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Blaak Heat Streams "Shifting Mirrors"
Los Angeles avant-garde psych rock band Blaak Heat will release new album, "Shifting Mirrors," on May 13th via Tee Pee Records.
The LP was recorded with Grammy Award winning producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Deftones), at Megawatt Recording (Santana, Tool). In advance of the release of "Shifting Mirrors," today you can hear new song "Ballad of Zeta Brown."
Blaak Heat just performed as part of the 2016 Levitation Festival and its kickoff event, appearing at the Mohawk in Austin alongside The Well, Pinkish Black and Chelsea Wolfe. As part of its coverage of the show, the Austin Chronicle called the trio's unique sound, "Middle Eastern-flavored power rock – think Cream if its members had grown up with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan instead of Robert Johnson."
See the band live on these upcoming tour dates:
May 4 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
May 6 Portland, OR The Foggy Notion
May 7 Seattle, WA Lo-Fi Performance Gallery
May 9 San Francisco, CA Elbo Room More...
Blaak Heat Streaming New Track
Los Angeles avant-garde psych rock band Blaak Heat will release new album "Shifting Mirrors" on May 13th via Tee Pee Records. The album was recorded with Grammy Award winning producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Deftones) at Megawatt Recording (Santana, Tool).
In advance of the release of upcoming album "Shifting Mirrors," today you can hear brand new track "Mola Mamad Djan." Listen in below.
In additional news, Blaak Heat will perform as part of the 2016 Levitation Festival in Austin, Texas. The band will play tonight (April 28) as part of the revered fest's kickoff event schedule, appearing at the Mohawk alongside The Well, Pinkish Black and Chelsea Wolfe. More...
Blaak Heat Releasing "Shifting Mirrors"
Blaak Heat is an avant-garde, Parisian-American stoner rock trio, now signed Svart Records and prepping the "Shifting Mirrors" album for release on April 15th.
The band enlisted the help of Grammy Award-winning Matt Hyde (Deftones, Slayer) to produce the material that makes up this perilous and fervent third album. To get a taste of the album, check out a video for "Sword Of Hakim" below.
Discussing the nature of the album’s sound, guitarist/singer Thomas Bellier Bellier said: “We took our favorite Middle Eastern sounds, and reinterpreted them through the prism of our cultural baggage – weird European psychedelia, a healthy dose of vintage hard rock, experimental jazz... With Matt [Hyde], we were able to mix loud fuzz guitar tones along with traditional acoustic instruments, such as the oud and the kanun.” More...
Borderland Fuzz Fiesta Reveals 2016 Lineup
Tucson's Borderland Fuzz Fiesta is back for its second year in a row, bringing the unmistakable sounds of Palm Desert, California and beyond to 191 Toole on Friday, February 26 and Saturday, February 27, 2016.
Today the festival's curators, the Rudell brothers of both Powered Wig Machine and Fuzz Evil, have revealed that Elder will headline the the Saturday night show, joining Dead Meadow in one of the loudest weekends the desert will see this year. More...