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Denver, Colorado's purveyors of post-hardcore and melodic heaviness ABRAMS team up with Cvlt Nation to premiere their blistering "White Walls" video, taken from their forthcoming album "Loon" on Blues Funeral Recordings. The band also announces their first UK and European tour, which includes a Desertfest London appearance this May.
About the track, guitarist and vocalist Zach Amster comments: "White Walls is loud, weird, and somehow still catchy. We tried to make sense of our own noise and ended up with this song instead. It's about losing your mind but staying in control enough to be able to hum the chorus on the way down."
With American idealism and societal unity in flames, Abrams’ ethereal ambiance has been permeated by vibrating, hair-trigger fury. 2024’s soaring and driving Blue City was a record full of arresting, nostalgic textures. This is no longer the world of that album, as shown with their blistering latest single Glass House.
The grinding hopelessness and chaos of these times have infused them with shattering intensity. Urgent and abrasive, their new album Loon is acerbic, fed up, and riddled with pulverizing fire. Wistful melodies warp into dissonance and aggression. Crystalline beauty is inhabited by bitterness and rage. Their instinctive hooks aren't gone, and hopeful moments do shine intermittently through. But it’s clear that Abrams, like a lot of us, are pissed off. Desperate and seething, this is an irresistible, frenzied purge from a band refusing to give, finding its way in music libraries next to Converge, Torche, Cave In, Narrow Head and Basement.
The band will be heading overseas for the first time this spring to make their Desertfest London debut alongside a batch of additional UK and European shows. Upcoming shows:01.05 - Denver (CO) Hi Dive 14.05 - TBA 15.05 - TBA 16.05 - London (UK) Desertfest London 17.05 - Bridgewater (UK) Cobblestones w/ Hashtronaut 18.05 - Bournemouth (UK) Bear Cave w/ Solace & Midhaven 19.05 - Bristol (UK) The Gryphon w/ High Desert Queen 20.05 - TBA 21.05 - Amsterdam (NL) De Tanker w/ Howling Giant 22.05 - Hamburg (DE) Stellwerk w/ Solace 23.05 - Bremen (DE) Betty’s Black Pearl
Abrams blast forth a cathartic mix of driving rhythms, soaring vocals and dreamy ambiance. Fusing melody and dissonance, guitarist/vocalist Zach Amster, bassist/vocalist Taylor Iversen, drummer Ryan DeWitt and guitarist Graham Zander wield elements of heavy rock, shoegaze, grunge and hardcore with ease and fluency, crafting a blend that's bittersweet and familiar while urgently gazing forward.
Hailed as “one of the most musically diverse and emotionally impactful bands in the scene" by Distorted Sound Magazine, the Denver band's captivating approach finds them sharing terrain with the likes of Torche, Cave In and Converge, while their command of chunky, hooky riffs recalls alt-rock icons Hum and Quicksand, though this swirling amalgam of influences isn't the totality of Abrams. Having shared the stage with Dozer, Unsane, KEN mode, King Buffalo, Khemmis and Emma Ruth Rundle, the foursome has always strived to deliver memorable live shows.
A spearhead of the Denver rock scene, Abrams joined the ranks of tastemaker label Blues Funeral Recordings in 2024 for the release of their cornerstone album Blue City. Recorded and produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge, High On Fire), it saw their genre-defying heaviness and perfect melodic songcraft meld seamlessly into what Metal Hammer Magazine described as "an upswell of positivity in the face of frustration that’s sure to shake you from your existential slumber".
Their new album Loon will arrive on April 17th, 2026 on Blues Funeral Recordings, just in time for their first European tour the following month, including a performance at DesertFest London.
ABRAMS is
Zachary Amster – guitar, vocals
Taylor Iversen – bass, vocals
Ryan DeWitt - drums
Graham Zander - guitar
ABRAMS links
Website⎜Facebook⎜Bandcamp⎜Instagram
BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS links
Website⎮Facebook⎮Bandcamp⎮Instagram
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