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Samavayo Post “Prophecy” Video; Tour Starts Friday

Posted in Bootleg Theater on July 27th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

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At this point, I’ve said a fair amount concerning Berlin rockers Samavayo‘s 2022 album, Pāyān (review here), and the fact that the three-piece had the rug pulled out from under their Spring release tour with Stoned Jesus by Russia’s invasion of that band’s native Ukraine. Setting aside for a moment the horrors of that war that is ongoing as yet another dragging proxy battle for the US supplying weapons against Russian imperialism, that was a hard way to have a record come out, and the work the band put into Pāyān deserved better.

But given that the subject has been raised before, I’ll note that there’s nothing I can tell you about Pāyān that’s going to help you understand the record better than listening to “Prophecy.” The nine-minute video for the just-under-nine-minute song was filmed at this year’s Desertfest Berlin — the trio have also been confirmed for Desertfest Belgium this October — and their progressive psychedelic flourish is suited to the manipulation of said footage that takes place, frontman Behrang Alavi leading the band through twisting rhythms derived from Persian folk and rock as bassist/vocalist Andreas Voland and drummer/vocalist Stephan Voland make each change fluid, consistent, engaging. “Prophecy” soars melodically in a way that, for a band’s seventh long-player (second for Noisolution), speaks to the ongoing nature of Samavayo‘s development and the intention to push themselves to do things they’ve never done before.

Again, I’m only telling you what the music will tell you more effectively.

“Prophecy” is the fourth clip to surface from Pāyān, so one could not accuse Samavayo of not trying to reach their audience, and as you dig into the track, I think you’ll find they’re doing exactly that.

They’ve got fests and more slated for the next few weeks, and you’ll find the dates listed under the player below.

Please enjoy:

Samavayo, “Prophecy” official video

Check our upcoming tourdates and you can order our album PĀYĀN here:
https://samavayo.bandcamp.com/album/payan

performed live at Desertfest Berlin 2022

Says Behrang Alavi, “I have waited a long time to make up for the canceled release tour with Stoned Jesus in April in some form. It is a slightly shorter tour but we are extremely looking forward to it and it will be something new to tour in the (high) summer. Some challenges especially of olfactory nature await us!”

samavayo tourPĀYĀN SUMMER TOUR 2022
29.7. Münster (D) – Rare Guitar
30.7. Schwalbach Open Air (D)
31.7. Würzburg – Immerhin (D)
01.8. Dresden (D) – Beatpol *
03.8. Feldkirch (A) – Poolbar Festival *
04.8. Cham (D) – La Cham **
05.8. München (D) – Free & Easy Festival *
06.8. Wolfach (D) – Moosenmättle Open Air
07.8. Salzburg (A) – Rockhouse **
13.8. Sonic Blast Moledo (POR)
* WITCH
** WO FAT

order our album PĀYĀN here:
https://samavayo.bandcamp.com/album/payan
Prophecy taken from album “Pāyān” (2022) / Noisolution

Recorded and Mixed by Richard Behrens / Big Snuff Studio Berlin
Mastered by Pascal Stoffels

Video for Prophecy created by Malachi Cull
https://www.palantirvisuals.com/
Camera by Chris Guse

Samavayo is:
Stephan Voland (Drums, Vocals)
Andreas Voland (Bass, Vocals)
Behrang Alavi (Vocals, Guitar)

Samavyo, Pāyān (2022)

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Desertfest Belgium 2022: Wolves in the Throne Room, Belzebong & More Added to Antwerp Lineup

Posted in Whathaveyou on July 19th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

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Desertfest Belgium, now in its eighth year and second to feature festivals in two cities — Antwerp and Ghent — has put day tickets on sale as of yesterday. Further, the day splits — who plays when — have been announced, so I guess if you only want to see one day’s worth of killer shit, you can do that. Honestly though, unless you have a pressing prior engagement like your own wedding or there’s a family emergency or some such, I’m not sure how you make a conscious decision to not do all three days.

Even if The Brian Jonestown Massacre isn’t your thing, or you’ve never been huge on Red Fang or Wolves in the Throne Room, look down these bills. From Gozu and Samavayo and Josh Graham‘s IIVII the first day, Naxatras and Suma the next (talk about a marriage of opposites) and Bongripper and Polymoon the third, there’s really no way you lose. Pick one? Shit, I’ll take 10.

Ghent is apparently next to be filled out, and of course there will be some crossover for bands who are tour for a couple weeks, but there’s always a bunch of acts reserved for one or the other as well. I don’t know. I like bands playing shows. I like fests. I’d like to go to Belgium one day and make up for that one time I was there only long enough to fuck up ordering coffee in French like the dipshit passthrough tourist I was. Make up for it by probably doing the same thing, that is.

Oh, and they’re not on this poster, but Cities of Mars play on Sunday.

From the PR wire:

DESERTFEST BELGIUM 2022 ANTWERP DAY SPLITS

DF 2022 ANTWERP: WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, BELZEBONG, AND MORE!

Back once again, with another headbanger. This time we break out the truly deep ‘n’ heavy, from all over Europe and beyond. Please take note: the following bands will be appearing at DF ANTWERP ONLY. News on the Ghent edition to follow in short order.

Making up for last year’s unfortunate cancellation, we’re glad that WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM will make it this year. Let’s burn some black candles to ward off any new pandemic, shall we? We’re also very glad to welcome two doom titans from the east and the north. BELZEBONG from Poland are always a Good Bad-Ass Time with their ripping lowdown instrumentals, and Sweden’s SUMA are keen on celebrating a belated 20th birthday on stage.

In case you were wondering if there will be a no-frills blues rock fix on the bill, wonder no more! THE HEAVY EYES have us covered with their homegrown Delta boogie, while DOMMENGANG will be here to deliver a West Coast vibe.

Greece has been delivering the stoner goods for a long time now, and it is with great pleasure we announce the return of the jam-adelic NAXATRAS and the first-time arrival of HALF GRAMME OF SOMA.

We promised some deep cuts, and we got ’em. Berlin scene mainstays SAMAVAYO will be here, as well as Sweden’s Ripple Records signees CITIES OF MARS. We’re also very excited that POLYMOON will come to dish out a hefty dose of Finnish nu psychedelia.

To round things off, two Belgian bands from extreme ends of the spectrum. On the one end we got the extremely grim sludgers of HISPYN, at the other is the very goofy but equally hard-banging GNOME who despite their diminutive appearance are not to be messed with.

What’s more? This Monday 18/07 at 11:00 AM CET we will announce the day per day lineup for DF ANTWERP. This means that on Monday 18/07 separate one day tickets will go on sale for DF ANTWERP! You have been warned!

Let’s be honest here: things are looking good, and better by the minute. Your hard-earned money will be well spe.. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR TICKET YET!! Ticket prices are still reduced now, go get ’em before we start calling ’em ‘regular’!

MESSAGE OF GENERAL IMPORTANCE: We now welcome the Day Trippers to join the Weekend Trippers, as DAY TICKETS for the Antwerp Edition (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) become available as of NOW, Monday 18 July at 11am. You can find them on our ticketing page at the price of €58 (all-in) per day.

Desertfest insiders know what’s coming next: the DAILY SCHEDULE for both festivals is also visible on our line-up page, and will be complemented with any new acts we announce from now on. This will somewhat facilitate the hard choice to make when picking a day.

But! Let’s not forget that them Reduced Combi tickets are still available, so maybe you don’t have to choose after all. Get the full monty, 3 days of Desertfest Antwerp, or even throw in a day of Desertfest Ghent as a kicker.

We’ll be back soon with another round of new names.. stay tuned!

DF ANTWERP & GHENT REDUCED COMBI: 149 Euros
(valid 4 days: 14-16/10 – Antwerp & 30/10 – Ghent)

DF ANTWERP ONLY REDUCED COMBI: 120 Euros
(valid 3 days: 14-16/10 – Antwerp)

DF GHENT ONLY REDUCED DAY TICKET: 52 Euros
(valid 1 day: 30/10 – Ghent)

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Samavayo Announce Summer Tour Plans

Posted in Whathaveyou on June 22nd, 2022 by JJ Koczan

After seeing their slated Spring tour with Stoned Jesus canceled on account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Berlin-based trio Samavayo will this weekend begin a course of summer live shows including dates with Witch and Wo Fat that takes them into August, culminating with an appearance at the esteemed SonicBlast Festival in Portugal. They go, of course, in support of March’s Pāyān (review here), the band’s seventh and most expansive album yet. It’s encouraging as well to read that there’s a Fall run in the works with further festivalia, and as the band is allied with Sound of Liberation, that puts sights on events like Keep it Low, Up in Smoke, Desertfest Belgium (x2), etc. One way or the other, they’ll be busy, and fair enough. The album deserves the support.

The mention of a first US tour below is a new one to me and certainly has my eyebrows up. Could be around an appearance at Ripplefest Texas next summer? That’s just speculation, but if they’re looking to get visas, one hopes they’ve already started. Guys, if you need one of those letters that says you’re an internationally recognized act, let me know. That’s easy case to make.

From the PR wire:

samavayo summer tour

SAMAVAYO PĀYĀN SUMMER TOUR 2022

We are very happy to announce our upcoming summer tour including shows with the legends WITCH and Wo Fat. After the cancellation of our April Tour with Stoned Jesus we are looking forward to finally presenting our new album PĀYĀN.

We had rad experiences at Desertfest Berlin and the Sound of Liberation Party in Munich this year but it’s always something different to play a tour with consecutive shows!

It wasn’t easy to find the gaps for us as everyone has noticed a lot is going on concerning club shows and festivals in Europe, that is why we want to thank our booking agency Sound of Liberation for doing a great job to help us get back on track!

25.6. Wiesbaden (D) – Sound of Liberation Party
16.7. Passau (D) – Rosa Laub Festival
29.7. Münster (D) – Rare Guitar
30.7. Schwalbach Open Air (D)
31.7. tba (D)
01.8. Dresden (D) – Beatpol *
03.8. Feldkirch (A) – Poolbar Festival *
04.8. Cham (D) – La Cham **
05.8. München (D) – Free & Easy Festival *
06.8. Wolfach (D) – Moosenmättle Open Air
07.8. Salzburg (A) – Rockhouse **
13.8. Sonic Blast Moledo (POR)

* WITCH
** WO FAT

What’s next?

Meanwhile we are planning a tour across Europe for November this year. There will be some Festival appearances in September and October too.

After Afghan Sky, Transcend! Exceed! and Talagh we are working on two more videos of our new album PĀYĀN!

Ripple Music US

While we are working on a first tour in the US for 2023 we have launched a cooperation with Ripple Music and our last 3 albums are now available at the Ripple US Store https://ripplemusic.bigcartel.com/product/samavayo-various-vinyl-releases-payan-dakota-vatan

This happens in a time where prices of international shipping of a few vinyls from Germany will be increased from July 1st on and since there are many buyers and supporters for us in the US (since Dakota) we are happy to have this option for them!

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Samavayo, Live at Desertfest Berlin 2022

Samavayo, “Talagh” official video

Samavyo, Pāyān (2022)

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Samavayo Post “Talagh” Video; Live Shows Announced

Posted in Bootleg Theater on May 19th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

Samavayo

Berlin trio Samavayo have begun to announce live dates to support their latest album, Pāyān (review here), which came out in March and is apparently already on its third pressing through Noisolution. Not too shabby. The advent of shows is of particular note since, had all gone according to plan Samavayo would have headed out on an extensive run as direct support for Kyiv-based outfit Stoned Jesus.

Of course, all did not go to plan, and as much as one might like to think of art as separate from real-world concerns, it’s simply not. That tour got canned because of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, and while of course the stakes are higher than not being able to promote a record when there’s loss of human life and autonomy involved, the ways in which these effects ripple outward are myriad. A butterfly flapping its wings, and so on. Only this time it’s tank treads.

As I understand it — and I’m in pretty regular touch with Samavayo‘s Behrang Alavi, since his company hosts this site, thereby opening him up to any number of inconveniently timed messages from me about technical stuff — there is a tour in the works for Samavayo. I don’t know if Stoned Jesus will be involved there, as the war bleeds on, but Pāyān deserves to be played out, and having moved from one apocalyptic disaster to the next over the last several years, any show that can actually happen is only helping to make the world a better place.

So, here we have a new video for Samavayo‘s take on the ’70s Iranian disco cut “Talagh” by Googoosh, in an effort to keep Pāyān in people’s minds even as the group pivots toward the requisite plan B. And extra special kudos to them for doing something that would ever cause me to speak the words “’70s Iranian disco cut” as I just did out loud while typing the words.

Enjoy the clip:

Samavayo, “Talagh” official video

Talagh is the 3rd Single of Samavayo’s latest album PĀYĀN. Talagh was originally composed by the famous iranian singer and Disco Queen Googoosh in the 1970s.

Why we choose to remix Googoosh Talagh?

To make a remix of Googoosh Talagh felt kind of natural for us. The melodies of Googooshs song are both, oriental and western style influenced, like our music from Samavayo is too. Talagh is originally composed for the disco dancefloor. We added our spicy heavy Stonerrock sound to it, changed the arrangement and Stephan created a whole new rhythm for our version of Talagh. So we think we created a Talagh Remix with a heavy but still dance-attitude. You can dance but also mosh. Another aspect for choosing Talagh to remix was the fact, that Behrang’s Mom used to sing the song for him, when he was a kid. So there is also the sentimental aspect.

May 26th DE Desertfest Berlin
June 11th DE 17 years SOL, Munich
July 30th DE Schwalbach Open Air + 24/7 Diva Heaven
August 3rd A Poolbar Festival + WITCH
August 12th POR Sonic Blast Modelo

+ many other show to be announced

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Full Album Premiere & Review: Samavayo, Payan

Posted in audiObelisk, Reviews on March 23rd, 2022 by JJ Koczan

Samavayo Payan

[Click play above to stream Samavayo’s new album, Pāyān, in its entirety. Album is out Friday, March 25, on Noisolution.]

Pāyān is the most expansive and engrossing Samavayo studio album to-date. Their second LP behind 2018’s Vatan (review here) to be released through Noisolution, it is their seventh full-length overall and their first since marking 20 years as a band in 2020, and it sees the Berlin-based three-piece of band founder and spearhead Behrang Alavi (guitar and vocals), bassist Andreas Voland (also organ and vocals) and drummer Stephan Voland (also vocals and other percussion) engage directly with a range of social issues lyrically and a corresponding instrumental scope, working in continued collaboration with producer Richard Behrens at Big Snuff Studio to create a style that is born of weighted-fuzz heavy rock as much as harder-edged prog, psychedelic flourish and underlying rhythmic influence from Middle Eastern styles, set to already-stuck-in-your-head hooks like “Afghan Sky” and the twice-exclamatory “Transcend! Exceed!,” “Prophecy” and closer “The Mission,” the vocals on which don’t so much recall Led Zeppelin‘s “Kashmir” as provide it a level of cultural accuracy otherwise neglected.

Granted, these patterns of aesthetic aren’t necessarily new for SamavayoVatan, the prior 2016 outing for Setalight Records, Dakota (review here), both also dug brazenly into their ambitiousness. With Pāyān, the difference is the sense of realization brought to bear across the album’s seven songs and 43 minutes, the clear communication of ideas and the purposefulness with which each song contributes to the listening experience of the surrounding entirety. “Afghan Sky” immediately puts the listener in a real place, and that proves pivotal to the atmosphere of Pāyān. Right away, Samavayo aren’t shying from their task.

There’s very little escapism from front to back here, whether it’s the Persian-language execution of the title-track — translating to ‘the end,’ which right away one hopes this isn’t when it comes to the band — or the venting-of-frustration in “The Mission,” which is what Metallica might’ve turned into had they been punk instead of thrash at the outset. Shades in “Pāyān” itself of post-Alice in Chains harmony in layers and the semi-aggro delivery of “Shot Shot Shot Shot” are likewise familiar ground for Samavayo to cover, but they do so with a greater attention to detail and dynamic than they have before, putting momentum side-by-side with exploration as “Transcend! Exceed!” emerges from the culmination of the title cut and careens into “Prophecy,” the latter both the longest and arguably the most progressive inclusion.

The guests beg mention. On the first three songs, and on “The Mission” at the end, Alavi and the Volands welcome outside contributors, with Elder/Delving‘s Nick DiSalvo adding to “Afghan Sky” ahead of Tommi Holappa of Dozer and Greenleaf sitting in for “Shot Shot Shot Shot” — the forward push of which finds him right at home — and Igor Sydorenko of would’ve-been-tourmates-but-for-that-Russian-invasion-of-Ukraine Stoned Jesus playing on “Pāyān” while Willi Paschen of Coogans Bluff rounds out on the closer. These are not minor names in the sphere of heavy rock and roll, and what they bring to Pāyān collectively is more than novelty, adding to the inherent personality of the pieces on which they feature through their own varied tones and playing styles.

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Whatever the draw of these appearances might be on their face — and after more than two decades recording and touring, Samavayo are well entitled to such a draw — it’s greatly to the band’s own credit that none of the four guests overtake the songs on which they play. Part of that is a simple question of mixing — in no way does “Afghan Sky” punch the audience in the face with “here’s Nick!,” and the same applies to the others who follow — but it also stands as a testament to the quality of songwriting itself. That comes through as much in the jazzy punch of bass early in “Shot Shot Shot Shot” and the soul-informed vocal there as in Holappa‘s soloing, or DiSalvo‘s or Sydorenko‘s and Paschen‘s. Conclusively, Pāyān is about its songs more than anything else, as well as the album being built from them.

At the time, Dakota was the furthest along their progressive course that Samavayo had evolved. Same for Vatan those four tumultuous years ago. One of the ways in which Pāyān holds to that standard is in its plays back and forth of momentum, tempo and style. With a salvo in “Afghan Sky” (also one of the strongest and most memorable choruses) and “Shot Shot Shot Shot,” the album unfolds into the title-track, still plenty hooky but more expansive in style and requiring something of an adjustment of expectation on the part of the listener, with “Transcend! Exceed!” following to move directly into its first verse as both the shortest and most straight-ahead of the assembled material; mellow verse, rush of a chorus, careening riff in desert-reminiscent fashion.

“Prophecy” is almost too thoughtful to be as lost in itself as it tells you it is, but its later melody make it a high point both of Pāyān and of Samavayo‘s work more generally — yes that’s said in acknowledgement of how long they’ve been around — and it comes backed by the cover of Iranian pop singer Googoosh “Talagh,” which inventively combines aspects of Persian language and melody with Samavayo‘s arrangement context, bringing aspects of the band’s originals to bear in a way that is duly purposeful as the rawer-tone of “The Mission” caps with a deceptive depth of melody in its chorus offsetting the stomp and fury of the verse before.

And it’s likewise fitting that the lyrics to “The Mission” trace back to the source of so much of the conflict around which the rest of the songs are based in lines like “Undermine supremacy,” “Cut the power of the pervasive, unstoppable, pestilence,” and so on, that at least to my American ears sound distinctly critical of white supremacism and the cultural discrimination that not only led to the collapse of the government depicted in “Afghan Sky,” but is relevant to the aforementioned invasion of Ukraine and any number of other issues worldwide, be it human rights, plague, or any number of forms of violence and oppression, state or otherwise.

If the revolution is coming, Samavayo sound ready for it. In either case, Pāyān — pronounced “PIE-on,” if the title-track is anything to go by — looks boldly at the time and place of its making while further demonstrating the nuance emergent in Samavayo‘s approach and the band’s will toward ongoing sonic progress. They give no signs of stopping, and that is only for the better.

Samavayo, “Transcend! Exceed!” official video

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Stoned Jesus and Samavayo Tour Canceled

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 17th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

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There’s a lot you could say about this, as for the last few weeks Russia has been bombarding Ukraine in an invasion apparently attempting to recapture some kind of perceived Soviet heyday on the part of Russian president Vladimir Putin, but really, all the thoughtful analysis has been done. All the thinkpieces are either written or currently in progress and I have nothing much to add to it except to say that human beings have treated each other like fucking garbage since before the dawn of time. Even twins consume each other in the womb if they can. People are fucking scum.

The rest of us in the world outside Kyiv, well, golly, we’d sure like to help out with that no-fly zone but I’m sure seizing some yachts and making the deep sacrifice of paying more for gas will bring Russia to heel. Right, doesn’t that sound likely? No, I’m not casting my Senate vote as a dickweed music blogger for sending ground troops. I’m saying if we as a species weren’t a complete fucking wash there wouldn’t be a war in the first place. And in the meantime, I’ve found the ease with which my own country has turned to lazy, stereotype caricature of Russian culture with a lack of acknowledgement of our own imperial history — hi from a nation born of colonialist genocide and built by slaves who just spent 20 years in Afghanistan for… some reason — to be likewise fucking disconcerting.

So yeah, here’s a tour canceled on account of war instead of plague. Coming soon, famine and death.

Fuck everything:

Stoned Jesus Samavayo tour off

STONED JESUS + SAMAVAYO TOUR CANCELLED

Hi friends,

Due to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, and Stoned Jesus being a Ukrainian band stuck in their country, all tour dates with Samavayo need to be cancelled.

It’s extremely hard to find words for all this, so please best simply read Stoned Jesus’ statement below and think about helping / donating if you haven’t already. We hope this nightmare will end very soon and send all our strength and hope to people in Ukraine and those affected.

STONED JESUS STATEMENT

“This spring should’ve been about celebrating the tenth anniversary of our most important album, Seven Thunders Roar. Hitting the road, meeting the old friends and making the new ones, playing our music, spreading the message of peace and mutual understanding. Unfortunately, right now for us and our whole country it’s all about survival. We’ll see each other soon, when the dictator and his horde are defeated, and the new Stoned Jesus album will also be released this year. For now – don’t pray for us, rather donate to Ukrainian charity via link in our bio. The Truth is on our side!”

HOW TO HELP

https://linktr.ee/HowToHelpUkraine2022
(Link from Stoned Jesus’ bio)

Please also check with your ticket provider, some might be able to offer donating your ticket to Ukrainian charity instead of returning it.

Thank you for your support,
Your SOL Crew

Stoned Jesus is:
Igor Sydorenko – Vocals & Guitars
Serhij Sljussar – Bass
Dmytro Zinchenko – Drums

Samavayo is:
Behrang Alavi, Andreas Voland & Stephan Voland

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Samavayo Post “Transcend! Exceed!” Video; Album Preorder Available

Posted in Bootleg Theater on March 14th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

Samavayo

Goodness gracious, that’s a catchy tune. Samavayo are set to release their new album, Pāyān, on March 25 through Noisolution. And I’ve locked down a full-album stream for March 23 — a couple days before; that’s how these things usually go — so I’ll spare you the blah blah blah of a review for the whole thing, except to say that the doubly-exclamatory “Transcend! Exceed!” is everything you could ask a single from it to be. Heavy, hooky, smoothly delivered and careening in its groove. It moves with an urgency that speaks to some of the sociopolitical themes of the songs that surround it, but is ultimately more about the movement in itself; the urgency becomes the need to get the listener up, or at very least to provide the encouragement to do or be more.

The Berlin trio sold quickly through the preorders for what’s called the “Club 100” edition of Pāyān, a deluxe edition limited in number to… wait for it… 100 copies, though honestly if you missed that, the regular old Club Everybodyelse edition looks fairly deluxe. Anytime I see a CD bundled with an LP I think to myself, “Yes, somebody gets it,” and that’s the case here as well. Not to veer too far into an album review, but Pāyān earns that through the band’s own performance across the songs as well as their ambition in style and message. “Transcend! Exceed!” represents something Samavayo do well — songwriting, uptempo heavy push with a physical sense of movement behind it — but ties in gracefully to the whole as well. And the video’s four minutes, flat. Short. Punchy. Right on. Like I said, everything you could ask a single to be.

Enjoy:

Samavayo, “Transcend! Exceed!” official video

Transcend! Exceed! is the second single of the new album and out on all platforms.

Camera and Edit – Milan Pfützenreuter
Electrician – Matthias Hildebrand
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Presale started

We also started the presale of the album on bandcamp https://samavayo.bandcamp.com/album/payan

Combining it with a donation action where we donate 1 euro per each merch item sale and everything buyers overpay (pay extra on top).

Club 100

The limited vinyl edition (100pcs) of our album (“Club 100”) was sold on March 6th and sold out after 25min, which we are very grateful for!

Specs

The new album comes with CD, red vinyl and blue vinyl which are limited to 300pcs incl. Poster with lyrics. The special thing is: the blue is only available through us (bandcamp, shows) and our label Noisolution, the red is in the trade (shops. mailorders etc. and club 100).

The CD is a 6page digisleeve without any plastic and 16page booklet.

Tour dates with Stoned Jesus in April:

08.04.22 – Hannover | CAFE GLOCKSEE
09.04.22 – Siegen | Vortex Surfer Musikclub
10.04.22 – Wiesbaden | Schlachthof Wiesbaden
11.04.22 – Hamburg | Knust Hamburg
12.04.22 – Nijmegen | Doornroosje
13.04.22 – Aachen | Musikbunker Aachen
14.04.22 – Dortmund | JunkYard
15.04.22 – Amsterdam | Melkweg Amsterdam
16.04.22 – Gent | Kunstencentrum Vooruit
17.04.22 – Paris | Petit Bain
18.04.22 – Nantes | Le Ferrailleur – Club Concert
19.04.22 – Toulouse | Connexion Live
20.04.22 – Bilbao | Kafe Antzokia
21.04.22 – Porto | Hard Club
22.04.22 – Madrid | SALA CARACOL MADRID
23.04.22 – Barcelona | Razzmatazz
25.04.22 – Martigny | Caves du Manoir
26.04.22 – München | Feierwerk
27.04.22 – Vienna | Chelsea
28.04.22 – Zürich | Dynamo Zürich (offiziell)
29.04.22 – Nürnberg | MUZclub
30.04.22 – Dresden | Beatpol

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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal Playlist: Episode 79

Posted in Radio on March 4th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

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Before I turn you over to the playlist — and I’m gonna try to keep this short either way — I want to single out and say thank you to Dean Rispler. He’s the engineer for this show, and with my dumbass voice tracks, it ran long. Instead of cutting out a song or whatever, Dean went ahead and trimmed intros and outros, making it a tighter ‘broadcast,’ such as it is, and enhancing the thing rather than detracting from it. Thank you, Dean. I know the effort that takes, the time that can take, and it is very much appreciated, by me if by no one else.

Some new stuff, some old stuff. I had Ufomammut on the brain and then I had stuff-I-like on the brain, and, well, that’s how you end up with me playing Colour Haze. I give myself points though for managing to leave Author & Punisher out of an episode though. I think he was in the last three. And if you haven’t heard the Charley No Face record, there’s a reason it starts the show.

If you listen, or you see these words, thanks.

The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at: http://gimmemetal.com.

Full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 03.04.22

Charley No Face Death Mask Eleven Thousand Volts
Wo Fat The Witching Chamber The Singularity
Fuzz Sagrado Lunik IX A New Dimension
Wovenhand Omaha Silver Sash
VT
Kryptograf The Spiral The Eldorado Spell
Uncle Woe Nine Kinds of Time Pennyfold Haberdashery & Abattoir Deluxe
Samavayo Afghan Sky Payan
JIRM Repent in Blood The Tunnel, the Well, Holy Bedlam
Green Hog Band Dragon Dragon
VT
Ufomammut Nero Idolum
Conan Battle in the Swamp Monnos
YOB Burning the Altar The Great Cessation
Colour Haze Grace She Said
VT
Acid King Coming Down From Outer Space Live at Roadburn 2011
Fuzz Meadows Benji Orange Sunshine

The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is March 18 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.

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