Beelzefuzz ride again! Follow along if you dare: Last September, Maryland doom said a sad farewell to one of its brightest acts, Beelzefuzz, whose self-titled debut (review here) had surfaced in Aug. 2013 through The Church Within Records. A week later, guitarist/vocalist Dana Ortt, guitarist Greg Diener and drummer Darin McCloskey announced they’d continue to collaborate under the name Righteous Bloom, eventually bringing Revelation bassist Bert Hall on board early in 2015 to complete the lineup. Writing and shows ensued. Demos were posted (see here, here and here), and the band began to regain some of the momentum Beelzefuzz had left behind months earlier.

What would be Righteous Bloom‘s debut album has been recorded and is currently in the mixing stage, as McCloskey informs below, but it will now be released as Beelzefuzz II: The Righteous Bloom, as the four-piece have decided to readopt the name Beelzefuzz and will continue forward working under its banner. Beelzefuzz II: The Righteous Bloom will be released sometime in the first half of 2016 via The Church Within, and after a year away, Beelzefuzz will press on into a new era of the band. Call it Beelzefuzz Mk. II.

Cover art for Beelzefuzz II: The Righteous Bloom is by David Paul Seymour; click here to see the full gatefold. More info to come — tracks, an exact release date, etc. — but if you managed to make it through the two paragraphs above, I think you’ll probably agree this is enough news to start with.

As McCloskey put it:

Here’s the scoop….Dana, Greg, Bert and I, collectively known for the past year as Righteous Bloom, have decided to go back to the name Beelzefuzz. Initially, we decided to change the name in order to try to distance ourselves from any negativity that would overshadow our productivity at the time. As time went on, we realized that calling ourselves by any other name was not only misleading but somewhat disingenuous. The sound of the band is the same, the songs are the same, everything is still very much relevant to what we are doing…

As time went on we realized one unfortunate (and significant) side effect during the time we were known as Righteous Bloom was the confusion caused by the loss of something the “fans” thought no longer existed but was still in fact very much still alive. We’re confident that, collectively, we are representing everything that Beelzefuzz was associated with… And then some…

I’ve included the new artwork by David Paul Seymour for the forthcoming album which will be available through The Church Within Records early 2016, no exact release date right now. The new album is entitled ‘Beelzefuzz – II : The Righteous Bloom’ and is currently being mixed and mastered by Richard Whittaker who is doing a phenomenal job. We are also launching a new FB page, the “Official Beelzefuzz” band page which we’d like to encourage people to stop by and give us a like!

https://www.facebook.com/beelzefuzzofficial/
http://www.beelzefuzz.com/
https://twitter.com/Beelzefuzz
https://soundcloud.com/beelzefuzz
https://beelzefuzz.bandcamp.com/
http://doom-dealer.de/

Righteous Bloom, Live at Vultures of Volume 2, Sept. 5, 2015

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