“Before getting my Dunable, I never felt like a guitar was mine. I started on a Squier Strat, but I was like, ‘There are a million of these!’” Meet Faetooth, the LA “fairy doom” trio breaking out with unlikely punk influences and a box of dirt pedals

Ari May.

With 2022 debut album Remnants of the Vessel, LA trio Faetooth revealed a blend of ethereal cleans and harmonies, building to crushing guitar riffs and harrowing screams while combining shoegaze, doom and sludge.

Before that, their 2019 EP …An Invocation wore its punker influence with pride. Bassist Jenna Garcia explains: “In our primordial phase, grunge and riot grrrl artists like Babes in Toyland, Hole and L7 were critical to our being a band.”