Miami's sludge/noise/post-metal trio Bleeth release single & Hole cover "Pretty On The Inside"!

Drive around any neighborhood in Miami, and you’ll see it. The statue of a single saint dotting the many manicured lawns of southwest Dade — San Lázaro.

Often, you see him standing alone out in the sun or encased within a glass enclosure full of fronds and flowers. Always positioned somewhere eerily between life and death, the divine and the mundane.

For Miami-based queer sludge noise band Bleeth, the origin of their latest release, Lazara, traces back to one of those statues in particular. While writing in a cramped side room of guitarist Lauren Palma’s home, a human-sized figure of San Lázaro would stare back at the members of Bleeth.

At first, it was all just a joke. A funny — and creepy — visitor gazing in on their sessions. But eventually, the image of Lazarus himself became a sort of talisman — a quiet presence that worked its way into the fabric of their latest EP, Lázara.

That shift didn’t happen in a vacuum.

The stretch between their 2021 EP Harbinger and their most recent full-length Marionette (Seeing Red Records, 2025) tested the band in ways that would have sidelined most. Label disputes. Job losses. The departure of their original drummer just ahead of a planned 2023 tour.

And it wasn’t just these personal trials that weighed on the members either.

In a world where the rights of LGBTQIAAP+ people are more precarious than ever, the songwriting sessions became an outlet to channel their collective rage at the ills of the Trump administration and the far-right grandstanding gaining mass acceptance in the world. A way to process anger, uncertainty, and everything building beneath the surface.

Somewhere in that mix, the figure of Lazarus took on new meaning. Not just as a religious symbol, but something refracted through a queer lens — a figure marked, cast aside, and brought back to life.

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That tension — between collapse and renewal, death and resurrection — runs through Lázara.

And that’s really what this whole new set is about. A new start after a period of turbulence that might’ve destroyed any other band — wrapped up in some of the most eclectic, heaviest, and left-of-center songs Bleeth have ever recorded.

Recorded quickly with Ryan Haft in the winter of 2025, the new material is also their most focused — a lean, three-song statement that wastes no space.

From a visceral reworking of Hole’s “Pretty On The Inside” to the churning, slow burn of “Porcelain” and “Bent,” Lázara is a fresh restart that shows this 10-year strong Miami institution is still hungry for blood.

Recorded and mixed by Ryan Haft at Sunburn Sound

Mastered by Adam Matza at Magic Ears mastering

Bleeth is:
Lauren Palma - Guitar, Vocal
Ryan Rivas - Bass, Vocal
Hector Mojena - Drums

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