US heavy rock trio Heavy Temple announces live album »Live From The Inner Sanctum« and releases »Key And Bone« live video!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based heavy rock trio Heavy Temple share live performance video for »Key And Bone« taken from their upcoming live album, »Live From The Inner Sanctum«, which will be released digitally on October 9th, 2026 via Magnetic Eye Records.
Tracklist:
01. Enter The Heavy Temple
02. Extreme Indifference To Life
03. Hiraeth
04. Divine Indiscretion
05. Key And Bone
06. The Maiden
07. A Desert Through The Trees
08. Return To The Garden Of Heathens
09. Jesus Wept
10. Psychomanteum
Courtesy of Magnetic Eye Records:
Our own Heavy Temple have dropped a first single and live footage video for the song »Key And Bone« taken from their upcoming digital release »Live From The Inner Sanctum«. The track is streaming everywhere now, and the full live album from our favorite heavy psych rockers is slated for release on October 9, 2026.
High Priestess Nighthawk says, »Key And Bone« was the first song I ever wrote, and we’ve never updated it to reflect how we play it now, so I thought it was time for a little glow-up. The last two minutes are still one of my favorite parts of the set all these years later, and it’s great fun to hear the song as it exists in its current form.”
Be sure to catch Heavy Temple live this October, where they’ll celebrate their new live record with a string of shows including stops at two awesome fests:
Heavy Temple – October 2026
Oct 2 – Nikki Lopez – Philadelphia, PA
Oct 3 – In the Key of Doom Fest, The Meadows – Brooklyn, NY (Crystal Spiders only)
Oct 3 – Counterweight Brewing 7 – Cheshire, CT (Heavy Temple only)
Oct 4 – Middle East Upstairs – Cambridge, MA
Oct 6 – Pie Shop – Washington, DC
Oct 7 – No Class – Cleveland, OH
Oct 8 – Al’s Bar – Lexington, KY
Oct 9 – The 808 at Indy CD & Vinyl – Indianapolis, IN
Oct 10 – Grand Rapids Doomfest, The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
Oct 11 – Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
Heavy Temple came into existence on the 2012 winter solstice during a night filled with the pure enjoyment of creating and playing heavy music. Once established, the band started playing live and soon got to tour alongside such notables as Ruby The Hatchet, Royal Thunder, and Corrosion Of Conformity and they also got to play at notable festivals such as The Maryland Doom Fest and Psycho Las Vegas among many others.
Following the two EPs »Heavy Temple« (2014) and »Chassit« (2016) and a number of singles, Heavy Temple at last took a break from heavy touring to record their first full-length. »Lupi Amoris« (“Wolves Of Love”) that was released in 2021 to strong applause from both critics and followers alike. This album opened new doors including more festival appearances, a US tour with The Obsessed and their first tour of Europe with friends and labelmates Howling Giant.
After extensively touring across the United States and Europe, Heavy Temple returned with their second full-length album »Garden Of Heathens« in 2024. Recorded at Animal Farm studio where John Forrestal gave the new album a rich and warm organic sound that is also crisp and crystalline. Where the debut full-length »Lupi Amoris« charged forward like a roaring mastodon, »Garden Of Heathens« comes across more diverse and sophisticated without losing punch or heaviness.
And while the powerful vocals of frontwoman High Priestess Nighthawk provide a strong gravitational pull, Heavy Temple always remain a riff-first kind of band. Even so, the heavy-touring Philadelphia, PA trio have expanded their range to encompass an even wider breadth of rock and metal road stops, from Baroness to The Beatles and Black Sabbath to Fu Manchu – with many crossroads in between. Lyrically, Nighthawk wrote her most personal lines so far as the album revolves thematically around things that aren’t real – from the American Dream to relationships. No matter how shiny something looks, below the surface lurk anxiety, betrayal, and doubt.
Heavy Temple are not just back, they are here to stay. »Garden Of Heathens« gives strong testimony that the trio is pushing hard to broaden their spectrum and break through any preconceptions and obstacles in front of them. »Garden Of Heathens« sheds new light and a wider perspective on heavy and desert rock, psychedelia, and doom metal.
Heavy Temple is:
High Priestess NightHawk – Bass, Vocals
Christian Lopez – Guitars
Rick Rhody – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well