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Heavy Temple Announce New Album for 2019

I admit, when I started this post and reached out to Heavy Temple, my basic going idea was, ‘I haven’t written about Heavy Temple in a while and Heavy Temple kick ass.’ That’s what I was going on. For those who don’t keep up on their well-maintained social media presence, they’ve been steadily destroying ears and the brains between them over the course of this year at happenings like Muddy RootsDescendants of CromDays of DarknessShadow WoodsRPM Fest — as well as Ode to Doom in Manhattan this past weekend — and dates alongside the formidable likes of Ecstatic VisionMothershipWitch Mountain and Corrosion of Conformity. They’ve spent most of this year playing out between touring and wisely-chosen fests, and their following has only grown more cult-like and loyal as a result.

Right on. The news that came back when I hit up one High Priestess Nighthawk was better than I could’ve hoped in that Heavy Temple will be recording this winter for a new full-length to follow-up on 2016’s righteous Chassit (review here) debut LP. It’ll be their first record with Thunderhorse on guitar as they bring their hard fuzz stylizations to new degrees of intensity. You can see that even in the reinterpreted older material played live in the clip below, filmed at Underground Arts in their native Philadelphia on a bill they shared with YOB and Bell Witch. Because fucking a.

Which brings me back to my original point: Heavy Temple kick ass. Their new record? It’ll probably kick ass too.

Here’s a quick update from the band about it:

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Heavy Temple – New Album Recording & Gigs

We’ll be heading to the basement this winter to record our new album (more details to come). Will Spectre’s Red Water Recording captures some of Philly’s finest (Outer Heaven, Witching, Narcos Family Band, Moros, Black Urn) and we’re excited to get started. We have five songs planned for this record, including some interludes that we’ll be writing throughout the sessions.

This album is true to the Heavy Temple sound, but noticeably different in that this will be the third recorded line up. We’re really hitting our stride with this one and even though we’ve been playing some of the new material live, we look forward to being able to get it out to the folks that haven’t been able to make it to a show.

We have one more appearance this year, at December Doomsday with Weedeater and Unearthly Trance in Baltimore. We have two shows in April at the Philly Decibel Metal & Beer Fest, and back in Baltimore for Haze Mage’s annual 4/20 jammer, aptly named Grim Reefer fest, with Ruby the Hatchet. Additionally we’d love to get further west next year, as well as across the pond! Keep your eyes peeled and your ears to the ground. We’re comin’ to getchoo. XO

Heavy Temple is:
High Priestess Nighthawk (low end and vocal power)
Siren Tempest (rhythm)
Thunderhorse (6 string axe slinger)

https://www.facebook.com/HeavyTemple/
https://www.instagram.com/heavytemple
https://heavytemple.bandcamp.com
https://www.van-records.de/
https://tridroid.bandcamp.com/album/chassit

Heavy Temple, Live at Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 2018

Heavy Temple, Chassit (2017)

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