Blue Heron premiere new single and music video »Dinosaur«; sophomore album »Everything Fades« out September 27th on Blues Funeral Recordings!
Albuquerque, New Mexico based stoner rockers Blue Heron premiere new single and music video »Dinosaur« taken from their sophomore full-length album, »Everything Fades«, set to release on September 27th, 2024 via Blues Funeral Recordings.
Says the band: “Our new single »Dinosaur« is out now on all streaming services including a fun music video on our YouTube. We are so stoked to get this one out, it’s gonna be a big part of our live set, so go stream and blast it now!”
Tracklist:
01. Null Geodesic
02. Everything Fades
03. Swansong
04. We Breathe Darkness
05. Dinosaur
06. Trepidation
07. Clearmountain
08. Bellwether
09. Flight Of The Heron
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Albuquerque, New Mexico’s heavy rock torchbearers Blue Heron release their catchy new single »Dinosaur« on all streaming platforms, with the official video streaming now via Doomed & Stoned. Their new album »Everything Fades« will be out on September 27th via Blues Funeral Recordings.
About »Dinosaur«, vocalist Jadd Shickler comments: “This song was in the works for years and changed quite a few times. Originally called Brontosaurus, it was meant to evoke this massive beast that turns out to have never actually existed, and it always had a swinging, lumbering riff at its center. Once we locked the music, I started to imagine hulking industrial factories full of activity, where workers can spend years and decades and absolutely must keep focused on what’s in front of them because distraction can equal danger or injury or worse. Another metaphor about time passing and life going by, which I’m clearly fascinated and obsessed with.”
Watch new video »Dinosaur« via Doomed & Stoned
+ listen to the single on all streaming services
Blue Heron expand on their unyielding desert sound with a new slab of propulsive, sun-scorched riff-heaviness. »Everything Fades« finds the band reveling in low-tuned roil and amplifier hum, churning out swerving grooves as if the primordial spirit of the desert itself compels them.
Balanced between laid-back, meditative atmospherics and heavier, more aggressive lunges, Blue Heron’s cruising jams and gritty stoner romps call to mind echoes of Kyuss, Clutch and Monster Magnet, as well as modern contemporaries Valley of the Sun and Greenleaf. Full of rhythmic intensity, sledgehammer riffing, and vocals ranging from clean and moody to howling and raw, »Everything Fades« covers a wide expanse of musical ground that shows how familiar influences can always be molded into inventive, exciting new forms. Stream Blue Heron’s previous singles »Everything Fades« and »We Breathe Darkness«!
Blue Heron »Everything Fades« out September 27th on Blues Funeral Recordings: Preorder on Bandcamp, Bluesfuneral.com and SPKR shop
Surrounded by endless horizons, Blue Heron formed in 2018 out of a compulsion to fill the vastness with massive volume, saturating their piece of desert with rolling, thunderous riffs, drums that pummel and swing, deep, thrumming tones and vocals that rip and roar.
Blue Heron’s guitarist and singer were founding members of Spiritu, possibly Albuquerque, New Mexico’s first desert rock band, whose brief burn in the early aughts included a Jack Endino-produced LP, a European tour with Clutch, Spiritual Beggars and Dozer, and a compilation appearance alongside Entombed and Mastodon. Their debut LP »Ephemeral« arrived in May of 2022 via Kozmik Artifactz in Europe and Seeing Red Records in the USA. Substantial appreciation in the underground led to performances at Ripplefest Texas and Monolith On The Mesa and opening slots for The Well, Elder, Black Mountain, Ruby The Hatchet, Howling Giant, Heavy Temple and The Obsessed, along with a swath of positive reviews throughout the heavy media.
In May 2023, Blue Heron dropped three new tracks on a split LP with friends and fellow southwestern riff-purveyors High Desert Queen for Ripple Music’s Turned to Stone series, with cover art by award-winning comic and poster artist Johnny Dombrowski. The bands embarked on a short tour in August 2023, before Blue Heron set to work on their next proper album with a summer 2024 release date in mind.
Blue Heron is:
Mike Chavez – Guitars
Ricardo Sanchez – Drums
Steve Schmidlapp – Bass
Jadd Shickler – Vocals
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well