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I heard this one live before they committed it to record. It's almost the epitome of what it means to ask a question with your music. Can you really have any control over your influences, or are they controlling you? 😈
Favorite track: Mind Over Matter.
New 7" single out now in Oz (black vinyl) and mid-October 2025 in the ROW (red vinyl) via Fuzz Club
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Geelong, Australia-based power trio O.R.B (the Organic Rock Band) return with a brand new 7" titled 'Mind Over Matter', picking up from their long-awaited return after a near six-year hiatus with 2024's 'Tailem Bend' LP. Out digitally now and on limited red 7" September 26th through Fuzz Club, this super limited 45 arrives in support of upcoming North American and European tour dates – O.R.B's first time playing shows outside of Australia since their 2019 tour of both continents with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
"Everything in the world begins with a thought. We get an idea, we think about it, we talk about it, we write it down, we build it and then it exists," says guitarist/vocalist Zak Olsen. In this instance we have a new O.R.B tune, a psychedelic rock song inspired by the rhythm and blues and doo-wop of pre-Beatles rock ‘n’ roll – before Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Blackrock came in and fucked it all up. "Music is esoteric in nature, liquid and ever changing. It is alchemical. In futile attempts at capturing this magic we have taken to engraving our music into bits of plastic, trying to present the song within as the ‘definitive’ version… of course this is BS. Nobody from Beethoven to Beefheart could play the song exactly the same way twice even if they tried. So here is a version of our new song ‘Mind Over Matter’. We played it a few times before we recorded it and will play it many times after, and none will ever be quite the same, because that’s music!”
On the flip-side is 'End Times', which ploughs similarly loose and heady psychedelic-rock terrain but still retains some of that same stoned, saturated riffing that O.R.B have burrowed deep into from the off. Yet, here, the trio of Olsen, bassist David Gravolin and new drummer John Zacharius trail off into an outro that arguably echoes Can more than any Sabbathian forebears.
credits
released August 1, 2025
O.R.B
Zak Olsen: Vocals, Guitar
David Gravolin: Bass
John Zacharius: Drums
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Tim Dunn at Button Pusher
Produced by T. Dunn and O.R.B
The music on this record belongs to the Organic Rock Band (O.R.B)
supported by 25 fans who also own “Mind Over Matter b/w End Times”
Brilliant progressive thrash with badass lyrics, tight instrumentation, and some of the raddest sections in their discography, notably the lyrical flow at the end of Motor Spirit, the hyper-fast thrash ending of Converge, and that one part in Dragon. You know the one.
The eye dilates! The air gyrates! A gate in the sky! A portal to die! A shriek from space! A mangled yell! Dragon descends... Welcome to Hell! BananaBrainsYYZ
