BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17220@thecmf.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260926T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260625T170237Z URL:https://thecmf.com/events/russian-circles-pelican/ SUMMARY:RUSSIAN CIRCLES\, PELICAN DESCRIPTION:\n\nBEYOND THE GATE\n\nRussian Circles / Pelican\n\nBohemian Na tional Cemetery\n\nSeptember 26\n\nThe sprawlingly propulsive Chicago post -rock band have spent the past two decades honing their massive\, complex craft. A band with no hit songs\, no fan consensus on their favorite recor d\, but a reputation for utmost consistency and quality. Russian Circles a re one of the biggest heavy instrumental rock bands in the world. The most -excellent fellow Chicago post-metal mavens Pelican join us as well. A sei smic\, earth-shaking crescendo shall reverberate throughout the cemetery o n the 26th of September.\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond the Gate featuring R ussian Circles / Pelican\n\n\nSat\, 26 Sep\, 6:00 PM CDT\n\nDoors open\n5: 00 PM CDT\n\n\n\nDescription\n\n\n\n\nEmpty Bottle Presents Beyond The Gat e @ Bohemian National Cemetery\nAll Ages | Doors 5PM\n\nRussian Circles \ nHalfway through the four-year touring cycle for their eighth full-length record Gnosis\, Chicago-based instrumental trio Russian Circles hit the t wo-decade anniversary of their formation. One might expect a band to capit alize on such a major milestone. Instead\, guitarist Mike Sullivan\, drumm er Dave Turncrantz\, and bassist/keyboardist Brian Cook spent 2024 uncerem oniously touring in support of their most recent album across Australia\, South America\, Europe\, and North America. After all\, this is the work e thic that built Russian Circles into one of the biggest heavy instrumental rock bands in the world. This is a band with no hit songs. No fan consens us on their best album. Just a reputation for consistency and quality.\n\n Not that things haven’t changed in the last 22 years. The band is now sp read out between Chicago\, Los Angeles\, and a rural island off the coast of Seattle. While the trio insists their music is a confluence of broad-ra nging influences—the formidable Touch &\; Go artists of the Midwest\, the prog giants of late ‘60s and early ‘70s England\, the hypnotic mo torik and kosmische grooves of West Germany\, the international undergroun d’s most caustic strains of metal—it is fair to say Russian Circles’ adventurous diversity has evolved into its own distinct sound. As one of the notoriously press-shy members anonymously mentioned\, “the music we make is a collective process of reconciliation\, navigation\, and reflecti on upon aging both as individuals and as a creative entity. Life has creat ed very real distances between us\, but the band continues to be at the ce nter\, and this creative collaboration is a way of charting the passage of time while also giving us a reason to look to the future.” On their lat est album\, Nine\, the band triangulates their relative positions into si ngular seismic long-form album-oriented soundtracks to the trials and trag edies of life in the modern age.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thecmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/09 .26.-73113174.jpg CATEGORIES:All Ages LOCATION:Bohemian National Cemetery\, 5255 N Pulaski Rd\, Chicago\, Illinoi s\, 60630\, United States GEO:41.97659;-87.728235 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=5255 N Pulaski Rd\, Chicago \, Illinois\, 60630\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bohemian Na tional Cemetery:geo:41.97659,-87.728235 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR