Atlanta, Georgia's transcendent post-doom architects INSOMNIAC (with members of Zoroaster, Deceased and Avedissian Pickups) have signed to Blues Funeral Recordings for the release of their debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" on September 5th and reveal entrancing first single "Mountain". The band also announce an extensive fall tour in support of Scandinavian cosmic doom unit Kal-El on their first official US run.
Get entranced with Insomniac's new video Mountain + listen to the single on all streaming platforms
Insomniac coalesce onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond. A bouncing ball on the rhythm of the universe. An aural guide past the edges of perception. The band took form in Atlanta, Georgia, like-minded explorers of sound and mind writing songs in the frequency of the earth. Featuring members of Zoroaster, Deceased, and Avedissian Pickups, the quintet’s transcendent, mind-expanding psychedelic heaviness casts light on the magic and strange beauty balanced between unconsciousness and dreams.
Debut record "Om Moksha Ritam" takes its name from a Buddhist mantra, in which Om is the universal heartbeat, Moksha is freedom, and Ritam is the rhythm of the universe. It’s a brooding and enlightening journey, physical and abstract, towering and transcendent. Insomniac drift between this world and the next, hovering at the periphery of consciousness. REZN, King Buffalo and Dead Meadow are names that arise if trying to fit them into familiar confines, though it’s clear that fitting within confines isn’t really what they do.
"Om Moksha Ritam" is an album which needed to exist, made by a band formed through trust in cosmic harmony. Every trip is different. Every spin reveals another layer. Something new, unique, and incomparable resides here, and Insomniac, calibrated to the rhythm of the universe, release themselves into the ether, spilling back transportingly heavy brilliance in their wake.
Insomniac US tour 2025 with Kal-El:
10/16 Thu - Asheville, NC @ The Odd
10/17 Fri - Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House
10/18 Sat - Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye
10/19 Sun - Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
10/21 Tue - Philadelphia, PA @ Milk Boy
10/22 Wed - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
10/23 Thu - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl
10/24 Fri - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
10/25 Sat - Chicago, IL @ Reggies Music Joint
10/26 Sun - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
10/28 Tue - Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
10/29 Wed - Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard
10/30 Thu - Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
10/31 Fri - New Orleans, LA @ Holy Diver
11/1 Sat - Panama City, FL @ Mosey's
11/2 Sun - Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social
New album "Om Moksha Ritam" - Out September 5th on Blues Funeral Recordings
TRACKLIST:
10/17 Fri - Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House
10/18 Sat - Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye
10/19 Sun - Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
10/21 Tue - Philadelphia, PA @ Milk Boy
10/22 Wed - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
10/23 Thu - Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl
10/24 Fri - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
10/25 Sat - Chicago, IL @ Reggies Music Joint
10/26 Sun - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
10/28 Tue - Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
10/29 Wed - Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard
10/30 Thu - Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
10/31 Fri - New Orleans, LA @ Holy Diver
11/1 Sat - Panama City, FL @ Mosey's
11/2 Sun - Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social
New album "Om Moksha Ritam" - Out September 5th on Blues Funeral Recordings
TRACKLIST:
1. Meditation
2. Mountain
3. Snow and Ice
4. Forest
5. Sea
6. Desert
7. Awakening
You’ve got it all wrong. 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 light on the magic and strange beauty in the balance between unconsciousness and dreams.
On their debut record "Om Moksha Ritam", to be released September 2025 via Blues Funeral Recordings, Insomniac delivers a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey, both physical and abstract. The duality of the experience is for you to experience. Every trip is different. Every spin reveals another layer.
Here exists something new, unique, and incomparable. A band that made the music they wanted to hear because it needed to exist. What you choose to do with this information is your choice alone – but don’t sleep on it.
INSOMNIAC is
2. Mountain
3. Snow and Ice
4. Forest
5. Sea
6. Desert
7. Awakening
You’ve got it all wrong. 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 light on the magic and strange beauty in the balance between unconsciousness and dreams.
On their debut record "Om Moksha Ritam", to be released September 2025 via Blues Funeral Recordings, Insomniac delivers a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey, both physical and abstract. The duality of the experience is for you to experience. Every trip is different. Every spin reveals another layer.
Here exists something new, unique, and incomparable. A band that made the music they wanted to hear because it needed to exist. What you choose to do with this information is your choice alone – but don’t sleep on it.
INSOMNIAC is
Alex Avedissian - Guitar
Van Bassman - Vocals
Juan Garcia - Bass
Mike Morris - Guitar, Vocals
Amos Rifkin - Percussion, Vocals
INSOMNIAC links
Van Bassman - Vocals
Juan Garcia - Bass
Mike Morris - Guitar, Vocals
Amos Rifkin - Percussion, Vocals
INSOMNIAC links
BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS links
Thanks to Purple Sage PR for all of the details.