THE CASKET LOTTERY have teamed up with us to share their new video for the track “From Now to Now”, the third single from their upcoming album Feel The Teeth, out August 29 via Iodine Recordings. Directed by Chris Mullins, the video lands as a stark visual accompaniment to a song about the moment it clicks that no one is actually steering the ship.
‘From Now to Now’ is an existential crisis song about coming to terms with the understanding that no one really knows what’s going on,” vocalist Nathan Ellis says. “It makes sense to assume that somewhere out there someone is in control. This is for when you realize it’s all a random mess. Count your blessings and ride the wave of chaos.”
The track was recorded at B24 Studios in Kansas City, Missouri, engineered and mixed by Jeremy Wurst with assistance from Steve Lichtenwalter and Jesse White, and mastered by Jack Shirley. There’s a familiar heaviness to the sound, but the delivery feels more like resignation than confrontation—a recurring theme across the album.
The full record, Feel The Teeth, moves through personal exhaustion and social disorientation with a tone that leans reflective rather than reactive. Where 2020’s Short Songs for End Times tore into the chaos head-on, this new material sits in its aftermath. As Ellis explains, the songs are “about middle age enlightenment. Realizing that I spent so many years wanting, when all I needed were the moments I had.”
[Nightsong] unpacks the physical toll of time and trauma. “I don’t sleep very well anymore,” Ellis notes, describing the state between waking and hallucination. [Bell Penny] pits self-preservation against empathy, while [Echolalia] and [Nothing Certain] trace the foggy passage of years, pushing back against the idea that anything in life unfolds with clarity.
The title itself, Feel The Teeth, threads through the record as a metaphor for things buried but not gone. Teeth as anxiety, as pressure, as memory. [Snake Dreams] dives into that symbolism, tapping into transformation and the skin-shedding necessary to keep going.
Without fanfare or forced hope, THE CASKET LOTTERY approach their 2025 release with quiet weight. The answers aren’t here, and maybe they never were—but Feel The Teeth sounds like the product of a band still choosing to show up anyway.
