UK experimental noise rockers POHL & Ogives Big Band announce split album with Ripcord Records; first track streaming now!

UK experimental noise rockers POHL and Ogives Big Band teamed up for the release of their split album, which will see the light on October 2nd, 2026 via Ripcord Records.

Listen to the first track, Ogives Big Band’s »I’m Glad You Exist« below!

Tracklist:
01. Ogives Big Band – I’m Glad You Exist
02. Ogives Big Band – The Patron Saint Of Lost Causes (feat. Ephel Duath)
03. Ogives Big Band – Dragging The Plates
04. Ogives Big Band – Read Us The Book Of The Names Of The Dead
05. POHL – Flayed Lord Prayer

Courtesy of Sheltered Life PR:

Sheffield’s POHL and Bristol’s Ogives Big Band join forces for a ferocious split of experimental noise rock, psychedelic heaviness and riff-driven chaos…

We’re thrilled to announce that Sheffield noise trio POHL and Bristol riff powerhouse Ogives Big Band are joining forces for an EU tour and split album on Ripcord Records.

As two of the UK underground’s most progressively heavy bands, POHL and Ogives Big Band share an appetite for colossal riffs, warped psychedelia, experimentation and outright sonic punishment. »Split« – due for official release this October – brings these two distinct but complementary approaches together with both bands pushing their respective sounds into exciting new territories.

POHL are a genre-bending psychedelic noise rock trio from Sheffield featuring guitarist and vocalist Will Pearce (ex-Hey Colossus), drummer Linda Westman (ex-Old Hope) and Lyra Johnson (Lo Egin) on bass. Following the release of their debut album »Mysteries« on Wrong Speed Records in July 2024, the band have spent the last two years building a reputation as one of the UK’s most compelling and unpredictable live bands, touring with the likes of Dearthworms, Human Leather, and Sleemo, as well as playing dozens of shows across the country.

Pohl

Their contribution to »Split« is »Flayed Lord Prayer«, a sprawling 17-minute opus that brings together odd time signatures, soaring vocals, tortured screams and nightmares. Wrapped in brutal riffs, while somehow remaining strangely catchy, it was recorded and produced by Pearce as an expansive, abrasive and deeply immersive track, shifting between crushing heaviness and psychedelic disorientation. It represents a natural progression from the approach established on Mysteries but stretches that sound into something even stranger and more imposing.

On the flip-side, Ogives Big Band are a Bristol-based riff powerhouse whose monstrously heavy, psychedelic and cerebral sound refuses to sit comfortably within any single genre. Following their first two EPs and 2024 debut LP »Boisterous Love«, the band have carved out a sound encompassing savage, angular doom, sludge, progressive metal, psychedelic stoner rock and whatever else happens to get caught in the blast radius.

With »Split«, Ogives Big Band contribute four new tracks that take the band’s established vocabulary for complex rhythms and hook-laden refrains, sharpening it into something heavier, and more streamlined. Recorded by James King at Joe’s Garage, mixed by Corey Carruthers-Bell at Tree Angle Studios and mastered by Stephen Kerrison. The crushing riffs remain firmly at the centre, and the band’s knack for huge, memorable moments endure, as the new material is refined and honed into a more direct and pummelling proposition.

Ogives Big Band

Together, POHL and Ogives Big Band represent two sides of the same instinct: to make heavy music that is adventurous, unpredictable and unconcerned with genre boundaries. Both bands take to the road across Europe this October (dates TBC) in support of »Split«, which is released 2nd October 2026 via Ripcord Records. Pre-order HERE.

Press on Pohl:

“In Mysteries the band’s creative vision has never been clearer […] Another brilliant record, from a brilliant band.” — The Quietus

“An all-consuming wall of sound, meant to be listened to at maximum volume.” — Decibel Magazine

Press on Ogives Big Band:

“These Bristolians are a must listen for fans of Melvins’ noisiest moments, Mastodon’s freakiest freak-outs or Breach’s eye-bulging intensity.” — Metal Hammer

“That pummelling and thoroughly obnoxious sound that’s registering on the Richter scale and causing the neighbours to pack their bags and flee to the hills in panic isn’t an earthquake, but the heavy monster sounds of Ogives Big Band.” — Classic Rock Magazine

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