GravelRoad will be performing with the one and only Reverend Beat-Man on August 16 at the Clock-Out Lounge in Seattle.  CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

Congratulations to GravelRoad on the placement of "Bring Me Back" in season 1 episode 7 of Motorheads, an American coming-of-age drama television series created by John A. Norris. It premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 20, 2025 and stars Ryan Phillippe, Nathalie Kelley, Michael Cimino and Melissa Collazo.

GravelRoad is currently working with Joe Reineke at Temple of The Trees Studio near Seattle on album number 10.  We're hoping for a summer 2026 album release.  There's some exciting new stuff on this one.  A little something for everyone...some punk some psych rock, some new instrumentations and of course that deep blues kick that drives the heart and soul of the band.  

2025 and 2026 are shaping up to be very a busy period for the Seattle based band, GravelRoad, who are back in the studio finishing up their tenth studio album, but are also busy working on several other projects concurrently. The band is finishing up mixing on a series of live releases that were recorded in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the first volume of which is expected to be released later this year.  The as yet to be titled tenth studio album will be released in early 2026, followed by more touring and the second installment of the live recordings from Clarksdale in late 2026. 

GravelRoad will be performing on October 18 at Hambone Art & Music and on October 19 at the New Roxy.  

“GravelRoad released their ninth album this past June, titled “Duty to Warn ,” produced by Jack Endino , where the 10 new tracks explore the well-earned guitar interplay gained from tens of thousands of miles of touring across the United States and Europe over the course of their last eight albums and 20 years on the road.

This is the band’s fourth release with Jack Endino, after working on their previous album Crooked Nation (2020), Capitol Hill country blues (2016) and El Scuerpo (2014). The Seattle quartet is capable of getting you on your feet with a bang of the best North Mississippi Blues, Psychedelia, Heavy Rock and Punk from the band that was the backing band of the great T-Model Ford for five years (2008-2013).

GravelRoad is made up of Stefan Zillioux, Martin Reinsel, Jon Kirby Newman, and Joe Johnson. GravelRoad revisits that nostalgia with Black Sabbath-esque beats, a crossroads between John Lee Hooker and the most cannibalistic boogie-woogie of the Mississippi Delta. Muddy landscapes of reverb-soaked guitars and hypnotic rhythms that challenge your senses, prepare to be sated by this new studio album from the Seattle-based heavy blues rockers.”

“Year after year, Seattle’s Gravelroad continue to craft their unique blues, which is cut with grunge and psychedelia. Their concert activities – that is, those on the old continent – have been slowed down by the covid pandemic, but albums are released with an iron regularity of two to three years. This year’s Duty to Warn is already the ninth item in the discography. A decent performance for two decades.
The music is based on the principles of North Mississippi Hill Country Blues, i.e. a lot of work is done here with hypnotic repetitiveness and urgent rolling. The sound is out of focus, the vocals seem to float in a mist over the intertwining fuzzed guitars. And whether Gravelroad are rockier, like in Jailhouse Limp, or, on the contrary, “introspective” like in Oceans, it’s intoxicating and captivating every time. Even in the case of the somewhat unexpectedly relaxed Traveler, which takes the American quartet almost into the realm of country music.
The sound is traditionally signed by Jack Endino, the man who gave the same care to the records of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees and the entire Seattle musical cream. Duty to Warn sounds both massive and acceptably obscured. Compared to the oppressive Crooked Nation Blues (2020), which hit Trumpian America with gusto, Duty to Warn is a bit lighter. But the truth – only slightly. The bony drive serving an hourglass with red sand, which decorates the cover record this time, together with songs like World on Fire or Stormʹs Coming, suggests that it is just a break and there is not much space left for space trips from older records.
Over time, Gravelroad managed to create a unique concept of heavy-duty blues. On Duty to Warn, they deepen and add new elements to what has already been established, be it the aforementioned country music or Taryn Dorsey’s vocals on all four tracks. The essential, the captivating groove, the bluesy feeling and the imaginary weight of the entire material, remains.”