We’re extremely excited to play with Bell Witch again. The very first show Usnea ever played was with Bell Witch in 2012 (!) when they were also a pretty new band. They’ll be playing their collaboration album “Stygian Bough Vol I” with Aerial Ruin for the first time.
It’s been a whole year since this night… a night that none of us knew would be our only show for 2020 and that still remains our last show up to this point. It was also a brilliant night with incredible performances by our friends Zyl, A//tar, Glasghote and San Francisco’s Brume. We love the folks who put this show on, attended it, recorded and filmed it, and of course the staff at Kenton Club for always being the best and hosting underground Portland art. The song we are playing here is called “Bathed in Light” and will be on our fourth record that we have been working on all of this time.
Usnea have been hard at work on our fourth album so please excuse the radio silence but we do have this absolute banger of a show coming up this Spring and some new songs to debut at it. We hope you are all holding on in these dark times…
Work has commenced on our fourth record. Ethan at Heavy Talent is also working on a US tour for Summer 2019. In the meantime, catch us at one of our regional shows this Spring and here is video taken by Frank Huang at St Vitus, NYC in September at our show there with Monolord and ILSA.