Hailing from Austin, Texas, Votive delivers a unique blend of intense heavy music, drawing influence from screamo, black metal, crust, and grind. The band features DIY veterans Eli Deitz (Porcelain), Rohan Lilauwala (Respire), Blake Given (ex-Portrayal of Guilt) and Kyle Rotta (ex-Gas Up Yr Hearse!). Since 2021, they have together sculpted a sound that is at once cathartic, caustic, and crushing.

Following critical acclaim for their debut LP, 2024’s Towards the Pillory, their latest offering finds the band at their most unrelenting yet. An Infinite Capacity for Joy features nine blistering tracks built on a foundation of serrated riffs, convulsive, off-kilter rhythms that pulse and surge, and a gnawing, unbridled desperation punctuated by only brief moments of respite. Within this, Rotta delivers piercing meditations on forgiveness, self-improvement, and retribution, exploring the narrow border between existing and nothingness. Producer Phillip Odom (Militarie Gun, Glare, Portrayal of Guilt) deftly captures the band’s raw intensity, expanding jagged edges and intricate details into a massive, suffocating heaviness.

Limited 12” LP with a silkscreened B side, full color jacket and lyric sheet, available on two limited vinyl variants. The cassette version features alternative artwork with two limited colors available.

TRACK LISTING:
01. New Sincerity
02. Clandestine Suggestion
03. Unitary Form
04. Eighth Motion of Fixed Stars
05. Reliquary Binding
06. Contempt for the Audience
07. Failure of Apotropaic Wards
08. Undue Protagonism
09. Only Speaks When Spoken To