The Otolith premiere new single »Crossway« on The Sleeping Shaman; »Legends Of The Desert: Vol. 4« split LP with Eagle Twin out September 20th via Desert Records!

Salt Lake City, Utah based atmospheric doom/stoner metal band The Otolith premiere new single »Crossway« on The Sleeping Shaman!

»Crossway« is the second single taken from their split LP with Eagle Twin, »Legends Of The Desert: Vol. 4«, which will be released on September 20th, 2024 via Desert Records.

Tracklist:
Side A
01. Eagle Twin – Horn Vs. Halo
02. Eagle Twin – Qasida Of The Dark Doves
Side B
04. The Otolith – Crossway
05. The Otolith – Phosphene Dream

Courtesy of Desert Bloom PR:

The Otolith premiere new single on The Sleeping Shaman!

“It’s an exciting day for us at Shaman HQ as we’re beyond stoked to bring you a track from the next installment of the Legends Of The Desert series. Now at the infamous Volume 4 landmark, what is set to be a colossal slap of vinyl features two Utah heavyweights in the form of sludge and doom duo Eagle Twin and folk doomers The Otolith.” — Lee (The Sleeping Shaman)

View The Sleeping Shaman premiere HERE

The Otolith:
When celebrated Salt Lake City band SubRosa announced its breakup in 2019, the heavy music community felt the loss of their uniquely elegant and intensely heavy atmospheric doom devotionals. Rather than wonder what velvet darkness might still await, however, four of SubRosa’s members swiftly emerged as a new entity called The Otolith. Following the same muse of cataclysmic melancholy, The Otolith is here to encircle you in the fire of their passion for heavy music.

Levi Hanna’s guitar and Matt Brotherton’s bass steer the ship in a thick, rumbling tandem, while Kim Cordray’s and Sarah Pendleton’s violins push from the center out, sometimes painting the canvas with sharp, melodic leads and others sawing deep into parallel riffing. Andy Patterson’s drums are thunderous and thoughtful, and when the band hits a huge, all-hands-on-deck downbeat, it feels like a mountain tumbling into the hungry sea.

The Otolith is:
Kim Cordray – Violin, Vocals
Levi Hanna – Guitar, Vocals
Andy Patterson – Drums, Percussion
Matt Brotherton – Bass, Vocals
Sarah Pendleton – Violin, Vocals

»Legends Of The Desert« series is the soundtrack to the New Wild West. The focus of the Legends of the Desert is to provide a modern perspective to the antiquated ‘Wild West’ we have etched in our brains. These songs and tales are not told by the same ol’ perspective of the white male Cowboy. These are narratives told by those who never got their stories heard. We will hear from musicians, artists, Natives, outlaws, desert rats, desert dwellers, cactuses and mesas, ravens and roadrunners, snakes and endless skies.

Joshua Mathus, the series artist, hails from Phoenix, AZ. Illustrator of album covers and comic books, and prints.

Listen to the entire series HERE

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