# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Monday, March 16th The Crucible & Ruin Tour rolls into GOATHEAD in Taos, New Mexico! 

Ft performances from:

Howling Giant (Nashville, TN)
Insomniac (Atlanta, GA)
Kyote Radio

3/16 | $12 | All Ages

Nashville’s Howling Giant has nothing to prove. Music City’s preeminent heavy jamming psych-wizards formed a decade ago and have been on an enviously productive upswing ever since. With four EPs, a split LP and two full-length records under their belts, not to mention a relentless touring ethos that finds them spreading the riff gospel far and wide, Howling Giant transfix with gorgeous, harmony-laden vocal hooks while hitting listeners square in the gut with snaking, progressive grooves no one saw coming.

Since the 2023 release of their exquisite and widely acclaimed album Glass Future, Howling Giant has taken to the open road over and over, co-headlining a European odyssey with fellow Magnetic Eye Records vibe-hounds Heavy Temple and entrancing North America in support of heavyweights like Elder, The Obsessed, Black Tusk and Mars Red Sky. The solidified trio of Sebastian Baltes (bass/vocals), Tom Polzine (guitar/vocals) and Zach Wheeler (drums/vocals) have honed their craft to a diamond-hard point, still bringing fiery fervor like every show is their first and intensity as it if might be the last.

Now expanded to a four-piece with the permanent addition of Adrian Zambrano on guitar and synths, the band is poised to unleash their third album Crucible & Ruin. Electrified by a dual-axe attack and an absurd wealth of hook-driven, hard-driving melodies, the record is massive, mercurial, and ready to meet the moment.

Crucible & Ruin finds Howling Giant embracing more ethereal textures and wide-open spaces, which makes the hammer-drop of each churning riff and whip-crack drum fill hit that much harder. The mellow sections are smoothly psychedelic sailing, like the pensive restraint that opens “The Archivist” or the contemplative instrumental “Lesser Gods,” but then they turn out a stuttering bruiser like “Beholder I - Downfall” that’s built around such a toweringly heavy groove that it might have its own weather system. More importantly, at the core are such impeccable songwriting chops that listeners will almost instantly feel they’ve known these songs forever.
Having brought the thunder to hundreds of audiences, each player lays down his licks in generous, sympathetic lockstep. Baltes’s bass lurks and lashes with swooping swings, while Wheeler’s drumming lands in a perfect sweet spot between Dave Grohl and Neil Peart. Polzine’s and Zambrano’s guitars paint a widescreen palette of laser-focused hooks and
beautiful atmospherics, from the heaving bounce of “Melchor’s Bones” and the nervy dual-guitar overlay of “Scepter & Scythe” to the mile-wide grin of a groove that pops up toward the end of “Hunter’s Mark.” Across the album, multiple voices mingle in golden harmonies that float atop the earthbound pummel of the instrumentation.

Howling Giant has nothing to prove, yet they’re still out there doing the damn thing. Crucible & Ruin is heavy music in pursuit of lightness, and points toward a better world by staying deeply present in every tricky fill, every songbird riff, every canyon-deep groove, every desperate refrain. Like daybreak poised to crest the horizon, the world waits for Howling Giant’s twisting,
searching, soaring new album with fervent hope.

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INSOMNIAC coalesce onto our plane like a third eye opening into the beyond. A bouncing ball on the rhythm of the universe. An aural guide past the edges of perception.

The band took form in Atlanta, Georgia, like-minded explorers of sound and mind writing songs in the frequency of the earth. Featuring members of Deceased, Brass Knuckle Surfer, and The Buzzards of Fuzz, the outfit's transcendent, mind-expanding psychedelic heaviness casts light on the magic and strange beauty, balanced between unconsciousness and dreams.

Out now via Blues Funeral Recordings, the band’s debut record, “OM MOKSHA RITAM” or “Liberation through merging with the Universal Rhythm”, is a concept album guiding the listener through an aural and spiritual journey across multiple extreme environments that test their resolve, principles, and commitment to adhering to the path.

Adrift between this world and the next, INSOMNIAC release themselves into the ether, spilling transportingly heavy brilliance in their wake. Like a third eye opening into the beyond, the transcendent, mind-expanding psych-doom of their debut album illuminates the strange beauty between unconsciousness and dreams.

On the heels of their most recent US tour with Norwegian juggernauts Kal-El, Insomniac shows no signs of slowing down, announcing additional dates for 2026 with Howling Giant, Crystal Spiders, and performances at amazing festivals like Heavy Metal Parking Lot, The Mojave Experience, and Legalize Lex.

#10 September 2025 Doom Charts
#19 Stoner Hive Best Albums of 2025
#52 Weedian - The 100 Best Releases of 2025

"...among the most cohesive and engagingly plotted debuts of the year" The Obelisk

“One of the most breathtaking and brilliantly surreal pieces of music I’ve heard in a very long time.” Outlaws Of The Sun

"This record is pure beauty." Musipedia Of Metal

“An experience that is truly mandatory for all who consider themselves even the most casual fans of heavy psych.” Head-Banger Reviews

“The frontman's memorable vocal melodies and imaginative guitar playing off the beaten lava metal track make individual pieces stand out.” Rock Hard

“This bridges the big epic rock riffage with hypnotic pulses.” Abysmal Hymns

“If you are a fan of the early days of Sub-Pop Records, then you should be a fan of these guys as well.” Ghost Cult Magazine

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Kyote Radio is a New Mexico based garage rock band with roots in the West Texas ghost town of Terlingua, a remote desert outpost where frontman Micah Paredes was born and raised before landing in Austin in 2007. Paredes leads Kyote Radio on electric guitar and vocals, delivering sharp songwriting backed by a band that provides a full dose of heavy riffs, anchored by a thundering rhythm section featuring collaborators Nick Smith, Wesley Riddle, Russ Connell, Nick Blossom and Ray Heilman.

Following the release of their 2018 debut EP, Mouth of the Cave, Kyote Radio teamed up with renowned Austin-based producer, Frenchie Smith, for their first full length LP, Real Crime which was released in 2021. The band has continued to release singles in the years since, including a 2022 collaboration with Kyle Shutt of The Sword, which was featured as Song of the Day on Austin's KUTX radio.  In 2024 Kyote Radio shifted headquarters to Taos, New Mexico, where they completed work on their second LP Habitats which was released in February of 2026.

Building songs with textures that draw heavily from both classic rock and modern indie, Kyote Radio blazes their own winding trail through forests of fuzzy riffs and canyons of reverb on the way up the mountain to rock and roll glory.
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Taos
- **state**: NM
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1350 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur Suite 6. Taos, Nm 87571
- **lat**: 36.37494
- **long**: -105.59434
- **full address**: 1350 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur Suite 6. Taos, Nm 87571, 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM 87571-5962, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos being held?
  - **A:** Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos takes place on Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm at 1350 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur Suite 6. Taos, Nm 87571, 1350 Paseo del Pueblo Sur, Taos, NM 87571-5962, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos?
  - **A:** Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos is organized by Insomniac.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos is ideal for live music fans, concert-goers, and anyone who enjoys unforgettable performances from their favorite artists in an electric live atmosphere. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Taos, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Howling Giant, Insomniac, Kyote Radio live at GOATHEAD Taos sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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