Holy Fawn aren't strictly a metal band, but they are undeniably heavy. Their second album, Dimensional Bleed – released towards the end of 2022, and co-produced with Mike Watts (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw) – is a wild ride, taking elements of post-rock, blackgaze, goth, post-punk, dream pop and grunge, and manipulating them all into a brand new super-strain of alternative music. Too dreamy for hardcore, too abrasive for indie, too pretty for straight metal… they’re slippery suckers.
“I don’t really think we sat down and decided what music we wanted to make,” says Holy Fawn guitarist and vocalist Ryan Osterman, when asked to describe exactly what his band are. “We all have differing interests, so we never intentionally wrote a song to sound a specific way. It’s never really been pencilled in, what we’re trying to do. It’s just what we do.”
