Blue Heron

For decades, bands across the planet have blasted out their versions of desert rock, driven by a deep and almost mystical fascination with the desert. Formed in 2018, 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. Surrounded by endless horizons that spark a compulsion to fill the vastness with massive volume, they saturate their piece of desert with rolling, thunderous riffs, drums that pummel and swing, deep, thrumming tones and vocals that rip and roar. Blue Heron’s guitarist and singer were founding members of Spiritu, possibly Albuquerque's first desert-style 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 with Entombed and Mastodon. On December 3rd, 2021, Blue Heron self-released the Black Blood of the Earth / A Sunken Place EP on vinyl and digital formats. The band also contributed tracks to Magnetic Eye Records 'The Wall [Redux]' (which features music from Mark Lanegan, Scott Reeder, Ruby the Hatchet, Greenleaf, ASG, etc.) and 'Best of AC/DC [Redux]' alongside the likes of Supersuckers, Domkraft and Witchskull. Blue Heron's debut album, Ephemeral, arrives in 2022.