Dead Heavens w/ Salem's Bend, War Cloud & KooK

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Touring in support of their new album "Whatever Witch You Are", Dead Heavens makes their only Bay Area appearance this summer at the Ritz in San Jose with support from Salem's Bend (LA) and Bay Area heavyweights, War Cloud (Oakland) and KooK (San Jose). It will be a night of psychedelic, stoner rock goodness that you will not want to miss.

Thought Dead Heavens has one hell of a hardcore pedigree, this band blends so many different influences and takes the listener on a journey totally different than what any of it's members have done previously.

“Dead Heavens came to me while watching a film called An American Hippie In Israel,” says front man and guitarist Walter Schreifels. “In the film the aforementioned American Hippie collects a group of like minded flower children from around Tel Aviv. They cram into a convertible for a drive to the sea and pick out an uninhabited island to begin a new “free” society. They lose their raft, the waters around the island are shark infested, there’s no drinkable water or food save a single lamb which the hippies ultimately fight to the death for--their heaven dead, yet the lamb survives. Our band is like the lamb, a lamb that grows into a goat, with horns.”

The early sparks of the Dead Heavens’ sound began on a Schreifels solo project, with Thomas and Aguilar as the backing band. They were obsessing over Cream’s first album Fresh Cream and MBV, My Bloody Valentine’s both miasmic yet blissful follow up to Loveless. Aguilar also introduced them to the psych beauty of White Fence on that tour, which resonated with Schreifels, who was in the mood for heavier music, guitar solos, and a big rock feeling after a recent Quicksand tour.

Upon returning to NYC, Aguilar reacquainted Thomas and Schreifels with musician, painter, engineer and dude who came up with the title Use Your Illusion, Paul Kostabi, who had previously played in White Zombie and Psychotica.

“I knew Paul from his days with White Zombie, but hadn’t seen him in years and didn’t know he was recording,” Schreifels said. “Turns out he was in possession of the same 16-track reel-to-reel I had recorded Gorilla Biscuits’ Start Today on back in ’89, so it was a perfect fit.”

They began recording at Kostabi’s home studio in Piermont, New York with his massive collection of ‘70s recording reels from The James Gang, Sabbath, and Hendrix, spinning in between takes.

Eventually Kostabi joined Dead Heavens, which had morphed mid-recording from a project into an actual band, changing the sound dramatically. Heavier and dual guitar leads, more sonic possibilities. Whether they’re connecting the sounds of the psychedelic ‘70s or channeling the now, Dead Heavens are sound tracking their exploration and as drummer Drew Thomas mentions, “What the world needs now is for more people to take psychedelic drugs.” Dead Heavens is launched into the world to succeed where the hippies failed.
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Salem’s Bend
https://www.facebook.com/salemsbend/
This heavy rock band has musical influences that run the gamut from '70s classic rockers to the modern heavy-hitters in the desert, doom, and stoner rock scene, along with any music from any decade or genre that grooves and/or rocks. They’ll take you on a psychedelic journey, while also melting your face off with intense Sabbath-worthy riffs.

War Cloud
https://www.facebook.com/warcloudiscoming
War Cloud has created a new flavor of heavy rock music for those enjoying past meals served up by the likes of Pentagram, UFO, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. This is modern metal sophistication dipped deep in ‘70’s heavy fuzz rock.

KooK
https://www.facebook.com/wearekook/
What is a KooK? It's the incredible combination of volume, substance(s), and love for all things heavy. We've all been in so many bands covering so many styles of heavy music, that it's hard to boil down what we do into a few words. KooK is made up of former members of: High on Fire, Sin City/Motorfly, Gang of Grim, Bliss of Triple Six, Kill Sister Kill, Imperial Spacepod, Kinabra, Demon Crawdad, Morticias Blues, Vibra Thang, and The Stumps. The music is rich, complicated, hypnotic, dark, spooky, sleazy, powerful, groovy, campy, blah, blah, blah....HEAVY.

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