STALEMATE OF WILLS is a 3 piece wrecking ball hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.  The band embodies the American rust belt blight that surrounds them, which quickly becomes apparent by their mantra: "HEAVY RIFFS FOR A WITHERING WORLD".  Their sound is an amalgamation of doom metal, hardcore, New Orleans-style sludge metal, and even traditional 90s death metal at times.  Their musical focus is downtuned, groove inflicted  "meat and potatoes" riffing and drumming, maintaining the ability to pivot into creepy clean vibes as well.  Lyrically, Stalemate of Wills concentrates on the endless frustrations created by the hopelessness experienced throughout life, and the inability to change it but still survive.  

The band was formed in 2023 by guitarist/ vocalist Derek Kovacs as a one man studio project releasing the singles "Corrode" followed then by "Subside", but it soon became clear that Stalemate of Wills needed to become a full band.  Not long after,  scene veterans Jake Morris (Bass) and Bob McSherry (drums) were quickly recruited to fill the voids.  Stalemate of Wills embraces an ethos of self-reliance, releasing and recording their own music and  began working on an 8-song full length entitled "Existence Denied", to be released in Spring of 2026 on FFTC Records, an independent label run by Kovacs.