Heavy Psych Rockers INSOMNIAC announce US fall shows; summer tour starts this week!

Atlanta, Georgia's ritualistic heavy rock unit INSOMNIAC has announced a full East Coast tour with festival appearances for the fall, as they prepare to kick off their US summer run alongside Texan doom outfit Slumbering Sun.

With their 2025 debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" on Blues Funeral Recordings, Atlanta's Insomniac have coalesced onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond, delivering a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey filled with riffs and beats written in the Earth's frequency. Dubbed by Treble Zine as "a spiritual awakening" and "one of the most breathtaking and brilliantly surreal pieces of music" by UK website Outlaws of the Sun, the music Insomniac creates drifts between this world and the next, hovering at the periphery of consciousness. REZN, King Buffalo and Dead Meadow naturally arise as points of reference, although it’s clear that fitting within confines isn’t really what the Atlanta band does.

About their upcoming tours, Insomniac says: "It's been an incredible ride over the last 8 months since Om Moksha Ritam released, and we've been working hard both on and off stage while racking up a ton of tour dates and road miles in the process. We're overjoyed to see firsthand how much our music has resonated with people far and wide, and the response continues to grow from the stage to the community daily."

Summer shows:

7/10 - Shreveport, LA - Bear's *
7/11 - Tulsa, OK - Whittier Bar *
7/12 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck *
7/13 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge *
7/14 - Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel *
7/15 - Indianapolis, IN - State Street Pub *
7/16 - Nashville, TN - The End *
7/17 - Asheville, NC - Asheville Doomed & Stoned
7/18 - Atlanta, GA - Boggs Social *
* with Slumbering Sun

Fall shows:

9/30 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10/1 - Washington, D.C. - Pie Shop
10/2 - Brooklyn, NY - In The Key of Doom Fest
10/3 - Cheshire, CT - Counterweight Brewing ^
10/4 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East ^+
10/6 - Bangor, ME - Old Town Theater
10/7 - Portland, ME - Live At Madrid's
10/8 - Providence, RI - Alchemy
10/9 - New Hope, PA - John and Peter's #
10/10 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Joint Jam Festival ~
10/11 - Cleveland, OH - No Class
10/13 - Grand Rapids, MI - Mulligan's Pub
10/15 - Chicago, IL - Reggies
10/16 - Minneapolis, MN - Zhora Darling ~
10/17 - Green Bay, WI - Wisconsin Doomed & Stoned ~

^ with Heavy Temple
+ with Crystal Spiders
# with Today Is The Day
~ with Howling Giant & High Desert Queen

Insomniac links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram

Blues Funeral Recordings links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | Youtube

Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the details.

Atlanta Heavy Rock Ritualists INSOMNIAC announce US summer shows with Slumbering Sun

Atlanta, Georgia's entrancing psychedelic doom sensation INSOMNIAC announce a short run of US shows alongside Texan doom unit Slumbering Sun this summer, as they keep supporting their 2025 debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" on Blues Funeral Recordings.

With their 2025 debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" on Blues Funeral Recordings, Atlanta's Insomniac have coalesced onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond, delivering a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey filled with riffs and beats written in the Earth's frequency. Dubbed by Treble Zine as "a spiritual awakening" and "one of the most breathtaking and brilliantly surreal pieces of music" by UK website Outlaws of the Sun, the music Insomniac creates drifts between this world and the next, hovering at the periphery of consciousness. REZN, King Buffalo and Dead Meadow naturally arise as points of reference, although it’s clear that fitting within confines isn’t really what the Atlanta band does.

About their upcoming summer tour, Insomniac says: "It's been an incredible ride over the last 8 months since Om Moksha Ritam released, and we've been working hard both on and off stage while racking up a ton of tour dates and road miles in the process. We're overjoyed to see firsthand how much our music has resonated with people far and wide, and the response continues to grow from the stage to the community daily."

"It's been a busy start to busy 2026 with almost 50 gigs and 12 thousand miles so far, and we're on a mission to keep the good times rolling this summer with a string of dates accompanied by some of our best buds with one of the best bands, Austin/Dallas heavy psych outfit Slumbering Sun, whom we've been fortunate enough to vibe with many times over since the beginning of 2025. Our "waking dream" tour takes us into the Midwest, across many markets we've never experienced before such as Shreveport, Omaha, and Davenport, and we're excited to return to a bunch of places we have a rich history rocking, culminating in the Asheville Doomed and Stoned festival alongside a metric ton of homies like Duel, Order of the Owl, Hot Ram, and more!" 

Insomniac summer shows w/ Slumbering Sun

7/10 - Shreveport, LA - Bear's
7/11 - Tulsa, OK - Whittier Bar
7/12 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
7/13 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge
7/14 - Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel
7/15 - Indianapolis, IN - State Street Pub
7/16 - Nashville, TN - The End
7/17 - Asheville, NC - Asheville Doomed & Stoned Fest
7/18 - Atlanta, GA - Boggs Social

Insomniac links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram

Blues Funeral Recordings links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | Youtube

Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the details.

US Heavy Psych Goldsmiths INSOMNIAC announce US spring tour with Howling Giant

Atlanta-based transcendental doom unit INSOMNIAC just announced an extensive spring US tour in support of Nashville progressive metallers Howling Giant this spring. The band recently released their debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" on Blues Funeral Recordings.

"This record is pure beauty." Doom Charts
“Breathtaking and brilliantly surreal.” Outlaws Of The Sun
“This bridges the big epic rock riffage with hypnotic pulses.” Abysmal Hymns
"This isn’t an album you background. It’s a trip, a drift, a weight, and a lift all at once.” Witching Buzz
“An experience that is truly mandatory for all who consider themselves even the most casual fans of heavy psych.” Headbanger Reviews

Atlanta's Insomniac coalesce onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond. On their debut record "Om Moksha Ritam", they deliver a brooding, heavy, and psychedelic journey, both physical and abstract, towering and transcendent. Insomniac drifts 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.

About the upcoming spring tour, Insomniac drummer Amos Rifkin comments: "After the early success of our debut record Om 'Moksha Ritam' and tours supporting it this fall, we're champing at the bit to hit the road again in the new year, and especially to be a part of the inaugural Mojave Experience festival in Joshua Tree. We're humbled and honored to support such a fantastic band like Howling Giant and can't wait to travel cross-country making beautiful music together!" 

Howling Giant & Insomniac Spring Tour 2026

3/11 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn
3/12 - New Orleans, LA - Siberia
3/13 - Austin, TX - HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT
3/14 - Tulsa, OK - Whittier Bar
3/16 - Taos, NM - Goathead Collective
3/17 - Santa Fe, NM - Desert Dogs
3/18 - Tempe, AZ - Yucca Tap Room
3/19 - Las Vegas, NV - The Griffin
3/20 - Yucca Valley, CA - MOJAVE EXPERIENCE ^
3/21 - Joshua Tree, CA - MOJAVE EXPERIENCE *
3/22 - Bakersfield, CA - Jerry's Pizza
3/24 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
3/25 - Eureka, CA - Savage Henry
3/26 - Eugene, OR - John Henry's
3/27 - Portland, OR - High Water Mark
3/28 - Seattle, WA - The Funhouse
3/29 - Vancouver, BC - Astoria*
3/31 - Salt Lake City, UT - Aces High Saloon
4/1 - Denver, CO - HQ
4/2 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
4/3 - St Louis, MO - Platypus Bar
4/4 - Nashville, TN - TN Brew Works
* Howling Giant only // ^ Insomniac only

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. Their debut album “Om Moksha Ritam” is a concept album that guides the listener through an aural and spiritual journey across multiple extreme environments, testing their resolve, principles, and commitment to adhering to the path.

Debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" is available on Blues Funeral Recordings via their online store, Bandcamp and on all streaming services.


Insomniac links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram

Blues Funeral Recordings links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | Youtube

Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the details.

INSOMNIAC - Om Moksha Ritam (Album Review)

Release Date: September 05th 2025. Record Label: Blues Funeral Recordings. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

Om Moksha Ritam - Tracklisting

1. Meditation

2. Mountain

3. Snow and Ice

4. Forest

5. Sea

6. Desert

7. Awakening

Members

Alex Avedissian - Guitar

Van Bassman - Vocals

Juan Garcia - Bass

Mike Morris - Guitar, Vocals

Amos Rifkin - Percussion, Vocals

Review

Om Moksha Ritam is the debut album from Post-Doom/Psych/Ambient/Stoner Metal Collective INSOMNIAC who are made up of members of Zoroaster, Deceased and Avedissian Pickups. The record lies heavily into the actual band name with INSOMNIAC or lack of sleeping being the main creative theme for the album or from the actual words of the band themselves:

“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." 

This record is a journey into the meditative or transcendental side of Psychedelic Doom/Stoner Metal with flashes of Americana, Shoegaze, Sludge and Prog Rock with INSOMNIAC blazing a creative path of their own making. 

Take the opening song of Meditation where the band feel like their channelling the likes of LOU REED, KING BUFFALO, PELICAN, KYUSS and YAWNING MAN with a backdrop of scorched Desert Rock sounds that has gone through a NUCLEAR DESTRUCTIVE makeover with sludgy guitars keeping the grounded reality from escaping the musical masses. The vocals from Van Bassman are simply trippy with a Prophet like quality to them telling folks about the end of the world whilst keeping with a pure Psych Stoner Rock energy.

Second song Mountain sees INSOMNIAC awaken slightly for a heavier an straight forward style of Doom/Stoner Rock which has a slight KYUSS / FU MANCHU drive appearing before the riff-centric energy of early-era QOTSA before the murky Post-Doom heaviness of the excellent guitars from Alex Avedissian and Mike Morris keep the mood slightly aggressive but supremely melodic.

The surroundings of Post-Post and Meditative Metal soon appear with intense melodic guitars and stunning work from INSOMNIAC’s epic rhythm section of Amos Rifkin (Drums) and Juan Garcia (Bass) sees the record move into modern day Prog Sludge territory. The whole song becomes quite thrilling and therapeutic within the final stages reminding of ZOROASTER, BARONESS and MASTODON in equal measure but it’s INSOMNIAC’s willingness to keep themselves within the Psychedelic realms that makes this song a breath of fresh air.

Third track Snow And Ice is a lengthy ten minute opus with INSOMNIAC drawing upon Post-Rock themes, ideas and ice-cold melodies for a song that has a chameleon like effect with the Post-Punk and Gothic Rock tendencies that may take some listeners time to fully get used to.

However, the great use of Psychedelic loops and gloomy feedback loops allows the band to create a haunting and challenging slice of gloomy Americana and Post-Doom heaviness. The vocals are quite unique with a SHAMANIC sound emitting from the speakers. Everything becomes a soothing journey of complex melodies and surreal instrumental and dreamlike soundscapes building up for one intense journey into the unknown.

Fourth song Forest is an Alternative/Shoegaze number with the band changing musical direction yet again but it’s quite a soulful and gloomy offbeat number with the dark undercurrent of the lyrics putting this album into more of the theatre of Sludge Metal. Heavy screeching guitars allows INSOMNIAC to generate some of the most heaviest and aggressive sounds on the album right here. The vocals are sung and placed at the right pitch with them being one of the highlights of the whole record.

The final section of the record allows INSOMNIAC to push back the creative envelope and reinvent themselves once again with a resonating THE VELVET UNDERGROUND influence appearing within tracks Sea, Desert and Awakening whilst exploring heavier musical boundaries with long drawn out instrumental passages and reflective lyrics having quite a profound positive impact.

Well, personally speaking for me especially on Sea and Awakening. I found this style of music beautifully therapeutic and even quite rebellious which is a hard thing to pull for a band’s debut album but INSOMNIAC pull this off with great vision and awareness that makes Om Moksha Ritam one of the most breathtaking and brilliantly surreal pieces of music I’ve heard in a very long time.

Om Moksha Ritam is a record you don’t come across that often and INSOMNIAC deserve credit for delivering a highly unusual but superbly original record to the underground masses.

This record is a loving and fitting tribute to Mike Morris (Guitar/Vocals) who sadly passed away earlier this year. Condolences to Mike's family and friends at this sad time.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the promo.

Om Moksha Ritam is available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Blues Funeral Recordings.

INSOMNIAC links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | Spotify

Transcendent Post-Doom Unit INSOMNIAC: new album + single announced on Blues Funeral Recordings

Transcendent post-doom unit INSOMNIAC to release debut album "Om Moksha Ritam" on Blues Funeral Recordings this fall; first single "Mountain" streaming!

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:

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

Alex Avedissian - Guitar
Van Bassman - Vocals
Juan Garcia - Bass
Mike Morris - Guitar, Vocals
Amos Rifkin - Percussion, Vocals

INSOMNIAC links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | Spotify

BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS links

Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Instagram | Youtube

Thanks to Purple Sage PR for all of the details.