Ahead of their debut album Om Moksha Ritam – due out on September 5th via Blue Funeral Recordings – Atlanta Post-Doom band Insomniac have released their first single/video Mountain.
You can watch the video for Mountain here:
“Insomniac coalesce onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond. A bouncing ball on the rhythm of the universe. An aural guide past the edges of perception. The band took form in Atlanta, Georgia, like-minded explorers of sound and mind writing songs in the frequency of the earth. Featuring members of Zoroaster, Deceased, and Avedissian Pickups, the quintet’s transcendent, mind-expanding psychedelic heaviness casts light on the magic and strange beauty balanced between unconsciousness and dreams.
Debut record Om Moksha Ritam takes its name from a Buddhist mantra, in which Om is the universal heartbeat, Moksha is freedom, and Ritam is the rhythm of the universe. It’s a brooding and enlightening journey, physical and abstract, towering and transcendent. Insomniac drift between this world and the next, hovering at the periphery of consciousness. REZN, King Buffalo and Dead Meadow are names that arise if trying to fit them into familiar confines, though it’s clear that fitting within confines isn’t really what they do.
Om Moksha Ritam is an album which needed to exist, made by a band formed through trust in cosmic harmony. Every trip is different. Every spin reveals another layer. Something new, unique, and incomparable resides here, and Insomniac, calibrated to the rhythm of the universe, release themselves into the ether, spilling back transportingly heavy brilliance in their wake.”
The band will also be heading out on tour – alongside Kal-El – in support of the record and you can catch them on the following dates at the following locations:
- 10/16 Thu – Asheville, NC @ The Odd
- 10/17 Fri – Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House
- 10/18 Sat – Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye
- 10/19 Sun – Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
- 10/21 Tue – Philadelphia, PA @ Milk Boy
- 10/22 Wed – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
- 10/23 Thu – Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl
- 10/24 Fri – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
- 10/25 Sat – Chicago, IL @ Reggies Music Joint
- 10/26 Sun – Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
- 10/28 Tue – Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
- 10/29 Wed – Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard
- 10/30 Thu – Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
- 10/31 Fri – New Orleans, LA @ Holy Diver
- 11/1 Sat – Panama City, FL @ Mosey’s
- 11/2 Sun – Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social
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