The Myrrors

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The Myrrors emerged out of the early waves of the millenium's "psychedelic" revival in 2007 with "Burning Circles in the Sky," a DIY debut recorded while founding members N.R. Safi and Grant Beyschau were still in high school. That might have been the end of the story if one track off the album, the snaking anti-war song "Warpainting," did not suddenly find its way into the online algorithms and begin racking up hundreds of thousands of listens (as of writing the number on Youtube sits at over 6.5 million views!) and turning the band into a bonafide cult phenomenon.

Though the band had drifted apart in the intervening years, they reassembled in 2013 with newfound maturity and a much deeper and heavier sound informed by the member's ever broadening palette of influences - first glimpsed on 2015's "Arena Negra," where fuzz guitars, droning violins, and spiritual jazz-inflected saxophone all came together to push the band's art far beyond what had previously been made available. A series of albums for famed underground labels such as Beyond Beyond is Beyond, Fuzz Club, and Cardinal Fuzz Records only furthered this reinvention as the band slowly began to disassemble and rearticulate the "rock music" format into a kind of electric drone music referencing everything from classical minimalism à la Terry Riley and Catherine Christher Hennix, to free jazz and central asian traditional music, the latter courtesy of Safi's Afghan heritage.

Live, the band has also been prone to a constant sense of movement, translating their recorded output into a transcendental performance style built on pulsating loops of sound and collective communion with their audience. Electric viola player Miguel Urbina, present with the band for almost ten years now, is perhaps the sonic fire around with the ensemble's music gathers, moving from slashing, overdriven drones and extended techniques to hypnotic waves of undulating sound. The band has toured Europe and the United States several times over the years, sharing bills with such celebrated artists as Kikagaku Moyo, Faust, Imarhan, and Moon Duo, as well as gracing the stage of such notable festivals as Le Guess Who?, Desert Daze, Grauzone, Fuzz Club Eindhoven, and Austin Psych Fest (aka Levitation Festival).

Despite a second hiatus from performing between 2020-2024 due to the Covid Pandemic and several members going through tumultuous life changes, the band has reassembled several times over the years to work on new music and ideas. Their pathbreaking new album "Land Back" comes out on vinyl, cassette, and CD via Cardinal Fuzz, Radio Khiyaban, and AUM Records in early autumn 2025, and the group has already been hard at work on the follow-up as they also prepare a major reissue campaign to feed popular demand for many of their now out-of-print back catalogue releases.