Wednesday, April 2, 2025

SLUMBERING SUN (Temptress, Monte Luna members) share "Midsommar Night's Dream" single from forthcoming sophomore album

 

"Trippy, melodic doom metal. From the moment you hit play, 'Liminal Bridges' feels like a transitional track meant to guide you along a wispy, winding trail in a slightly foggy forest while on a quest." -- Metal Sucks


“An ice-cold blend of 90s alternative, doom, and prog that will quench your thirst for captivating melodies, thundering percussion, and grungy riffs! They’ve created an epic mash-up of classic doom and added the soaring vocals and towering instrumentation that took us on the sonic journey from Sabbath to Maiden to Soundgarden.” — CvltNation


"Nothing short of fantastic, and should be blasted at full volume." -- Metal Injection


"Possibly the best doom album I've heard this year... Front to back it's an insanely well done work, with remarkably clear vision." -- Invisible Oranges




Austin band Slumbering Sun share a new single from their forthcoming sophomore album today. Hear and share "Midsommar Night's Dream" on all DSPs HERE


Invisible Oranges previously shared the lead single "Together Forever" HERE.


Hear and share the band's debut full length The Ever-Living Fire via Bandcamp and Spotify. Watch and share the video for "Dream Snake" via YouTube.


Slumbering Sun is a powerful new melodic doom entity formed by members of underground mainstays Temptress, Destroyer of Light and Monte Luna. Their resulting sound explores broader melodies and sonics than their other bands, inspired as much by Celtic folk standards as by doom, grunge and shoegaze.


Slumbering Sun makes music for crazy romantics. Keegan Kjeldsen, James Clarke, Kelsey Wilson, Garth Condit and Kelly “Penny” Turner joined forces in 2022 in order to weave a dreamy kind of doom that would incorporate shoegaze, grunge and prog. All were friends in the Texas metal scene, assembled from bands in Austin & Dallas, who sought to elevate the love and camaraderie they’d found over the years into an artistic vision. 


After releasing their debut, The Ever-Living Fire (2023, #20 debut on Doom Charts), Slumbering Sun played their first show at Stoner Jam during SXSW, embarked on a series of regional tours, and capped off the year with an appearance at Ripple Fest. The band spent all of 2024 making their second effort, Starmony, in between touring the Midwest, and releasing their single “Out of the Blue & Into the Void” — a brilliant mashup of Neil Young’s and Black Sabbath’s classic tracks. With no plans to slow down, and the band intends to make more metalheads than ever pound their fists and cry about their exes. 


Starmony will be available on limited edition LP and digital on May 6th, 2025. Orders are available HERE


Band members:

James Clarke (Vocals) – of Monte Luna

Keegan Kjeldsen (Guitar) – of Destroyer of Light

Kelsey Wilson (Guitar) – of Temptress

Garth Condit (Bass) – of Monte Luna, Scorpion Child

Penny Turner (Drums) – of Destroyer of Light




SLUMBERING SUN LIVE 2025:

05/02 Austin, TX - Valhalla (album release show)

05/03 San Antonio, TX - Faust

05/15 Corpus Christi, TX - House of Rock

05/16 Bryan, TX - The 101

05/30 Austin, TX - Crowbar

06/04 El Paso, TX - Rosewood

06/06 Tempe, AZ - Yucca Tap Room

06/07 Las Vegas, NV - Dive Bar

06/08 Palmdale, CA - Transplants Brewing

06/10 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of The Hill

06/11 Redding, CA - Temple Music

06/12 Eugene, OR - Sparrow & Serpent

06/13 Portland, OR - High Water Mark - Soundcastle

06/14 Olympia, WA - McCoy's

06/15 Bellingham, WA - Shakedown

06/17 Moscow, ID - Mikey's

06/18 Boise, ID - Neurolux

06/19 Salt Lake City, UT - Aces High

06/20 Denver, CO - Squire

06/21 Colorado Springs, CO - What's Left Records

06/22 Wichita, KS - Kirby's Beer Store

07/11 Asheville, NC - Doomed and Stoned Festival

07/12 Athens, GA - Flickr

07/13 Atlanta, GA - Boggs








Artist: Slumbering Sun

Album: Starmony

Record Label: Self-released 

Release Date: May 9th, 2025


01. Together Forever

02. Keep it Secret

03. Midsommar Night's Dream

04. The Solar Bear

05. Danse Macabre

06. The Tower

07. Wanderlust



On The Web:

linktr.ee/slumberingsun

slumberingsun.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/slumbering_sun

















Friday, March 28, 2025

3-part harmony stoner doom trio SPACE QUEEN share "Incantation" single from forthcoming full length debut

 

"Balancing pop accessibility and ethereal reach... oozing with aura and mood, but still purposeful in its structure." -- The Obelisk



Vancouver, BC trio Space Queen share a new single today, "Incantation" as a teaser for their forthcoming full length debut album out later this year. The Obelisk discusses the track and the band, whose previous EP the site included in their Best of 2023 picks, HERE. "Incantation" is also now streaming on all DSPs HERE


Space Queen is the stoner rock evolution of power trio Jenna Earle (guitar/vocals), Seah Maister (bass/keys/vocals) and Karli MacIntosh (drums/vocals).


Space Queen takes the trio’s signature haunting vocal harmonies and sends them soaring over a cosmic canvas of neo-psychedelic rock. Driving beats from MacIntosh provide an anchor for Earle’s heavy distortion and 70s-style riffs, while Maister keeps everything grounded on fuzzed-out, gnarly bass. 


The band released their debut EP in 2020 which garnered a ton of favorable press and college radio play, including landing on the Earshot charts. Space Queen was featured on Nardwuar The Human Serviette’s radio show for a month leading up to their EP release. 


Space Queen has steadily increased their following by opening for Meatbodies, King Buffalo, Blackwater Holylight, Dopethrone, Cancer Bats, Hippie Death Cult, Mondo Drag, The Well, Acid Mother's Temple, RIP, Spirit Mother, Spoon Benders, Hastronaut, Mos Generator and Black Mastiff. The band also hit multiple festival stages including Massif Music fest, Electric Highway, Tune It Down Turn It Up Festival, The Dream Roll, The California Avocado Festival, Noise Cult Festival, Rock 'n' Roll Pride, and Fallen Fest.

 

2023-2024 have been landmark years for the band: They released their sophomore record, Nebula, supported by extensive touring in western Canada, across-Canada (to Toronto to play NXNE), the U.S. west coast, and Southern California multiple times. 


Nebula landed on Best of 2023 lists by The Obelisk and Diary Of Doom.


SPACE QUEEN LIVE 2025:

03/28 Vancouver, BC - The Waldorf (single release show)

04/12 Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room

04/13 Calgary, AB - Modern Love



























On The Web:

wearespacequeen.com

instagram.com/wearespacequeen 

facebook.com/wearespacequeen 

wearespacequeen.bandcamp.com