HAAL + Stoop

Combining elements of post-rock, metal, trip-hop and industrial noise, Bristol’s HAAL have quickly become cult favourites in the UK live scene.

Their psychotropic blend of sampling, DIY home-crafted effects pedals, monolithic instrumentation and immersive live visuals has seen the band play and tour alongside the likes of Toe, Machine Girl, Famous, DITZ, Arab Strap and Water From Your Eyes, as well as appearing at festivals such as ArcTanGent, Outer Waves, Dot To Dot, Wanderlust and Outer Town.

Coming off the heels of their recent singles and subsequent remixes by Squid and Water From Your Eyes, the band’s debut EP ‘Back To Shilmarine’ arrived as a blistering snapshot of the band's protean dynamism. Praise from publications such as Total Guitar Magazine, CVLT Nation and Alternative Press, plus radio support from BBC Radio 6’s Jamz Supernova, Nabihah Iqbal and Thurston Moore, demonstrate their reach across tastemakers.

‘Back To Shilmarine’ explores themes of cosmic revelation and despair, set to a maelstrom of sound from intricate math-infected guitar lines to guttural screams, propulsive drumming and totemic riffing, rounded off with synth-sponsored eeriness. FFO: Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Tool, Massive Attack, Scaler, Björk.