Disease

CREATIVE DIRECTION: BRANDON RIKE + JOEL COOK
ALBUM COVER: BRANDON RIKE
LAYOUT: NATE UTESCH
PHOTOGRAPHY: NICK FANCHER
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LABEL: REDBULL RECORDS
MANAGEMENT: THOMAS GUTCHES

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DISEASE
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Searching for our own identity is perhaps the most exciting yet frustrating experience of our human existence. We have a natural tendency to seek clarity and definition of who we are and why we should persist. Moments of certainty appear, only to flicker back to utter confusion and self-doubt. The version of ourselves that we prefer is often only an inverse of the version we despise. The wiser quest is then not to kill off the version we hate, but instead, learn to accept both. The only cure for the paralysis is to allow good and evil to coexist, and to move forward with the true certainty -- that the battle within us never ends, and what tries to kill us also makes us great.

Disease shows Beartooth accepting all versions of itself. The high, the low, and, most inspiring, the grit and tenacity to keep going. With such honest and dark lyrical content, there is power in an album that manages to momentarily put demons at bay, and allow itself to unabashedly rock out.

Frontman Caleb Shomo has accepted the fact that these demons never die, and their existence is, in fact, a Disease. A Disease that this album can temporarily muffle. In his honesty, he has also taken all of his past experiences and created a masterpiece album that stretches far across genre confines, and promotes Beartooth to the top of the heap. This is the quintessential rock record for all of the genres it encompasses. Simply put, Beartooth puts on a clinic on how to do this better than its been done before.