Posted in Whathaveyou on April 25th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
Timing is everything. Mere minutes after I took the dog out the other day and got the mail that happened to have the t-shirt I preordered from Tennessee heavy rollers WyndRider a while back in it, I sat back down in front of the laptop and lo, the algorithm saw fit to put the announcement of the band’s signing to Electric Valley Records in front of my eyeballs. I’m not saying it’s anything more than a fun coincidence — I don’t think social media tracking cookies can get in your actual, physical mailbox… yet — but it most certainly was that, and I look forward to hearing how the four-piece will follow-up their well received 2023 self-titled debut (review here), which they subsequently announced they’ll do with Revival on June 7.
To advance and coincide with the release, WyndRider are keeping busy this spring and summer with live shows, headed to Texas in May for Gravitoyd Doom Fest, to Maryland in June for the esteemed Maryland Doom Fest, and to Kentucky in July for the Holler of Doom, all with shows around them sharing the stage with names familiar and righteous. They’ve also posted the single “Motorcycle Witches” as an initial public offering from Revival, readily affirming the clarion-for-the-converted riffery and swing from the debut are well intact. Makes it even less of a challenge to look forward to the album.
The announcement from socials and live dates follow:
We are over the moon that we will be releasing our new album with Electric Valley Records ! More info coming real soon. Don’t blink or ya just might miss it.
From EVR: “Electric Valley Records is proud to announce that heavy riffers WyndRider have just signed for their brand new album🔥”
Pre-order for REVIVAL goes live with Electric Valley Records on 4/24 or on the WyndRider Bandcamp page on 4/25.
Stay Doomed💀”
WyndRider live: 5/2 – Memphis, TN – Hi Tone 5/3 – Arlington, TX – GROWL 5/4 – Houston, TX – Gravitoyd Doomfest 5/5 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia 5/24 – Knoxville, TN – BrickYard Bar & Grill 5/26 – Charlotte, NC – TBA 6/8 – Johnson City, TN – The Hideaway 6/20 – Indianapolis, IN – Black Circle 6/21 – Akron, OH – Buzzbin 6/22 – Frederick, MD – The †maryland DOOM† Fest 6/23 – New York, NY – The Bowery Electric 7/5 – Asheville, NC – The Odd 7/11 – Nashville, TN – Springwater Supper Club and Lounge 7/12 – London, KY – Holler of Doom 7/13 – Cincinnati, OH – THE COMET
Posted in Whathaveyou on January 24th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
Look at the blue text below and you know what you’re gonna see? Yes, a whole lot of skull emojis. Like a lot. But it happens that each individual one corresponds to a demonstration of the labor of love and community that is the Maryland Doom Festival. From Abel Blood through Zekiah, Maryland Doom Fest 2024 celebrates its 10th anniversary edition with its standard sans-bullshit glut of heavy. Once more the Frederick-based event looks your square in the eye, drops for absolutely immersive days on you and asks if you’re up for it. Well, are ya?
I’m not sure what my summer travel plans are yet — this and Freak Valley have overlapped the last couple years for me — but it’s been since 2019 that I was last down there and oh I’d be so eager to show up and have the three or four people who recognize me (and thus make it feel like an absolute family experience; love love love everywhere you go down there) quietly think to themselves I’ve gotten older and fatter en route to obliterating myself with volume for about 96 hours straight. Fuck. King. A.
Oh, and I hear Thunderbird Divine have new stuff in the works and it’s amazing. So that’s a thing too.
Social media had it like this:
We are super stoked to share with you the Maryland Doom Fest 2024 rosters, schedules, and lineups!!!
#4daysofdoom
THE MARYLAND DOOM FEST 2024
✝️Thursday June 20
Cafe 611-
💀 Thunderhorse 1115-1230 💀 The Magpie 1010-1055 💀 Born of Plagues 905-950 💀 Stone Nomads 800-845 💀 Pyre Fyre 700-740 💀 Dirt Eater 600-640
Olde Mother Brewery-
💀 Spellbook 920-1000 💀 Strange Highways 820-900 💀 Bailjack 720-800 💀 Stone Brew 620-700 💀 Abel Blood 520-600
💀 Ten Ton Slug 915-1000 💀 Thousand Vision Mist 815-855 💀 Crowhunter 715-755 💀 Asthma Castle 615-655 💀 Bonded by Darkness 515-555
✝️Saturday June 22
Cafe 611-
💀 WHORES. 1150-115 💀 AGE/S 1040-1130 💀 Bloodshot 935-1020 💀 O ZORN! 830-915 💀 Double Planet 730-810 💀 Sun Years 630-710 💀 When the Deadbolt Breaks 530-610
Olde Mother Brewery-
💀 Black Water Rising 915-1000 💀 Switchblade Jesus 815-855 💀 Wyndrider 715-755 💀 Indus Valley Kings 615-655 💀 Vermillion Whiskey 515-555 💀 Doctor Smoke 415-455
✝️Sunday June 23
Cafe 611-
💀 Cirith Ungol 1200-110 💀 Mythosphere 1055-1140 💀 Conclave 955-1035 💀 Compression 855-935 💀 Sons of Arrakis 755-835 💀 Curse the Son 655-735 💀 Kulvera 555-635 💀 Old Blood 500-535 💀 Cloud Machine 405-440
Olde Mother Brewery-
💀 Thunderbird Divine 920-1000 💀 Black Manta 820-900 💀 High Noon Kahuna 720-800 💀 Unity Reggae 620-700 💀 King Bastard 520-600 💀 Zekiah 420-500
52 bands over a 4 day weekend at 2 venues across the street from one another!! #4daysofdoom
Posted in Whathaveyou on November 1st, 2023 by JJ Koczan
With headlining performances slated from a soon-to-retire Cirith Ungol, noise crushers Whores., mostly-local melodic heavy proggers Mythosphere, Switchblade Jesus, Conclave, Ten Ton Slug (from Ireland; I got to see them one time; way burly; they’ll do well in Frederick), and plenty of other returning acts and newcomers alike, the lineup for Maryland Doom Fest 2024 could hardly be more appropriate a celebration of the annual Chesapeake gathering’s 10th anniversary. Based in Frederick, the four-day ultra-consuming sensory assault of volume will once again take place at Cafe 611 and Olde Mother Brewing, and if you’ve never been, I’ll tell you outright there’s nothing quite like it.
I mean that. Maryland Doom Fest goes harder than the average festival. A day might start at 1PM and not end until 2AM. And now more than ever, as the fest has grown with the two venues running alongside each other, the bill is packed. I think this year was 50 bands? Well, they’ve got 52 for 2024, and while next June is a while out, there’s a tradition to uphold of Halloween announcements, and festival honcho JB Matson (Bloodshot, War Injun, Outside Truth, etc.) pays tribute to his regulars — Shadow Witch, Bailjack, Thunderbird Divine, Thousand Vision Mist (congratulations to Danny Kenyon of Thousand Vision Mist on recently kicking cancer’s ass), among others here — while also giving showcase to outfits like Pyre Fyre, O Zorn! (whose very moniker heralds weirdness), WyndRider and more.
Congrats to Matson and all at Maryland Doom Fest on their 10th anniversary. To do something of this scope once is a lot. To do it across 10 years, well, aside from being fucking crazy, it’s also deeply admirable.
The aforementioned announcement — brief as ever; the poster lands heavy enough to cover any lack of verbiage — follows, courtesy of socials. Ticket link is there too:
WE ARE EXTREMELY PLEASED TO PRESENT TO YOU, THE MARYLAND DOOM FEST 2024 LINEUP!!!!! THIS WILL BE OUR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!! (#128128#)(#129304#)(#128128#)
52 bands over a 4 day weekend at 2 venues across the street from one another!! #4daysofdoom
Posted in Questionnaire on August 4th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty.
Based on the Proust Questionnaire, the goal over time is to show a diverse range of perspectives as those who take part bring their own points of view to answering the same questions. To see all The Obelisk Questionnaire posts, click here.
Thank you for reading and thanks to all who participate.
The Obelisk Questionnaire: Robbie Willis from WyndRider
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How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?
That’s a hard one to nail down. I like to do what makes me happy as much as possible, whether it’s playing guitar or travelling or just having a moment to myself. Because most of the time living day to day is full of shit that makes you miserable. I guess I have learned over time that you have to make the good outweigh the bad.
Describe your first musical memory.
Probably when I was very young in church. According to my mom, it was obvious that I loved music from the first time that I heard it. She used to sing Hank Williams and gospel music constantly. But the first actual concert I went to was Sammy Kershaw with my uncle when I was four or five years old.
Describe your best musical memory to date.
I guess that actually changes all the time. Every time we play as WyndRider it means a lot to me. It’s the type of music I have always wanted to play ever since I started on guitar. And I have played a lot of other stuff. Getting to see Black Sabbath was… I was real high but that was fucking cool. And, the first time I saw Iron Maiden was really surreal because I ended up completely separated from my friends but only about 20 feet from the band. I felt like I might as well have been the only person there.
When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?
There’s been a lot. But, I think shit changes too much to really hold a firm belief in anything for too long.
Where do you feel artistic progression leads?
Poverty. Half joking. It can lead wherever you want. The whole point is to just try. Some dude once asked us when we are going to tour the UK, so hopefully it leads there. (Call me.)
How do you define success?
Whatever goal you have, if you have reached that goal or even close I’d say that is pretty successful. You can be as successful as you want, but if you aren’t happy in doing whatever it is then it’s worthless.
What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?
An accidental suicide. That one was pretty bad.
Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.
I would like to make a short movie. But there’s a lot that goes into that and I don’t have a lot of patience. I have thought about it quite a few different times though throughout my life. Maybe one day I can make it happen.
What do you believe is the most essential function of art?
I think creating art is the most essential function of art. Somebody has got to do it. Not everybody has to like it. And what somebody considers art is not universal, but actually making it so that it’s there for someone to appreciate (or not appreciate) is the most important part to me.
Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?
My son’s birthday is coming up. Watching him grow up is always something I look forward to, to an extent. Him getting older means he’s not going to think I’m cool anymore after a while.
Posted in Whathaveyou on July 12th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
This weekend, Tennessee merchants WyndRider head to London, Kentucky, to appear at Holler of Doom III, and with a few shows later in the month, more in August and newly announced dates there and in September, they’ll apparently continue the streak of steady live appearances they’ve had going since they offered their self-titled debut (review here) at the end of March. The four-piece have traded drummers since then — as will happen when a new band starts playing out more; some personnel shuffle is not uncommon — but haven’t missed a step as word of their riffly tidings has begun to spread.
The dates below, some new, some previously known, include a couple long weekenders and local-ish odds and ends rather than a full two-week string or whatever, but as far as I’m concerned it’s cool they’re getting out at all. Note that the Ohio date is the Doomed and Stoned in Ohio fest, and I have no trouble believing there’s more to come, but for now here’s this from the PR wire:
WYNDRIDER has added many shows to their already packed summer
At the beginning of May, the band announced Richard Bucher was stepping down and introduced their new drummer, Josh Brock, as well as many appearances they would make with this new lineup. Now, they are announcing August and September dates and will make several more appearances this year in Charlotte, Savannah, Tampa, Jacksonville, Columbus, Lexington, Jacksonville, and more.
Upcoming Dates: July 15-London, KY-Holler of Doom III Festival at Mountain View Farm
July 21-Knoxville, TN-The Pilot Light with Realm, Dead Vibes Ensemble and NinjaWitch
July 29-Youngstown, OH-Ohio Doomed & Stoned Fest at Westside Bowl
July 30-Cincinnati, OH-The Comet with Grey Host, Before the Eyewall, and Opium Doom Cult
August 12- Whitesburg, KY at Summit City on Main with ENT, Portrait of Betrayal, LIPS, Hank 69, and Ponddigger
August 17- Johnson City, TN at The Hideaway with Crop and ENT
August 24- Columbus, OH at Spacebar with Wolftooth, Weed Demon, and Wurm Sun
August 25- Lexington, KY at The Green Lantern with Blind Scryer and Suncage
August 26- Lynchburg, VA at Riverview Vinyl with Smoke and Black Wind
September 15- Knoxville, TN at BrickYard Bar & Grill with The Slow Attack, Stoneman, Neanderthal, and Lucky Perm
September 21- Charlotte, NC at Snug Harbor with King Cackle and StormWatchers
September 22- Savannah, GA at El Rocko Lounge with Damned to Earth and Doof
September 23- Tampa, FL at The Born Free Pub with Worldeater, Snake Healer, Tension Electric, and Othalan
September 24- Jacksonville, FL at Rain Dogs with Stoned Morose and TBA
September 30- Asheville, NC at Fleetwood’s with Mean Green and TBA
Posted in Whathaveyou on May 8th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
With the recent release of their self-titled debut (review here) behind them, Tennessee heavy rockers WyndRider have lined up a string of shows this summer to support the album. Highlighted by fest appearances at Badseed and Holler of Doom in Kentucky and Doomed & Stoned in Ohio, where they’ll join a slew of badass acts, as well as a support slot on June 27 for the upcoming Red Mesa tour, the stint throughout June and July will also be the introduction of new drummer Josh Brock, who steps into the role in place of Richard Bucher. I don’t know what’s behind the percussive swap, but it’s worth noting that as of now, the four-piece are in possession of an all-Josh rhythm section, featuring as they do bassist Joshuwah Herald alongside guitarist Robbie Willis and vocalist Chloe Gould. And as the ancient saying goes, ‘an all-Josh rhythm section ain’t nuthin’ to fuck with.’ That or Wu-Tang. I get those two mixed up all the time.
Either way, if you didn’t catch the album yet — and if not, you’re by no means late; trying always to build bridges not keep gates; all are welcome here unless you’re a fascist — you’ll find the stream below, along with the dates and copious info sent along the PR wire. If you’re up for a bit of exploring, WyndRider will share the stage with a pretty wide assortment of cool bands, keeping good company as they continue to develop their sound and move forward with the partially-reconstructed lineup.
Dig in:
WyndRider Announces Summer Dates
WyndRider is a four piece, female-fronted Stoner Doom band from the mountains of East Tennessee. Joshuwah Herald (bass), Robbie Willis (guitar), Chloe Gould (vocals), and Richard Bucher (drums) made up the original members, playing their first show on March 31, 2022 at the Hideaway in Johnson City, TN. Their first single, Electrophilia, was recorded at the beginning of April (recorded, mixed, and mastered by Greg Glessing and Milby Shaffer) and published on May 26 of the same year. With only one single available online since the beginning, WyndRider moved leaps and bounds, booking in Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, West Virginia, and around Tennessee. They have shared the stage with names such as Caustic Casanova and Book of Wyrms at Holler of Doom II Festival in London, KY, and Dizygote, Lung, and Gaffer Project in their hometown of Johnson City, TN. They returned to London, KY in the fall of 2022 to play a second festival- Mountains of Metal 7, and Lexington, KY for Revenge of the Toker Day Fest.
The band’s debut album, WyndRider, was recorded in late September by Danielle Fehr from The Wizard Productions. The recordings are the most raw, natural sounding form of the songs that they were able to capture in a studio setting, while still emulating the energy of a live performance. Bands such as Black Sabbath, Steppenwolf, Mountain, and Budgie inspired their take on a continuation of heavy and psychedelic music. The themes of this album are a culmination of subjects such as apocalypse, alien life, the Satanic Panic, and sarcastic dissection of the Christian Church. It portrays a new version of the physical, biting addictiveness that Rock and Roll inspired for another generation.
‘WyndRider’ was released in full on March 31, 2023, exactly one year after the date of the band’s first show.
At the beginning of May, the band announced Richard Bucher was stepping down and introduced their new drummer, Josh Brock. Beginning in June, they will continue performing with this new lineup and plan to make appearances in many cities this year, including Charlotte, Athens, Atlanta, Columbia, Cincinnati, Savannah and Tampa. They can once again be seen at Holler of Doom Festival in London, KY, as well as Badseed Fest (Whitesburg, KY), and Ohio Doomed and Stoned Festival in Youngstown.
“We are over the moon about how far we have come as a band in just a short time. We look forward to hitting the road this summer with Josh Brock and reaching all kinds of new territory! To everyone who has supported us this far and jammed our album, we cannot thank you enough.” – WyndRider
Upcoming Dates: June 1- Charlotte, NC- Skylark Social Club with Occult Fracture and Witch Motel June 2- Athens, GA- Flicker Bar with Ghoul Hand and Rosie & the Ratdogs June 3- Atlanta, GA- Star Community Bar with Stoneman and Hot Ram June 9- Johnson City, TN- The Hideaway with Nerve Endings and Dope Skum June 17- Whitesburg, KY- Badseed Fest at Summit City on Main June 24- Johnson City, TN- Capone’s with Season of the Witch and Appalachian Death Cult June 27- Knoxville, TN- BrickYard Bar & Grill with Red Mesa, Shockwolf, and Sun Mantra July 1- Columbia, SC- Art Bar with Cosmic Reaper and Ort July 15- London, KY- Holler of Doom III Festival at Mountain View Farm July 21- Knoxville, TN- The Pilot Light with Realm, Dead Vibes Ensemble and Ninja Witch July 29- Youngstown, OH- Ohio Doomed & Stoned Fest at Westside Bowl July 30- Cincinnati, OH- The Comet with Grey Host, Before the Eyewall, and Opium Doom Cult
More August and September dates to be announced soon.
Posted in Radio on February 3rd, 2023 by JJ Koczan
Yeah, I realize that I say the same shit every time I post a Gimme Metal playlist, but this is a good god damn show. New Simple Forms to start, new Sandrider, Merlock, Acid King, Polymoon, REZN, some WyndRider and Strider — both reviewed in the last week or so — then on to Enslaved as a shift into meaner fare with Tribunal, These Beasts, They Grieve, Fuzzy Grapes and Mammoth Caravan touching on various points in gruff doom and sludge before I come on again to mouthfart or whatever it is I do around saying ‘thanks for listening’ and turn it over to an 18-minute finish from Clouds Taste Satanic, who’ll head to Europe this Spring to support the 2LP record they released today on Majestic Mountain. Good god damn show.
There’s a flow to it that I like, from the Pacific Northwestern takes of Simple Forms and Sandrider at the outset to the lumbering of Mammoth Caravan before that last voice track, it has a groove. Because it airs at 5PM on a Friday evening, I’m not always able to blast out the show while I try to keep up with the chat — that’s Sesame Street time, these days, and all volume conflicts are resolved by my being yelled at and turning down the music, putting my phone on the lowest volume and holding it to my left ear or stepping out to the back yard to get stoned and listening there for a bit — but Dean Rispler, who actually assembles the thing from the playlist I turn in, is a genius and I always know that he’s got it down when it comes to conveying the flow from one song to the next. I rely on that, and he nails it every time. It honestly makes me look forward to these Fridays more.
If you listen, I hope you dig it. Thanks for reading either way.
The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at: http://gimmemetal.com.
Full playlist:
The Obelisk Show – 02.03.23 (VT = voice track)
Simple Forms
Unprecedented Uncertainty
Unprecedented Uncertainty
Sandrider
Alia
Enveletration
Merlock
Onward Strides Colossus
Onward Strides Colossus
VT
Acid King
Beyond Vision
Beyond Vision
Polymoon
Set the Sun
Chrysalis
REZN
Possession
Solace
WyndRider
Creator
WyndRider
Strider
Midnight Zen
Midnight Zen
Enslaved
Forest Dweller
Heimdal
Tribunal
The Path
The Weight of Remembrance
These Beasts
Code Name
Cares, Wills, Wants
They Grieve
Wither
To Which I Bore Witness
Fuzzy Grapes
Sludge Fang
Volume 1
Mammoth Caravan
Petroglyphs
Ice Cold Oblivion
VT
Clouds Taste Satanic
Flames and Demon Drummers
Tales of Demonic Possession
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is Feb. 17 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.
Posted in audiObelisk on January 25th, 2023 by JJ Koczan
One year to the day from playing their first show, on March 31, 2023, Tennessee rollers WyndRider will make their self-titled debut. They’ll play a show to celebrate the release too, and they’ve given themselves an occasion worth marking. WyndRider runs eight songs and 43 minutes of heavy, fuzzed-out blues heft, leaning at times into doom as on “Strangled by Smoke,” and is Sabbathian in the winter without directly coping anyone’s riffs. Guitarist Robbie Willis leads the way with warm and weighted guitar tones, while vocalist Chloe Gould croons with command and purpose over the fluidity of could-be-higher-in-the-mix bassist Joshuwah Herald (to be fair, I almost always think bass could be mixed higher) and drummer Richard Bucher, the album’s tracklisting split into two sides, each bookended by longer pieces with two shorter ones between; a method that gives each half of an intended vinyl record its own flow and adds depth to the persona of the album on the whole.
And while there’s a definite sense of nascence in WyndRider‘s WyndRider — they’re a new band and they sound like one; no, I don’t think that’s a bad thing — what comes through more as opener and prior single “Pit Witch” kicks its tempo late is a solid sense that they know of what they riff. I get Acid King vibes off the nodding second cut “Snake Children,” and especially done as well as it is here, that’s never something to complain about.
The production is raw, but clear enough certainly to give an idea of their volume if not the full breadth of their sound as it might feel from a stage. Willis builds walls of fuzz throughout, and with some of the effects on Gould‘s vocals on “Snake Children” and “Creator” (premiering below) and others, the impression is just short of a psychedelic wash, and with the bluesy underpinnings of her delivery, the band’s roots in Iommic methods and their willingness to toy with classic heavy rock and metal in a malleable balance of elements, they’re never quite only-one-thing sonically, and that suits them.
“Creator” broods and lumbers in its verse almost like Candlemass until all seems to take a step back for the guitar solo, and Gould builds a hook in that (purposeful) mire that adds to the momentum of the two songs prior and makes the arrival of “Strangled by Smoke” feel like the righteous moment of mini-culmination that it is, the side A capper layering solos on a long fade to end after a vital and welcome, languid procession that feels all the more tapped into aural largesse for the spaciousness it’s granted. Sabbath in winter, slow, bluesy, loosely ethereal but more concerned ultimately with terrestrial groove than otherworldly presentation. That is, stoner as they may be, there’s little play toward cultistry here, and Gould as a fronting presence is powerful enough that any such witchy trappings would be superfluous. The songs do the work on their own without needing to be oversold.
That straightforwardness of execution and lack of pretense are both assets working in the band’s favor here and signs of forward potential as they grow beyond this first year. The slide into the solo in “Mother in Horns,” for example, nails it. The bass is there under the guitar, fuzzed to the nines, and a slow start-stop resumes for the next verse with a marked smoothness, though admittedly, in the longer track there’s room for more setup. In any case, WyndRider pick up where side A left off, and in a linear format (i.e., digital or CD), the movement from “Strangled by Smoke” into “Mother in Horns” gives the album’s middle a density that suits it well, as though the band were issuing the invitation, “everybody dig in.”
This rolling continues into “Electrophilia,” which may or may not actually be named in honor of Electric Wizard but definitely hints that way in terms of its verse riff, complemented and fleshed out as it is by a more angular high-to-low in the chorus. Set to a structure similar to “Snake Children” earlier, “Electrophilia” is nonetheless different enough to get by, and honestly, if you’re not on board with WyndRider by then and duly hypnotized, you’ve probably already stopped listening. Herald leads through the penultimate interlude “Sleeping Wizard” with ambient guitar noise surrounding — there’s some sense of competition there for ground; something that will ease over time on subsequent outings — and the seven-minute “Space Paper Acid Saloon” arrives suitably molten before its full volume kicks in, the central riff working at a pace deceptively quick with upstrummed-sounding jabs behind Gould‘s verse, sounding very much like they knew it was going to be the closer while they were still writing it.
At the three-minute mark, “Space Paper Acid Saloon” moves into more of a chugging shuffle, carrying through to a twisting solo then back to another verse and evening out again before a solo section holds onto its resonant psychedelic effects while the song works through its final measures, the band having gone as far out as they were going to go and returned no worse for the wear. There are lessons to be learned from WyndRider in terms of dynamic and the band settling into and exploring their sound, but the four-piece give hints at where they’re headed sound-wise, perhaps into broader-reaching heavy psych blues with more of a readiness to loosen structural reins, and offer plenty of arguments in favor of present engagement as well as potential future output. That is, don’t worry, the record rocks. And with it, WyndRider set themselves on a course of craft that will be familiar to genre heads in some of its riffs, but distinct in its take and a more than encouraging starting point. There’s a lot to like.
You’ll find “Creator” premiering on the player below, followed by some more preliminaries about the album, courtesy of the band.
Enjoy:
WyndRider, “Creator” track premiere
WyndRider on “Creator”:
“This was one of the first songs that we wrote. The end of the world as we know it is something that everyone fears. Creator bestows the fear that we are doomed and nothing can save us.”
Album release March 31, 2023 10pm EST. Live show for album release March 31 at The Hideaway in Johnson City, TN and April 1 at the Brickyard in Knoxville, TN. Full album and physical copies will be available exclusively on Bandcamp with select songs on other streaming platforms.
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by The Wizard Productions. Album Cover Art By Novendrika Pratama. Stoner Doom from the Mountains of East Tennessee. First show played on March 31, 2022. Singles “Electrophilia” (demo) and “Pit Witch” (from the album) currently on YouTube, Bandcamp, and all streaming sites.
