US post-doom architects Insomniac release bewitching debut album »Om Moksha Ritam« on Blues Funeral Recordings; US tour starts soon!
Atlanta, Georgia based post-doom architects Insomniac are streaming their debut album, »Om Moksha Ritam«, which was just released this Friday, September 5th, 2025 via Blues Funeral Recordings.
Tracklist:
01. Meditation
02. Mountain
03. Snow and Ice
04. Forest
05. Sea
06. Desert
07. Awakening
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Shift your consciousness into a new realm of towering riffs and aural transcendence with the debut album from Atlanta-based post-doom architects Insomniac (with members of Zoroaster, Deceased and Avedissian Pickups), releasing today on Blues Funeral Recordings.
Feel the towering heavy psych of debut album »Om Moksha Ritam«
+ watch new videos »Awakening« and »Mountain«
“This record is pure beauty.” – Musipedia Of Metal
“Breathtaking and brilliantly surreal.” – Outlaws Of The Sun
“This bridges the big epic rock riffage with hypnotic pulses.” – Abysmal Hymns
“An experience that is truly mandatory for all who consider themselves even the most casual fans of heavy psych.” – Headbanger Reviews
Blues Funeral Recordings founder Jadd Shickler enthuses: “»Om Moksha Ritam« doesn’t feel like a first album, but something more timeless, as though Insomniac are plugged straight into the thrumming pulse of the universe – it’s always been here, and will continue on into eternity. That’s why we had no choice but to bring this record into the world as soon as we heard it. We can’t wait for fans of King Buffalo, REZN, The Black Angels and Dead Meadow to experience this transcendent first statement.”
Their stunning debut »Om Moksha Ritam« (or “Liberation through merging with the Universal Rhythm”) is a concept album that guides the listener through an aural and spiritual journey across multiple extreme environments, testing their resolve, principles, and commitment to adhering to the path.
Woefully, the band recently experienced the sudden passing of guitarist and founding member Mike Morris. As is their way, Insomniac has decided to stick to the path and to continue sharing their music with the world in his memory. “This music was so important to him, and to us, that we knew it was exactly what he would have wanted. The path, we must keep on.”
Insomniac US fall tour:
9/16 – Birmingham, AL @ Firehouse
9/17 – Memphis, TN @ The Hi-Tone
9/18 – Dallas, TX @ Armoury DE
9/19 – Austin, TX @ Ripplefest
9/20 – Houston, TX @ 19th Hole
9/21 – Pensacola, FL – The Handlebar*
10/16 – Asheville, NC @ The Odd*
10/17 – Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House*
10/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye*
10/19 – Cambridge, MA @ Sonia*
10/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Milk Boy*
10/22 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery*
10/23 – Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl*
10/24 – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary*
10/25 – Chicago, IL @ Reggies Music Joint*
10/26 – Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade*
10/28 – Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck*
10/29 – Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard*
10/30 – Austin, TX @ The Lost Well*
11/31 – New Orleans, LA @ Holy Diver*
11/1 – Panama City, FL @ Mosey’s*
11/2 – Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social*
* with Kal-El
Debut album »Om Moksha Ritam« available now on Blues Funeral Recordings: Blues Funeral store – Bandcamp – EU shop – UK shop
You’ve got it all wrong. The Insomniac isn’t unable to sleep, the Insomniac chooses to evade sleep. We all fall down at some point, but between the waking world and our dreams exists the surreal. In pursuit of that space between, some of history’s most prominent visionaries would hold a physical object, like a spoon or a ball, while sitting in a chair, and allow themselves to succumb to sleep. As they drifted off, the object would fall, and the sound would awaken them at the periphery of unconsciousness. Now more alert than ever, their work could begin.
Such is Insomniac. A band that exists between this world and the next. A bouncing ball on the sound and rhythm of the universe. An aural guide. Writing their songs in the frequency of the earth, the Atlanta-based quintet’s sound casts light on the magic and strange beauty in the balance between unconsciousness and dreams.
On their debut record »Om Moksha Ritam«, to be released September 2025 via Blues Funeral Recordings, Insomniac delivers a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey, both physical and abstract. The duality of the experience is for you to experience. Every trip is different. Every spin reveals another layer. Here exists something new, unique, and incomparable. A band that made the music they wanted to hear because it needed to exist. What you choose to do with this information is your choice alone – but don’t sleep on it.
Insomniac is:
Alex Avedissian – Guitar
Van Bassman – Vocals
Juan Garcia – Bass
Mike Morris – Guitar, Vocals
Amos Rifkin – Percussion, Vocals
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well