American stoner metal trio Deserts Of Mars reveal new single »Crimson Mountain« ahead of forthcoming album »Dead Planet Exodus«
Austin, Texas based stoner metal trio Deserts Of Mars has revealed the first single »Crimson Mountain« taken from their forthcoming album, »Dead Planet Exodus«, which will see the light later this year.
Tracklist:
01. Crashdown
02. Temple Of The Rain
03. Shilluminati
04. Dead Planet
05. Darkness
06. Midnight Comes
07. Never
08. Temporal Vampires
09. Crimson Mountain
10. The Fallen
Courtesy of C Squared Music:
Heavily inspired by sci-fi and Tabletop RPGs, Deserts Of Mars deliver a dynamic sonic mixture of stoner rock, grunge, metal, and doom/industrial. The new single »Crimson Mountain« is out now, and lands ahead of the forthcoming album »Dead Planet Exodus« to be released later this year.
The band comments on »Crimson Mountain«: “An anthem and rallying cry for the Crashtronauts and the band as our heroes hop into a battle vehicle and head to take the rocket base atop the Crimson Mountain (you can see the rocket taking off on the album cover). I channeled all the anime/action visuals in my head for this one, as I wanted to evoke the feeling of a band going for broke with weapons shaped like instruments, slaying their enemies, and reaching their ultimate goal.
Thinly veiled, but the last lyric: ‘This flight, our final fight To seize our place Among the stars’ is how I feel this album and its strange winding production has been for the band. This is our final make or break during this time period, and a call to action that we have to make things happen.”
Photo by Erik Bredthauer // NecroBlanca Photography
About Deserts Of Mars:
Austin, Texas, based Deserts Of Mars was formed in 2006 by band leader and founder Tony Salvaggio. Salvaggio explains the ideology behind the band: “I came up with the name Deserts Of Mars because I wanted to evoke the desert rock vibe. However, it also has a sci-fi slant; it can mean the God of War, so it has ties to mythology. I love letting the listener/viewer decide what it means to them.”
Salvaggio continues, “[Deserts Of Mars runs off of] a steady diet of sci-fi movies, novels, manga, animation, RPGS, and metal fuels me and bleeds into the rest of the band. I’ve been a nerd first and a metalhead for a very long time, and I’ve never grown out of that quest for the next fun thing to watch/read/listen to half a century into life. I feel like if I lose that sense of wonder, it’s over. Always be learning/listening/creating.”
Deserts Of Mars is:
Tony Salvaggio – Bass, Vocals
Morgan Faber – Drums
Kotah Mack – Guitar (2024)
»Dead Planet Exodus« guests:
Bradley Barnes – Guitar (OG riffs on »Crashdown«, »Temple Of The Rain«)
Jeff Henson – Rhythm and Lead Guitar Wizardry
Jeff Klein – Interstellar Rhythm and Lead Guitar
»Dead Planet Exodus« art credits:
Cover art – Sana Freeman
Interior art – Rolf Mohr
Additional art – Joshua Dartez Art
Band promo photos – Erik Bredthauer // NecroBlanca Photography
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well