A one-person project from Chicago, IL, Mae Shults has been releasing music as Everson Poe for 15 years. As a queer, trans woman, she incorporates themes of gender identity and mental health into nearly all of her songs, filtered through lenses inspired by various forms of pop culture, or simply her own imaginative storytelling. Though never bothering to be constrained by genre, the majority of Everson Poe’s releases for the last few years have mostly contained elements of black-, doom-, and sludge-metal. Mae's newest album, The Tower, is a 2-part epic spanning over 50 minutes of music, containing her heaviest themes to date.