Kansas City post-hardcore x indie rock icons The Casket Lottery return with the new album Feel The Teeth. It's the band's first full-length in over five years and was mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden (Quicksand, Gouge Away) The record arrives August 29, 2025 via Iodine Recordings. Pre-order it here.

The band also released first single 'Night Song. About the track, vocalist Nathan Ellis says, "I don't sleep very well anymore. Not since sometime in 2016. I know everyone felt the world get weird, and for me, it was a foundational shift that I didn't anticipate. Now, I just have these moments between being awake and my hypnogogic hallucinations. Moments remembering everything that I need to do getting mashed up with memories and fears."

Feel The Teeth captures a band navigating the tension between exhaustion and revelation, pushing through the haze of disillusionment while still searching for meaning. Lyrically, Feel The Teeth reflects the weight of an era that has shifted in unexpected ways — personally, politically, and socially — capturing the complexities of trying to find clarity in a world that often feels out of control.

Where their 2020 album Short Songs for End Times felt like a direct confrontation with the chaos of a fractured world, Feel The Teeth dwells in the quieter aftermath, the moments of clarity amidst the noise. The album is soaked in existential fatigue.

At its core, Feel The Teeth is about grappling with internal conflict. Songs like "Bell Penny" take on self-preservation versus empathy, while "Echolalia" offers a sobering realization of the passing of time: "A song about middle age enlightenment. Realizing that I spent so many years wanting, when all I needed were the moments I had."

Throughout the record, teeth become a symbol—of the things we try to bury, of pain that refuses to be ignored, and of the subtle violence of everyday survival. Tracks like "Snake Dreams" and "Nothing Certain" explore anxiety and transformation, challenging the listener to not just endure, but to shed old skins and confront what’s lurking underneath.

If Short Songs for End Times was a roaring statement of survival, Feel The Teeth is the moment after—a quieter, more introspective reckoning with what it means to still be here, still searching for meaning, still hoping for something better even when we're not sure what it looks like anymore. In an age where comfort is a fleeting illusion and the answers remain out of reach, Feel The Teeth is the sound of a band refusing to give up, refusing to let go.