Occult New Age (2021)
https://bookofwyrms.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/BookofWyrms
Book of Wyrms is a four-piece heavy metal psych band with extensive experience jamming in outer space since 2014.
FFO: Hawkwind, the Melvins, Uriah Heep, Soundgarden
Book of Wyrms
Richmond, Virginia
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1.
Meteoric Dagger 00:00
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Colossal Yield 05:29
3.
Albrionlilly 09:50
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Hollergoblin 11:59
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Keinehora 12:27
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Speedball Sorcerer 17:28
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Weatherworker 21:33
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Dracula Practice 27:24
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Occult New Age is Book of Wyrms at their fastest, slowest, loudest, and weirdest.
For fans of Hawkwind, Blood Ceremony, Elder, Samsara Blues Experiment, Black Angels, the Sword.
Book of Wyrms is a four-piece heavy psych band who came together over their mutual adoration of Hawkwind and ZZ Top and put out a demo in early 2015. It got some positive attention and helped them find their record label for their first two records, Twin Earth Records.
From the beginning, the band foraged strange ingredients for their sonic pot, balancing airy vocals over heavy sludge, cloaking progressive melodies in fuzz, and dropping surprise boogies under retrofuturist synths (people always ask if it’s a theremin). Thankfully, people dug it: 2017’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy was named one of the best debut albums on the popular website Doomcharts.
The Chicago Reader said 2019’s Remythologizer “immediately establishes a welcome atmosphere: dark, doomy, and highly comforting to anyone raised on a diet of D&D, 70s heavy rock, and ditchweed.” Surprisingly, with songs inhabited by characters like the Undead Pegasus, kids dig them too!
Whenever they could, the band packed into their shiny starcraft to play dive bars and doom fests from New England to Chicago to Texas, leaving a trail of freaked-out squares and demolished tacos in their wake.
Their third record, Occult New Age, is set to be released on Desert Records in May, 2021. Recording for the first time as a four-piece gave the band space to stretch out a little bit and fill the spectrum with big textures and proggy riffs, but their years playing together give them focus to keep things tight and scatter hooks among the chaos.
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released May 7, 2021
Chris DeHaven – Drums and Percussion
Sarah Moore Lindsey – Vocals/ Synthesizer
Jay “Jake” Lindsey – Bass/ Synthesizer
Kyle Lewis – Guitar
Recorded and mixed by Jamie Rose at Absolute Future Studios with Chris Ratterree
Organ on “Speedball Sorcerer” by LJ Rafalko
Layout and font by Nathan Landolt
Album artwork: Taralyn Phillips
High res images by Ben DeHaven