Somnus Throne Sign to Heavy Psych Sounds; New Album Coming Soon
And so Heavy Psych Sounds moves one step further toward becoming the Roman Empire of the underground. Minus all that conquering, I guess, but you know what I mean. The label has newly picked up Los Angeles-based three-piece Somnus Throne and will next week unveil the details, preorders and first streaming track from their upcoming album, which, since they’re starting promo in April, it seems reasonable to expect will be out in July or maybe August at the latest, end of June at the earliest. That’s me reading tea leaves, mind you. I have nothing confirmed until next week, which will presumably bring the next press release on the subject. I do what I can, folks.
Somnus Throne‘s 2020 self-titled debut (review here) was issued through Burning World Records, which puts the band two-for-two on working with European imprints. I can’t help but wonder if that doesn’t signal some greater intention or focus on where they’ll look to support the new record live — obviously that’s something that hasn’t really been possible until now — but again, I know nothing.
Speaking of things I don’t know: Evan‘s last name. Whenever one person in a band chooses to stay first-name-only, my immediate thought is that they must have a really good job they don’t want to know about their secret life playing heavy music. No clue if that’s the case here, but it happens. Some of those bands in hoods are out there in middle management.
In any case, good for Somnus Throne. First album was killer, will look forward to more.
Alas. For now, we feast on the scraps the PR wire gives us:
HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS signed the heavy psych doom band SOMNUS THRONE for the new album // presale + first track premiere April 6th !!!
We are so stoked to announce that the heavy psych doom riffers SOMNUS THRONE has signed a worldwide deal with Heavy Psych Sounds for their new album !!!
PRESALE + first track premiere: APRIL 6th
SAYS THE BAND:
“Heavy Psych Sounds was our first choice. They’re doing so much all over right now, it’s huge. We mostly sent it to them as a joke but I guess the riff gods were looking down on us or something because they got back to us quick and we’re stoked to hear that! The doom must flow.”
BIOGRAPHY
Somnus Throne is a three-piece formed way back in 2016 in a cacophony of underground heavy music shows, leaking warehouse ceilings, and perpetual sedation of one kind or another. While their members have haunted many a ‘5 dollar-at-the-door, Monday through Friday no rent crash-pad, repurposed crack-house turned venues’ from New Orleans to Portland, they are based in Los Angeles, California. They mostly flew under the radar until the release of their first album “Self Titled” on Burning World Records (of Roadburn Festival fame) in 2020.
Their current roster boasts one Matt Davis on drums, Ansel Bretz on bass, and Evan on guitar/vox. Various music critics who each can’t seem to understand their origins at least agree that Somnus Throne is a 3-piece band that plays doom, heavy psych, stoner and grunge akin to Dead Meadow, Acid King, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Black Rainbows, OM, Dopelord and Vokonis with a healthy dose of Black Sabbath (as always).
SOMNUS THRONE is
Evan – vocals/guitars
Ansel Bretz – bass
Matt Davis – drums
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