Desert stoner metal pillars Blue Heron share new full-length album »Everything Fades« in full; out September 27th on Blues Funeral Recordings!

Albuquerque, New Mexico based stoner rockers Blue Heron premiere their sophomore full-length album »Everything Fades« in full on The Obelisk!

»Everything Fades« will be released next Friday, September 27th, 2024 via Blues Funeral Recordings.

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 pillars Blue Heron premiere their thunderous new album »Everything Fades« in its entirety today, ahead of its worldwide release on September 27th through Blues Funeral Recordings.

“Blue Heron’s »Everything Fades« is rooted in the mood and verve of the High Desert.” — Doomed & Stoned

“A dense blend of stoner metal and rock with a real penchant for melody.” — Headbanger Reviews

“Speaking scientifically, the record kicks ass.” — The Obelisk

Stream Blue Heron’s new album via The Obelisk
+ watch new videos »We Breathe Darkness« and »Dinosaur«

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. Their new album »Everything Fades« expand on their unyielding desert sound with a new slab of propulsive, sun-scorched riff-heaviness. It 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.

Blue Heron »Everything Fades« out September 27th on Blues Funeral Recordings: Preorder on Bandcamp, Bluesfuneral.com and SPKR shop

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