Severed Satellites Post New Single “Apollo”; Debut EP in Progress
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 7th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
Keytar-inclusive Baltimorean heavy instrumentalists Severed Satellites are making their way toward a debut EP hopefully later this year, recording with Noel Mueller of Grimoire Records, as one will in that region. The band, which boasts the current rhythm section of Ripple Music shovemasters Foghound in bassist Adam Heinzmann and drummer Chuck Dukehart alongside guitarist Matt Naas and Dave Drell on the aforementioned synth, have been eeking out rehearsal videos over the better part of the last however long, a year, maybe, and offer up the single “Apollo” as their first actual studio recording.
In addition to Foghound, Dukehart and Heinzmann have a pedigree between them that goes back to the former’s work in Sixty Watt Shaman and Serpents of Secrecy — apparently also an affinity for starting bands with the letter ‘s’ — and the latter is a founding member of Internal Void and was in Pentagram for a stretch in the early ’00s. Together with the melodic substance of Drell‘s keys and Naas‘ guitar, the four-piece create a carved-from-jams sensibility in “Apollo,” holding off the impulse to go longform exploring in favor of a tighter adherence to plot. The impression you get is that if you showed up to rehearsal, they might just plug in and go for a couple hours wherever the music took them, but that by the time they got into the studio with Mueller, they’d hammered out specifically what they wanted the song to be.
Looking forward to the EP when it’s ready, and in the meantime, “Apollo” also features on Weedian’s Trip to Maryland compilation (on Bandcamp here), issued in homage to Dave Sherman of Earthride, whose suicide last year devastated the MD doom community and many others around the world.
Info and stream:
The new single “Apollo” now available on Bandcamp!
Catch us live at The Depot Baltimore Mon Feb. 20 w/ Bone Church & Indus Valley Kings!
New logo design by the indomitable Mr. Bill Kole.
“Apollo” released January 29, 2023. Recorded/ Mixed at Tiny Castle by Noel Mueller. Additional guitars recorded at Developing Nations by Kevin Bernsten.
Severed Satellites are:
Chuck Dukehart III – Drums
Adam Heinzmann – Bass
Matt Naas – Guitar
Dave Drell – Keys
https://www.facebook.com/Severed-Satellites-140672783460825/
https://severedsatellites.bandcamp.com/
