Roman trio Fvzz Popvli will head out this November on a round of touring in celebration of their 10th anniversary as a band, and they’ve also got room on a weekender in September, prefacing that celebration and following their appearance at the Roma Stone Fest Sept. 8 where they’ll take part alongside Fu Manchu, Stoned Jesus, L’Ira del Baccano and others. The band’s most recent album, Melting Pop (review here), was released in early 2025 and was their fourth full-length, so for marking a decade they’ve been pretty productive during their time, all while maintaining a punkish laissez-faire attitude.

They spent much of last year on the road and did at least three legs of touring to support the album, and though to my knowledge 2026 has been less busy, clearly they’re still heralding the newest offering as they take the time this Fall to look back on how far they’ve come. Nothing like celebrating work by doing more work.

Heavy Psych Sounds sent the dates (including open slots; always help if you can) down the PR wire:

*** FVZZ POPVLI – X Anniversary Tour ***

– the Italian fuzz riffers will tour Europe in September and November 2026 –

We are very stoked to announce that our Italian fuzz wizards FVZZ POPVLI will rock Europe soon !!

FVZZ POPVLI – X Anniversary Tour
08.08.2026 – I – Roma – Roma Stone Fest w/Fu Manchu
18.09.2026 – I – OPEN SLOT
19.09.2026 – I – Bozen – Platza Open
20.09.2026 – I – Porto San Giorgio – CSA Officina Trenino
05.11.2026 – I – Verona – TBA
06.11.2026 – CH – Baden – Werkstatt
07.11.2026 – CH – St Gallen – Rümpeltum
08.11.2026 – CH – St Iimier – Espace Noir
09.11.2026 – F – Barberaz – Brin De Zinc
10.11.2026 – F – Clermont-Ferrand – Le Fotomat
12.11.2026 – F – Strasbourg – La Peniche Mecanique
13.11.2026 – B – Namur – Creed
14.11.2026 – NL – Heerlen – T’ Duuvelke
15.11.2026 – B – Herent – Loft
17.11.2026 – B/F/D – OPEN SLOT
18.11.2026 – F – Lyon – La Pente
19.11.2026 – D – Stuttgart – Schlampazius
20.11.2026 – L – Luxembourg – Bonne Nouvelle
21.11.2026 – CH – Zurich – Safari Bar
22.11.2026 – I – Conegliano – LZO

Founded in Rome by Pootchie and Datio in A.D. MMXVI, the idea was to build a powertrio with a direct and rough way to deliver heavy fuzzy riffs. Their sound melts Black Sabbath-style heavy riffs with the roughest garagepunk bands attitude -like The Stooges-, adding the psychedelia from the 70’s to create their own style!

In November 2024 the band signed a new agreement with Heavy Psych Sounds and released a brand new album called Melting Pop in early 2025.

Fvzz Popvli:
Pootchie – Gvitar and Voice
Alex – Bass
George – Drvms

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Fvzz Popvli, Melting Pop (2025)

Couple classics here, and not the only ones in the catalog of Argentina’s Los Natas. The trio fronted by <strong>Sergio Chotsourian (Ararat, Soldati, Sergio Ch., Brno, etc.) released Corsario Negro and El Hombre Montaña in 2002 and 2006, both originally through Small Stone Records, and this series of catalog reissues via Heavy Psych Sounds — the first two LPs have already come out, this is albums three and four — follows a series circa 2020 through Argonauta, so no, these albums haven’t been lost, but neither has Los Natas ever gotten anything close to the respect they’re due. The more ears that these records hit, the better the world gets.

Both are out Oct. 23, but are available to preorder and both are streaming at the bottom of this post, so there. Zero reason not to dig in, whether you’ve heard them before or not.

From the PR wire:

Heavy Psych Sounds Records to announce LOS NATAS reissues Corsario Negro + El Hombre Montaña – presale starts TODAY !!

*** LOS NATAS – Corsario Negro *** – REISSUE of LOS NATAS third album in brand new coloured vinyls and digipak –

Today we are stoked to start the presale of the LOS NATAS third album CORSARIO NEGRO reissued in brand new coloured vinyls and digipak !!

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23rd

ALBUM PRESALE: https://heavypsychsounds.com/band/roster/los-natas/

TRACKLIST

SIDE A
2002 – 2:41
Planeta Solitario – 4:43
Patas De Elefante – 5:36
El Cono Del Encono – 5:43
Lei Motive – 3:49

SIDE B
Hey Jimmy – 2:36
Contemplando La Niebla – 3:48
Bumburi – 3:05
Americano – 4:34
El Gauchito – 0:59
Corsario Negro – 7:42

REPRESS of LOS NATAS third album Corsario Negro in brand new coloured vinyls and digipak !!

CREDITS
SERGIO CH. – GUITARRA & VOCALS
WALTER BROIDE – BATERIA
GONZALO VILLAGRA – BASS

PABLO CATTANIA – PIANO

MIX & MASTER BY BILLY ANDERSON
ARTWORK BY SERGIO CH.
PRODUCED BY BILLY ANDERSON

*** LOS NATAS – El Hombre Montaña *** – REISSUE of LOS NATAS album El Hombre Montaña in brand new coloured vinyls and digipak –

Today we also start the presale of the LOS NATAS album EL HOMBRE MONTAÑA reissued in brand new coloured vinyls and digipak !!

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23rd

ALBUM PRESALE: https://heavypsychsounds.com/band/roster/los-natas/

RELEASED IN
10 ULTRA LTD TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD YELLOW TRANSPARENT BACK. + SPLATTER IN BLUE/BLACK/RED VINYL
300 LTD GREEN VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGIPAK

TRACKLIST

SIDE A
El Bolsero – 5:09
Amanecer Blanco – 3:27
No Es Lo Mismo – 5:27
Humo Negro Del Vaticano – 5:36
La Espada En La Piedra – 4:17

SIDE B
El Ciervo – 7:40
El Camino De Dios – 4:30
De Las Cenizas, El Hombre… – 6:35
Sigue, Sigue… – 6:10

CREDITS
SERGIO CH. – GUITARRA & VOCALS
WALTER BROIDE – BATERIA
GONZALO VILLAGRA – BASS

ADRIAN OUTEDA – VOCALS

MASTERED BY JUSTIN WEIS
ARTWORK BY SERGIO CH.
PRODUCED BY BILLY ANDERSON

LOS NATAS was
SERGIO CHOTSOURIAN (guitar & vocals)
WALTER BROIDE (drums)
GONZALO VILLAGRA (bass)
and
JOSE “EL TOPO” ARMETTA (vocals)
CLAUDIO FILADORO (bass)
MIGUEL FERNANDEZ (bass)

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Los Natas, Corsario Negro (2002)

Los Natas, El Hombre Montaña (2006)

Firebreather‘s new one is a banger of heads and a crusher of ribcages. The Gothenburg trio have been together a decade now and will issue their fourth full-length, Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire, on Oct. 16. It’s to be their first offering through Heavy Psych Sounds after releasing their first three albums through RidingEasy Records — their most recent LP was 2022’s Dwell in the Fog (review here) — and the first single taken from it is the title-track, “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire.”

In true Firebreather style, they make that a hook, and amid their own tonal density, they craft a memorable groove and find clarity in distortion. It’s pummel, and Firebreather for sure have become reliable purveyors in that, but it also showcases how they’ve grown into their own sound over the last 10 years, which is what you want going into the new record as well. What I want, anyway.

Bottom line is it sounds killer, will look forward to more. The PR wire brought the following (except the tracklisting; that I found while checking dates on Metal Archives). Have at it:

Swedish sludge metal trio FIREBREATHER to release new album “Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire” on Heavy Psych Sounds; first track streaming!

Swedish sludge metallers FIREBREATHER have signed to Heavy Psych Sounds Records for the October 16th release of their new full-length “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire”, and premiere the title track!

🩸 Check out new track Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire 🩸

Firebreather formed in Gothenburg in 2016, rooted in crushing, sludge-doused doom from the very beginning. Never wavering from that commitment across all three of their incendiary full-length releases, the trio has pursued weight with purpose, not as spectacle, nor as an exercise in excess, but as the only language broad enough to hold the emotional reach and sonic heft of their sound.

The music arrives in a way that writes itself with no distance between the words and the sound; they rise from the same cursed ground, and that honesty has become the band’s defining force.
Firebreather is a band that never postures or asks to be admired for their heaviness- and to see them live is to experience exactly why. Their weight takes on another life entirely. The band’s towering tone and consuming grit don’t fill a room so much as alter it. Volume presses against the body before the first lyric lands and riffs arrive like shifting earth. The drums don’t drive the songs forward; they anchor them while the line between sound and physical force begins to disappear.

Years spent crossing Europe and North America have only sharpened that purpose, and a decade on with a fourth album on the way via the notorious Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Firebreather remains exactly where it belongs. Head down. Volume up.

Tracklisting:
1. Only in the Eyes of Others
2. El Cuervo
3. Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire
4. The Sorrow Hides
5. Protector of Realm
6. Against the Light
7. Shrines

FIREBREATHER is
Mattias Nööjd – Vox/guitar
Jacob Madetoja – Bass
Joakim Olsson – Drums

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Firebreather, “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire”

I’m not sure if Demons Left to Roam is Witchcult Serpent‘s fourth or fifth long-player, but the coming-Oct.-9 album will mark 15 years of existence for the band, and follows 2023’s Trove of Oddities at the Devil’s Doorway (review here) with six new tracks of dug-in heavy mystique. The first single is opening track “Cursed Night Circle,” and you’ll find it on the player at the bottom of this post in all its murky, doomly threat.

I haven’t heard the full thing yet, which, you know, fair enough, but as the Fall release season takes shape, Witchthroat Serpent‘s call to worship the dark should resonate with those treading various left hand paths hither and yon. I don’t know what’s up with the cover art (below), but it definitely sets a vibe, and as someone who remembers when those things were actually put on CDs, I appreciate the AAA triple-analog rating, like they used to put on Judas Priest albums when they were sold in jewel cases. Oh, the plastic.

From the PR wire:

Occult stoner doom unit WITCHTHROAT SERPENT to release new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records this fall; first track streaming!

South of France’s premium stoner doom foursome WITCHTHROAT SERPENT premiere the first single taken from their forthcoming new album “Demons Left To Roam”, due out on October 9th through Heavy Psych Sounds.

Recorded at the legendary Kerwax Studio by Christophe Chavanon on analog tape and gear, Witchthroat Serpent’s new album “Demons Left To Roam” is yet another hymn to the last century’s sordid dreams and fears, moral panic and the creepy costumes from Halloween in the 30’s. Huge and gritty walls of guitars, rumbling stereo bass and plundering ritual drums raise a wall of songs brimming with horror tales and satanic litanies, carried by the band’s trademark haunted vocals.

New album “Demons Left To Roam”
Out October 9th on Heavy Psych Sounds (LP/CD/digital)
https://heavypsychsounds.com/

Witchthroat Serpent was formed in November 2011 in Toulouse, France to spread occult and powerful doom stoner across the living world’s borders. The band has toured extensively in Europe, playing both underground shows and major scene festivals such as Hostsabbat and Sonic Blast. After their second critically acclaimed LP “Sang-Dragon” Fredrik Bolzann & Niko Lass have been joined in their act by Ügo Greifengeier & Djé Cndrs for a split with cult fellows Dead Witches published by Heavy Psych Sounds Records and followed by the third LP “Trove of Oddities at the Devil’s Driveway”.

Now a maniac 4-piece band wholly dedicated to the dark arts and the everlasting quest for The Tone, they are set to release their new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records this fall.

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Witchthroat Serpent, “Cursed Night Circle”

Well, Heavy Psych Sounds did Spirit Caravan reissues (doing the world a favor, putting those records back in print) this year, and I guess it went well enough that The Obsessed are shifting from Ripple Music to release their next album via the Italy-based label, which is arguably the world’s foremost imprint for underground heavy (Ripple having that title in the States). I don’t have timing on the impending full-length beyond the ‘2027’ it says in the PR wire info below, so it’s not like it’s showing up this week or anything, but I’ve seen The Obsessed twice so far this year, and they did nothing but deliver both times. Being a classic band suits them.

That said, being a classic band hasn’t stopped them from moving forward either, as 2024’s Gilded Sorrow (review here) and various reconfigurations during their time have shown. Speaking of, Bob Pantella (also Monster Magnet and The Atomic Bitchwax) will make his studio debut with the four-piece on their next record, and if that’s not enough to pique your interest, I can only advise you to do whatever you need to in order to adjust your perspective on the issue. For me it was a hammer to the skull. Yeah, like in Hellraiser.

Once again, the PR wire sent the following:

THE OBSESSED sign to Heavy Psych Sounds Records

American doom metal icons THE OBSESSED have inked a worldwide deal with Heavy Psych Sounds Records for the release of their new studio album in 2027.

The Obsessed is a rock band. A fucking HARD rock band. Since their formation in 1978, they have become known around the world for their influential contribution to the origins and continued legacy of the doom metal and underground hard rock genres. The distinctive vocals and guitar wizardry of founder and driving force Scott “Wino” Weinrich has left a mark on the world of heavy music that continues to inspire.

The Obsessed gained momentum in the Baltimore/DC area of the USA in the early to mid 1980’s during the height of the hardcore punk movement. Often cited as the band that bridged heavy metal and punk together, the band gained the respect of punk heavyweight contemporaries Black Flag, The Bad Brains, and Minor Threat, to name a few. The attitude and spirit of The Obsessed have led many to regard them as “America’s Motorhead”.

Wino went on to join the doom metal giants Saint Vitus as lead singer on seminal albums including 1986’s Born Too Late. In 1990, The Obsessed came back with their eponymous debut album, The Obsessed. This album was quickly followed by 1991’s Lunar Womb and 1994’s The Church Within. All three of these albums shaped and paved the way for future heavy rock bands and the doom scene as it’s known today. Wino’s gift for prose and his never-ending search for truth and meaning allow his words to hit as heavy as the riffs he plays.

Although The Obsessed went on a hiatus after The Church Within’s release on Columbia Records, Wino’s sheer passion and prolific nature led him to pursue many other critically acclaimed projects such as Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, Shrinebuilder and various acoustic releases. Long-time fan Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) specifically asked Wino to perform on his all-star Probot album, released in 2004.

In 2012, Wino rejoined Saint Vitus until the worldwide cry for The Obsessed could no longer be denied, and in 2016, he reunited the band once and for all and has been kicking ass and taking names ever since. Drummer Brian “Dawg” Costantino joined the band at this time. The band signed to Relapse Records and recorded 2017’s Sacred, an album showing The Obsessed back with pure vengeance, bringing the band back to venues and festival stages around the world.

In 2022, the band became a four-piece with the addition of Chris Angleberger on bass and Jason Taylor on guitar. They have been touring heavily since and have been seen on USA and European festival stages such as Hellfest, Freak Valley Festival, Snowblind Festival and Desertfest. The band’s latest record, Gilded Sorrow, was released in early 2024 on Ripple Music.

The Obsessed welcomed heavy rock titan Bob Pantella (also Monster Magnet) to the lineup as their new drummer in 2025, marking a new chapter in their legacy. Now, in 2026, the band has signed to Heavy Psych Sounds and is working on their new album, which release date is yet to be announced. The Obsessed are here to stay. “IF IT AIN’T HEAVY… IT AIN’T SHIT!!!”

Frontman Scott “Wino” Weinrich declares: “We are very happy to announce The Obsessed signing with the premier hard rock label Heavy Psych Sounds! The Obsessed is currently finishing the next full-length record, which will be released with HPS. Stay tuned, and thanks to all who believe.”

THE OBSESSED is
Scott “Wino” Weinrich — Guitar, Vocals
Jason Taylor — Guitar
Chris Angleberger — Bass
Bob Pantella — Drums

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The Obsessed, Gilded Sorrow (2024)

As previously noted, this tour announcement isn’t exactly unexpected, given Hippie Death Cult‘s prior confirmation for Desertfest Belgium. The full tour also feature stops at Up in Smoke and Heavy Psych Sounds Fest, plus maybe more where there are open slots, and will go from the end of September through to the Nov. 1, which if it needs to be said is a siginificant bit of touring. Not their first, presumably not their last.

In August, the Portland trio will tour on the West Coast as well, hitting stops with Abronia and Earth Tongue, either of which would/will make for a special kind of evening. Last I saw Hippie Death Cult was at Desertfest Oslo 2025 (review here), and they were barnburning. Seriously. I had to get a new barn. Worth it.

Fun ensues:

Heavy Psych Sounds BOOKING to announce HIPPIE DEATH CULT – European Tour 2026 !!

We are stoked to announce that our US based hard rockers HIPPIE DEATH CULT will smash Europe and UK in October 2026 !!

*** HIPPIE DEATH CULT – European Tour 2026 ***

30.09 IT Pescara – Scumm
01.10 IT Bologna – Freakout
02.10 SI Ilirska Bistrica – MKNŽ
03.10 AT Ebensee – Kino
04.10 CH Pratteln – Up In Smoke
05.10 FR Chambery – Brin De Zinc
06.10 FR Marseille – Le Molotov
07.10 IT Genova – Trinità Live Club
08.10 IT Castel D’Ario – Hostaria
09.10 ***OPEN SLOT***
10.10 AT Kufstein – Kulturfabrik
11.10 LI Vaduz – Camäleon
13.10 DE Leipzig – Conne Island
14.10 DE Munich – Sunny Red
15.10 ***OPEN SLOT***
16.10 DE Berlin – HPS Fest
17.10 DE Dresden – HPS Fest
18.10 BE Liege – Desertfest
19.10 FR Reims – 1001 Bières
21.10 DK Copenhagen – TBC
22.10 SE Stockholm – Geronimo’s
23.10 ***OPEN SLOT***
24.10 DK Esbjerg – Kulturscenen
25.10 ***OPEN SLOT***
27.10 UK Nottingham – Mist Rolling Inn
28.10 UK Huddersfield – Parish
29.10 UK Norwich – Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom
30.10 UK London – Blondies Brewery
31.10 UK Bristol – Moor Beer
01.11 UK Faversham – Saturnalia Records

Hippie Death Cult’s journey through shameless and triumphant artistic expression has led them to become a vibrant force in the realms of psychedelia and riff-heavy rock n’ roll. This journey has not been without its challenges, but the band has always managed to emerge stronger and more determined than ever. Throughout their formative years, the band underwent what proved to be a very significant evolution, transitioning from a 4-piece to a more cohesive and harmonious power trio. This lineup currently consists of guitarist and founder Eddie Brnabic, vocalist and bassist Laura Phillips, and drummer Harry Silvers.

HIPPIE DEATH CULT is:
Laura Phillips – Bass/Vocals
Eddie Brnabic – Guitar
Harry Silvers – Drums

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Hippie Death Cult, “Red Giant” live at Star Theater

Dead Meadow‘s new collection, Foundlings, is out July 31 on Heavy Psych Sounds. And of course, with a release compiling seven songs from different recordings sessions between 2002 and 2024, there are always going to be variances in sound even before you get to different personnel involved — drummers Mark Laughlin and Stephen McCarty mostly trade off, but it’s Steve Kille, who passed away in 2024, on bass and Jason Simon on guitar and vocals throughout — but considering it’s Dead Meadow, you’re never not going to have a flow, and sure enough, as “Lost to Light” (premiering below) from the sessions of 2025’s Voyager to Voyager (review here) opens and shifts into the light-touch shuffle of “Nobody Home,” the fuzzy, ‘gazey-hazy vibe is on lock and it stays that way across the somewhat perfunctory 40-minute span.

I say ‘perfunctory’ because obviously the intention with Foundlings is to assemble something to sell to Dead Meadow‘s established fanbase, so they hit that mark, but — especially in the case of this band — that doesn’t mean the only thing they have to offer is fodder for completists. The ultra-eased roll of “Everything is Goin’ On,” originally from 2003’s Shivering King and Others and here taken from a 2002 ‘Committee to Keep Music Evil Session,’ makes a whole world in its early low end, following the centerpiece take on The Beatles‘ “Tomorrow Never Knows” tracked eight years ago because time is an illusion anyway and if you’re here, you might as well keep warm.

Yeah, there are stark-ish changes in sound, as from the uptempo “Nobody Home” to the more foreboding Powell St. John cover “Kingdom of Heaven,” or the later fuzz-march/cymbal wash of “Everything is Goin’ On” — which if you believe in riff worship should have you building an altar; or, you know, starting a band — rumbling out ahead of their take on “No Quarter,” bringing new spaciousness to the Led Zeppelin classic.

The loss of Kille continues to resonate, particularly as he recorded some of this material in addition to playing on all of it. As Dead Meadow have moved forward, they’ve given due homage to Kille‘s importance in the band, and it’s not explicitly stated on the record, but that’s part of what’s being summarized in Foundlings as well through recordings spanning more than two decades. He was and remains an important part of the band, and grief takes (1:) multiple forms, and (2:) time. His loss is an inevitable part of the story here.

Nonetheless, soothing as they are, “Lost to Light” as the opener demonstrates the undercurrent that runs through Dead Meadow songs when they want it to, and the way Foundlings is set up, it draws the listener further in with “Nobody Home” and the jammy “Kingdom of Heaven” following, “Tomorrow Never Knows” — which, honestly, is worth the price of admission on its own —  leading to the side B plunge with “Everything is Goin’ On” and “No Quarter” ahead of the ambient finale “From the Children of Planet Earth,” which finishes with the sample of Nick Sagan (son of Carl) that went out with the Voyager probe in 1977 greeting future alien travelers, the song an otherwise instrumental landing point as much as you can ‘land’ while floating in zero-gravity.

So yeah, it’s off-album tracks and odds and ends, and no doubt the band have accumulated enough of them over the last nearly-three decades that Foundlings could be a series if they wanted it to, but while it might be a fan-piece rather than a place for newcomers to start — there are so many arguments on where to begin with this band that thinking about it makes my head feel like it’s going to explode, so I’ll just say start at the start and work your way up — there’s still a richness to the sound that is signature to Dead Meadow, and a fluid procession between the songs that gives an album-style impression. You will never doubt what band you’re listening to while hearing it, but between the covers and jams and the experimental edge with which they top it off, Foundlings captures more range than it might at first appear.

“Lost to Light” premieres on the player below, followed by more from the PR wire.

Please enjoy:

Dead Meadow, “Lost to Light” track premiere

Preorder link: https://heavypsychsounds.com/?post_type=product&s=foundlings

Featuring the core lineup of guitarist and vocalist Jason Simon and late bassist Steve Kille, with drum duties split between Mark Laughlin and Stephen McCarty, Foundlings compiles material recorded between 2002 and 2024. Highlights include a rendition of Powell St. John’s “Kingdom of Heaven” (from the Sonic Cathedral sessions), a take on The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” (from The Nothing They Need sessions), and a version of Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter” originally cut for a Cleopatra Records tribute, alongside originals drawn from the Voyager to Voyager album recording sessions, a EarthQuaker Devices session, and a Committee to Keep Music Evil session recorded with Anton Newcombe and Rob Campanella (The Brian Jonestown Massacre).

Foundlings is poised to be essential listening for both long-time devotees and new converts. It arrives as the band continues to cement a legacy defined by fearless exploration.

TRACKLIST:
1. Lost To Light (2023 Voyager to Voyager sessions)
2. Nobody Home (2022 Earthquaker Devices Session)
3. Kingdom Of Heaven (Powell St. John cover) (2010 at The Psychedelic Sounds of Sonic Cathedral)
4. Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles cover) (2017 The Nothing They Need sessions)
5. Everything’s Goin’ On (2002 Committee to Keep Music Evil Sessions)
6. No Quarter (Led Zeppelin cover) (2017 Cleopatra Records Led Zeppelin tribute)
7. From The Children Of Planet Earth (2024 Voyager to Voyager sessions)

DEAD MEADOW on “Foundlings”
Jason Simon – guitar, vocals, organ
Steve Kille – bass (recording tracks 3, 4, 6)
Mark Laughlin – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7)
Stephen McCarty – drums (tracks 3, 5) and organ (track 5)

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If it’s a party, you know Valley of the Sun are bringing a salsa of premium fuzz riffing and timeless heavy groove. Four-piece, trio, whatever. The core of the Ohio-based outfit has always been in songwriting and one expects no less of The Blacklight Sessions, which is announced today for an Oct. 2 release as their first album to come out through Heavy Psych Sounds.

Between now and the album’s arrival, you’ll see words like “solid” and “reliable” used to talk about the band, and neither is inappropriate, but as I listen to instrumental opening track/first single “The Whiskey Elf” premiere on the player just below — the classic roots of which are worn on its sleeve — it’s the energy they bring that feels most left out of the conversation. That chug and shove. They’re working with elements that were familiar before the band even existed, and yet Ryan Ferrier and company continue, time after time, to make those not only the band’s own, but a testimony of enduring radness. They’re not a band you’re ever going to regret seeing live, and their records always speak to the primal physicality of heavy groove.

I could go on here, but this is ostensibly a news post, so the news is the record’s coming. Valley of the Sun celebrate the release on tour in Europe this Fall, starting out on release day at Tabernas Desert Rock Fest (take me with you) and picking up in mid-October for Heavy Psych Sounds Fest in Germany and more.

Song and info follow. Please enjoy:

Valley of the Sun, “The Whiskey Elf” track premiere

VALLEY OF THE SUN – The Blacklight Sessions

ALBUM INFO:

Valley of the Sun’s sixth studio LP, “The Blacklight Sessions”, is a deep dive into the sonic roots of the band that continues to defy genre norms. With tracks ranging from blues jam to psychedelic desert trip to driving stoner riffage, the band continues to demonstrate that their music knows no bounds, nor should it. It will be released on October 2nd via Heavy Psych Sounds – www.heavypsychsounds.com

SONG QUOTE:

“The Whiskey Elf” is my nod to late-sixties blues rock, particularly that of Ten Years After and Grand Funk Railroad. The song has been around since the days of my previous band, Blacklight Barbarian, which we reference a great deal on the new album, hence the name “The Blacklight Sessions” — Ryan Ferrier

BAND BIO:

Formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2010, Valley of the Sun has become one of the most respected names in modern heavy rock, combining thunderous, groove-driven riffs with soaring vocals and emotionally charged songwriting. Drawing inspiration from classic hard rock, desert rock, and grunge, the band has built an international following through relentless touring across North America and Europe, critically acclaimed releases, and a reputation for delivering powerful, high-energy live performances. Their catalog includes The Sayings of the Seers, Electric Talons of the Thunderhawk, Volume Rock, Old Gods, The Chariot, and the acclaimed 2024 release Quintessence, showcasing a band that continues to evolve while remaining true to its signature sound.

Today, Valley of the Sun is a three-piece consisting of Ryan Ferrier (guitar, lead vocals), the band’s founder and sole remaining original member (2010–present); Chris Sweeney (bass), who joined in 2018; and Johnny Kathman (drums), who joined during the band’s transition back to a power trio for the Quintessence era in 2023. Together, the trio continues to push the band’s sound forward with crushing riffs, dynamic musicianship, and an ever-changing tonality that continues to challenge the norms of the genre, while maintaining the unmistakable sound of the band.

Valley of the Sun “The Blacklight Sessions” Tour 2026
02/10 Tabernas Desert Rock Fest
13/10 Morlenbach, DE Weiher
14/10 Osnabrück, DE Bastard Club
15/10 Jena, DE Kuba Jena
16/10 Dresden, DE Heavy Psych Sounds
17/10 Berlin, DE Heavy Psych Sounds
18/10 Warszawa, PL Chmury Club
19/10 Kraków, PL Klub Gwarek
21/10 Wien, AT Verein Forum Wien
22/10 Bratislava, SK Pink Whale
23/10 Pássau, DE Zauberberg
24/10 München, DE Backstage Klub
25/10 Freiburg im Breisgau, DE Artik
27/10 Annecy, FR La Coloc
29/10 Paris, FR Backstage by the Mill
30/10 Wasquehal, FR The Black Lab
31/10 Bruxelles, BE Temple Studios
01/11 Eindhoven, NL The Jack
02/11 Breda, NL Mezz
03/11 Düsseldorf, DE Pitcher
04/11 Münster, DE Rare Guitar
05/11 Köln, DE Club Volta
06/11 Hanau, DE KultK1
07/11 Aachen, DE Musik Bunker
08/11 Kiel, DE Schaubude
10/11 Hamburg, DE Knust
11/11 Copenhagen, DK Stengade
12/11 Aalborg, DK 1000Fryd
13/11 Oslo, NO Vaterland Bar & Scene
14/11 Stockholm, SE Fuzztival

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Valley of the Sun are:
Ryan Ferrier – guitar, vocals
Chris Sweeney – bass
Johnny Kathman – drums

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Valley of the Sun, Quintessence (2024)