Russian Circles have been announced for Damnation Festival 2024. The annual heavy music festival will take place on November 2nd, 2024 at BEC Arena in Manchester. Damnation 2024 tickets available HERE The boys will also be touring Australia + New Zealand before heading to La...

Russian Circles have announced a 2024 Latin America tour. Following their January and February dates in New Zealand and Australia, the trio takes Latin America for a run of seven shows in April.

Abril 3 Cine Joia - São Paulo, Brazil
Abril 5 Uniclub - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abril 7 Blondie - Santiago, Chile
Abril 10 Ace of Spades Club - Bogota, Colombia
Abril 12 Cafe Iguana - Monterrey, Mexico
Abril 13 C3 Stage - Guadalajara, Mexico
Abril 14 Circo Volador - Mexico City, Mexico

All tickets available 10/13 HERE

Batterie Magazine went backstage with Russian Circles' Dave Turncrantz. Check out the breakdown of his technique, his walk onstage, and more.

Check out “The Full Story” with Mike Sullivan, an in-depth video interview from Six String Tales. Mike goes into the history of Russian Circles and his fellow bandmates in longform.

Russian Circles will bring their GNOSIS tour live to New Zealand and Australia in early 2024.
Tickets on sale now here.

Jan 31 Auckland, NZ - Tuning Fork
Feb 1 Wellington, NZ - San Fran
Feb 2 Christchurch, NZ - A Rolling Stone
Feb 4 Sydney, AU - Metro Theatre
Feb 5 Adelaide, AU - The Gov
Feb 6 Perth, AU - Rosemount Hotel
Feb 8 Brisbane, AU - The Triffid
Feb 9 Melbourne, AU - Max Watts
Feb 10 Melbourne, AU - Max Watts

Support for the Australian dates: Tangled Thoughts of Leaving

Mike, Brian, and Dave were all heavily featured in the latest issues of Guitare Xtreme, Bassiste Magazine, and Batterie Magazine, respectively. Click each photo to check out the individual features.  

To celebrate 15 years of Russian Circles' Station, the record is getting the re-issue treatment. Two vinyl variants and a t-shirt are up for pre-order right now.

Pre-orders and all tour info available here.

The essay I wrote in my head involved having some kind of revelation while watching Russian Circles— instrumental rock stalwarts and one of my favorite bands in the world—play in Brooklyn after having completed the New York City Marathon in November of last year. That didn’t...

Russian Circles have announced new UK/EU Summer Shows for 2023. 

Tickets are available here.

Jul 28 Karlsruhe, DE - P8 +
Jul 29 Neuensee, DE - Rock Im Wald Festival 
Jul 31 Budapest, HU - Durer Kert +
Aug 1 Velenje, SL - Metal Days Festival 
Aug 2 Milan, IT - Magnolia +
Aug 3 Feldkirch, AT - Poolbar Festival
Aug 5 Beelen, DE - Krach Am Bach Festival
Aug 6 Tilburg, NL - 013 +
Aug 7 Hamburg, DE - Knust +
Aug 8 Dresden, DE - Beatpol +
Aug 9 Jaromer, CZ - Brutal Assault Festival 
Aug 11 Le Locle, CH - Crock' Alt Festival
Aug 13 Kortrijk, BE - Alcatraz Festival
Aug 14 London, UK - Heaven ^
Aug 15 Newcastle, UK - University ^
Aug 16 Manchester, UK - Band On The Wall ^
Aug 17 Bristol, UK - ArcTanGent  ^
Aug 19 Carhaix, FR - Motocultor Festival 

Support Bands:
+ Crouch
^ Wiegedood

Last year, Russian Circles unleashed Gnosis, their heaviest album yet. But even by those standards, Audiotree’s Chicago studio had no idea what was in store when the trio dropped by for a three-song live session. Interspersed with interview segments, the 25-minute video offers a rare intimate look at Mike Sullivan, Brian Cook and Dave Turncrantz’s apocalyptic post-metal onslaughts, delivered across three Gnosis tracks: Betrayal, Conduit and Gnosis itself. The musicianship is jaw-dropping, but Sullivan’s tone even more so: a spiritually aggressive tone that maintains clarity without ever losing its doom-metal edge. Full article: www.guitarworld.com  

From the moment they stepped out of their multiple Uhauls, fresh off a half-completed US tour, it was clear how seasoned the men in Russian Circles were to the rigorous load-in load-out process. It was still warm in Chicago, despite it being October. Maybe it was the weathe...

Russian Circles are coming back to UK this summer with Wiegedood as support.  Tickets on sale now: www.russiancircles.com Full 2023 shows list: RUSSIAN CIRCLES & CULT OF LUNA CO-HEADLINE TOUR 2023 + Svalbard supporting March 17 Copenhagen, DK - Store Vega March ...

Bill Burr talks about Dave Turncrantz of Russian Circles on the latest episode of Fly on the Wall.

We're delighted to announce that the official Russian Circles Reverb shop is now open. All items in this shop come directly from the band, and include studio-used, road-tested guitars, cabs, drums and more. If you're a fan of Russian Circles, this is a unique opportunity to nab a piece of gear used by Mike, Brian, and Dave. 

Shop link: https://bit.ly/Russian-Circles-Shop-

Russian Circles' Gnosis is an exploration of space and time: it’s the bedrock blasted to bits to lay the foundation for another Brooklyn condominium. It’s the Earth pulsating around the mouth of a geyser. It’s the cold front moving in from all directions, dropping ...

Arctangent tickets here.

Motocultor tickets here.

This interview series started as something small I thought I could get advice from a few guitarists on how to play guitar. I did not think I’d be getting actual advice on how to better my tone from one of my all-time favorite guitarists Mike Sullivan of Russian Circles. He taught me how to better set up my stereo rig and to utilize my tremolo pedal as more of a boost. He warned me I’d lose a weekend just playing guitar. Well, I lost a few weekends, hence this interview is a little late. Full interview via thesleepingshaman.com

Chicago instrumental post-rock trio Russian Circles are an incredibly loud band. When guitarist Mike Sullivan, drummer Dave Turncrantz, and bassist Brian Cook get together, the decibels are raised to massive levels, the syncopation is tight like a double knot, and the senses are surely going to feel something.

Read the full interview on Dig Boston.

It seems extraordinary to think that RUSSIAN CIRCLES have been playing and creating music for nearly two decades. With seven studio albums and their debut EP going all the way back to 2004, the band have had an eighteen year career that feels like it’s gone by in the blink of an eye. In that time, there’s been a definite development of their style and sound, moulding their heavy, drone soundscapes into monstrous dirges that rage and consume. We caught up with Mike Sullivan about the mindset of the new record Gnosis and getting the barebones of creating music.

Read full feature on Distorted Sound.

  Russian Circles’ eighth full-length studio album, Gnosis, is officially out via Sargent House. It’s a record that was very much shaped by the COVID-19 shutdown, the band forced to embrace new approaches to songwriting with the prospect of touring put on hold. The result finds them leaning into their heavier tendencies while still maintaining the wide sonic landscape the instrumental three-piece is known for.  Guitarist and founding member Mike Sullivan answered some questions for us regarding the record’s sound, the writing process, recording in two different locations and touring with some of heavy rock’s biggest names. Full Interview via newnoisemagazine.com

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Russian Circles have come back swinging from the pandemic. Their new record, Gnosis, is their most unapologetically heavy yet. That's saying something, because their last album, 2019's Blood Year, was already crushing.  There's an even greater directness to...

Russian Circles are in their element onstage. The trio of Mike Sullivan, Brian Cook and Dave Turncrantz thrive on the chemistry that comes from sharing the same proximal space, building intensity from the physical act of performance. That’s not always easy to do as an instr...

“It’s not an ‘Yngwie’ sense of classical,” Russian Circles’ guitarist Mike Sullivantells us. “It’s more symphonic. Especially with layering and looping. You can create something you can hum, that can be stuck in your head – not just thrashing.”  Clunky ...

Russian Circles have released their first ever music video for the title track of their forthcoming LP Gnosis, available next week, August 19th, via Sargent House. The Centerpiece of the album “Gnosis” begins with a slow-build exercise in krautrock methodologies—drones, gui...

Russian Circles have released a new song from their forthcoming LP Gnosis available on August 19th via Sargent House. Perhaps the heaviest song on the album, Betrayal is a five-minute unmitigated assault and follows the first single “Conduit”.  Both singles show how th...

Heavy instrumental greats Russian Circles have announced a new LP Gnosis available August 18th via Sargent House. Listen to the relentless first single “Conduit”. Gnosis, their eighth album, eschews the varied terrain of their past works as it razes a path through the most ...

After his beloved gear was stolen during a recent tour, the bass pedal guru quickly found the music world rallying around his band Russian Circles.  Through the entirety of his three-decade career, bassist Brian Cook has made a name for himself by delivering brutal and...

Mike Sullivan is featured in the new issue of Guitar World as one of the 30 instrumental guitarists with something to say. Get the new issue: guitarworld.com

  Russian Circles ‘Memorial’ and ‘Guidance’ new reissues are now available at Hello Merch and Evil Greed.  Some vinyl will be on Russian Circles European tour dates and Roadburn Festival.  Pre-orders and all tour info: linktr.ee/russiancircles