Slomosa Premiere “Cabin Fever” Video; Tours Upcoming with King Buffalo and Elder
Ahead of making their Stickman Records label debut sometime early next year, Slomosa will spend a decent portion of the remainder of 2023 on the road, with a swath of festival dates this and next month and more of those and club shows besides as they swap out touring with King Buffalo at the Lazy Bones Festival in Hamburg for touring with Elder the next at the end of October. This continues a streak of road work for the Bergen, Norway, upstart heavy rockers, who’ve been reaping praise all the while since issuing their self-titled debut (review here) in 2020.
They toured with Stöner last year and have been making the rounds at events like Kristonfest, Sonic Whip, Høstsabbat, Desertfest, and so on since 2021 when such things became possible, proselytizing their not-fancy-on-its-face-but-deeply-memorable brand of heavy rock, dug into the roots of post-Kyuss stonerism but cast with the inimitable vitality of a fresh generational interpretation. If we’re lucky, they’ll be the shape of riffs to come. At least from Northern Europe, if not the continent more broadly.
The song is a big-hook riff and rocks its way back to the roots of modern heavy fuzz in the early ’00s. Catchy, melodic, excellently composed, organically produced; it is a herald to the converted who either did or didn’t hear the first record of the growth that (hopefully) typifies the second to come. To coincide, the video has a computer-animated claymation-esque storyline about two characters stuck together who may or may not actually be the same person, and it feels like something one might’ve stumbled onto in the weirdest moment of an episode of Headbanger’s Ball circa 1994. That’s nothing to complain about, of course, and it suits the track well, is wild enough to hold attention, and speaks to the aesthetic of the band more generally, as well as the aforementioned progression in their sound.
“Cabin Fever” is the first single from the upcoming LP — yet untitled, at least so far as I know — and may or may not be the only new music Slomosa unveil before their Fall touring and the end of the year afterward, but they certainly justify anticipation in this track, and I suspect the closer we get to the release, the more than anticipation will grow. It’s fun to be excited about a new band, young, hungry, willing to tour like mad and loaded with forward potential as Slomosa are. They set a high standard for themselves with the self-titled, and “Cabin Fever” lives up to it in terms of craft and execution.
We’ll leave it there for now. Video, which is by Andreas E. Lund, and copious tour dates follow, as per the PR wire.
Please enjoy:
Slomosa, “Cabin Fever” video premiere
Since their sudden appearance on the scene with the self-titled debut album in 2020, Norwegian up-and-coming desert rockers SLOMOSA have hit the ground running with relentless tours alongside bands such as Orange Goblin, Sasquatch and Stöner. Now, following their recent signing with Stickman Records, the four-piece has shared a brand new song taken off their upcoming, second full-length, which they recently recorded at Polyfon Studio in their hometown of Bergen!
As SLOMOSA singer and guitarist Benjamin Berdous recently said:
“The feel good vibes of our first album were apparent in the music, even though the lyrical themes were more serious and angry, but also in some sense comforting for me personally. Since then more of life has happened and things have gotten more serious, and as always this reflects on the music. It’s still important to me that we continue to offer something fresh in an at times homogeneous genre. Catchy vocal hooks and heavy guitar riffs is our recipe, and we don’t plan to mix up our diets!”
To shorten your wait for the band’s new album, slated for an early 2024-release with many more details to be revealed in the months ahead, make sure to catch SLOMOSA live at the following dates:
22.07.2023 – Vang i Valdres (NO), Vinjerock
28.07.2023 – Michela (DE) , Rock Im Wald
29.07.2023 – Aschaffenburg (DE), Colos-Saal w/ Sasquatch
30.07.2023 – Breitenbach (DE), Herzberg Festival
01.08.2023 – Dresden (DE), Chemiefabrik
02.08.2023 – Hannover (DE), Faust
04.08.2023 – Beelen (DE), Krach Am Bach
05.08.2023 – Cernoy (FR), Celebration Days Festival
11.08.2023 – Kortrijk (BE), Alcatraz Festival
25.08.2023 – Voss (NO), Hedleberget
with KING BUFFALO:
05.10.2023 – Berlin (DE), Lido
06.10.2023 – München (DE), Keep It Low
08.10.2023 – Dudingen (CH), Bad Bonn
10.10.2023 – Barcelona (ES), Razzmatazz3
11.10.2023 – Madrid (ES), Nazca
12.10.2023 – Lisbon (PT), RCA Club
13.10.2023 – Porto (PT), Hard Club
14.10.2023 – Hondarribia (ES), Psilocybenea
15.10.2023 – Toulouse (FR), Connexion Live
22.10.2023 – Deventer (NL), Burgerweeshuis
24.10.2023 – Köln (DE), Club Volta
25.10.2023 – Amsterdam (NL), Melkweg
26.10.2023 – Eindhoven (NL), Effenaar
27.10.2023 – Frankfurt (DE), Zoom
28.10.2023 – Hamburg (DE), Lazy Bones Festival (w/ Elder, King Buffalo & many more!)
with ELDER:
29.10.2023 – Copenhagen (DK), Pumpehuset
31.10.2023 – Amersfoort (NL), Fluor
01.11.2023 – Oberhausen (DE), Kulttempel
02.11.2023 – Nijmegen (NL), Doornroosje
03.11.2023 – Leuven (BE), Het Depot
04.11.2023 – Paris (FR), La Maroquinerie
05.11.2023 – Lille (FR), Black Lab
07.11.2023 – Bristol (UK), The Fleece
08.11.2023 – Brighton (UK), Patterns
09.11.2023 – London (UK), Electric Ballroom
10.11.2023 – Glasgow (UK), Slay
11.11.2023 – Leeds (UK), Brudenell Social Club
12.11.2023 – Manchester (UK), Gorilla
SLOMOSA are:
Benjamin Berdous – Vocals/guitar
Marie Moe – Vocals/bass
Tor Erik Bye – Guitar
Jard Hole – Drums
I don’t remember exactly when i first heard Slomosa last year but a couple things pulled me in – their sound, the camel (my favorite) and most importantly the band name. my last name is Somoza. So the homonym-ish appeal as well as the potential dig at not being fast is great. haha very excited for this next album! especially after hearing this song!
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