Spirit Mother

Spirit Mother is a heavy rock band, originating in Long Beach, CA and now based in rural PNW Burns, Oregon. Their sound is anthologized through a folk-informed and classical lens. Their dynamic and imposing wall of sound, coupled with a driving backbeat, grips through atmospheric strings and haunting vocals.

Guitarist/vocalist and songwriter, Armand Lance, creates the bones of the music in the attic of his rural ranch between cattle working and mustang wrangling - a likeness to his father’s upbringing as a cowboy in Ecuador. Joined by cofounder of the band, SJ, Mia Rose, and Michael Fenris, the group convenes at this cabin to write and develop their repertoire before hitting the road for tour nationally and abroad.

The band signed to Heavy Psych Sounds Records while in studio for their sophomore album “Trails” in between with regional west coast tours throughout the winter and spring of 2024. The Heavy Chronicles marked it as the black sheep of the Heavy Psych Sounds Records catalog, noting “Trails” reveals a band with a hybrid sound as much inspired by the hypnotic, harsh Americana of rural midwestern ghost towns as by the steamy shoegaze of the early ’90s. The fall release of “Trails” came with another coast-to-coast US tour in the with stops at Desert Fest NYC and Levitation Fest in Austin, Tx, as well as supporting European dates in the summer of 2025 across festivals Rock Im Wald, Blue Moon, Berg Herzburg, and Hoflarm, and clubs across the continent in between.

The band returned home and locked themselves away over the Fall and Winter to embark on their most ambitious project yet: to write, record, and self-produce their 3rd studio album in the same attic that inspires the music. From conception, to birth. Spirit Mother’s new album will be out with Sound Of Liberation Records on September 4th, 2026 with European tour dates to follow.