Desert Storm Premiere “Shamanic Echoes”; New Album Buried Under the Weight of Reason Coming Soon

Posted in audiObelisk, Whathaveyou on December 10th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

Desert Storm (Photo by Tim Finch Photography)

So duh, good news that there’s a new Desert Storm LP on the way to follow-up 2023’s Death Rattle (review here), which was the Oxford, UK, riff-rocking four-piece’s third offering through respected-purveyor APF Records and seventh album overall in a tenure well pushing toward its 20-year mark (in ’28). The new one is called Buried Under the Weight of Reason, and even unto the fact that its title is more than one or two words long as all previous Desert Storm releases have been, it speaks to a shift in methodology toward which the new song “Shamanic Echoes” seems likewise to manifest.

No, I’m not just talking about the pretty guitar divergence or the driving crescendo they launch from it, that push of kick drum like the sound your heart should be making if you want to feel alive at just that particular moment, before a lumbering, Mastodonic-prog nod reveals something still burly but quirkier and smoother in melody. But definitely that too. I don’t feel like I’m bragging desert storm buried under the weight of reasonwhen I say I’ve covered this band going on 15 years and have heard a fair amount of their work in that time. “Shamanic Echoes” feels like they’re stepping up. You know I love a seven-minute single (really anything over six warms my remembers-radio heart), and for sure their being dug in is an immediate draw, but it’s the shape of the plan at work and the scope from the quiet introduction to the roll that follows through the multifaceted structure that plays out that distinguishes “Shamanic Echoes.” In the beginning of the song, one is as likely to hear Meshuggah as anything else under the growls of the initial verse.

Don’t be intimidated (ever, by anything). That crush, crunch, and gutturalism is central to Desert Storm‘s sound, but already by the time the onslaught starts, the band have subtly clued the audience to the fact that there’s more happening by means of the introduction. What does all of it portend? Well, if Buried Under the Weight of Reason maintained a core approach keyed to aggression and being very, very, very heavy while at the same time being willing to branch beyond the surely-tempting monolithic largesse they foster, that would make it pretty consistent with their trajectory on the whole. They’ve never been a band to stop growing, or stop working on the thing and pushing themselves forward. Their ascent to Heavy Psych Sounds feels like a well-earned next step, and I’ll remain curious for what the rest of Buried Under the Weight of Reason has in store based on “Shamanic Echoes,” which you can hear on the player below, followed by some comment from the band.

Please enjoy:

Desert Storm, “Shamanic Echoes” premiere

Desert Storm on “Shamanic Echoes”:

“Ceremonial in spirit and tribal in sound “Shamanic Echoes” pulses with bass-heavy foundations and thunderous toms its downtuned guitars bending into hypnotic sludgy cadences. The middle passage drops into jazzy syncopated territory before swelling into an earth-shattering crescendo—cause and effect climax and release. Lyrically the track is steeped in ritual plant medicine and ancestral vision-quests: peyote mescalito and sacred smoke opening the gateway to higher states of being. It is both a hallucinatory trip and a sonic initiation.”

SHAMANIC ECHOES is DESERT STORM first single taken from the band’s upcoming new album Buried Under The Weight Of Reason. The release will see the light March 6th via Heavy Psych Sounds.

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With their latest body of work, Desert Storm carve out a sound that is as primal as it is progressive—melding sludge, doom, and heavy metal weight with moments of softness, space, and surprising vulnerability.

Across these tracks, the band summon the wilderness, ceremony, and chaos of the human condition, pushing their sound into new territories while staying true to their instinct for heaviness.

Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Newfound Respect
2. Shamanic Echoes
3. Woodsman
4. Cut Your Teeth
5. Rot To Ruin
Side B:
6. Carry The Weight
7. Dripback
8. Law Unto Myself
9. Twelve Seasons

All music by Desert Storm ( Ryan Cole, Christopher White, Elliot Cole, Matthew Ryan, Andrew Keyzor)
All Lyrics by Matthew Ryan
Photos by Tim Finch Photography
Additional Guitars by Chris White
‘Buried Under The Weight Of Reason’ was tracked & recorded at Woodworm Studios by Steve ‘Geezer’ Watkins & Stu Jones from January – July 2025.
Mixed & Mastered by Joe Clayton at Nø Studios, July & Aug 2025.
All music written by Desert Storm, Lyrics by Matthew Ryan.
© 2025 Heavy Psych Sounds.
Cover Artwork by Kacper Gilka.

DESERT STORM is:
Matthew Ryan – Vocals
Ryan Cole – Guitars
Elliot Cole – Drums
Andrew Keyzor – Bass
Chris White – Guitars (Studio only)

www.desertstormband.com
www.desertstorm.bigcartel.com
www.desertstorm.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/desertstormuk
www.instagram.com/desertstormuk
www.facebook.com/desertstormuk

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Desert Storm, Death Rattle (2023)

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The Heads Announce 2LP New Album Your Pretty Place is Going to Hell Volume One Out March 20

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 9th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

I should’ve known better than to take The Heads‘ word for it when they said they were done. The Bristol psychmasters, — at 30 years’ remove from their landmark debut, as noted by the PR wire below — sort of called in quits in 2022 but haven’t ever really been gone. A 5LP jams collection came out earlier this year through Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube records, and though it was archival, it still did the work of letting listeners know there was still life in there somewhere. A forthcoming 2LP, stylized-titled yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell, underscores the point, however ‘in hell’ your particular pretty place may already be and likely is.

One imagines the nebulous discontent that prompts guitarist/vocalist Simon Price to opine, “in 5000 years, a flicker of a candle in space’s eternity, we have managed to go from caves to the moon and yet seemingly get nowhere,” in his liner notes/album ruminations below shows up in the music as well across The Heads‘ fifth long-player, and after hearing the two noisy/gazey/drippy singles — 2LP, two singles — they’ve put out thus far, you bet your ass I’m looking forward to relaxing with the rest when the time comes.

From the PR wire:

The Heads Your Pretty Place is Going to Hell Volume One

Announcing The Heads brand new double album!!

Released almost 30 years on from their seminal debut “Relaxing With”, this will be their fifth proper studio album!

At last, a brand new album from the legendary Heads.

‘yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell’ is their first new material for 20 years.

It will be released almost 30 years on from their seminal debut “Relaxing With”, this will be their fifth studio album proper.

The band are a well established though reclusive part of the UKs underground /cult psychedelic rock scene. A constant four piece, they also perform/record in their own projects; Paul Allen/Anthroprophh, Simon Price/Kandodo and Wayne Maskell and Hugo Morgan are both now in Loop.

THE HEADS
YOURPRETTYPLACEISGOINGTOHELL
ROOSTER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: 20TH MARCH 2026 (2LP)

Tracklist:
Side A:
1. Hits Like a Dove
2. Cardinal Fuzz
3. Can’t Stop the Rushing

Side B:
4. It’s about time…and Space

Side C:
5. On
6. Snake Oil
7. Sunquaker
8. Socially Awkward

Side D:
9. Entropic Dissolution
10. Bullets Fly But No Bees
11. It’s All Over Now Sunshine
12. Off

The album was recorded over three days whilst the Heads were rehearsing for a couple of live dates with their friends, and peers, Mudhoney. The guitars, drums and bass were laid down live in Bristol, over-dubs added and then mixed/produced by John McBain in Portland.

Initially planned as two single albums, (Volumes 1+2) it soon made sense that they should be put together as a double LP.

Named in a nod to the Stooges’ Raw Power classic ‘Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell’, it describes the trajectory we’re all on.

The Heads are renowned for their brutalist take on psychedelic rock, this new album shows how much they have absorbed from their years of existence, their peers and the world around them. Not much change though, they haven’t mellowed out.

The pummel is there, the spaced out sike zones are there, there’s wigged out guitar solos that will peel the paint off the walls, there’s even pop songs if you look/listen hard enough. John McBain has done a grand job in fine tuning the noise and sonic assault.

It’s hard to draw a direct “for fans of “ list, because ultimately this album is for fans of the Heads.

However, you can trace the DNA of this album back to the Stooges, Hawkwind, 13th Floor Elevators, Can, Mudhoney, Monster Magnet, Loop, Spacemen 3, MC5 etc. all squeezed through the Head’s heavy sonic blender.

A band that only ever existed on the fringes, “if you’re not on the edge, you’re taking up too much space”.

Life and jobs got in the way a bit but hey, at least that kept it pure.

‘One chord, three pedals, six years’ was an old mantra of theirs. They’ve pushed that to ‘three chords, double album, 20 years’.

Don’t expect another.

Pre-apocalypse blues of rhythmic fuzz and acid rock.

This album will be the soundtrack to navigate 2026.

Notes from Simon Price about the album……

The lyrics reflect a despair at what we, the human race, has done, is doing and will do. Not only to ourselves and to each other but also to the delicate balance of our ecosystems, Gaia, Mother Earth. The creatures and critters really don’t deserve us.

But it seems it’s so much easier to kill than to create. We’re crap custodians, quick to destroy habitats and homes rather than to nurture our inter-connected futures.

Playing loud guitars, creating beautiful noise, gives us release, escape from the mundanities of life. Screaming into the void. Know that doesn’t really help much but it’s better than nothing.

your pretty place is going to hell, Raw Power from a lost age of comparative innocence.

‘what’ve we done? Made it for nothing? The race was won but can’t stop the rushing?’ The money machine chews it all up,spitting out diminishing returns, ever increasing pain and poisoning our planetary home.

‘So many lives in concrete hives’ This is progress? We’ve lost our connections to the ‘Vast One’, forgotten that we are a part of the greatest whole. ‘Chopping it down, delicate balance.’

if only plastic would rust

Music allows us to vent some frustrations of powerlessness, confusion, anger, of living in a world run by egotistical greedy old men. ‘Cos it’s always been this way’ Does it have to be this way? is this it? really?

we, humanity, are the plague that will choke our planet, the only animal that kills for fun. ‘The only hope is in the trees, bullets fly but no bees’

in 5000 years, a flicker of a candle in space’s eternity, we have managed to go from caves to the moon and yet seemingly get nowhere.

Everybody knows we got nowhere.

Animals adapt or die, only we haven’t/can’t adapt to our environment, still gathering in excess and hunting wealth to the detriment of all else.

‘The earth/the planet, the future is gold/sold’

yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell

Wars rage endlessly, driven by vain ancients, warped realities, climate collapse, greed and desperation.

The innocents are at best ignored, at worst destroyed.

It’s not all doom, gloom and pessimistic rantings; shyness, love and loss are also covered.

We know everything and yet have seemingly learnt nothing. snafu

‘the less you know, the more that you say’ there’s a ‘post truth’ media slop overload,

AI can only speed the descent, junked up food for primitive brains.

wanna just shut out the noise,

so we plug in, bang the drums, hit the fuzz

Apparently we want to go to Mars and beyond but cannot see what we’ve already got, heaven in a wild flower.

Not to worry, we’re fucked, but, hey, we’ve got enough distractions, such as making this album, so we can ignore that iceberg dead ahead.

yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell

Released on the Vernal Equinox (March 20th)

https://theheads1.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Heads-282801075465/

The Heads, yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell (2026)

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Keep it Low #12: First Lineup Announcement for Oct. 2026

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 9th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

You’ll pardon me if I spare myself looking back to see I’ve probably said the same thing every year for the last decade or so, but Keep it Low is always a very particular kind of daydream. First of all, it’s the kind that usually includes Colour Haze, and that’s an autowin as the Munich-based heavy psych progenitors have a tendency to do the hometown party. But second, among all the busy times happening around Europe each and every October, Keep it Low has always stood out to me in having vibe as part of the mission from the go. Like it’s not just about you and the bands in the room, but how that space is being shared.

I’ve never been, which is kind of a bummer, and I’m not expecting to go anytime soon, but it’s a pleasure to see who’s going to be there and wonder at the implications for who might be on the road next Fall between the likes of 1000mods and Spirit Mother, etc. I’m pretty sure this is the first October-weekend fest announcement I’ve seen — you have to admit, it’s early — but the low-key-killer first announcement below is part and parcel to why I’ve lost so many minutes over the years wondering what it would be like to actually be at this thing.

From social media:

KEEP IT LOW #12 – ⚡️FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT IS HERE⚡️

Keep It Low Festival returns to Munich in 2026 — heavier, louder and fuzzier than ever.

📍 Backstage München
🗓️ 09 – 10 October 2026

We’re kicking things off with a massive first wave of bands:

1000MODS
THE DEVIL AND THE ALMIGHTY BLUES
DEATHCHANT
SPIRIT MOTHER
FOMIES
SUCK
SKYJOGGERS
KOMBYNAT ROBOTRON
LEBER
& MANY MORE TO COME!

Two full days of heavy rock, doom, sludge & psych. Two stages, an outdoor beergarden, and all the vibes you need to get lost in the low end.

Stay tuned — this is just the beginning! 🔥

https://www.keepitlow.de/
http://www.sol-tickets.com
https://www.soundofliberation.com/
https://www.facebook.com/keepitlowfestival/

1000mods, Cheat Death (2024)

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Duel Announce First-Ever Japan Tour

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 8th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

If you want to be technical about it — and who doesn’t? — I suppose Austin, Texas, bull-in-the-china-shop-of-riffs heavy rockers Duel will go on their first Japanese tour still supporting 2024’s Breakfast With Death (review here) on Heavy Psych Sounds, but really, as a band from the States, I think you tour Japan whenever you get the chance not just to promote a record, but because it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. To wit, they haven’t even done it yet and when I look at the list of shows to come — including two nights at Tokyo Doom Fest — my first thought is ‘congratulations.’

Of course, this isn’t coming out of nowhere. First of all, if you’ve never seen them, the band are incendiary live, and second, they do it all the time. That is Duel announcing a tour isn’t a surprise, it’s just a question of where they’re headed. They’ve heralded Breakfast With Death across multiple continents already, and that continues a years-long momentum they’ve maintained the hard way: by getting out and doing the work on stage. Will they have a new record by May? It’s not impossible, but this tour is its own excuse for being, and they’ll probably have more live activity before it as well, as they always do something for SXSW in their hometown each March, up to and including the Heavy Metal Parking Lot/Stoner Jam, in which they’re directly involved.

The dates were posted on socials:

DUEL JAPAN TOUR sq

🔥 BIG NEWS BUCKAROOS 🔥 dates for our tour of Japan in May/June are up!! Our good friends from Italy @tonsofweed666 and JPN doom rockers @hebikatana will be with us @heavypsychsounds_records

5/27 Osaka – Sengoku Daitoryo
5/28 Gifu – King Biscuit
5/29 Nagoya – Huck Finn
5/30 and 5/31 Tokyo Doom Fest – Ryogoku sunrize (2 nights 2 sets)
6/1 Yokohama – El puente
6/2 Koenji Kiraku
6/3 Hatsudai – Wall
6/4 Nakano – Moonstep

DUEL is
Tom Frank – lead vocals & guitar
Jeff Henson – lead guitar & backing vocals
Patrick “Scooch” Pascucci – Drums
Drew Potter – bass & backing vocals

https://duel3.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dueltexas/
https://www.facebook.com/DUELTEXAS/

www.heavypsychsounds.com
heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/heavypsychsounds_records/
https://www.facebook.com/HEAVYPSYCHSOUNDS/

Duel, Breakfast With Death (2024)

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Solace Announce European Tour Dates

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 8th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

solace

This Fall, Solace have been in the studio making their awaited fifth full-length. Earlier in the year, the band reissued their 2000 debut, Further (discussed here), for its 25th anniversary, toured the West Coast around a tear-your-face-off set at Planet Desert Rock Weekend V (review here) in Las Vegas, and were struck by the loss of founding vocalist Jason Limpatsis around the same time. It’s been a busy year for the long-running New Jersey-based stoner metallers, in other words.

In addition to that next record, to which I’m very much looking forward, coming out as their first release on Magnetic Eye, there’s this quick run of European shows alongside Hermano, with John Garcia, “Nice-Guy Dave” AngstromDandy Brown, and so on. It’s not listed below, but they mention as well the prior confirmation for Desertfest London 2026 on or about May 15, and I can’t help but wonder if a Desertfest Berlin slot isn’t still to be revealed. We’ll see, I guess.

Of course, I’m wondering if the album will be out by then. Record in April, tour in May? Tour in May, record in June? Tour in May, record in my inbox early December? I do definitely feel a strong preference for the latter scenario, but whenever it comes, it’ll be welcome, and I’d rather have Solace take their time.

From social media:

hermano w solace tour poster

SOLACE EURO-TOUR 2026!!!

We’re super stoked to announce that we’re FINALLY coming back to mainland Europe in 2026! And we’re kicking it all of in righteous fashion by supporting the mighty HERMANO! More dates to be announced in the coming weeks. And don’t forget we’ll be bringing the Dirt Metal to Desertfest London and can’t wait to see all our UK family 🤘🤘💥💪☠️🎸🎵

Thanks to Thomas at Broken Music for putting in the work to put this together.

7-5 Paris, France LA MAROQUINERIE
TICKETS: https://tix.to/Hermano-Paris-2026

8-5 Utrecht, Netherlands TIVOLI VREDENBURG
TICKETS: https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/23766193/hermano-08-05-20

9-5 Cologne, Germany LUXOR
TICKETS: https://www.myticket.de/de/hermano-tickets

11-5 Vienna, Austria ARENA
TICKETS: https://tickets.arena.wien/at/Events/69442

12-5 Munich, Germany BACKSTAGE HALLE
TICKETS: https://www.myticket.de/de/hermano-tickets

Solace are:
Justin Daniels – guitar
Justin Goins – keyboard, vocals
Tim Schoenleber – drums
Mike Sica – bass
Tommy Southard – guitar

https://solace-merch.printify.me/products
https://diedrunk.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SolaceBand/

http://store.merhq.com
http://magneticeyerecords.com/
https://www.instagram.com/magneticeyerecords/
https://www.facebook.com/MagneticEyeRecords

Solace, Further (2025 Remaster) (2000)

Solace, The Brink (2019)

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Strider Post New Single “Heavy Like a Stone”

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 8th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

strider

I don’t know that it’d ever happen, but I’d like to see this band. Strider come from Ankara, Turkey, and about three years ago, they dropped a whopper of a debut album in early 2023’s Midnight Zen (review here), which brought an immediate sense of perspective to a foundation in heavy and driving desert rock, rhythmically forceful but still inviting the listener along for a hovercraft trip across the dry landscape. The record got some hype in that way of things on Bandcamp, and the five-piece followed with a Nirvana cover (posted here) later in the year as they continued to move forward.

The new song “Heavy Like a Stone” doesn’t sound like it wants to interrupt the thread. It’s not a radical departure and one didn’t expect it to be, but the live-recorded three-and-a-half-minute cut stands ready to define “banger” for anyone asking, and it makes me excited to think there’s a new album on the way. When? I don’t know. Does it exist? I don’t know. But there’s a new song and, duh, if there was a record coming there would be. If you caught wind of Midnight Zen at the time — or are open to it now; never too late; it and “Heavy Like a Stone” are both at the bottom of the post if you want to skip down — you’ll find the post-Kyuss push and fuzz-crunch tonality familiar, and as with the first record, Strider seem once again to be absolutely nailing it.

There wasn’t a grand release announcement for the second LP or anything like that, but the recording info is below, and while I’m talking about Midnight Zen, that album is also newly issued on tape right now through Three Moons Records, though I’m not sure if the same label will handle the next outing or not.

From social media:

strider heavy like a stone

Our new song, Heavy Like a Stone is out everywhere. Like running a steep uphill. Let’s celebrate this tomorrow at @kultkavaklidere.

Recorded live at ÇSM Studios/Ankara.

Thank you,
Bora Özkum – Recording and Mixing
Carl Saff – Mastering
Yağız Eyiişleyen – Artwork
Photo: @murkycharade

https://strider.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/strider_ankara/
https://www.facebook.com/striderankara/

Strider, “Heavy Like a Stone”

Strider, Midnight Zen (2023)

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Castle Release Double Vision Covers EP; New Album to Be Recorded

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 5th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

castle

A follow-up for 2024’s Evil Remains (review here) is an enticing prospect from nomadic heavy metallers Castle, but we’re not there yet. In the meantime, the band have put out the covers EP Double Vision, which finds them taking on songs from KISS, Danzig, Judas Priest, Foreigner for the title-track, and others. It’s a suitably ‘done their homework’ selection that’s apparently been in the works for some time, and they have a video up now for “Double Vision” that, well, it’s Castle kicking ass in the studio run through some effects, so you get the idea. This should tide them over until they hit the studio for their next album-proper, and “Double Vision” sounds rad. Can’t ask for anything more than that.

From the PR wire:

castle double vision

CASTLE Release The All-Covers E.P. ‘Double Vision’; Confirm Recording Dates For New Studio Album.

Doom-tinged heavy metallers CASTLE have released a new covers album featuring the songs of Judas Priest, Danzig, Kiss, Oxymoron, Cheap Trick, Foreigner, Leslie West and Alice Cooper. The vinyl only release comes courtesy of the band’s own label, Black Wren Records and is available for preorder now.

PREORDER VINYL: https://castlesf.bandcamp.com

CASTLE have also announced they’ll be entering the studio early in 2026 to record the follow up to their most recent album ‘Evil Remains’. The as-yet untitled album is slated for worldwide release on Hammerheart Records later in the new year. The band states;

“We’ve had a list of 20 or so songs dating back to the beginning of band in 2009 that we always talked about reworking in some way… well here’s 8 of them! Hopefully we brought something new or brought something out in the songs that sounds new to your ears. We had a blast working these up as we get ready to record the new Castle record in a couple months. In the meantime enjoy our take on these 8 awesome tracks.”

Double Vision E.P. Track List:

Side one
Love Bites (Judas Priest)
Black Cats (Oxymoron)
Double Vision (Foreigner)
Heaven Tonight (Cheap Trick)

Side two
Am I Demon (Danzig)
I Stole Your Love ( Kiss)
Blood Of The Sun ( Leslie West)
Second Coming (Alice Cooper)

CASTLE is:
Liz Blackwell – bass, vocals
Mat Davis – guitar, vocals
Mike Cotton – drums

heavycastle.com
facebook.com/CastleSF
https://www.instagram.com/heavycastle
https://heavycastle.bandcamp.com/

https://blackwrenrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/hammerheartrecords/
https://www.instagram.com/hammerheartrecords666/
https://www.hammerheart.com/

Castle, “Double Vision” official video

Castle, Evil Remains (2024)

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Isaak Announce First-Ever US Tour Dates

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 5th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

isaak (photo by frenkellkellfren)

Like Spain’s Saturna, and Austin, Texas’ The Well, Italian heavy rock and rollers Isaak are booked to play Planet Desert Rock Weekend VI at the end of next month in Las Vegas. Rad lineup, if you haven’t seen it. And like those other bands I just mentioned, the Genova foursome will indeed scrub up and make a tour of it. There are nine shows booked, including one TBA in Sierra Vista, Arizona, which I’d be very surprised if the dudes in Fuzz Evil don’t have a hand in putting together since that’s their stomping grounds and they’ve coordinated with PDRW before (not to mention Joey does the posters), but either way, the run hits some well known spots like Transplants and Yucca Tap Room and it will mark the first time Isaak have come to the States.

Opening new territory is an important milestone for any band going anywhere, but my understanding is there yet remains some romance for European bands touring the US. Certainly it works the other way around, too. I’ve got my flight booked for Planet Desert Rock Weekend, so I’ll look forward to seeing them there, and below you’ll find where else they’ll be, courtesy of the PR wire:

isaak us tour banner

ISAAK USA TOUR 2026

We owe a huge thanks to Vegas Rock Revolution for strongly pushing to get us onto the incredible Planet Desert Rock Festival bill. Thanks to the hard work of Glory or Death, we are now able to follow that show with a full run of dates across the West Coast.

We are ready to bring our signature “Riffalicious Fastforward Stoner Rock” to your shores.

As part of the Heavy Psych Sounds Records roster, we are looking forward to connecting with the American heavy scene that we’ve admired for so long.

Here there’s all the details regarding our tour, running from January 29th to February 7th, 2026 :

Jan 29 Las Vegas – NV – Planet Desert Rock Festival
Jan 30 Temecula – CA – The Cove
Jan 31 Oakland – CA – Eli’s Mile High Club
Feb 2 Palmdale – CA – Transplants
Feb 3 Yuma – AZ – The Maverick
Feb 4 Sierra Vista – AZ – TBA
Feb 5 Phoenix – AZ – Yucca Tap Room
Feb 6 San Diego – CA – Kensington Club
Feb 7 Oceanside – CA – Pour House Oceanside

ISAAK is
Giacomo Boeddu – vocals
Francesco Raimondi – guitars
Gabriele Carta – bass
Davide Foccis – drums

http://isaakmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/isaakmusic/
https://www.facebook.com/isaakband

www.heavypsychsounds.com
heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/heavypsychsounds_records/
https://www.facebook.com/HEAVYPSYCHSOUNDS/

Isaak, “Odyssey” (Kyuss cover)

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