SUPERHEAVEN

Superheaven are back and better than ever. The Grunge-y alt rock heavyweights recently announced that they’ve joined the Blue Grape Music roster (Gel, Spiritual Cramp, Code Orange) and shared „Long Gone“ their first new song in nearly a decade. Today they’re back with another massive track, „Numb To What Is Real.“

„Long Gone“ drew praise from the likes of Stereogum, Revolver Magazine, BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, and more, now „Numb To What Is Real“ completes the band’s newly released two-song single, Long Gone / Numb To What Is Real. Together the tracks are a perfect reintroduction to Superheaven’s blend of big hooks and even bigger guitars, and they hint at what’s to come from the group in 2025.

In 2015 Superheaven (guitarists/co-vocalists Jake Clarke and Taylor Madison, bassist Joe Kane, and drummer Zack Robbins) released their sophomore album Ours Is Chrome and after touring heavily in support of that record they took an extended break from the band. But the group never broke up, and during that hibernation Superheaven and their style of fuzzed-out, riff-laden alternative became even more appreciated and influential. Now the band’s return finds them not only at the peak of their creative powers, but also more popular than ever before.

„We did the JAR ten year show and that was really exciting to see that there was still interest in the band,“ Clarke explains, „then that Fall we played a few more shows and they were even crazier. It really made us realize that people really love this band and these songs we’d made.“ The group decided to follow that momentum into a remote cabin in the Poconos to try and make new music, and „Long Gone“ was one of the first songs to emerge. „Hearing the demo back for the first time was really inspiring,“ says Robbins. „To hear us making something new, but to have it still really feel like our sound.“

Engineered by Clarke and Robbins at The Metal Shop (the studio co-owned by Robbins) then mixed by Rich Costey (The Foo Fighters, Rage Against The Machine, The Swirlies) Long Gone / Numb To What Is Real feels like Superheaven at their most fully realized. „We didn’t want to be told no,“ laughs Clarke. „We got to try every pedal, try every amp, and have all the time we wanted to do it.“ The result is a pair of tremendous rock songs that mark the start of a new chapter for one of the best bands in modern guitar music.

Long Gone / Numb To What Is Real is streaming in full on and also available as 7″ single sold on superheaven.net and on Superheaven’s North American tour with The Story So Far and Koyo. The run is wrapping up this week on the West Coast, see full itinerary below.