Based in Asturias, Spain, Green Desert Water are a classic power trio. Their third album for Small Stone Records, ‘Eerie Meadows,’ brings eight immersive and engaging tracks, merging heavy psychedelia and melodies born across decades from the 1970s on, speaking seamlessly to both sides in a way that is their own, as much grunge shove as it is boogie vibes.

“With Eerie Meadows, we wanted to explore the duality between the heavy and the ethereal—the mist, the ancient woods, and that feeling of finding home in the wild ,” says the band. “Recording in a new studio was a challenge we set for ourselves to push our sound further; it’s a record about the cycles of life, the scars we carry, and the fire that burns even under the northern lights.”

This new LP provides a modern twist to classic foundations. From the opening journey of “Northern Lights” to the closer “Meteora,” the band explore themes of loss, primal power, and spiritual survival.

‘Eerie Meadows’ follows the fan-favorite ‘Black Harvest’ (2021), that established the band and its new lineup: guitarist/ vocalist Kike Sanchís, bassist Juan Arias and drummer Dani Bárcena. While the band keep one foot decisively embedded in the classics — Mountain, Sabbath, Sasquatch — they execute the tight 37-minute LP with earned confidence and purpose, finding variety in mood amid a universal quality of craft. For the converted or those willing to be, it is a thing to be celebrated.

For fans of: La Chinga, Captain Beyond, Sasquatch, Black Elephant, Free Ride, The Brought Low

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