Emerging from the shadows of murky London bars, this quartet’s love for the underground knows no bounds. Helping to shape a movement in rock and roll music across the UK and Europe – guitarist Reece Tee is also one of the founding members of the legendary DesertFest – STEAK have forged a path on a crusade to make to make cities shake and heads roll. Now, after releasing a series of devastatingly heavy EPs and a debut full-length on Napalm Records, Steak joins forces with Ripple Music, one of the world’s leading purveyors of heavy psych, stoner and doom, to release new album No God to Save to a worldwide audience.
enFOCUS: Welcome to Austin and SXSW. This has been your first time performing in the US. How are you finding it?
Kip: The first few days have been good! We played at Spider House yesterday and we'll be playing at The Lost Well today. Everyone’s been really friendly and cool. I’ve been really impressed with how many music venues there are. In London we have Camden which is similar in a way with lots of venue close to other. It makes for a really good music scene.
enFOCUS: Tell us about any new projects.
Cam: We just came off a tour and it’s been amazing.
Reese: We’ve done a full European tour with Greenleaf from Sweden and The Atomic Bitchwax from New Jersey. Straight after that we came here for our first run through the States. And then this summer we going to be writing the next album as well as a few of European festivals. But the priority for us is to finish writing the album and record it later this year or early 2019.
enFOCUS: Looking forward to that.
Reese: Yeah. Well the last album was the first one with Ripple. And it’s thanks to them that we’re out here so we’re looking forward to doing a second one with them.
Cam: We recorded the last one in Palm Springs and that was nice. We had guest vocals on one of the tracks by John Garcia of Kyuss.
enFOCUS: I’m always curious to hear artists thoughts on were Rock and Heavy Metal is going over the next few years. Lots of bands seem to be going back to the roots.
Reese: Well for us we were influenced by bands like Kyuss and a lot of the bands from the 90’s. So that’s where we’ve come from. But since the time that we’ve been together we’ve noticed that the scene in general for Stoner Rock & Doom has grown, especially in Europe. We see a lot of bands from the US coming over to Europe to play because the scene is so strong over there.
The whole scene has become so fragmented and even the festivals have become more of a niche. In a way that’s good for fans because they can go to a festival and for the price of a ticket see a lot of the bands they like instead of just one or two over the course of a whole weekend.
enFOCUS: Any last words?
Well we’re starting a biker gang…early days (laughs). I think that’s part of the influence we’re getting from being over here.
Well to see if anything happens with the biker gang, follow Steak on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steakuk
Listen On Bandcamp: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-god-to-save
Kip: The first few days have been good! We played at Spider House yesterday and we'll be playing at The Lost Well today. Everyone’s been really friendly and cool. I’ve been really impressed with how many music venues there are. In London we have Camden which is similar in a way with lots of venue close to other. It makes for a really good music scene.
enFOCUS: Tell us about any new projects.
Cam: We just came off a tour and it’s been amazing.
Reese: We’ve done a full European tour with Greenleaf from Sweden and The Atomic Bitchwax from New Jersey. Straight after that we came here for our first run through the States. And then this summer we going to be writing the next album as well as a few of European festivals. But the priority for us is to finish writing the album and record it later this year or early 2019.
enFOCUS: Looking forward to that.
Reese: Yeah. Well the last album was the first one with Ripple. And it’s thanks to them that we’re out here so we’re looking forward to doing a second one with them.
Cam: We recorded the last one in Palm Springs and that was nice. We had guest vocals on one of the tracks by John Garcia of Kyuss.
enFOCUS: I’m always curious to hear artists thoughts on were Rock and Heavy Metal is going over the next few years. Lots of bands seem to be going back to the roots.
Reese: Well for us we were influenced by bands like Kyuss and a lot of the bands from the 90’s. So that’s where we’ve come from. But since the time that we’ve been together we’ve noticed that the scene in general for Stoner Rock & Doom has grown, especially in Europe. We see a lot of bands from the US coming over to Europe to play because the scene is so strong over there.
The whole scene has become so fragmented and even the festivals have become more of a niche. In a way that’s good for fans because they can go to a festival and for the price of a ticket see a lot of the bands they like instead of just one or two over the course of a whole weekend.
enFOCUS: Any last words?
Well we’re starting a biker gang…early days (laughs). I think that’s part of the influence we’re getting from being over here.
Well to see if anything happens with the biker gang, follow Steak on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steakuk
Listen On Bandcamp: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-god-to-save