Chicago blackened hardcore duo WRETCHED BLESSING share fierce Deftones covers

Less than a year after their debut self-titled EP—a release that tore through black metal, death metal, hardcore, grind, and punk with an unapologetic force—Chicago’s Wretched Blessing has been pushing forward relentlessly. The past months saw them hit the road with Portrayal of Guilt, sell out their first tape pressing, drop a music video for “Anathematic,” and contribute guest vocals to No Cure’s track “The Basement Beneath the Fountain.” Now, before unveiling their next EP of original material, they’re stepping into a different kind of intensity: two Deftones covers. Wretched Blessing’s versions of “Elite” and “My Own Summer (Shove It)“—recorded