Wax Head

“Chaos, disorder, and just everything rowdy shoots to mind” So Young Magazine 

“Wax Head rise through the ranks and grab your cranium and demand attention...daringly infectious” Clunk

Wax Head are relentless. Their coruscating, riff-laden, drummer-fronted psych-punk sits right on the forefront of the growing wave of British psych and garage-punk that follows in the footsteps of neo-psych heroes like Osees and Ty Segal. Their sweaty and visceral live shows have inspired such feverish manias that a fan once got up onto the stage and rammed their head through the kick drum mid-show.

Beginning this April their second UK/EU wide headline tour in 6 months (full details below) the Wax Head bandwagon hardly fails to roll. Following multiple packed-out headlines in their native Manchester (a White Hotel sell-out was immortalised on an exclusive vinyl-only live LP), festival slots at Manchester Psych Fest and Left of The Dial, a pair of tours with Flat Worms, as well as support slots for Melts and Meatbodies and Frankie and The Witchfingers, new single ‘Terminal Sinker’ - out today (2nd April) via cult label/live promoter Sour Grapes - offers as vital a document as any of their unmissable live exhilarations.

Recorded with long-term collaborator Borja Regueira at Manchester’s GLUE Studio, and mastered by Melbourne’s Joe Carra (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Amyl and The Sniffers), ‘Terminal Sinker’ betrays Wax Head at their most untethered, surging through its two-minute crusade like an adrenaline shot to the heart. Lyrically, the track finds root in the adolescent experiences of drummer/lead-vocalist Lewis Fletcher growing up in rural Somerset, and serves up a less than flattering condemnation of the stagnant ‘‘small town’ mindset, as the band explain:

“Terminal Sinker is our interpretation of UK punk. A representation of our relentless, gritty and chaotic side as a band. The lyrical content touches on Lewis’ experience growing up in rural Somerset, witnessing people repeat the same narrow minded behaviour whilst complaining about their life and making no effort to change it. It is a reflection on some people’s comfortability, lack of aspiration and risk taking; all in the pursuit of happiness and self fulfilment.”

The band’s first release of 2025 follows a handful of singles and debut EP Salt Fat Acid Head, coming in the wake of press acclaim from the likes of So Young, Rough Trade, Why Now, Clunk, When The Horn Blows, God Is In The TV, and Dansende Beren, and early BBC Radio 6Music backing from New Music Fix, Huw Stephens and Emily Pilbeam (BBC Introducing Mixtape)