WAX MEKANIX Releases The New Single ‘Saltwater Sisters’, Written and Recorded in 11 Straight Hours!

The Metallist PR
Sep 5
2 min read

Philadelphia’s rock rebel WAX MEKANIX has come back with the new single Saltwater Sisters! The song turned out to be a successful experiment from many points of view. Wax closed himself into Sakred Studios in Philadelphia for 11 straight hours, writing and recording with the support of some of the city’s best musicians. No lyrics, no riffs, no roadmap… just a mission: write and record an entirely new song in a single day.

Inspired by the immediacy of John Lennon’s Instant Karma, this was no normal session. It was a deliberate shake-up of process, a self-imposed creative pressure cooker designed to force instinct to the surface and banish overthinking.

The result is Saltwater Sisters, a song fueled by spontaneity, urgency, and a hunger for new energy. Designed to feel like a controlled explosion - something born in a moment and unpolished by design.

Watch the video on Electric Talon Records’ YouTube channel:

Stream/download the song on Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/zvajra2m

Saltwater Sisters unfolds like a cryptic love letter to America’s beautiful, turbulent paradox. In M11son’s and Wax’s lyric, the sisters aren't merely muses, they’re avatars of a nation at war with itself. They're primal forces dancing along fault lines: red versus blue, hawk versus dove, rebel versus guardian. They entice, they provoke, they tear the narrator in two…just as the country grapples with its own contradictions. There's no sermon here, only surreal portraits that echo rebellion and reverence in equal measure.

Beneath the twister imagery lies pride, not blind but bruised and weathered, from a citizen who honors the messy brilliance of the American experiment. It’s a sonic snapshot of a nation built on friction, forged through imperfection, and forever chasing an elusive equilibrium. Saltwater Sisters doesn’t preach or resolve, it simply bears witness to the storm, refusing to romanticize or retreat. And in that unrest, there's a fierce kind of patriotism: the belief that even chaos can be sacred.

“This wasn’t just a song. It was a musical experiment by me and my fearless crew of creative expeditionaries. A blind leap of faith into the unknown that lit a fire I haven’t felt in a long time.” ~ Wax Mekanix