Appalachian heavy rockers Bask announce U.S. tour dates with Elder; »The Turning« LP out now on Season Of Mist!

Since 2013, when they first came rumbling down from the Blue Ridge Mountains, Bask have sounded like they belong to their very own time and place. On their LIT Music Award-winning, critically-acclaimed new album, the band take their homebrewed Heavy Americana to a new dimension. With »The Turning«, they pen a heavy, heady and heartfelt ode to their mountain home in the sky.

Today, Bask are excited to announce three shows with Elder. The Asheville natives will join the heavy psychedelic Massachusetts rockers in Richmond, Asheville and Atlanta during their upcoming North American tour.

“We are excited to join the almighty Elder this September,” Bask says. “Fans can also come out and see us later this month on our Midwest jaunt.”

Bask 2026 U.S. Tour Dates:
May 28 – Dayton, OH @ Cosmos Joe Atomic Lounge
May 29 – Chicago, IL @ Live Wire
May 30 – Albion, MI @ Albion Malleable Brewing
September 9 – Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry*
September 10 – Asheville, North Caroline @ The Orange Peel*
September 11 – Atlanta, Georgia @ The Masquerade*

* with Elder

Bask always sounded of their own time and place, but on their long-awaited fourth album, they take Heavy Americana to a whole new dimension. Bask remain grounded in the Appalachia. Downhome fixings poke their prickly head through its sludgier tracks, but »The Turning« truly straddles the fence between cosmic and country. Though already in the band’s orbit, this is their first album to welcome Jed Willis as an official member. Lead single »Dig My Heels« starts with its boots firmly planted in rugged pastures before bounding for the great beyond, where Willis’ pedal steel swirls like all the colors of the Milky Way.

»The Turning« doesn’t just span genres. It stretches across generations in man’s never-ending quest for immortality. The album’s spurred heroine, known simply as The Rider, has her extraterrestrial world turned upside down by »The Traveller«, a mysteriously ageless gunslinger, who arrives armed with a double-barreled riff atop galloping drums. Maze-like twists are revealed at every self-referential turn as the star-crossed outlaws try and outrun the changing of the seasons. But while out of this world, the dwellings on family, aging, death and rebirth hit close to home.

The band finished recording »The Turning« just a few weeks before Hurricane Helene reached their hometown of Asheville, NC. With a wearisome gait, »Long Lost Light« drifts through a ghost town haunted by salooning piano and high, lonesome fiddle, until it’s swept like sawdust into the void. But just as the album’s heroine discovers her hidden powers, the title track ends with the newly mounted five-piece stampeding toward the next frontier. “I danced through age and fire,” vocalist and guitarist Zeb Wright belts, backed by everything Bask stand for: mountainous bass, tumbling drums, blazing leads and sunbursts of pedal steel.

»The Turning« is out now on Season Of Mist. Order & stream HERE.

Bask is:
Jesse Van Note – Bass
Scott Middleton – Drums
Ray Worth – Guitar
Zeb Wright – Guitar/Vocals
Jed Willis – Pedal Steel

Courtesy of Season Of Mist

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well