunting, heavy, and painfully honest. It’s Paleface Swiss doing what they do best: weaponising vulnerability until it hits harder than any breakdown.
From underground obscurity to deathcore’s global frontline, Paleface Swiss have earned every scar. The Wilted EP isn’t a victory march—it’s the sound of a band surviving the weight of their own success. And in that survival, they’ve created one of their most powerful releases yet.
2026 is coming. Paleface Swiss aren’t just ready—they’re rising.
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