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Faerie Ring - Faerie Ring
It's here! Cause tomorrow, on Friday the 21st the new self-titled Faerie Ring album will be unleashed upon the world. Released through King Volume Records it sports ten wild new tracks! But it's here where you can hear it a day early... That's right... We're honored to present to you the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for the brand new Faerie Ring!!
"A glorious new chapter erupts as Faerie Ring resurrect vintage doom, hard rock, and heavy metal in a sound that is colorful, psychedelic, spacious, and utterly alive. Their self-titled third album unleashes ten enormous tracks where dusty seventies riffs collide with modern psych, stoner, and garage grit. From the swaggering “Draggin’” to the crushing “Lost Boy,” these songs balance monstrous heaviness with melodies haunted by love, loss, loneliness, and existential dread. Raw, cinematic, and deeply personal, Faerie Ring have forged their own identity from the ashes of their influences. Doom has never sounded this vibrant, human, or hungry. A glorious rebirth. The new Faerie Ring is magical!"
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Faerie Ring: "As a musician, artist,
and devotee to all things righteous and bitchin', what's important to me
is whether something I create passes the 'neck test'.
Our
latest offering ‘Faerie Ring’ is a nonstop onslaught of neck
annihilation. You’re gonna wish you were born with two. We run the full
emotional gamut and we hope the listener does too. We want you to laugh,
cry, inspire, perspire, call the cops, go to jail, tell the judge we
rock, get bailed out and come to our gig.
“Faerie Ring III,” as
we’ve been calling it among ourselves is like walking through a museum.
Each track an exhibit we’ve curated to the best of our abilities to make
you feel SOMETHING, truly feel anything. The world we live in is often
bleak, gray and can leave you feeling alone surrounded by all the people
and things you love. Our efforts are 37 minutes of kaleidoscopic
effulgence: an iridescent energy bomb to try and spark something inside
everyone who listens."
PR Wire:
INDIANA STONER ROCKERS FAERIE RING DELIVER SONIC REBIRTH THROUGH KING VOLUME RECORDS IN SELF-TITLED ALBUM MASTERED BY TORCHE’S JONATHAN NUÑEZ, OUT AUGUST 21, 2026
“Faerie Ring” Unlocks New Emotional Depth With Tighter Songwriting Inspired By Personal & Global Conflict And Powered By Revised Band Lineup; FFO Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator, Monolord, Torche
EVANSVILLE, IN - Faerie Ring, the hard-rocking, retro-tinged stoner rock band out of Evansville, IN, has announced their third album: a self-titled effort through King Volume Records that marks the band’s sonic rebirth—one that emphasizes tighter songwriting, blistering hooks, and a new emotional depth that was assisted through the mastering process by Torche guitarist Jonathan Nuñez.
“Our last album, Weary Traveler, was happy-go-lucky,” says band guitarist, vocalist, and primary songwriter James Wallwork. “But so much has happened since that came out in 2023, both in our personal lives and in the rest of the world. Songs like “Lost Boy” reflect the furious, “I don’t even care” attitude I felt after my divorce, while “Gargoyle” is a doomed-out perspective of realizing you’ll grow old alone. “No Surrender,” meanwhile, was inspired by the latest Israel-Palestine conflict, and it’s written from the perspective of someone living in Gaza during the war. Ultimately, Faerie Ring is a cathartic album that acknowledges that death is real, but so is love. This is an album about love and triumph in a time of existential dread.”
One of the biggest influences behind the band’s revitalized sound was the addition of multi-instrumentalist songwriter and new Faerie Ring drummer Matt McGuyer. “With Matt on drums, it’s almost like a completely new band,” says guitarist Kyle Hulgus. “Matt cracked our sound wide open. He’s such a talented musician. He’s a guitarist, he’s a vocalist, and, obviously, he’s an incredible drummer. His input was so valuable, and he helped us spread our wings.”
Once again, the band returned to Postal Recording in Indianapolis to record and engineer their third album in full analog. As essential as owners Alex Kercheval and Tyler Watkins were to capturing the band’s evolving sound, they were also critical to shaping it. “Alex played an underlying synth on many of the songs to help beef up the tracks,” says Wallwork, “but he also cooked up the sounds on ‘Fattest Witch.’”
Adding Torche guitarist Jonathan Nuñez to the mastering process proved equally impactful. “I’ve been a lifelong fan of Torche,” says Wallwork, “so having him involved is insane to me. He drastically changed this record. It’s much more akin to how we present ourselves live.” Huglus agrees: “Listening to his mastering was like hearing the album for the first time. We loved the original version of the record, but he completely changed it for the better.”
Like much of Faerie Ring’s work, their self-titled album is difficult to pigeonhole, with equal influences from stoner rock, doom, punk, blues, and other genres. “We didn’t want to limit ourselves to a single sound,” Hulgus says. “We let go of all creative limitations for this one, and this new record is a sound only Faerie Ring can create. You’ll hear influences from bands like Boris, The Scorpions, Torche, Thin Lizzy, and Crowbar, but this is a Faerie Ring album at the end of the day.”
That renewed creative freedom is reflected in the tongue-in-cheek album artwork by Ricardo Diseño, an artist hand-picked by Hulgus. “Yes,” Wallwork says, “it looks like a classic underground metal album cover at first glance, with themes of sex and drug use, but it’s a metaphor for the toxic love in our lives. The guy in the picture loves being boiled alive, but once his head goes under the water, that’s it.” Hulgus adds: “We’re all the guy in the cauldron. We torture ourselves all week at our blue-collar jobs so we can play music. This self-titled album is another labor of love.”
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