DESTROY MY BRAINS Prepare to Unleash “WILT” – The Final Chapter of Their Trauma‑Forged Five‑Album Saga
From the frozen prairies of Lloydminster, Canada, doom/sludge cult Destroy My Brains unleash WILT on August 14th, 2026, the catastrophic final chapter in their long‑planned five‑album saga. Beginning with “Worthless” (2018), followed by “InsignifiCan’t” (2020), “Lifeless” (2020), “Tormented” (2022), and now culminating in “WILT” (2026), the band has executed a conceptual arc conceived from day one, each release carving deeper into their signature themes of self‑destruction, trauma, and sonic decay.
“We already picked the titles of the albums so that all the first letters would spell WILT,” says vocalist/guitarist Jarret.
Destroy My Brains deal in corrosive, melting, abhorrent, Crowbar‑worshipping sludge, and “WILT” drives that identity straight into the ground. The album hits with pounding grooves, chugs heavy enough to buckle steel, soul‑removing drums, and vocals that scorch everything in their path. Rather than reinventing themselves, the band sharpened their already‑lethal formula, each member pouring their own darkness into the record until it becomes a collective collapse. Frontman Jarret pushes deeper than ever, turning “WILT” into both a sonic beating and a personal exorcism.
“We didn’t reinvent anything. We sharpened, hardened, turned it up louder… and put some of the darkest, most meaningful lyrics we have ever done. I got deep inside to a place of furious hate and pain… trauma I caused myself and others… self-destruction, dying, drug/alcohol abuse, and hatred towards others leading to their ultimate ruin,” adds Jarret.
“WILT” unfolds as a seven‑part descent into psychological collapse and sludge‑soaked extremity, each track carving out its own form of emotional and sonic violence. It opens with OCI, a claustrophobic portrayal of OCD spiraling into anxiety, compulsion, and eventual institutionalization, before shifting into Burn the Virgin, a ritualistic Walpurgisnacht sacrifice story that moves from eerie melody into suffocating doom. Decontribute serves as the band’s manifesto of societal decay, embracing personal ruin with lines like “YOU CAN WATCH ME, FALL APART… I DECONTRIBUTE TO REALITY.” The album sinks deeper with Avulsion, the bleakest and most doom‑laden track, using the imagery of bodily tearing to mirror lifelong psychological torment. Downgrade drags listeners through punk‑rooted sludge about manipulation, overdose, and satanic delusion, while Spill confronts childhood violence and emotional shutdown, ending with the devastating admission “I CAN’T FEEL, I DON’T FEEL, I WON’T FEEL, ANYTHING EVER…” Finally, the 11‑minute title track Wilt stands as the album’s tragic apex, confronting the wounds of child abuse and opening with the harrowing line “YOU DESTROYED THE CHILD WITHIN ME.” Together, these songs form a cohesive, crushing exploration of trauma, degradation, and the darkest corners of human experience.
“WILT” is Destroy My Brains at their most evolved, most hateful, and most emotionally devastating. “We are pleased to degrade and devolve you while you take in our sonic displeasures,” comments Jarret.
Destroy My Brains is currently streaming two singles, “OCI (Obsessive Compulsive Imploder)” and “Decontribute,” in lead-up to the release of “WILT”, with a third, “Downgrade,” being revealed with a music video in the coming weeks.
First off, care to introduce yourself to our readers?
Sure, I’m Jarret, the vocalist and one of the guitarists from Canadian Doom/Sludge group Destroy My Brains. I like metal, dogs, horror movies, and live music. I spend most of my time jamming out and recording in my studio, the Doom Tomb Recording Studio, and I’m also into video games.
Tell us a bit about your recent release.
Ok, so we have a new album titled Wilt that will be out August 14th. It’s a self-produced DIY release, and we are beyond stoked to have this album under our belt as we feel it’s the strongest effort and best-sounding album to date. Now let me tell you a little history behind the Wilt album. About 10 years ago me and Jadan, our drummer, came up with an idea for how we would make our next 4 albums all have their 1st letter spell out the word Wilt. Each album had its own central theme, and Wilt would be the final one that wrapped up all the ideas into one album together. The albums were Worthless, InsignifiCan’t, Lifeless, Tormented. W.I.L.T. Now here we are at the end of our crazy idea with the finished album Wilt. On this album you are going to hear big fat riffs like off the Worthless album, pure nihilistic hatred heard on InsignifiCan’t, our refined songwriting and themes of self-destruction from Lifeless, and our improved recording and production from Tormented. This album has 7 colossal songs that will take you on a journey of manipulation, sickness, self-degradation, and trauma.
Walk us through your creative process when creating music.
Well, usually when we are in the writing process, we usually get together on guitars and show each other what riffs we have, or sometimes just improvise stuff on the spot. We jam out riffs and see what works best and what each guitarist can come up with based on what the other guy had been playing. Sometimes Chase will have a riff, and I’ll play it slightly differently, and it stays or vice versa. After a jam or two, I usually record guitar demo tracks for everyone to practice, and then we send the tracks off to Jadan to listen to and stew over. We get these demos built pretty fast for him, and when he is ready and has some solid ideas he wants to try, we record drum demos. Lots of times his drums change immensely beyond this point. But it gives us all something to practice and get good at so we can gear up for laying down final recordings. While everyone is preparing to get ready for the final recording, I usually lay down the vocals over the demo. Sometimes the demo vocals are also the final vocals since I don’t record the demo any differently than I would the final, but sometimes if I feel they need to be better, I’ll redo them. That’s the awesome thing about home recording: there’s no time restriction. After we finally have all the final recordings, I start my process of mixing. Exporting songs so many times after small adjustments and listening to them on all types of speakers and making compromise decisions to get the songs sounding as good as I can on all platforms. This part of the process is where I lose so much sleep, but it’s worth it in the end.
Now that the music is out, what does the “road ahead” look like? Beyond tours and videos, what’s one “bucket list” goal you hope to achieve with this release?
After the Aug 5th release of the music video and the Aug 14th release of the album, we are just going to be concentrating on playing a few cool shows to close out the year. We don’t get to do many live performances as some bands do, but the shows we do play are very special and important to us. We aren’t a band that plays live so much that we don’t remember who we played with or if we played somewhere before. Each show is one of the biggest and best things for our whole year. As for our bucket list goal for the Wilt release, I think just making it this far as a band for over 12 years and composing a 5-part album sequence is a bucket list enough! Have you ever heard of such a crazy idea?
Every artist has a ‘lightbulb moment’ where things just clicked. Looking back, what’s the one performance or milestone that made you realize, ‘Okay, this is what I was meant to do’?
I personally can’t pinpoint a specific moment other than the 1st time Jadan and I completed our first song with vocals and everything, a real long time ago. It was the worst, cheesiest song ever, but I was hooked on recording music from that moment. We would listen to that song so many times and laugh at it cause my voice blew right out, and I kept going, and we kept the song like that. It was funny. But also embarrassing. I vowed to myself that I would get better at recording and make myself and my band proud one day when we learned how to properly write and record songs. I think we are getting there; we are all pretty proud of Wilt.
We love championing Canadian talent. If you were curating a ‘Must-Listen’ playlist of emerging artists right now, who is the first person you’d add?
Oh, that’s easy! Death metal heavyweights Display of Decay from Edmonton, which is kind of our closest big city to where I live. These guys put on countless massive shows and have been pumping out material like crazy the last little while. I’ve had the privilege to play quite a few shows with these guys with Destroy My Brains, and my other band I play bass in Ashes of Yggdrasil. I believe they are working on the 2nd part of their EP series right now, and I know it’s going to rip. The drummer Logan from that band also makes movies and videos with his brother Phillip in Shadowscape Pictures. They shot our video for the song Downgrade, and Phillip might or might not be in the video as well. Anyways, get Display of Decay on your list!
There’s nothing like the energy of a live room. Where can fans catch you on stage next, and for someone seeing you for the first time, what should they expect from your live experience?
I know it sucks to say, but our shows are all unannounced so far, so I can’t tell you where or when yet, but trust me, there are going to be some DMB shows coming very soon! For anyone who hasn’t seen us, come on out and check us out; you are going to need a rain suit and an umbrella if you are in the front. For those who like to stand back and watch, you are going to see something you don’t see often in the Canadian prairies, pure unfiltered Sludge Metal. Come get some of it inside your ears. Thanks and cheers.
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