Falsimonian have released For Survival, their first EP, with a film for the title track.
The band exist in three places at once. Jesus Fuentes writes the guitar and keyboard parts, Erick Valverde sings, Cesar Robles Sanchez plays lead and Mauricio Gonzalez plays drums, and they are spread across El Paso in Texas, Myrtle Beach in South Carolina and Leon in Guanajuato. What holds the record together is the border itself: the songs are about living with a catastrophe that has not arrived yet, which is a dystopia with a very specific address.
Five tracks, from Freefall through The Enemy, Limitless and Judgment to the title song. The melodic death metal underneath is the Gothenburg kind, with progressive and thrash parts pushing at it and a keyboard that does more than fill space.
The sleeve is made from x-rays. Valverde kept his own over about ten years and they have been laid over photographs of desert sunsets, which is a stranger and better idea than another painting of a ruined city.
Four singles came out ahead of it this year. The EP is independent, with no label behind it.