Longheads: Brain bending, fuzz fueled jams and high energy psychedelic performances.

Longheads are a mind altering heavy psych band from Norfolk. Now based in South London the boys specialize in brain bending, fuzz fueled jams and high energy psychedelic performances. Their trademark sound fuses elements of contemporary psych and kraut rock with heavy guitar riffs and blazing solos akin to 70s rock and metal. Longheads with the track Longherder. This is an epic track with a duration of nine minutes.

Longherder is taken from the quintet’s upcoming EP Mars Doesn’t Feel Like Home Anymore which will be released through Longreel Records on November 2.

«Longherder and the rest of the EP is based off one narrative from a short story I wrote in lockdown», explains lead singer and bassist Sam Mitchell. «The lyrics and music for the track were intended to be repetitive, to the point, always returning back to the main riff which is the focal point of the song to represent the hope and fight the main character needs to inherit».

«The story it’s taken from follows a hermit creature and his sheltered existence within a spiritual wilderness. For the most part the hermits approach to life is naive, stuck in the ways that feels comfortable until the solar flares from the black sun start happening again, a catalyst for what’s to come».

Having released four singles in just over a year, Fuz Y, Imortalised from Death, Face In The Chrome and most recently Archaos Longheads have been making waves in the psych rock scene. Their trademark sound fuses elements of contemporary psych and kraut rock with heavy guitar riffs and blazing solos akin to 70s rock and metal.

Recently Longheads have been working hard on new music. Having released their latest single Archaos in March to critical acclaim the boys dropped their first EP Higher Than Bacteria on the 25th of June 2021, and thanks to a successful kickstarter campaign the EP is being pressed to vinyl. The track One Step Further,

Longheads are a fiercely independent band and record and mix everything in house at Longreel Studios and release on their own imprint Longreel Records.

The new EP which follows the release of 2021’s debut EP Higher Than Bacteria. The new EP sees Longheads band take a much looser approach when it came to both writing and recording, incorporating improvised jam sections and capturing the band’s incredible live energy to the songs on record.

«When gigs started happening again last year we found ourselves in a position where we needed to write songs to fill up the space in our set», comments guitarist Al Bishop.« Because of this we started playing the new songs live as soon as they were finished and we continued to change and refine them based on how they went down»

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