I’m losing my mind
I can feel my soul being lost, trapped, stranded in time
Deep voices travel strangely through old houses. They pass beneath doors, collect in stairwells, and make an invitation from the drawing room sound like an excellent reason to leave. Sacramento’s In Retrograde furnish those rooms with choral textures, droning guitars, and rhythms that suggest somebody downstairs has started running. Their deathrock has a taste for aristocratic excess, with enough physical force to send the furniture skidding.
Based in Sacramento, California, and active since 2018, the BIPOC deathrock and post-punk band draws from gothic rock’s theatrical vocabulary and the severity of black metal. Their five-track Cold Read demo brings their current sound into focus through new material and fresh mixes of earlier songs. The demo arrived on Bandcamp on October 12, 2026, with a wider streaming release announced for Halloween. It also offers a route back to The Lovers, the 2023 two-track release containing crowd favorite Two Lovers.
Shattered Sun (2026 mix) opens the ballroom doors with a firm drumbeat, choral atmosphere, and a deathrock guitar drone. Baroque flourishes accumulate in the dense...