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Shervin Lainez

The four members of Blind Pilot sitting on the floor.

Blind Pilot

media release: Blind Pilot will continue to celebrate their new album In The Shadow Of The Holy Mountain into 2025, with North American tour dates just added for January and February of next year. The announcement builds on a triumphant post-release period for the group, who recently returned to national television on CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions, and shared the story behind their first new album in eight years via NPR’s Here & Now. Among the performances on CBS was “Brave,” an empowering ode to empathy and acceptance, which was just named a Song You Need To Know by Rolling Stone.

In conjunction with the 2025 tour dates, the band have also shared a preview of their live show with a version of “Don’t You Know” recorded live by the full band at Flora Recording in their home state of Oregon.

In The Shadow Of The Holy Mountain finds Blind Pilot radically transformed and revitalized on their first release since 2016 - giving hard-earned depth and perspective to the group's "elegant, thoughtful reflections" (NPR Music). The eleven-song collection arrives on the other side of a years-long journey for Blind Pilot’s Israel Nebeker - both geographically and spiritually - to reclaim his voice as a songwriter. Traveling to Scandinavia to reconnect with his family's roots in the nomadic Sámi community, a drum ceremony led Nebeker to visions of his ancestors, and to the mountain where his creative rebirth began. 

From there, his return to songwriting was solidified when he and Blind Pilot co-founder Ryan Dobrowski were invited to perform in Mexico City by a humanitarian group helping migrants in the country. After speaking with them for hours, "I got the idea to write a song that looks at ideas of ownership and othering, and what it does when we tell people, ‘This is our home, not yours.'" After years of not writing so much as a single verse, In The Shadow Of The Holy Mountain flowed out of him in one month.