Desertscene London proudly presents

STEAK

plus special guests;

ELEPHANT TREE

SERGEANT THUNDERHOOF

Friday 16 October 2026

Doors: 6:00pm

Tickets: £22 advance

Age: 14+ - under 16s must be accompanied by an adult

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Emerging from the shadows of London's underground heavy rock scene, Steak have spent more than a decade carving out a reputation as one of the UK's most distinctive progressive stoner rock bands. Since forming in 2012, they've built a loyal international following through relentless touring, acclaimed releases and an ever-evolving sound that fuses desert rock, psychedelia and progressive heaviness.

Following early releases and their debut album Slab City (Napalm Records), Steak joined Ripple Music for 2017's No God To Save, taking them across Europe and North America alongside John Garcia (Kyuss), Monster Magnet, Greenleaf and The Atomic Bitchwax, as well as an appearance at SXSW.

Their third album, Acute Mania (2022), marked another creative leap, expanding their trademark desert rock foundations into darker, more progressive territory while further defining a sound that is unmistakably their own.

In recent years, the band have continued to build momentum with appearances at Freak Valley Festival, Resurrection Fest and multiple editions of Desertfest, alongside UK and European tours with Elder, Slomosa and All Them Witches. From London's iconic Roundhouse to some of Europe's biggest heavy music festivals, Steak have continued to bring their explosive live show to ever-growing audiences.

With their first album written and recorded as a five-piece due for release through Stickman Records and Ripple Music, Steak continue their upward trajectory with their most ambitious and expansive work to date. Combining crushing riffs, cinematic atmosphere and the band's unmistakable melodic edge, the record marks another bold evolution for a band entering its most exciting chapter yet.

Desertscene London proudly present:

Artist: EYEHATEGOD

+ special guests : RWAKE

and INTERCOURSE

Date: Sunday 8th November 2026
Venue: The 1865
City: Southampton

Tickets: £27 advance

Doors: 7:00pm

Ages: 8+ / Under 14’s must be accompanied by 18+

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Desertscene London proudly present:

Artist: EYEHATEGOD

+ special guests : RWAKE

and INTERCOURSE

Date: Monday 9th November 2026
Venue: Scala
City: London

Tickets: £30 advance

Doors: 7:00pm

Ages: 16+

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Desertscene London & DHP proudly present:

Artist: SLIFT

+ special guests : Hey Colossus

Date: Sunday 13th December 2026
Venue: Islington Assembly Hall
City: London

Tickets on sale Friday 24th April at 10am.

Standing Tickets: £25 advance

Balcony (unreserved seating/standing): £28 advance

Doors: 7:00pm

Ages: 16+

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Every previous album by the radiant and heavy French trio SLIFT—brothers Jean and Rémi Fossat and drummer Canek Flores, a friend since high school - has been a fantasia—a composite of genres and forms that allowed the band to improvise, to jam on themes until they seemed to spiral together into space. But, in a bit of intentional irony, SLIFT’s fourth album is called Fantasia without actually being one. It is, instead, their leanest and most direct record, a pointed saga about overcoming international upheaval delivered by a band bearing down without wasting a second. SLIFT didn’t want to lose the message by playing too much. They’re preparing for a battle they think we can still win.

As Jean Fossat wrote the core of Fantasia, he thought a lot about Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian author whose fiction deftly wove elements of magic and surreality into places and plots that almost felt real. (SLIFT even borrowed the song title “Orbis Tertius” from Borges.) Fantasia, then, is an imagined town plagued by a sense of unknowing and xenophobia, of trying to eliminate anything that disrupts the accepted order. The town comes into focus on “Corrupted Sky,” where Fossat’s narrator tries to dodge doom upon arriving there. Hope starts to emerge during the record’s back half, as people start to remember that they are more than their society’s oppressive uniformity. These eight songs, then, are about trusting in the power to fight back, however hidden it may seem.

Artist: ELDER
Support: Rezn & Temple Fang
Date: Tuesday Tues 23rd February - Saturday 27th February 2027
Advance Tickets on sale 12th June 2026 HERE

23.02.27 Trinity Centre. Bristol
24.02.27 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
25.02.27 The Garage, Glasgow
26.02.27 Manchester Academy 2, Manchester
27.02.27 Electric Brixton, London

Two decades into their existence, Elder remain an anomaly in the underground rock scene - a rare band with the ability to absorb and shed influences from a myriad of genres without falling into pastiche or losing their own identity. Their new record Through Zero is a strong reaffirmation of a commitment to pushing boundaries in the world of heavy rock and cements the group’s status as leaders of the pack in heavy psychedelic rock.

Elder has long since mastered crushing riffs, melodic jaunts, progressive patterns, hypnotic grooves and ethereal atmosphere along their path of music-making in the past twenty years. On Through Zero, Elder takes these years of experience and forms possibly their most immediate and engaging record to date, while allowing seeds from outside the sphere of rock music to take root and bloom within their progressive framework. Listeners will find familiar elements of new textures, sequences, and sounds alongside Elder’s iconic take on heavy rock. As always, every spin reveals new details.

Recorded in Berlin across several months between tours in 2025, Through Zero is the first album which the band not only produced but also co-mixed together with longtime collaborator Richard Behrens. The album sounds more like a full extension of the band’s creative intentions than ever before.

Elder was founded sometime around 2006 or so - nobody remembers exactly - in a small coastal town in Massachusetts by three longtime friends with a passion for heavy downtuned music. Over the years, the band has gained a guitarist, lost a drummer, relocated (mostly) from the States to Germany, played hundreds of shows from small clubs to arenas across the world and released six full-length albums, four EPs and two live records. Though this pedigree isn’t a requirement for anything, the twists and turns along the group’s winding road to today might explain the group’s refusal to stagnate.