Sky Valley Mistress - Luna Mausoleum (Album Review)

Release Date: January 26th 2026. Record Label: New Heavy Sounds. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

Luna Mausoleum - Tracklisting

1.An Eagles Epitaph

2.The Exit List

3.Too Many Ghosts 

4.No Sleep

5.House Of The Moon

6.Live Past Life

7.White Night

8.Thundertaker

9.Blue Desert II

Members

Kayley "Hell Kitten" Davies - Full Vocalist / Half Drums

Max "Leather Messiah" Newsome - Full Guitarist / Half Drums

Review

Luna Mausoleum is second full length album from Psych/Garage/Stoner Rockers Sky Valley Mistress who were originally a four piece band before they were about to embark on a tour for their debut album near the start of 2020 COVID Lockdown which was ultimately cancelled. Two members left but Kayley and Max decided to continue as a two piece duo with Luna Mausoleum being their “first” record and the results are brilliantly outrageous from start to finish.

Sky Valley Mistress channels the same heavy sounds of bands such as Black Sabbath, QOTSA, The Hives, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps and Monster Magnet. The whole record offers some of the catchiest, trippiest and coolest sounds to get off 2026 rocking off to a great start with Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies dynamic vocal performance. The grooves are tinged with Classic Stoner Rock grooves that hark back to the good old days of Nineties Heavy Rock but Sky Valley Mistress add a world-weary Indie Rock swagger to their music with moments of moody experimental beats hidden behind the shadows.

The record is full of catchy choruses, melodic hooks and subtle levels of ROCK AGGRESSION which allows Sky Valley Mistress to move to the more commercial and radio friendly style of Rock & Roll. However, the band keep themselves close to the Heavy Rock underground with the bombastic use of Garage Rock, Shoegaze and Stoner Grooves which does become outrageously METAL the best of times especially within the kick-ass tracks of The Exit List, Too Many Ghosts and No Sleep. The sound moves from QOTSA style instrumental passages before a sudden shift into music that feels like THE HIVES jamming with PORTISHEAD but with Sky Valley Mistress delivering their own great style of music.

The lyrics are feisty and mightily pissed off which gives the album a great destructive energy of its own making. The production values are excellent and offers a stripped back environment for Sky Valley Mistress to wreck havoc with and build everything up again only to repeat the entire creative process that brings some of the freshest and heaviest grooves on the record. 

Other standout tracks include: House Of Moon, Live Past Life, Thundertaker and the thrilling epic final track Blue Desert II. As these tracks allow Sky Valley Mistress to demonstrate new musical themes and ideas whilst offering emotionally charged vocals that you don’t really hear within the current Stoner Rock climate. 

Luna Masoulem is the type of album that’s bound to project Sky Valley Mistress onto bigger and better things. This is one of the first must have albums of 2026 you need to own right now and I have a feeling this will no doubt end up on a few best ALBUMS OF THE YEAR. Perhaps a tad too early but I stand by those words as Sky Valley Mistress have delivered the goods with this superb record.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to For THe LostPR for the promo.

Luna Mausoleum is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via New Heavy Sounds.

Links:

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Website - skyvalleymistress.com
Bandcamp - skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com

Stoner Rockers Sky Valley Mistress return with 2nd album 'Luna Mausoleum' & share new single 'Thundertaker

Sky Valley Mistress have initiated countdown to the release of their second album Luna Mausoleum, that is due to land on Friday 23rd January 2026 (New Heavy Sounds).

Intended to be the soundtrack of their Hearsecraft ride to the moon, Pilot Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies and Commander Max “Leather Messiah” Newsome launch you into the Sonic Stratosphere with an audio journey fuelled by 70’s hard rock, driven off the road to a fresh new destination.

Taking you through desert rock grooves and mountainous riffs, you are guided by Kayley’s soulfully smoked voice and her range of soaring, delicate, yearning and understated melodies as the band ride peaks and valleys of dynamics and pace with an eclectic selection of instrumentation of fuzz guitars, organs, real orchestras and a children’s choir.

Twisting influences of Queens of the Stone Age with Portishead and turning from Spiritualised-sized gospel choruses to the gallow heavy swing of Black Sabbath, with sound as fast as light they move between their influential orbit to create a modern classic that is entirely their own. There isn’t space in this genre the band haven’t explored. This is a demonstration of their refusal to wait for permission to create a record that stands in scale with some of the most monumental albums in rock.

The band’s statement on their intent behind creating Luna Mausoleum was that it should be “greater and beyond all reason”.

Today also sees the release of first single ‘THUNDERTAKER’ named after the hearse they drive on tour. Opening with the apocalyptic power of early Black Sabbath before taking you on a joy ride fuelled by some Motörhead grade speed, THUNDERTAKER is a riff rippin’ rocket jam kicked out from the Sonic Strato- sphere for the world to hear.

Listen to the single: https://lnk.to/424Bt6

Not only this but the first pressing of the record will be on ‘Moon Dust’ vinyl in a printed foil gatefold sleeve including a Luna Mausoleum card model that you can build released by New Heavy Sounds.

Pre-order now:

Digital: https://lnk.to/cjQenv
Physical: https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/sky-valley-mistress-luna-mausoleum

Sky Valley Mistress live:

The band who has one member play every instrument so that they sound like a four piece in the studio, defy logic with aspiration with their iconic live show as a Duel-Drumming Duo. Vocalist Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies takes the sticks and one half of a drum kit whilst original drummer Max “Leather Messiah” Newsome battles the electric guitar with the kick drum under his foot. No samples. No backing tracks. No click tracks. No one is playing rock and roll the ways these two do.

October 2025:

02 - LONDON THE BLACK HEART
03 - SHEFFIELD NETWORK
04 - DARWEN SUNBIRD
17 - HULL DIVEHU5
18 - PRESTON THE CONTINENTAL
23 - THE PURPLE TURTLE READING
24 - FORUM BASEMENT TUNBRIDGE WELLS
25 - THE LIGHTHOUSE KENT

Tickets & info: skyvalleymistress.com

Follow online:

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Facebook - @skyvalleymistress
Website - skyvalleymistress.com
Bandcamp - skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com

Thanks to For The Lost PR for the details.

Doom/Stoner Rockers Sky Valley Mistress Announce "THUNDERTAKER" UK Tour

Named after the hearse they drive on tour THUNDERTAKER is the latest track from SKY VALLEY MISTRESS.

Opening with the apocalyptic power of early Black Sabbath before taking you on a joy ride fuelled by some Motörhead grade speed, THUNDERTAKER is a riff rippin’ rocket jam kicked out from the Sonic Strato- sphere for the world to hear.

Hitting your lobes Friday 26th September before hitting the road Thursday 2nd October, Thundertaker will be available to stream and then be seen parked up and played live in the flesh on the THUNDERTAKER WORLD TOUR that will take Sky Valley Mistress from Preston to Kent and everywhere in-between.

Starting at The Black Heart in London, full vocalist and half drummer Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies will be playing alongside the other half drummer and almost full guitarist, Max “Leather Messiah” Newsome in their now iconically impressive Duel Drumming Duo that has to be seen to be believed. No click tracks. No backing tracks. No samples.

No one is playing rock and roll like these two do. The single launch will also come with the announcement of when the second full length Sky Valley Mistress album will officially land as well as an opportunity to hear their new record before it’s official release by finding the “Enrolment Envelope” they are hiding at every venue each night of the tour.

Full tour dates and information of when you can see the hearse rollin’, speaker ‘splodin’ rock and roll band live below:

October 2025:

02 - LONDON THE BLACK HEART
03 - SHEFFIELD NETWORK
04 - DARWEN SUNBIRD
17 - HULL DIVEHU5
18 - PRESTON THE CONTINENTAL
23 - THE PURPLE TURTLE READING
24 - FORUM BASEMENT TUNBRIDGE WELLS
25 - THE LIGHTHOUSE KENT

Tickets & info: skyvalleymistress.com

Follow online:

Instagram - @skyvalleymistress
Facebook - @skyvalleymistress
Website - skyvalleymistress.com
Bandcamp - skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com

Thanks to For The Lost PR for all of the details.