
Stavanger, Norway
Kal-El is the fuzzed-out step-child of hard rock and heavy metal, often with hints of pyschedelic and blues rock as well as doom metal. Songs typically feature a bass-heavy groove, detuned guitars and mind-expanding lyrics…
https://kal-el.bandcamp.com/
The Insomniac isn’t unable to sleep, the Insomniac CHOOSES to evade sleep. We all fall down at some point, but between the waking world and our dreams exists the surreal.
In pursuit of that space between, some of history’s most prominent visionaries would hold a physical object, like a spoon or a ball, while sitting in a chair, and allow themselves to succumb to sleep. As they drifted off, the object would fall, and the sound would awaken them at the periphery of unconsciousness. Now more alert than ever, their work could begin.
Such is Insomniac. A band that exists between this world and the next. A bouncing ball on the sound and rhythm of the universe. An aural guide. Writing their songs in the frequency of the earth, the Atlanta-based quintet’s sound casts the light on the magic and strange beauty in the balance between unconsciousness and dreams.
Arms & Armour is a collaboration between Lauren Voss (vocals, guitar, synth) and John Panza (acoustic and electronic drums, programming, synth). Celebrating their thirteenth year as Arms & Armour, the musically betrothed Lauren and John continue to expand Arms & Armour’s repertoire, challenging themselves with new technologies and new musical approaches. Recorded in their own Cleveland-based studio — Dark Current — using a combination of live recording, loops, and samples, The Winds EP represents the most recent iteration of the band’s sound, a movement building on Voss’s sincere vocals with, at times, crushing guitar and bombastic percussion reflecting the industrial setting of their studio home — a former drill bit factory — all filtered through the dark forests of their imagination.
Doors at 7
Show at 8
Tickets
$20 Advance
$25 Day Of