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Update Jan 2019
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…
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East Coast Tour 2018
We are excited to announce Fall 2018 tour dates throughout North America, including shows with Monolord and Basilica Soundscape. September 8 – Boston, MA @ O’Brien’sSeptember 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ St Vitus w/ MonolordSeptember 11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie w/ MonolordSeptember 12 – Montclair, NJ @ Meat LockerSeptember 14 – Hudson,…
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Usnea Tour Diary published at Doomed and Stoned
Our guitarist Justin wrote this tour diary about the recent West Coast jaunt we did with Seattle’s UN. Check it out here!https://doomedandstoned.com/post/174556860403/usnea
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Spring of Futility West Coast Tour with Un
We are pleased to announce our upcoming Spring tour: Portland doom quartet USNEA will return to the road this March on the 2018 Spring Of Futility West Coast Tour. The journey begins March 23rd in their hometown and ends March 31st in Chico, California with direct support by Seattle’s Un. See all confirmed dates below:USNEA…
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Winter Shows
Usnea have been back from Europe for a little over a month, many thanks are due to all of the folks who put together the tour, befriended us, fed us, supported us and made it all so great and most of all to UFOMAMMUT! We will forever love those guys. So we have a few…
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Tour Starts Today!
We are flying to Europe tonight to commence this long-anticipated tour with our great friends Ufomammut. Check out their poster below for dates and if you are in the path of this we hope to see you!
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Album Release tonight and an in depth Interview
If you’re in Portland tonight, we hope to see you at our album release tonight! Here is an interview our vocalist/guitarist, Justin, did with Drunk In A Graveyard: https://drunkinagraveyard.com/2017/09/14/thursdayusnea/
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Full Album Stream on Noisey and a visualizer accompanying “Eidolons and the Increate” on Decibel
The album comes out tomorrow!! You can order it here: bit.ly/UsneaPIF Here is the full stream and a write up by Grim Kim: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/mbbz84/usneas-impossibly-heavy-new-doom-metal-album-is-a-sci-fi-odyssey And here is the Decibel write up and the premiere of Eidolons and the Increate with a video visualizer by Frank Huang: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/08/30/track-premiere-usnea-eidolons-increate
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“Pyrrhic Victory” Video Premiere
From Invisible Oranges (http://www.invisibleoranges.com/usnea-pyrrhic-victory/) “The video for Usnea’s new song “Pyrrhic Victory” asks a question that it knows that it cannot answer: what good is societal progress if it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem of human cruelty? If we are living at the end of history — to borrow a phrase from Francis Fukuyama — what…
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Lathe of Heaven
USNEA: Share New Song “Lathe of Heaven”; Announce Full Album Details Portland doom quartet USNEA have announced the full details of their third full-length album entitled Portals Into Futility. Inspired by dystopian science-fiction and the painful intersection of today’s crushing reality, Portals Into Futility is 5 songs and 56 minutes of expertly crafted and elegantly depressive doom/sludge. With an evolved…
