The iconic Masters of Reality have announced four special shows for April 2025! They will play 1865 in Southampton on 6 April, followed by Rebellion in Manchester, Classic Grand in Glasgow and finishing in London’s 229 on 9 April. Tickets are available HERE.
In May this year they released Sugar, their first new music in 15 years via Mascot Records, which also saw them headline Desertfest London and Berlin as well as dates across Europe. Now, Chris Goss, one of the elusive geniuses of American music is back touring and will take his hypnotic sounds to further UK audiences.
“Masters of Reality are happy to be coming back to play in April,” says Goss. “Even just 4 shows will allow us to get some proper UK food and bad reviews. New album in 2025. Buy the damn thing, which you’ll be reminded to do numerous times in the next few months. And come to the shows. We love you and we’ll see you in April.”
As the singer, guitarist and driving force behind Masters Of Reality, he’s spent more than 40 years charting his own musical journey, travelling from mystical blues to desert rock to psychedelia-edged beauty via all points in between. Where others follow the pack, this desert-dwelling California native has forged a career like no other.
In the early 1990s, his three albums with a bunch of kids from Palm Desert called Kyuss, helped plant the seeds for the so-called desert rock movement. He struck up a lifelong friendship with the band’s guitarist Josh Homme, who enlisted Goss’ help when it came to getting his post-Kyuss outfit, Queens Of The Stone Age, off the ground, co-producing their first two albums and working with Homme on his Desert Sessions project, with Goss held up as ‘The Godfather Of Desert Rock.’
The list of bands and artists he has worked with in that capacity is long and illustrious: Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, Mark Lanegan, Foo Fighters, The Cult, UNKLE, Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, even Hollywood star Russell Crowe. He’s the connective tissue which links so much modern music.
Sugar is hypnotic, poignant and vulnerable, it builds from a stirring melody into a grand, orchestrated swell of emotion, with Goss’s ethereal yet soulful voice floating over the top of it. Sugar itself dates back to 2006, though it has been through many incarnations and iterations since before Goss added a chorus that had been rattling around the back of his brain since 1995. “As it developed, Sugar revealed an inner will to become less esoteric and more directly personal,” he says.
The arrival of Sugar – which was co-produced by Goss and Alain Johannes, and also features drummer John Leamy and bassist Paul Powell – heralds the welcome return of Masters Of Reality.
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