Release Date April 3rd, 2026
Format Vinyl/CD/Cassette/Digital
Genre Prog Rock, Noise Rock, Space Rock, Doom Metal
Country United States
Deathbird Earth comes out of Philadelphia with just two guys making a huge racket. BJ handles bass, vocals, and synthesizers, bringing history from bands like Hulk Smash and Dialer. Dave bashes the drums and adds more synthesizers, having played in Psychic Teens and Gholas. Together they mash up doom metal, noise rock, and strange space themes into one massive trip.
"Objective Consciousness" drops via SRA Records as a full debut. The sound relies heavily on massive drum pounding colliding with heavily distorted basslines. On top of that rhythm section, they dump loads of weird keyboard sounds lifted straight out of old science fiction movies. It is a strange clash of heavy doom logic and prog rock brain melting. The mix mastered by James Plotkin gives the bass an enormous presence in the speakers.
They brought friends into the studio to make things even stranger. Half of the tunes on the first side stem from massive jamming sessions. "Mission: Planet-Y" includes Yannis Papadopoulos and Pete Wilder throwing down guitar and theremin noise. Then they blast through "Mission: Nick Millevoi", injecting crazy guitar soloing from Nick Millevoi over the thumping bass and drum foundation. These sessions produced tons of material being released as separate tapes and LPs around the same time.
Hearing two guys merge stoner doom riffs with crazy space electronics works surprisingly well. The sci-fi weirdness crashes hard into the rumbling bass hooks. A few sections drift into strange noise territories, giving the album a bizarre alien landscape vibe. Sometimes the weird synthesizer jamming drags a little long, taking focus away from the main riffs. The music is rough, heavy, and extremely loud anyway. It is definitely worth turning up the volume to hear these dudes summon heavy extraterrestrial noise.
Score: 7.0
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