KING BUFFALO Releases Brand New Song, “Balrog”, As Free Download; And Announces Additional US Tour Dates!

Rochester, New York-based trio King Buffalo has released a brand new song called Balrog and has announced some additional tour dates. You can now download Balrog FOR FREE at https://kingbuffalo.bandcamp.com! The track will be available on all the streaming platforms in the coming weeks.

“We’ve been hard at work on our new studio and still have more to do. Even with things not quite complete we wanted to try tracking something to dial in the room.” The band comments.

“What spawned is “Balrog” and we can’t wait for you to hear it! We will be playing it and some other album tracks we’ve never played live on all our remaining tour dates. These will be our last shows in the US for the time being as we are going to finish the studio and continue working on new ideas. See you at the upcoming shows!”

Written and recorded by the band with mixing and engineering by guitarist/vocalist Sean McVay and mastering by Bernie Matthews, the single is the first song recorded at King Buffalo’s new studio. This is the first studio material since the ‘pandemic trilogy,’ following One of 2022’s Best Albums in Regenerator and Two of 2021’s Best Albums in The Burden of Restlessness and Acheron.

All of these albums – like 2018’s Longing to Be the Mountain, 2016’s debut, Orion, and the various EPs and other offerings they’ve made over the last eleven years – made bold declarations about who King Buffalo are as a band. As McVay, bassist/synthesist Dan Reynolds and drummer Scott Donaldson continue to explore the outer reaches of modern psychedelic songcraft, melding progressive rhythms, drifting atmospheres and accompanying surges of electricity, the new song only further establishes them as one of the brightest lights shining in underground rock today.

Balrogwas written by King Buffalo in Rochester, NY at KB Studios in 2024. Produced, engineered and mixed by Sean McVay, and mastered by Bernie Matthews. The artwork was created by Thomas Tubiolo.

Make sure to catch King Buffalo live at the following dates below! Tickets for all shows are available at kingbuffalo.com/tour

2024 – 2025 North America Tour Dates
11/14 Asheville, NC @ Eulogy^
11/15 Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern^
11/16 Asbury Park, NJ @ Wonder Bar^ (low tickets)
12/4 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown*
12/6 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep*
12/7 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre* (selling fast)
12/8 Santa Fe, NM @ Tumbleroot*
12/10 Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole*
12/11 Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive*
12/12 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah* (low tickets)
12/13 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room* (low tickets)
12/14 Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s* (selling fast)
12/17 Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips* (selling fast)
12/18 Oklahoma City, OK @ Resonant Head*
12/19 Kansas City, MO @ Recordbar*
12/20 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway*
12/28 Buffalo, NY @ Electric City w/ Handsome Jack

**JUST ANNOUNCED**

1/17 Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye
1/24 Columbus, OH @ Skully’s
1/25 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
1/28 St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
1/29 Madison, WI @ High Noon
1/30 Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
1/31 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
2/1 Toledo, OH @ Frankie’s Inner City
^ w/ Ben Katzman
* w/ Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol