

Hayvanlar Alemi, Black Dot Doom
HAYVANLAR ALEMİ (Animal Kingdom) is an avantgarde psychedelic rock band founded in Ankara in 1999. The band plays loud instrumental music with influences from a variety of styles such as garage, surf, prog, doom, dub, free jazz, postpunk, and improvisation, also incorporating various non-Western musical elements from around the world. In their 27 years of existence, Hayvanlar Alemi released a large variety of work via international labels, which received positive reviews from diverse publications such as Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Vice, The Guardian, Metal Hammer and Pitchfork, and the band has played more than a hundred shows in 20 countries. Their latest vinyl ‘Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence’ was published by the Rome-based label Subsound Records in 2020, and their latest live album ‘Evidence of Life on Earth’ came out on Inverted Spectrum Records in 2023.
On this tour the band will be performing as a trio, consisting of the founding members Özüm İtez and Işık Sarıhan, joined by the acclaimed Macedonian bassist Deni Omeragić (Svetlost, Strog Post, DUNYHA..)
Support - Black Dot Doom (stoner/doom duo from Novi Sad).

