New York heavy psych rockers Sun Voyager share new single »Running Hot«, their first new music in years!

New York heavy psych rockers Sun Voyager are back with a brand new single »Running Hot«, their first new music in years.

Sun Voyager on »Running Hot«: “It’s been a while since our last record. Two of us have kids now, the pace shifted, and Shaman Smoke entered the fold. We dropped our tuning and leaned into something heavier. The grooves got chunkier. We did too.

»Running Hot« is the second movement of a three-part saga we’re calling Vandromeda. It builds tension, hits full burn, and lands with purpose – we are dropping you in at top speed.

This is the first taste. No streaming date to announce.”

NYC’s own Sun Voyager aren’t afraid to crank amps beyond authorized levels, add fuel to the fire and ultimately piss off the neighbors with the loud and high-octane follow-up to their acclaimed 2018 debut album »Seismic Vibes«. Fusing proto-metal with krautrock jam-inspired freakouts and a frantic dose of organ-laden psychedelia, their sophomore album »Sun Voyager« is a straight shooter.

Formed in 2014 and propelled by their split album with Greasy Hearts, Sun Voyager is a heavy psychedelic rock powerhouse from New York that fuses early metal influences from the comedown era with kraut jam-inspired stoner rock freakouts. After the release of their 2018 self-titled debut, Sun Voyager toured a lot and started experimenting and refining their jamming facet on stage, freaking out more, grooving out more, while finding a whole new level to their sound. Rehearsals then turn into 2-hour jams and the sound of their sophomore album »Sun Voyager« stems a lot from that experimentation. A mellow groove in the vein of Dead Meadow or Spacemen 3 will sometimes take off into full-blown AC/DC or slowly build as Earthless would, while a heavy swing that feels like the Allman Brothers will end up sounding like Red Fang (and vice versa). If their jams aren’t totally ripping your face off with fuzz, they will blow your minds through their indecent amount of reverb or wah. The trio released »Sun Voyager« on October 7th, 2022 via Ripple Music.

“Sun Voyager emerge from their reconfiguration precisely as one would hope.” – JJ Koczan, The Obelisk

Recorded at Artfarm Recording, Accord, NY.
Mixed and engineered by Dave Andersen.
Mastered by Alan Douches, West West Side Music.
Logo design by John Scarperia.
Original photo by Shaman Smoke.
Artwork by Kim Zangrando.

Sun Voyager is:
Shaman Smoke – Guitar, Vocals
Stefan Mersch – Bass, Vocals
Kyle Beach – Drums

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