Desert Storm Reveal First Single From New Album
Oxford, UK's heavy and melodic sludge metal torchbearers DESERT STORM present their stirring "Woodsman" video, taken from their anticipated new album "Buried Under the Weight of Reason" coming out this March 6th on Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
Check it out here:
With “Woodsman”, DESERT STORM conjures an elemental soundscape that invites listeners to abandon the familiar, embrace the instinctual, and walk deeper into the uncharted wilderness. “'This is a journey into the wild, an evocative blend of crushing heaviness and contemplative stillness where soulful textures and rare, almost ceremonial vocals emerge like voices in the forest. Lyrically, it steps away from the trappings of civilization and into the primal embrace of the natural world. Inspired by reclusive wilderness dwellers of myth and memory, it reflects on renunciation, survival, and rediscovery. The forest becomes both teacher and healer, a place where rage, instinct, and feral energy intertwine with wonder, reverence, and ancestral wisdom. Its dynamic shifts mirror the experience of stepping into the unknown, sometimes violent, sometimes serene, always alive," the band says.
On their new album "Buried Under The Weight Of Reason", the Oxford-based foursome carves out a sound that is as primal as it is progressive, melding sludge, doom and heavy metal weight with moments of softness, space, and unexpected vulnerability. Across these nine massive-sounding tracks, DESERT STORM summons the wilderness, ceremony, and chaos of the human condition, pushing their sound into new territories while staying true to their instinct for heaviness.
TRACKLIST:
1. Newfound Respect
2. Shamanic Echoes
3. Woodsman
4. Cut Your Teeth
5. Rot To Ruin Side
6. Carry The Weight
7. Dripback
8. Law Unto Myself
9. Twelve Seasons
Header image credit: Tim Finch Photography
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