photo: Jennifer Deutrom

MARK DEUTROM (ex MELVINS bassist) is streaming his forthcoming new album, ‘The Blue Bird’.

Regarding the album unveiling, DEUTROM offers, “A thread of sentimentality represented by the blue bird runs from the late 19th century, through the 20th, vanishing behind the fog of digital ascendancy in the 21st… or maybe it’s just over the hill.”

The album is streaming here:

‘The Blue Bird’ will release tomorrow, January 4, 2019 on CD, LP, and all digital platforms, with each format featuring a slightly different track listing and arrangement. Pre-orders for the album are available here.

The first work under MARK DEUTROM’s own name in almost six years, ‘The Blue Bird’ is a full album listening experience; it explores melody, space, nuance, and volume as it flows from track-to-track like a prismatic audio storybook. From the classic unconventional heaviness of tracks such as “The Happiness Machine”, to the fever dream haziness of the “Somnambulist”, through the moody “The Day Has Come”, Deutrom moves from strength to strength without ever letting his foot off the gas. ‘The Blue Bird’ is rock grandeur, oozing poise and purpose, and has all the Deutrom hallmarks to be an abiding piece of heavy rock history.

The artwork, created by Mark’s wife Jennifer Deutrom, and track list for ‘The Blue Bird’ can be found below:

Track list:
1. No Space Holds the Weight
2. Futurist Manifesto
3. Radiant Gravity
4. O Ye of Little Faith
5. Our Revels Now are Ended
6. Hell is a City
7. Somnambulist
8. Maximum Hemingway (watch the video, also available via Spotify)
9. Through the Ringing Cedars
10. They Have Won
11. On Father’s Day
12. The Happiness Machine (click to stream, also available via Spotify)
13. Nothing Out There (click to stream, also available via Spotify)

MARK DEUTROM is a renowned guitarist, composer, songwriter, and producer. Mark studied composition at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, USA. There he attended seminars with such composers as John Cage, Lou Harrison, Morton Feldman, Aaron Copland, and Morton Subotnick.

In 1986, MARK DEUTROM co-founded Alchemy Records in San Francisco, CA. During his time at the label he produced a record for his own band, CLOWN ALLEY, as well as records for scene stalwarts SACRILEGE, MELVINS, RKL, and NEUROSIS. Mark also released records for bands such as POISON IDEA, VIRULENCE, and more.

MARK DEUTROM was invited to play bass in the MELVINS in 1993. He joined the same year and remained in the band until 1998. Mark contributed material to the albums ‘Prick’, ‘Stoner Witch’, ‘Stag’, ‘Honky’, and additional releases. During his time with MELVINS, they toured with TOOL, NIRVANA, NINE INCH NAILS, KISS, and RUSH among others.

MARK DEUTROM news and updates will be made available through the Season of Mist website, and the official MARK DEUTROM Facebook page.