US heavy rock quartet Faerie Ring reveals the second single »Never Rains At Midnite« taken from their sophomore full-length album »Weary Traveler«

After »Silver Man In The Sky«, Evansville, Indiana based heavy rock quartet Faerie Ring reveals the second single »Never Rains At Midnite« taken from their sophomore full-length album, »Weary Traveler«, set to release on April 14th, 2023 via King Volume Records, Wise Blood Records and Kozmik Artifactz.

Tracklist:
01. Weary Traveler
02. Silver Man In The Sky
03. Never Rains At Midnite
04. Endless Color / Dope Purple
05. Lover
06. Motor Boss

Courtesy of Wise Blood Records:

Faerie Ring are stoner doom of the HIGHest order. Heavy cosmic psych, thick fuzz, and riffs upon riffs. The hazy and gloomy stoner doom band from Evansville, Indiana, channels their love for bombastic riffs, soaring vocals, high fantasy, and science fiction into »Weary Traveler«, a mystical and weed-inspired romp recorded by Alex Kercheval (Coven) and set for release through King Volume, Wise Blood, and Kozmik Artifactz.

Faerie Ring, the hazy and gloomy stoner doom band from Evansville, Indiana, channels their love for bombastic riffs, soaring vocals, high fantasy, and science fiction into »Weary Traveler«, a mystical and weed-inspired romp recorded by Alex Kercheval (Coven) and set for release through King Volume Records on April 14, 2023.

»Weary Traveler« is a marked step forward in the band’s songwriting and recording processes. While their debut album (2019’s The Clearing) was an amalgam of massive riffs recorded in a friend’s basement, »Weary Traveler« delivers a coordinated and deliberate buffet of cohesive songs meticulously written by the band. Just as important, the album was professionally recorded at Postal Recording Studio in Indianapolis by Alex Kercheval, an essential part of the legendary rock band Coven. Under Kercheval’s guidance, the band recorded directly to tape and took numerous opportunities to experiment in the studio

“Alex Kercheval is a genius,” says guitarist Kyle Hulgus. “In the beginning of »Lover«, one of our singles, we have a section that sounds like it’s coming through a radio… Well, Alex did this by broadcasting the raw tape tracks over AM radio, then recorded the radio, dialed it in, then bounced that through a series of outboard pre-amps for about 15 seconds. It was amazing.”

Experimentation was a key part of the creative process in »Weary Traveler«. For »Silver Man In The Sky«, another single, the band wanted the sound of an anvil, so they took an iron skillet (which the band wound up cooking in a few hours later) into the recording booth and bashed it with a hammer in front of a $20,000 Telefunken microphone. As Kyle recalls: “There was a moment in the song where we were sending a signal from a Steinway piano worth more than my house through a Death By Audio Fuzz Delay into a Sunn Model-T. I felt like a mad scientist.”

Working in a professional studio also gave them access to professional equipment for the first time. From the Steinway piano to the Telefunken microphone, the band found the perfect complements to its arsenal of Sunn Model-T & Orange amplifiers and Big Muff & Turbo Rat pedals. With these components combined, the band created an album that is crisper and more focused—while still generating the same loud energy that made The Clearing so impressive. Incredibly, Alex Kercheval managed to capture the entire album in one go, which provided him and the rest of the band with multiple days to perfect the record’s sound.

Pre-order »Weary Traveler« here:
US vinyl (Faerie Ring & King Volume exclusives): faeriering.bandcamp.com
US vinyl (Wise Blood Records exclusive): wisebloodrecords.bandcamp.com
EU vinyl (Kozmik Artifactz): shop.bilocationrecords.com

Recorded by Alex Kercheval & Morgan Satterfield at Postal Recording Studio.
Mastered by Cauliflower Audio.
Art by Jerry Hionis.
Logo by Daniel Porta.
Design by Chris Allison.

Faerie Ring is:
James Wallwork – Guitar & Vocals
Kyle Hulgus – Guitar
Alex Wallwork – Bass
Joey Rhew – Drums

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