Eagle Twin & The Otolith Unite for Legends of the Desert Vol. 4 Split Out Sept. 20
Desert Records comes back strong with the next installment of its ongoing Legends of the Desert split series, going high-desert with the mountainous sounds of The Otolith and Eagle Twin, both based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The pairing, well, rules. Eagle Twin‘s last album, The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn) (review here), came out in 2018, while The Otolith‘s debut, Folium Limina (review here), showed up in 2022, through Southern Lord and Blues Funeral, respectively. But neither is an album-a-year-type outfit, so the fact that they’ve joined forces for Legends of the Desert Vol. 4 is pretty special even before you get to the music. Not the kind of thing that would happen every day, is what I’m saying.
Preorders will run through Kickstarter starting on Friday (July 26), and while there’s no audio yet, the release date of Sept. 20 has been set. Glad to have an excuse to revisit records from both Eagle Twin and The Otolith today (see the bottom of the post) in the meantime, and looking forward to what’s coming.
The text and images are courtesy of Desert Records:
LEGENDS of the DESERT: Volume 4 Featuring EAGLE TWIN and THE OTOLITH
We couldn’t be more honored and excited to announce that our flagship split series is back 🌵This time with two of Utah’s heavyweights!
🏜️On Friday, July 26th the Kickstarter campaign begins.
PRE-SAVE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/desertrecords/legends-of-the-desert-vol-4
Eagle Twin is an American metal band formed in Salt Lake City, Utah by singer/guitarist Gentry Densley and drummer Tyler Smith. Eagle Twin’s music could be broadly classified as doom metal or sludge metal, but also touches on progressive rock, blues rock, jazz fusion and psychedelic rock, featuring lengthy instrumental passages and Densley’s gruff, half-chanted vocals, which occasionally veer into overtone singing.
When celebrated Salt Lake City band SubRosa announced its breakup in 2019, the heavy music community felt the loss of their uniquely elegant and intensely heavy atmospheric doom devotionals. Rather than wonder what velvet darkness might still await, however, four of SubRosa’s members swiftly emerged as a new entity called The Otolith. Following the same muse of cataclysmic melancholy, The Otolith is here to encircle you in the fire of their passion for heavy music.
Album Art and Layout by Joshua Mathus @joshuamathusart
Eagle Twin photo by Russel Albert Daniels
The Otolith photo by the band
Eagle Twin – Side A
“Horn Vs. Halo” (11:39)
“Qasida of the Dark Dove” (8:28)
The Otolith – Side B
“Crossway” (8:53)
“Phosphene Dream” (10:49)
LIMITED EDITION VINYL LPs
100 Copper Nugget
100 Side A / Side B Orange and Baby Blue
100 Jade Green
20 Test Pressings
30 12×12 Screen Prints
50 Limited Edition CD’s
10 ZLATOROG: The Golden Horn Fuzz “Gentry Densley Signature” from Black Harbor Sounds. Built by Fowl Sounds.
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Andy Patterson at The Boar’s Nest Studio, Salt Lake City, UT
EAGLE TWIN:
Gentry Densley – guitar/vocals
Tyler Smith – drums
THE OTOLITH:
Kim Cordray – Violin, Vocals
Levi Hanna – Guitar, Vocals
Andy Patterson – Drums, Percussion
Matt Brotherton – Bass Guitar, Vocals
Sarah Pendleton – Violin, Lead Vocals
https://eagletwin.com
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https://theotolith.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/desertrecordslabel/
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https://desertrecords.bandcamp.com/
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Ooh!
A collaborative thing would be fun, although it’s hard to think immediately how that would be work in practice. Putting these lot together on a disc is a real treat either way.