Outer Sphere by Deep Six

Outer Sphere is Deep Six's third release, following the prior albums Fathomless and the instrumental The Abyss. Deep Six is currently a three piece group with Adam Subhas on drums, Mak Saito on guitar, and Tristan Horner on bass. Outer Sphere is an instrumental album continuing with their exploration of post-rock music since The Abyss, with a spacious rich and dark sound, with occasional singing and spoken word. The album's title is a play on words sounding like 'outer space' referring to referencing the band's spacious sound, while also referring to electron orbitals from molecular orbital theory, as the group is comprised of three chemists. Accordingly the album’s artwork is a stylized depiction of the fz3 orbital associated with the lanthanide and actinide elements, representing the positive and negative electron clouds as the sun and moon, and was created by Boston-based artist Mika Ichiki-Welches, who also did the artwork for their prior album covers. Outer Sphere opens with the track Invisible Deadly Waterfalls, a song that alternates between driving bending riffs and spacious verses, and detuned Japanese voices. Its title is inspired by an ominous warning sign perched atop a precipice of a Japanese mountain ski trail. The album finishes with the song Reset that features Adam’s spoken word and guest singer Kaiah Callahan’s vocals, and ends with a haunting melody on guitar and piano. The song’s lyrics were inspired by deep sea foraminifera, whose tiny shells left behind in the ocean seafloor that are used by paleooceanographers to reveal the history of Earth’s changing climate, referencing “a fragment of a memory… at the end of eternity.” The six song EP was self-recorded and produced, and mastered at Radio Valkyrie Studios. Thel three musicians previously played in rock groups in Los Angeles, Boston, and Oxford, UK before moving to Woods Hole and forming Deep Six, which has been together since April 2019. The group enjoys composing its music collaboratively, with Horner bringing in riffs in, Subhas suggesting chords from behind the kit, and Saito experimenting with unusual melodies and voicings. The group is already looking forward to starting their next project tentatively entitled Mavericks and built around 80’s sounding riffs.

Deep Six is performing Outer Sphere in its entirety as well as several selections from their prior albums and covers (with guests Abigail Noble, Ann Dunlea, Katherine Joyce, and Kaiah Callahan) at an album release show on May 9th, 2025 at Grumpy's in Falmouth, MA.

Deep Six is a rock band from Woods Hole, MA. Their first album Fathomless features songs with soaring guitar solos, cutting lyrics, and killer breakdowns.

Deep Six's second recording The Abyss, is mostly instrumental songs that are full of spacious melodic sounds.

Deep Six's third album Outer Sphere continues with post-rock instrumental themes, with powerful and textured compositions.