SUMAC TOURING THE UK AND MAINLAND EUROPE
IN SUPPORT OF THE HEALER
CULMINATING IN A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE FILM AT REWIRE WITH MOOR MOTHER
SUMAC the Northwest-based trio consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook, and drummer Nick Yacyshyn will soon be embarking on a tour in support of their recent album The Healer (Thrill Jockey). This will culminate in a special performance at Rewire Festival with Moor Mother, where they will play their collaborative album The Film in full.
SUMAC LIVE 2026:
1 Apr – Copenhagen, DK – Vega [tickets]
2 Apr – Aarhus, DK – Radar [tickets]
3 Apr – Hamburg, DE – MS Stubnitz [tickets]
4 Apr – Brussels, BE – BRDCST Fest [tickets]
6 Apr – Manchester, UK – YES Pink Room [tickets]
7 Apr – Glasgow, UK – Room 2 [tickets]
8 Apr – Birmingham, UK – Castle & Falcon (Supersonic Fest) [tickets]
9 Apr – Bristol, UK – The Exchange [tickets]
10 Apr – London, UK – Dingwalls [tickets]
11 Apr – The Hague, NL – Rewire Festival # [tickets]
# with Moor Mother
Tickets are on sale.
On The Healer, recorded and mixed by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Thrice, Great Falls, Autopsy), SUMAC deepens its multi-faceted exploration into the parallel experiences of creation and destruction. Over the course of 4 tracks in 76 minutes, SUMAC presents a sequence of shifting movements which undergo a constant process of expansion, contraction, corruption and regrowth.
This musical methodology reflects the thematic nature of the record – narratives of experiential wounding as gateways to empowerment and evolution, both individual and collective. The group’s interpolation of melody, drone, improvisation, and complex riffing becomes a transmogrifying act embodying the depth of human experience. In its highest aspiration it mirrors our ability to endure mortal and spiritual challenges, through which we may emerge with an increased capacity for understanding, empathy, love of self and others. Dismal though the subterranean pits of The Healer may at first appear, from them can be felt the unwavering determination to embrace life, acknowledge interdependence, and honour the gift of existence.
“The trio pulls immense weight inwards towards a floor shaking singularity.”
– The Quietus
“There’s real heart buried underneath SUMAC’s furious, deafening bleakness.”
– The Skinny
“Sumac takes doom metal to its outer limits of space and structure. If any band could be considered “free metal,” it would be them”
– SPIN
“…like self-perpetuating obstacle courses in hell. Ricocheting between formidable doom and barbed improvisation, Sumac sound preternaturally belligerent.”
– Pitchfork
“What Sumac has been doing is, to be frank, the real deal, at once fully jazz and fully metal, as fitting on an alternate hyperbolically heavy ECM as on some illegible logo basement-run extreme metal cassette micro label.”
– Treble
