“I look at young people in bands and I can’t help but wince.”
With the recent release of Guidance Russian Circles is now six albums deep in a career staked on instrumental post-metal that can be both bleak and beautiful. Few other bands can shift between darkn...
If you were looking for a fitting soundtrack to the disaster movie of your life, one that uplifts but also shakes you to your core, Chicago instrumental trio Russian Circles can provide. On their sixth album they have ditched the mathy time-signature changes of old and in...
Photo: Nicholas Sayers
Russian Circles is a band you can watch and think only one thing: How do three people make so much fucking noise? The Chicago-based instrumental three-piece is on their sixth album now, with the release of Guidance, and seem intent on digging a new ...
“Instrumental metal” is a little bit of an oxymoron. Metallica have one instrumental track on each of their first four LPs, and those tracks are fucking classic and fit perfectly into those albums, but play them back-to-back and they sort of feel aimless, unmoored. Metal is ...
This month we got a chance to catch up with Russian Circles drummer and Istanbul Agop artist Dave Turncrantz. Russian Circles are hitting the road this summer and fall, if they stop near you, check them out, you won’t regret it. Their new record Guidance drops August 5th, 20...
There’s an organic and unforced feel to the latest album by Chicago-based post-rock trio Russian Circles, as if songs were allowed to grow wild rather than carefully cultivated.
For five albums now, the Chicago-based trio Russian Circles have made great use of post-rock mos...
Russian Circles is now premiering a new track off of their upcoming album Guidance, out on August 5th via Sargent House.
LISTEN HERE.
They will be touring with Cloakroom at the end of August and continuing with Helms Alee in September. See all dates below - for s...
Russian Circles has just announced their upcoming Fall 2016 European Tour that is starting immediately after their US Tour (see ALL dates HERE). Helen Money will be joining them starting in Lithuania for the rest of the tour.
for all show and ticket details, click HERE
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“My tastes have become broader, I’m more open-minded,” admits Mike Sullivan as we prepare to grill him about the albums that shaped his life as a musician, as well as his own band’s latest recording.
“What I like I’m in love with and can’t get enough of. I wa...
The build-up is a well-worn staple of post-rock: transporting the listener from a place of quiet and calm to somewhere crashing and ecstatic. Because the trick is nowhere near new—especially for a long-running act like Russian Circles—it must be executed with mastery and cr...
Back in May, the Chicago post-metal trio Russian Circles released “Vorel,” the lead single off their upcoming sixth studio LP Guidance. That song was a colossal rampage of terraforming guitars and pillaging drums that seethed steam through gritted teeth, liable to burn down...
There are bands that conjure very specific personal images for me. Even when listening to them becomes habitual—for instance, Explosions in the Sky’s The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place for each and every jog—the music never loses its power. Instead, the sounds gather energy,...
Hear Russian Circles’ new song “Vorel,” off the band’s forthcoming sixth album ‘Guidance.“
Over their decade-plus career, Chicago instrumental trio Russian Circles have toured with Tool, collaborated with Chelsea Wolfe and won comparisons to Mogwai, associations that all ma...
Celebrated Chicago post-metal/rock trio Russian Circles are thrilled to announce their highly-anticipated sixth studio album, Guidance, due out August 5th from Sargent House. This 7-song, 40-minute LP was recorded by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios and showcases Russ...
photo by Andrey Kalinovsky
Russian Circles’ upcoming 2016 European Spring Tour starts this week 4/28 with DesertFest Dunk!Fest and more festivals along the way. For all show/ticket details click HERE. All dates are listed below:
RUSSIAN CIRCLES EU//UK TOUR 2016Apr 28 Gl...
Russian Circles have just announced their headlining European tour this April with This Will Destroy You supporting some of the shows. Russian Circles are also set to headline Desertfest, Dunk! Festival, and A Colossal Weekend. Click HERE for show and ticket details.All date...
Just Announced: Russian Circles will headline this year’s Desert Fest @ The Electric Ballroom on Saturday, April 30 alongside Pelican, Godflesh, and many more.
“Having just wrapped up a three-date mini-tour, Russian Circles played two sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus. Metal Insider contributing photographer Sarah Churchill was there and captured some photos and summed up the evening.
Russian Circles took a short break from...
JUST ANNOUNCED: Russian Circles will be playing 3 shows in January 2016 with Cloakroom and Wildhoney.
RUSSIAN CIRCLES + CLOAKROOM + WILDHONEY Jan 7 // Boston, MA @ The Sinclair Jan 8 // Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Bar Jan 9 // Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Bar
After a string of separate shows and festival dates across Europe, Russian Circles and Wovenhand united in London for a special show together at the London venue Scala. Photographer Nick Sayers was there and captured both sets. CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL PHOTOSET AT THEFARMFAMILY.COM
Russian Circles live show review from their performance at RCA Club in Lisbon is now up on the new Issue #12 of Music&Riots Magazine. Read the full issue HERE or below:
Russian Circles is returning to Europe this month where they will meet Wovenhand in London to play at The Scala on June 23. A full of list of shows can be found below.
RUSSIAN CIRCLES EU/UK SHOWS June 18 - Munich, DE @ Feierwerk June 19 - Düdingen, CH @ Bad Bonn June 21 - Clisson, FR @ Hellfest Open Air Festival June 23 - London, UK @ Scala w/ Wovenhand June 25 - Dublin, IE @ Hangar
“Chicago trio blows minds without muttering a single word”
As the Crossrail development in Tottenham Court Road has all but decimated central London’s live music scene, bands have been forced to look further afield for suitable venues. A newly refurbished, Grade II listed bu...
Andrea Petrovicova is a Prague photographer whose work is mind-melting and otherworldly. When I look at her pictures, I lose myself in them only to find a new part of my imagination. Check out this killer photo essay featuring her most recent pictures of Helms Alee and Russian Circles performing in Prague…Stay tuned for more work by Andrea Petrovicova on CVLT Nation.
To view full photo diary w/ Helms Alee click HERE.
As quietly unassuming as Brian Cook is in person or over the phone, the bassist has spent the last decade playing to the deafening other end of the spectrum, whether with the hugely influential Botch or These Arms Are Snakes, or in his current and longstanding role in instr...
An exhaustive introduction is not quite needed when the subject is Russian Circles. Let’s just say they’ve kept instrumental heavy music alluring enough to the point of having now a reliable and growing fanbase, particularly when it comes to Europe. Far from hunkering down b...
Dave took some time out to talk drums with Ludwig for “Behind the Beat” before playing a sold out show in Chicago at The Metro in January 2015.
Russian Circles European tour starting March 31st with Helms Aleeas support on all shows.
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