
Oakland, CA post punk/shoegaze/techno band Houses of Heaven have announced their second studio album ‘Within/Without‘. To mark the announcement, the band have shared the album’s title track and it’s accompanying video.
The follow-up to their 2020’s debut Silent Places, produced and mixed by Matia Simovich (INHALT), will be out on April 26 through Felte Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Houses of Heaven fuse the grit of early industrial with dizzying hits of EBM, techno, and drum & bass, all imbued with lyrical themes that draw equally from the emotional and the mechanical. Within/Without delves into a realm of intricate intensity, pushing electronics to the forefront with the production prowess of Simovich, and features top-of-their-game guest vocals from Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) and Mariana Saldaña (BOAN).
On Within/Without, Houses of Heaven truly come into their own with a distinctive alloy of electronic, industrial, psychedelic and shoegaze elements. They create a dynamic conduit for discord and harmony with a profoundly human essence, bridging interior lives and exterior pressures through visceral songcraft and deft pacing. In a cruel and technologically dominated world, emotional gridlock is rampant.
Check out “Within/Without” below, followed by the album’s tracklist and artwork.

Within/Without Tracklist:
- Strange Temptation
- Within/Without
- The End of Me (feat. Douglas McCarthy)
- New Decay
- The Depths You Hold
- Flesh Techniques
- Deserve (feat. Ms.Boan Mariana Saldaña)
- Pisces
- Serpent Coil
- Sightline