American heavy psych rockers Heavy Temple stream new live album »Live From The Inner Sanctum« today via Magnetic Eye Records!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based heavy psych rock trio Heavy Temple has just released their new live album »Live From The Inner Sanctum« today, October 9th, 2026 via Magnetic Eye Records in digital format.
Heavy Temple’s drummer Rick Rhody produced, mixed and mastered the live record and edited the videos.
Tracklist:
01. Enter The Heavy Temple
02. Extreme Indifference To Life
03. Hiraeth
04. Divine Indiscretion
05. Key And Bone
06. The Maiden
07. A Desert Through The Trees
08. Return To The Garden Of Heathens
09. Jesus Wept
10. Psychomanteum
Courtesy of Magnetic Eye Records:
»Live From The Inner Sanctum« by our own Heavy Temple arrives on all streaming platforms in full today, reminding us how much this band loves to be onstage and offering us a way through while we anxiously await their live return.
Listen everywhere now for a taste of tracks from across the band’s catalog, raw and ripping as only they can deliver!
Be sure to catch Heavy Temple live this October, where they’ll celebrate their new live record with a string of shows including stops at two awesome fests:
Heavy Temple – October 2026:
Oct 9 – The 808 at Indy CD & Vinyl – Indianapolis, IN
Oct 10 – Grand Rapids Doomfest, The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
Oct 11 – Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
Photo credit: Alexandre da Veiga
Heavy Temple came into existence on the 2012 winter solstice during a night filled with the pure enjoyment of creating and playing heavy music. Once established, the band started playing live and soon got to tour alongside such notables as Ruby The Hatchet, Royal Thunder, and Corrosion Of Conformity and they also got to play at notable festivals such as The Maryland Doom Fest and Psycho Las Vegas among many others.
Following the two EPs »Heavy Temple« (2014) and »Chassit« (2016) and a number of singles, Heavy Temple at last took a break from heavy touring to record their first full-length. »Lupi Amoris« (“Wolves Of Love”) that was released in 2021 to strong applause from both critics and followers alike. This album opened new doors including more festival appearances, a US tour with The Obsessed and their first tour of Europe with friends and labelmates Howling Giant.
After extensively touring across the United States and Europe, Heavy Temple returned with their second full-length album »Garden Of Heathens« in 2024. Recorded at Animal Farm studio where John Forrestal gave the new album a rich and warm organic sound that is also crisp and crystalline. Where the debut full-length »Lupi Amoris« charged forward like a roaring mastodon, »Garden Of Heathens« comes across more diverse and sophisticated without losing punch or heaviness.
And while the powerful vocals of frontwoman High Priestess Nighthawk provide a strong gravitational pull, Heavy Temple always remain a riff-first kind of band. Even so, the heavy-touring Philadelphia, PA trio have expanded their range to encompass an even wider breadth of rock and metal road stops, from Baroness to The Beatles and Black Sabbath to Fu Manchu – with many crossroads in between. Lyrically, Nighthawk wrote her most personal lines so far as the album revolves thematically around things that aren’t real – from the American Dream to relationships. No matter how shiny something looks, below the surface lurk anxiety, betrayal, and doubt.
Heavy Temple are not just back, they are here to stay. »Garden Of Heathens« gives strong testimony that the trio is pushing hard to broaden their spectrum and break through any preconceptions and obstacles in front of them. »Garden Of Heathens« sheds new light and a wider perspective on heavy and desert rock, psychedelia, and doom metal.
Heavy Temple is:
High Priestess NightHawk – Bass, Vocals
Christian Lopez – Guitars
Rick Rhody – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well