New Video: Earth Tongue Shares Blistering Ripper “Grave Pressure”

Currently-based in Berlin, the Kiwi-based psych duo Earth Tongue — Gussie Larkin (vocals, guitar) and Ezra Simons (drums, vocals) — released their third album Dungeon Vision through In The Red Records earlier this year. Dungeon Vision was written after a busy and extensive bit of touring across both Europe and the UK, and was recorded in Los Angeles with Ty Segall, a collaboration that be traced back to when the duo opened for him during his New Zealand and European tours. Dungeon Vision has already received critical acclaim and has lead to some non-stop international touring to support.

The rising psych duo will be supporting their latest album with a Stateside tour throughout August and September that includes sets at King Gizz’s Field of Vision Festival and Levitation, as well as a headlining and opening dates. The tour includes a September 3, 2026 stop at Elsewhere. You can check out the rest of the tour dates below.

In the meantime, Dungeon Vision single “Grave Pressure” is a blistering, mosh pit friendly ripper that channels Black Sabbath OSees, King Gizz and a lengthy list of others with the song anchored around fuzzy distorted pedaled power chords, thunderous drumming and punchy harmonized lyrics about death and the grave. Goths, metal heads and psych rockers unite!

Directed and produced by Caity Moloney and Tom Mannion, the video plays on 1990s alt rock motifs and features the Kiwi duo being prepared for their own funeral, performing in the funeral best and bursting from their own graves in a kitschy fashion reminiscent of Roger Corman‘s extensive collaboration with Vincent Price.

US dates:

8.7 – Vista, CA – Booze Bros

8.9 – Costa Mesa, CA – Wayfarer

8.10 – Las Vegas, NV – The Griffin

8.11 – Moab, UT – HeliPad

8.16 – Meadow Creek, Buena Vista, Colorado – Field of Vision Festival
8.19 – Portland, OR – High Water Mark
8.20 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern+
8.21 – Bend, OR – Silver Moon Brewing+
8.22 – Redding, CA – The Dip+
8.23 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop+
8.24 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon+
8.25 – Tucson, AZ – Hotel Congress+
8.27 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall*
8.28 – Louisville, KY – Portal*
8.30 – Asheville, NC – Eulogy*
9.2 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts*
9.3 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere*
9.4. – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
9.5 – Rochester, NY – Bug Jar
9.6 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
9.7 – Milwaukee, WI – X-Ray
9.8 – St. Louis, MO – The Sinkhole
9.9 – Warrensburg, MO – Retrograde
9.13 – Austin, TX – Levitation

+ w/ Hippie Death Cult
* w/ Monolord

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