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Review: The Long Hunt ‘Natural Order’ (The Sleeping Shaman, Reza Mills, 8.28.25)

• “… it’s impressive that the band manage to sound so satisfying and original.”
• “… listening to it, you forget about time, always a good sign of an album truly hitting the spot.”

Daily Yinz – The Long Hunt – Spine of Dusk (Bored in Pittsburgh, Ben Gibbons, 8.27.25)

• “The Long Hunt make music for arduous journeys into the depths of primeval forests and across untouched mountain ranges.”

Doom Charts – July 2025 – #21 (Doom Charts, Andy Kovalcik, 8.1.25)

• Ranked #21 on July 2025 Doom Charts
• “[Natural Order] is a fuzzy, metallic, psychedelic journey that delivers on what it is meant to do, keep you interested and entertained for the duration of the entire album experience.”

Album Review: The Long Hunt – Natural Order (Outlaws of the Sun, Steve Howe, 7.18.25)

• “When everything is put together, The Long Hunt are quite unbeatable with their majestic Psychedelic and Spaced Out passages.”
• “Natural Order is expertly recorded and produced with The Long Hunt demonstrating once again why they’re one of the most essential Instrumental Stoner Rock bands we currently have within the underground scene.”

Pick of the Week: The Long Hunt’s Sun-Stained Doom Crawls into Cool Corners on ‘Natural Order’ (Meat Mead Metal, Brian Krasman, 7.18.25)

• “… each release gives you a newly refined vision … This one is perfect for once cooler summer evenings arrive or on a sun-splashed walk through the woods where you can pay homage to your surroundings and be overcome by the power of this band’s music.”
• “‘Natural Order’ is the logical next step for The Long Hunt … this album flows perfectly and induces new visions. … This is an imaginative, immersive record.”
• “… music that always feels like a spirit that never leaves your side.”

Exclusive Song Premiere of Instrumental Doom Rockers THE LONG HUNT New Song ASSIDUOUS GNAW (Outlaws of the Sun, 7.15.25)

• “The song hits especially hard live, with the warbling vibrato and delay-drenched guitar giving way to the muscular, octave fuzz chorus.” (Trevor Richards as quoted in article.)

The Long Hunt Premiere “The Cosmic Egg” Video; Natural Order Out July 18 (The Obelisk, 6.19.25)

• “… taut … while casting vivid impressions in sound … One song feeds off the next and the whole procession becomes richer as you go.”
• “Perhaps unsurprisingly, the three-piece spend some time in conversation with Earth. Particularly, centerpiece “Spine of Dusk” has a wistfulness to its lead lines that feels like it was perhaps printed in the infernal method, but the more psychedelic lean of “Assiduous Gnaw” beforehand presents a different context, plotted and thoughtful with a touch of Pelican-y fuzz in the second half, and in both songs, The Long Hunt retain the ability to bring their own spin to their influences.”

The Long Hunt to Release Natural Order on July 18; New Song Posted (The Obelisk, 5.22.25)

• “Moody in a post-rock kind of way … [It Hunts the Shadows] swings and chugs at a mid-paced tempo, hooking the listener through ease of access and repetition alike. The vibe is suitably organic.”

Premiere: The Long Hunt ‘Spine of Dusk’ – New Album ‘Natural Order’ Drops 18th July (The Sleeping Shaman, 5.21.25)

• “Get ready to be consumed by the slow-burning inferno of Spine of Dusk from Pittsburgh’s three-piece instrumental titans, The Long Hunt. With a sound forged in the deepest caverns of doom, drone and heavy psych, the track draws you into a twilight realm where riffs unravel like ancient spells and rhythms pulse with a primal weight.”

Weekly Wrap-Up (Bored in Pittsburgh, 4.15.22)

• “As if their passages of snaking, odyssean metal (a la Pelican, Isis, Russian Circles) weren’t enough, The Long Hunt, with the release of their new album, Threshold Wanderer, spoil us with an accompanying short film full of psychedelically evocative digital imagery.”

There’s Something New Under The Sun, and The Long Hunt Are Doing It With Their New Album ‘Threshold Wanderer’ (Alchemical Records, Linc Bradham, 4.3.22)

• “… when you see the animation style The Long Hunt’s guitarist Trevor Richards used for ‘Threshold Wanderer’, it will become apparent that the style of immersion The Long Hunt is striving for is, in fact, completely new.”
• “… there are many archetypal themes which the album deals with. These include nature, life, death, and rebirth. The band itself does an incredible job at marrying these metaphysical themes with a soundtrack that encourages the listener to analyze while simultaneously being absorbed into the soundscape.”

Review: The Long Hunt – ‘Threshold Wanderer’ (DenpaFuzz, 4.1.22)

• “Gravitating in a space in which post-rock, psychedelia, post-metal, psycho-doom and progressive elements coexist in this suggestive musical journey between worlds. Creating an immersive experience to the listener inside somber atmospheres presided over by a sense of mystery. With a fluid narrative the themes oscillate between drones and slow but heavy according to those that manage to make the listener participate in his disturbing, but fascinating story.”
• “Nature, life, death and rebirth are the source of inspiration for songs that, despite their density, flow with ease through those psychedelic spaces that the trio knows how to model with such skill.”
• “With its twelve minutes, ‘Night Falls on Black Wings’ is conceived under the support of monolithic stoner riffs of supreme density. Slowly the theme flirts with a doom environment, plunging us into a dark sound abyss.”

‘Threshold Wanderer’ Review (State of Guitars, 4.1.22)

• “…The Long Hunt takes us to places of scorched earth, years of plenty, the past in the future, all at the same time.”
• “They present a record plus a fully animated film accompanying the songs. It takes the viewer to inconceivable universes …”

The Long Hunt Unveil Evocative Instrumental Gem, ‘Threshold Wanderer’ (Doomed & Stoned, Billy Goate, 3.30.22)

• “… you’re about to encounter a Pennsylvania act whose name is worthy of standing alongside the greats …”
• “The Long Hunt’s conjurings are entirely convincing – so organically instrumental that not once did I miss a traditional singer narrating the action. In fact, vocals might just spoil the experience altogether, as something very important would be lacking from the equation: your imagination.”
• “Enter the grim, fascinating world of The Long Hunt as Threshold Wanderer spirits you away to a fantastic underworld of damning doom, wistful psychedelia, visionary post-metal, and joyful prog.”

Pick of The Week: The Long Hunt Pack Power, Psyche Majesty into Immersive ‘Threshold Wanderer’ (Meat Mead Metal, Brian Krasman, 3.25.22)

• “Threshold Wanderer really gets at the heart of this band … and the force they harness. Over six immersive, earth-shakingly heavy, psyche-washed tracks, the band flexes their muscles, working into your bones and giving you a closer taste to what taking them on live is really like.”
• “…Trevor Richards used the downtime of the pandemic to work on his 3D modeling skills to craft an album-long video that gives you a visual glimpse into this record that revels in the themes of exploration and traveling between worlds.”
• … a gigantic step forward for The Long Hunt, a band that already was operating on a high and fully immersive level.”
• “This record is more indicative of their mighty live shows where you can feel like you’re both at their mercy and enthusiastically along for a journey that challenges and sparks you.”

Exclusive Video Premiere: The Long Hunt – “The Golden Bough” (Ghost Cult Magazine, 3.16.22)

• “… incredible animated short film …”

The Long Hunt Premiere “The Tower” Video; Threshold Wanderer Out April 1 (The Obelisk, JJ Koczan, 2.15.22).

• “‘The Tower’ is the point at which the record begins to unfold, with the subdued ‘Prelude’ setting a mood for two minutes before. It introduces the natural distortion and subtle noise vibe behind the riffs, like if earlier Mastodon slowed down to take a breath, and the brightness of the crash cutting through the density of the tones.”
• “Drawing on visual elements both organic and otherworldly, the accompanying videos are a fitting match for songs like ‘The Golden Bough,’ with it’s subtle Earth influence met by sunshine, a three-eyed deer, or the subsequent 12-minute ‘Night Falls on Black Wings’ with its journey into aural and visual space.”

Mindrocket Sessions: The Long Hunt “Smoke Offering” (Mindrocket Sessions, Rick Polo, 12.27.19)

• “Pittsburgh experimental/instrumental act The Long Hunt are no strangers to creating lush, brooding atmospheres with powerful minimalism. Their individual tracks feel more like movements, brush strokes on a greater canvas: that’s not to say that they don’t stand strong as individual pieces either. This is evident on “Smoke Offering,” a standout track from their 2018 record, All Paths Lead to Here.“
• “Across [“Smoke Offering’s] runtime, a hypnotic groove provides ethereal soundscapes which set the foundation for a dark psychedelic guitar riff, not far removed from the sounds of a David Lynch film, but also not far removed enough from an emotional connection as great as any traditional “song” would have to offer.”

Descendants of Crom Returns with an Extra Day, Whole Slew of Metal, Doom, Sludge Bands (Meat Mead Metal, Brian Krasman, 9.26.18)

• “Their new record All Paths Lead to Here is highly recommended and as beautiful as it is heavy.”

Pittsburgh’s The Long Hunt Pull Back, Bring Minimalist Doom with Parched All Paths Lead to Here (Meat Mead Metal, Brian Krasman, 6.5.18)

• “With this band, minimalism is the name of the game, and they do a fine job on these six songs carving paths down dusty roads, letting the sun burn your skin, and leading you into a transformative musical experience that puts some of the responsibility on the listener to commit to the journey.”
• “‘Closing the Circle’ begins with drums bustling, the bass riveting, and us heading back into the desert with dry throats. Guitars head through and pull us into a driving rain before speed takes over and races to a psyched-out end.”
• “… these songs promise to expand the room in a live setting and give you a new understanding of their power.”
• “All Paths to Here is a fine piece of work that unravels more with each listen, so by all means, go back and indulge.”

New Release from The Long Hunt: Minimalist Heavy Psych (Pittsburgh City Paper, Meg Fair, 5.30.18)

• “The Long Hunt makes wandering music, so it’s only fitting that its latest release is titled All Paths Lead to Here. The heavy psych, minimalist post-rock moves through valleys of sludgy riffs, ascends into peaks of slithering bass licks and rolls across ambient fields of rock.”
• “There are only three members (drums, guitar, bass), but it sounds like many more. The band is entirely instrumental, and it doesn’t need lyrics to weave a tale. All it has to say is delivered through the feeling of each epic track.”

The Long Hunt Channel Nature for its Moody, Minimalist Debut, Wilderness Tales: Think of a Sound Somewhere between Slint and Sleep (Pittsburgh City Paper, Alex Gordon, 2.15.17)

• “Nature figures heavily in Wilderness Tales, the debut album from post-rock trio The Long Hunt. The songs are instrumental – there are no lyrics about wind whistling through leaves – but nature references are abundant. There’s a deer head on the cover (not a real deer, it’s papier mâché), the song titles are outdoor-centric, and the inside cover art shows the band’s instruments lying in the grass like sleepy poets.”
• “[The Long Hunt’s] style of heavy, repetitive, minimally stylized music does have an organic, animalistic vibe to it. This isn’t the music of lily pads and fawn sipping from streams. Wilderness Tales channels the punitive, indifferent randomness of floods and wildfires.”
• “The trio … succeeds with its sound because every minimalist instinct is balanced by jolts of grandiosity and abrupt change. The sound is unpredictable. Think something between Sleep and Slint: unsettling, heavy and mesmerizing.”

MP3 Monday: The Long Hunt (Pittsburgh City Paper, Alex Gordon, 2.13.17)

• “Wilderness Tales is built on sparse guitar lines on the surface, but anyone who’s spent any time with Earth or Sleep or OM will recognize the heavier – if less distorted – nuances in each composition.”

Band & Live Performance

Review: The Long Hunt – Closing the Circle – LIVE! (Metal Institute of Thrashology, 5.23.25)

• “This is more like sonic craftsmanship, as the trip carefully and intricately paint beautiful, immersive soundscapes, fragilely placing each note in your ear, as they gently waft from the cabinets.”
• “As you can see here, ‘Closing the Circle’ had the entire audience literally hanging on a moment …”

Best of 2018: Non-Worst in Metal – Descendants of Crom (Meat Mead Metal, Brian Krasman, 12.11.18)

• “The Long Hunt dominated.”

Best of 2018: Non-Metal Records (Meat Mead Metal, Brian Krasman, 12.10.18)

• “… another great example of [the riches of bands we have here in Pittsburgh] are doom instrumental pounders The Long Hunt.”
• “There isn’t a desert anywhere near here, but you wouldn’t know it when this band is melting your face off (they’re even better live, by the way) with these Earth-y gems.”
• “Excellent band and record.”

Mindrocket Sessions: The Long Hunt “The Winnowing Hand” (Mindrocket Sessions, Jimmy Martin, 6.1.18)

• “This is one of the most charismatic songs and performances to be captured at Mindrocket Studio.”

Critic’s Pick: The Long Hunt at Brillobox (Pittsburgh City Paper, Alex Gordon, 12.13.17)

• “Tonight’s a good night for heavy, dark guitar music at Brillobox. The Long Hunt delivers minimalist, gloomy instrumentals …  It’s gonna be a good one.”

Interviews & Other Press Links

Episode 48: The Long Hunt’s Trevor Richards and Allison Kacmar Richards, The Distorted Dialogues Podcast (Metal Institute of Thrashology, 9.14.25)

DC097 Progressive Fuzz! Decoding Cyphers Within the Dark Signals of the Doom Charts Mystery Picks! (Inherent Records, 8.27.25)

Doomed Confessionary: Trevor Richards of The Long Hunt (Doomed Nation, 7.30.25)

The Long Hunt Interview (Project Concert 150 with Scott Goldy, 7.19.25)

Pittsburgh local music spotlight: The Long Hunt (TribLive, Mike Palm, 7.14.25)

Vol. No. 151: State Line Farm Fest 2024 (Rustbelt Rock Review, ZM Delgado, 8.27.24)

The Obelisk Questionnaire: Trevor Richards of The Long Hunt (The Obelisk, 8.5.22)

Long Hunt Releases Video to Accompany ‘Wanderer’ (Tribune Chronicle/Youngstown Vindicator, Andy Gray, 3.31.22)

The Long Hunt Full Interview (The Raw Alternative, Rick Polo, 10.7.21)

Local Acts Prepare New Music for 2020 (Tribune Chronicle/Youngstown Vindicator, Gary S. Angelo, 1.2.20)

412nes: The Long Hunt (412nes, Trish Smith, 6.9.19)

Final Weekend of TributeFest brings David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane to Club Cafe (Pittsburgh City Paper, Jordan Snowden, 10.16.18)

Pabstolutely Turns it Up to 11 (Tribune Chronicle, Gary S. Angelo, 8.19.18)

Making Meaning: The Long Hunt on “Cantiga 166: Tower of Set” (Of Music and Mind, 6.8.18)

Start the Beat 173: The Long Hunt (Start the Beat, Brian Howe, 5.31.18)

Start the Beat 124: The Long Hunt (Start the Beat, Brian Howe, 3.14.17)