Photo credit: Stone Fenk
On April 21st, 2025– For Your Health announced their signing with 3DOT Recordings and that they will be releasing their debut album “This Bitter Garden” on June 6th! The album will have 13 songs and honestly; I am excited for this album. I never heard of this band before and I decided to give them a chance with listening to their newest release “Davenport (A Rotten Pear)” and this song left me speechless. I watched the video for this release and it was very calm at first with the preacher I believe walking to this farm house and he notices individuals not following what god planned. And that’s when the vocals started and I honestly had a jump scare because it reminds me of a horror movie. Like the voices you might hear when you are having a exorcism. And as the video progresses; you see the preacher tied to a chair and each person takes turns ending his life and basically making him look like a clown. I have never seen this type of music video before and I am a horror movie fanatic, so it brought a smile to my face to see the violence. Horror filmmaker Nick Holland did an excellent job delivering the disturbing and haunting affect the band needed for this single to make listeners have chills.
“These songs are a true distillation of all the sonic ideas we’ve explored previously and our different interests,” shares guitarist Rosa Delgado. “Hayden has a strong appreciation for film. We’re coupling his world-building and atmosphere with the immediacy, urgency, and brutality of our early material. We’re always striving to challenge ourselves. This Bitter Garden is an expansion of everything before.”
“This Bitter Garden is the first recording where we got to express ourselves as the full band we’ve been playing as for the last four years,” vocalist Hayden Rodriguez adds. “Everyone’s voice comes through. We’ve progressed, but it still feels like For Your Health.”
“In my head, This Bitter Garden has a dual nature,” Rodriguez continues. “You can grow fruits and vegetables in a garden to feed people, or you can grow poisonous plants. One of the main thematic elements is, ‘What happens when a place where you grow nourishment turns rotten?’ There are other themes too. You continue to nurture resentment even when it’s so far past what you intended it to be. You end up on a path.”
Pre-orders for This Bitter Garden are available now via 3DOT Recordings HERE! , with the album offered on limited edition vinyl variants (white/cobalt with heavy splatter, and white/sea blue/black heavy splatter), cassette, and digitally.
This Bitter Garden album cover; Illustration by Simona Morales
This Bitter Garden track listing:
2. Flowers For The Worst Of Them
3. With Empty Promises & Loaded Guns
4. Gaia Wept
5. Clementine
6. The Radiant Apostasy
7. Heaven, Here
8. Longinus
9. The Rotting Pair
10. In The Valley of Weeping
11. Lamb Without Fold
12. Your New Curse
13. Hostel Elysia
Tour dates (with AWAKEBUTSTILLINBED):
June 19 Pittsburgh, PA Roboto Project
June 20 Baltimore, MD Undercroft
June 21 Philadelphia, PA Warehouse on Watts
June 22 Providence, RI The Parlour
June 23 Boston, MA Warehouse IX
June 24 Brooklyn, NY Trans Pecos
June 25 Rochester, NY The Psychic Garden
June 26 Lakewood, OH Mahall’s
June 27 Ferndale, MI Pug Fest @ Orchid Theatre
June 29 Grand Rapids, MI Zabbaz
July 1 Chicago, IL Subterranean
July 2 Milwaukee, WI X-Ray Arcade
July 3 Minneapolis, MN Pillar Forum
July 4 Des Moines, IA The Church
July 5 Kansas City, MO Farewell
July 6 St. Louis, MO Sinkhole
July 7 Indianapolis, IN Healer
July 8 Cincinnati, OH Northside Tavern
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