Rig Rundown – King Buffalo
Hailing from the land of ice and snow, aka Rochester, New York, guitarist Sean McVay, bassist Dan Reynolds, and drummer Scott Donaldson dropped their mammoth-sounding debut, Orion, in 2016. The opening title track best exudes King Buffalo’s MO: darker Pink Floyd “Echoes” vibes with the eventual punishment of tectonic-shifting power of fellow power trio Sleep. KB may never go full doom, often subbing in hazier psychedelic strokes for monotonous monotone riffs, but they can still rumble with heaviest bands. “Goliath Pt. 1” and “Goliath Pt. 2” strongly showcase their Jekyll-and-Hyde stoner-rock tendencies that teeter between Floyd’s Live at Pompei and Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality.
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With leftover Orion material, the band released an EP Repeater in early 2018. The 3-song collection would be a perfect soundtrack to a time-lapsed, mountain-climbing video. The expansive 13-minute opener starts calmly like any ascent, but as it continues, things begin to speed up, intensify, grow darker, before a crescendoing crash of celebration on the successful summit.
Later in 2018, the trio released their sophomore album, Longing to be the Mountain. The pace on LTBTM is much like the smooth cadence and perpetual hypnotic groove of hip-hop star NAS—it’s deliberate, powerful, and always bobbing forward. Space is much more prevalent than on Orion. Bookend bloomers “Morning Song” and “Eye of the Storm” exude the group’s blossoming confidence (and patience) providing air for suspense, tension, and timely, forceful apexes. With the added breathing room, the explosive parts build and powerfully bust through like a blues-tinged, psychedelic, kraut-rock-powered tsunami best felt in the doubled solos of “Quickening” and the thunder-cracking climax of the title track. (Full disclosure: I picked Longing to be the Mountain as one of my favorite albums of 2018. And time has only further solidified this vote.)
Before their headlining show at Nashville’s High Watt, guitarist/singer Sean McVay and his bass counterpart Dan Reynolds explain and demo how a couple of cheap, afterthought instruments paired with scaled-down boards create breakneck dynamics from Ms. Priss to monstrous.
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no harm meant but i love the talk of no tubes in the bass amp and then adds tube pedal to bring out tube sound….. -_- hehehhe to each their own. i love this band!!! and i wont lie the bass sounds amazing so keep! it up! its just funny were all crazi when it comes to sound
Why leave out the synth stuff?
I still love Swervdriver but these guys are my newest fasination!
great insight – thank you kindly
Woo Hoo. Rock Gods ????
Sean’s like a Zappa that smoked weed
Good job PG ????
Very underrated band…..
Sean mcvay is a genius. He kills it. Love king buffalo
Best band out there right now.
Just picked up a Gold Sparkle Hagstrom D2F because of Sean. Funny I'm also a Sean but a much much more interior guitarist. Gonna swap out the pickups to match. Such an amazing guitarist and band!
Saw these guys last night.
When the bass player Dan kicked in that wah bass pedal on the heaviness erupted off the stage and ya felt it in your chest. I was on his side of stage like 3 people deep. Lordy. He has great tone. Now I see how. Great pedal chain. McVay brought the sickness on guitar
Nice video!!! Just saw them in Baltimore on March 5th 2022 opening for Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats!! One of the best bands out there right now! I cannot wait for them to come through again as headliners of their own tour. I bought Repeater on vinyl directly from Dan the bassist and all the band members signed it for me. Really cool guys that basically are doing it all themselves!!!
This is so intimate. In the minds of the artists. I love it… I love their music. THEM right? Intracacies -xo
Did anyone catch the order of the effects for bass? I LOVE that sound!
Wonderful band. So cool to hear and see the gear.
he's really tall or you are really short.
That bald guy was so fuckin horny for this dude ahaa
what type of Moog is he using…it looks like a Subharmonicon….can't be sure.
Brilliant band
All of their albums are stellar but their new album is absolutely massive
What a great bunch of guys. Awesome vid. Thanks.