Emoto / Chapel Perilous

• Limited edition darkwave purple vinyl 7"
• 2 song 7", 4 track digital download
• Limited to 300 copies

Two Portland bands bound by darkness, Altar Girl + Darkswoon find kinship in the shadows on Emoto / Chapel Perilous, a split 7-inch release of fire, electricity and beautifully haunted reflections.

Each band holds the other's music before its own scrying mirror, revealing something strange and magnificent staring back.

Altar Girl transform Darkswoon's “Emoto” into a fever dream of longing and catharsis, where crashing guitars, aching vocals and a submerged plea for connection erupt into a desperate cry to be seen in the thickest of voids.

Darkswoon reimagine Altar Girl's “Chapel Perilous” as a hypnotic descent through faith, doubt and the ruins of certainty, weaving ethereal vocals, shimmering synths and distorted guitars into a beautifully unsettling darkwave séance.

Two originals complete the digital release: Altar Girl's incendiary “The Pyre,” a ritual of grief and rebellion where the ghosts of the past refuse to be erased, and Darkswoon's “Dark Matter,” a velvet-gloved, darkly danceable meditation on emotional invisibility, where lost connections drift through waves of electronic longing.

One band summons fire, the other electricity. Both search for something beyond the darkness, and perhaps someone waiting on the other side.