ORDER Vinyl/Digital Seeing Red Records (US)
Kozmik Artifactz (Europe)
For decades now, bands across the planet have blasted out their versions of heavy, fuzz-driven rock, driven by a deep and mystical fascination with the desert. Blue Heron is a heavy rock band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose firsthand relationship with the desert is inextricable from who they are and how they sound - they embody “Desert Rock“ to its core.
Blue Heron’s guitarist and singer were the founding members of Spiritu, possibly Albuquerque’s first desert rock band, who burned briefly yet brightly with a Jack Endino-produced debut LP, a European tour with Clutch, Spiritual Beggars and Dozer, and a compilation slot next to Entombed and Mastodon.
Re-constituting this core in 2018, Blue Heron coalesced around a compulsion to fill the wide New Mexico skies with massive volume, and saturate their piece of desert with rolling, thundero