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an invocation. an evolution. a resurrection. a revolution

KATZROAR female bassist and vocals plays witchy psych rock with khruangbin vibes

KATZROAR is a witch and a muse of psychedelic rock. Through ethereal vocals, poetic lyrics and instrumental landscapes, she casts spells for body, soul and spirit.

KATZROAR is the artist and a band, composed of a collective of musicians based in Los Angeles.

KATZROAR is a cult. A culture of transformation. Where psychedelic means a journey into the soul and never an escape.

She is, we are, you are KATZROAR, too.

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KATZROAR's new vinyl record is witchy psych rock with khruangbin vibes

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INVOCATION, 2021

EVOLUTION, 2024

UNDERWORLD, 2025

This Kat’s finally got her mane back 😻 May 2026 > November 2023

That was fun and also remind me to never do that again ✂️

Cut and color by my queen @blondeaholic

More soon 🌀

This Kat’s finally got her mane back 😻 May 2026 > November 2023

That was fun and also remind me to never do that again ✂️

Cut and color by my queen @blondeaholic

More soon 🌀

Well it looks like the spells are working because we just might have a couple more shows next month 🪄✨

Stay tuned 🌀

📸 @brit.pow

Well it looks like the spells are working because we just might have a couple more shows next month 🪄✨

Stay tuned 🌀

📸 @brit.pow

ONE YEAR OF UNDERWORLD 🔮 Over 1.5 million streams. Thank you for listening, sharing, & receiving my 2nd album with your open hearts & ears.

Four years ago my life fell apart. Underworld was a journey within, to see what I could create from the wreckage — with my body, my breath, my hands, my voice, my words. The album is a resurrection.

Each song is tuned to a different chakra and invites healing, growth, transformation. The lyrics are spells, mantras, prayers. The bass is my magic tool — repetitive, meditative, hypnotic. Low frequencies stimulate the vagus nerve and the rhythm entrains your brainwaves. It’s science, it’s a meditation, it’s medicine. All while keeping it groovy 🌀

It is a lot different than my first album. Intentionally so. I will always keep evolving as an artist. It would kill me to stay the same. And I do not try to control what I create or contort to a trend, I only show up to honor the pulse of creation that comes through me 🙏🏼 But, my music will always be psychedelic, it will always be a journey into the soul.

Thank you to those who helped bring this album to life 🦋

@studdrums on drums & percussion
@el98futbol on guitar
@lemmeadams on keys, guitar, percussion
@assaf_spector on mix & master
Recorded @altamirasound

You can get the limited edition vinyl in my merch store. I’m taking $5 off today to celebrate 🎉

I’m still in the Underworld. I’ve been saying this for years. I think I actually live here. But an emergence is coming soon. A revolution if you will. Stay tuned, stay safe, stay well my loves 🌀

xx,
Katya

ONE YEAR OF UNDERWORLD 🔮 Over 1.5 million streams. Thank you for listening, sharing, & receiving my 2nd album with your open hearts & ears.

Four years ago my life fell apart. Underworld was a journey within, to see what I could create from the wreckage — with my body, my breath, my hands, my voice, my words. The album is a resurrection.

Each song is tuned to a different chakra and invites healing, growth, transformation. The lyrics are spells, mantras, prayers. The bass is my magic tool — repetitive, meditative, hypnotic. Low frequencies stimulate the vagus nerve and the rhythm entrains your brainwaves. It’s science, it’s a meditation, it’s medicine. All while keeping it groovy 🌀

It is a lot different than my first album. Intentionally so. I will always keep evolving as an artist. It would kill me to stay the same. And I do not try to control what I create or contort to a trend, I only show up to honor the pulse of creation that comes through me 🙏🏼 But, my music will always be psychedelic, it will always be a journey into the soul.

Thank you to those who helped bring this album to life 🦋

@studdrums on drums & percussion
@el98futbol on guitar
@lemmeadams on keys, guitar, percussion
@assaf_spector on mix & master
Recorded @altamirasound

You can get the limited edition vinyl in my merch store. I’m taking $5 off today to celebrate 🎉

I’m still in the Underworld. I’ve been saying this for years. I think I actually live here. But an emergence is coming soon. A revolution if you will. Stay tuned, stay safe, stay well my loves 🌀

xx,
Katya

A special story about something that happened at my show @pappyandharriets 🙏🏼✨

I write music because it is my own personal medicine. But knowing it is the same for others reminds me that when I create, I am showing up in devotion to something much bigger than myself that connects us all 🌀

Also plz help me find Sohee!!!

A special story about something that happened at my show @pappyandharriets 🙏🏼✨

I write music because it is my own personal medicine. But knowing it is the same for others reminds me that when I create, I am showing up in devotion to something much bigger than myself that connects us all 🌀

Also plz help me find Sohee!!!

Thank you sun thank you moon thank you stars thank you sky thank you earth thank you dirt thank you trees thank you desert thank you @pappyandharriets thank you @desertfriendsband and thank you kat kult ❤️‍🔥

📸 @lemmeadams

Thank you sun thank you moon thank you stars thank you sky thank you earth thank you dirt thank you trees thank you desert thank you @pappyandharriets thank you @desertfriendsband and thank you kat kult ❤️‍🔥

📸 @lemmeadams

The portal is closing, baby 🌀 Last chance to join us on our journey from the city to the desert for our EP release show with @desertfriendsband this Thursday.

Won’t you join us?

Thank you @primordialcreative for these amazing shots 😻

The portal is closing, baby 🌀 Last chance to join us on our journey from the city to the desert for our EP release show with @desertfriendsband this Thursday.

Won’t you join us?

Thank you @primordialcreative for these amazing shots 😻

Thank you, LA 😻 Amazing time last night at @golddiggersla with @suzanimal_sf

This black magic woman now summons the Kat Kult to the desert! This Thursday with @desertfriendsband @pappyandharriets 🔥 Join us if you dare…

Xoxo KAT

And thank you @ruxandra.music for capturing this @carlossantana classic

Thank you, LA 😻 Amazing time last night at @golddiggersla with @suzanimal_sf

This black magic woman now summons the Kat Kult to the desert! This Thursday with @desertfriendsband @pappyandharriets 🔥 Join us if you dare…

Xoxo KAT

And thank you @ruxandra.music for capturing this @carlossantana classic

Calling all KATZ ~ can you match our freq(uency)?? The cult is casting spells tonight @golddiggersla 🌀

Doors at 7 show at 8pm 🐱

📸 @andrewdelaneyshow

Calling all KATZ ~ can you match our freq(uency)?? The cult is casting spells tonight @golddiggersla 🌀

Doors at 7 show at 8pm 🐱

📸 @andrewdelaneyshow

Wanna see you move… right on over to @golddiggersla tomorrow night and enjoy a night of psychedelic grooves with us and @suzanimal_sf 😻

This is “Heart (Give a Little)” from @bimbos365club last fall. Thanks for the video @amophonic ❤️‍🔥

Wanna see you move… right on over to @golddiggersla tomorrow night and enjoy a night of psychedelic grooves with us and @suzanimal_sf 😻

This is “Heart (Give a Little)” from @bimbos365club last fall. Thanks for the video @amophonic ❤️‍🔥

Super secret first peak at the song “Summerland” with @desertfriendsband from their show @golddiggersla a couple weeks ago 😎

Insert [call to action] where I invite you to not just be a mindless scroller but instead a homie and a friend who comes out to see me on 4.26 and/or 4.30 and I tell you where to find this info which I’m sure you can figure out on your own 🥰

Super secret first peak at the song “Summerland” with @desertfriendsband from their show @golddiggersla a couple weeks ago 😎

Insert [call to action] where I invite you to not just be a mindless scroller but instead a homie and a friend who comes out to see me on 4.26 and/or 4.30 and I tell you where to find this info which I’m sure you can figure out on your own 🥰

You groove on Portishead and call it a day 😎

Come see your favorite female rhythm section this Sunday @golddiggersla 🌀

You groove on Portishead and call it a day 😎

Come see your favorite female rhythm section this Sunday @golddiggersla 🌀

Yay thanks again @frogtownarts for having us for @laclimateweek 🔥 Can’t think of a better reason to rock out than trying to take care of this rock we’re floating on in space 🤘🏼

SoCal you have exactly TWO chances to see us this spring and you better not miss them!

4.26 @golddiggersla with @suzanimal_sf
4.30 @pappyandharriets with @desertfriendsband

I dare you to come to both 💋

Xo KAT

Thanks to @theelectricferntree and @nate_plays_drums for holding it down and being a part of the KATZROAR collective 🌀

Yay thanks again @frogtownarts for having us for @laclimateweek 🔥 Can’t think of a better reason to rock out than trying to take care of this rock we’re floating on in space 🤘🏼

SoCal you have exactly TWO chances to see us this spring and you better not miss them!

4.26 @golddiggersla with @suzanimal_sf
4.30 @pappyandharriets with @desertfriendsband

I dare you to come to both 💋

Xo KAT

Thanks to @theelectricferntree and @nate_plays_drums for holding it down and being a part of the KATZROAR collective 🌀

The truth is I’m still underground. The spiral is sacred. The system says up up up. Never down. Right now I’m dirt. Right now I am seed. It seems that is my nature, to be beneath the surface, felt but unseen. So here I am pretending, pretending to have emerged.

Hi! Don’t I look alive? Aren’t I good at pretending?

The stars say move slow, dear. Stay close to the ground. It is not time yet. It will be soon. Not until you dig in your roots. Not until you let go completely.

Let the darkness undo you. All that is not true will return to the earth.

📸 @ynkwlf

#poetry #poet #poetsofinstagram #writer

The truth is I’m still underground. The spiral is sacred. The system says up up up. Never down. Right now I’m dirt. Right now I am seed. It seems that is my nature, to be beneath the surface, felt but unseen. So here I am pretending, pretending to have emerged.

Hi! Don’t I look alive? Aren’t I good at pretending?

The stars say move slow, dear. Stay close to the ground. It is not time yet. It will be soon. Not until you dig in your roots. Not until you let go completely.

Let the darkness undo you. All that is not true will return to the earth.

📸 @ynkwlf

#poetry #poet #poetsofinstagram #writer

“A Sea of Orange” has been out for 10 days. Here’s a little explanation of the lyrics, and the full lyrics in English are below 🔥

I think you flew too close to the sun
And now you are blind in a sea of orange

My darling, it’s been hard out there
Fighting all those battles

Someone must have hurt you very deeply
For you to have so much fire

Sometimes I want to hold you and kiss you
like your mother
As if you were my little boy

You have water in your hands like dangerous roses
And I am blind in a sea of red

Ay yi yi,
Ay yi, yi yi yi
Ay yi yi yi yi
Ay yi yi yi yi

I kneel and pray that you open your eyes
If only my love could stop the war

Do you love your enemies with all your heart?
Or do you burn them in a sea of orange?

Performing this song and the full EP @golddiggersla this Thursday with @desertfriendsband

Full KATZROAR show at Gold-Diggers on 4/26 with @suzanimal_sf

And EP release show @pappyandharriets with Desert Friends on 4/30

Sending you love and stay safe out there in this crazy world ❤️‍🩹

“A Sea of Orange” has been out for 10 days. Here’s a little explanation of the lyrics, and the full lyrics in English are below 🔥

I think you flew too close to the sun
And now you are blind in a sea of orange

My darling, it’s been hard out there
Fighting all those battles

Someone must have hurt you very deeply
For you to have so much fire

Sometimes I want to hold you and kiss you
like your mother
As if you were my little boy

You have water in your hands like dangerous roses
And I am blind in a sea of red

Ay yi yi,
Ay yi, yi yi yi
Ay yi yi yi yi
Ay yi yi yi yi

I kneel and pray that you open your eyes
If only my love could stop the war

Do you love your enemies with all your heart?
Or do you burn them in a sea of orange?

Performing this song and the full EP @golddiggersla this Thursday with @desertfriendsband

Full KATZROAR show at Gold-Diggers on 4/26 with @suzanimal_sf

And EP release show @pappyandharriets with Desert Friends on 4/30

Sending you love and stay safe out there in this crazy world ❤️‍🩹

Finally coming out of my winter cave and have so many shoots/shows to style for this spring 🌼 Four shows in April! And EP with @desertfriendsband 🦋

So naturally I went to my favorite store @mydeelux in Highland Park to dig through their racks and find the best looks 🔥

(Not to mention I also cleaned out my closet and sold them some of my own great finds)

It feels so good to divest from fast-fashion and support sustainable local business. I’ve always been a thrifter/vintage lover and I think it’s time we all put our money where our mouth is 💋

Can’t wait to wear some of these looks on stage 🎸

#vintage #buyselltrade #highlandpark

Finally coming out of my winter cave and have so many shoots/shows to style for this spring 🌼 Four shows in April! And EP with @desertfriendsband 🦋

So naturally I went to my favorite store @mydeelux in Highland Park to dig through their racks and find the best looks 🔥

(Not to mention I also cleaned out my closet and sold them some of my own great finds)

It feels so good to divest from fast-fashion and support sustainable local business. I’ve always been a thrifter/vintage lover and I think it’s time we all put our money where our mouth is 💋

Can’t wait to wear some of these looks on stage 🎸

#vintage #buyselltrade #highlandpark

Every word, every thread, like echoes from another life

Styled in vintage from @mydeelux

“A Sea of Orange” with @desertfriendsband out now 🔥

📸 @lemmeadams 💘

Every word, every thread, like echoes from another life

Styled in vintage from @mydeelux

“A Sea of Orange” with @desertfriendsband out now 🔥

📸 @lemmeadams 💘

Join us on a journey from the city to the desert 🌀 These are our first shows since tour last fall and we are so stoked to hit the stage with our friends @suzanimal_sf and @desertfriendsband

You want to be a part of the KATZ KULT? I dare you to come to both:

@golddiggersla 4.26
@pappyandharriets 4.30

See you soon 💋

Video by @sirlazuli

Join us on a journey from the city to the desert 🌀 These are our first shows since tour last fall and we are so stoked to hit the stage with our friends @suzanimal_sf and @desertfriendsband

You want to be a part of the KATZ KULT? I dare you to come to both:

@golddiggersla 4.26
@pappyandharriets 4.30

See you soon 💋

Video by @sirlazuli

LOS ANGELES we are so excited to announce @suzanimal_sf and @katzroar hitting the @golddiggersla stage 4.26.26 ✨

Two bass babes hitting the stage with the baddest of musicians from the Bay and LA for a night of psychedelic grooves 🌀

Can’t wait to see you there.

Get ur 🎟️ at the 🔗

#livemusic #indiemusic #independentmusic #losangelesmusic

LOS ANGELES we are so excited to announce @suzanimal_sf and @katzroar hitting the @golddiggersla stage 4.26.26 ✨

Two bass babes hitting the stage with the baddest of musicians from the Bay and LA for a night of psychedelic grooves 🌀

Can’t wait to see you there.

Get ur 🎟️ at the 🔗

#livemusic #indiemusic #independentmusic #losangelesmusic

There’s a trend on TikTok right now of people dancing to this song so I thought I’d hop on bass 😉

Proof that songs are spells and the bass is a magic tool ✨

#femalebassist #disco #ringmybell #woowoo

There’s a trend on TikTok right now of people dancing to this song so I thought I’d hop on bass 😉

Proof that songs are spells and the bass is a magic tool ✨

#femalebassist #disco #ringmybell #woowoo

There’s a fire dancing behind both my eyes
the spirit sings and breathes me into life,
oh I feel alive

There’s a dream inside that stirs me when
I try to shut my mind, I pray to the blue sky
it will bring us back to life

“Cerulean Dreams” with @desertfriendsband out Friday 🌀

📸 @ynkwlf

There’s a fire dancing behind both my eyes
the spirit sings and breathes me into life,
oh I feel alive

There’s a dream inside that stirs me when
I try to shut my mind, I pray to the blue sky
it will bring us back to life

“Cerulean Dreams” with @desertfriendsband out Friday 🌀

📸 @ynkwlf

“Snake Eyes” by KATZROAR and The Spells is out now ✨

Like if Hermanos Guiterrez made a song with Portishead, this song is a hypnotizing desert psych, trip-hop groove.

Co-produced, mixed & mastered by the one and only @lemmeadams 💘

Featuring @robertharringtonmillsjr on drums 🔥

🎥 @brit.pow

“Snake Eyes” by KATZROAR and The Spells is out now ✨

Like if Hermanos Guiterrez made a song with Portishead, this song is a hypnotizing desert psych, trip-hop groove.

Co-produced, mixed & mastered by the one and only @lemmeadams 💘

Featuring @robertharringtonmillsjr on drums 🔥

🎥 @brit.pow

Deep down in my heart I believe love will win. That is the magic.

📸 @brit.pow

Deep down in my heart I believe love will win. That is the magic.

📸 @brit.pow

A witch in her natural habitat 🦂❤️‍🔥

It’s getting weird out there, folks. I’ve got two songs coming to you this month, straight from the mouth of the desert ~ songs that seek to stoke the fires of the human spirit in the face of destruction…

2/13 “Snake Eyes” with @lemmeadams aka The Spells

2/27 “Cerulean Dreams” with @desertfriendsband

Thank you for tuning into KATZROAR Radio 🌀

More soon 💋

Xo KAT

Photos by the magical @brit.pow

A witch in her natural habitat 🦂❤️‍🔥

It’s getting weird out there, folks. I’ve got two songs coming to you this month, straight from the mouth of the desert ~ songs that seek to stoke the fires of the human spirit in the face of destruction…

2/13 “Snake Eyes” with @lemmeadams aka The Spells

2/27 “Cerulean Dreams” with @desertfriendsband

Thank you for tuning into KATZROAR Radio 🌀

More soon 💋

Xo KAT

Photos by the magical @brit.pow

As soon as I moved back to LA I knew I wanted to connect with @lemmeadams — we were both musicians in the Bay Area, though we only really met once, and I watched him make magic with his band from afar.

A few months after meeting, we went to Joshua Tree to work on music together. Then the wildfires of January 2025 hit. We got stuck in the desert for a week, with wild winds and power outages, uncertain if we’d be able to return to our homes as we left them.

We wrote “Snake Eyes” in this void.

Out this Friday the 13th 🔥

Video @brit.pow

As soon as I moved back to LA I knew I wanted to connect with @lemmeadams — we were both musicians in the Bay Area, though we only really met once, and I watched him make magic with his band from afar.

A few months after meeting, we went to Joshua Tree to work on music together. Then the wildfires of January 2025 hit. We got stuck in the desert for a week, with wild winds and power outages, uncertain if we’d be able to return to our homes as we left them.

We wrote “Snake Eyes” in this void.

Out this Friday the 13th 🔥

Video @brit.pow

In 2024 I made the decision to move home to Southern California after being away for 6 years in the Bay Area and New York. I felt the deserts of my homeland call me back.

It’s been a powerful place for my music for the last year. The source of two EPs and an album. I’ve got two songs coming out this month born straight from the mouth of the Mojave and Sonoran.

Time moves slow here. The skies are vast and cities sit like stars on the hillsides. The mountains hold you and healing waters nourish you.

Really grateful to have found a magical little retreat space @acreslanding ❤️

In 2024 I made the decision to move home to Southern California after being away for 6 years in the Bay Area and New York. I felt the deserts of my homeland call me back.

It’s been a powerful place for my music for the last year. The source of two EPs and an album. I’ve got two songs coming out this month born straight from the mouth of the Mojave and Sonoran.

Time moves slow here. The skies are vast and cities sit like stars on the hillsides. The mountains hold you and healing waters nourish you.

Really grateful to have found a magical little retreat space @acreslanding ❤️

Posted this on my Stories and wasn’t going to post it on my main… for fear of disapproval, from who exactly, I don’t know. But that is how the psy-op works, we self-censor out of fear because The Man is already in our heads. I can’t think of a worse thing for an artist to do.

But I don’t care if the algorithm doesn’t like this or you don’t like it. All I know is this song has been ringing in my head ever since I heard those gun shots yesterday.

This is a spell for truth — the lyrics were true 50 years ago and they’re still true today.

May the illusions continue to fall, and the stories they try to spin unravel as they spit from their twisted tongues.

May we remember we have more in common with each other than those who sold their soul to the devil for power.

May love for one another prevail in this reckoning.

Xo KAT

This is “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970)

Posted this on my Stories and wasn’t going to post it on my main… for fear of disapproval, from who exactly, I don’t know. But that is how the psy-op works, we self-censor out of fear because The Man is already in our heads. I can’t think of a worse thing for an artist to do.

But I don’t care if the algorithm doesn’t like this or you don’t like it. All I know is this song has been ringing in my head ever since I heard those gun shots yesterday.

This is a spell for truth — the lyrics were true 50 years ago and they’re still true today.

May the illusions continue to fall, and the stories they try to spin unravel as they spit from their twisted tongues.

May we remember we have more in common with each other than those who sold their soul to the devil for power.

May love for one another prevail in this reckoning.

Xo KAT

This is “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970)

My first song of 2026 is out next Friday with my heroes @gitkin_music and @assaf_spector 🌀 This is “Run” — pre-save to hear it first 🔥

#newmusic #indieband #neopsychedelia #newmusicfridays

My first song of 2026 is out next Friday with my heroes @gitkin_music and @assaf_spector 🌀 This is “Run” — pre-save to hear it first 🔥

#newmusic #indieband #neopsychedelia #newmusicfridays

Who’s ready for new music? Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you can’t wait to hear what this witch has been brewing 💋

Who’s ready for new music? Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you can’t wait to hear what this witch has been brewing 💋

Tuned to the key of A minor and using the sacred syllable “ey” — this song matches the vibrational frequency of the 3rd eye. My entire album Underworld is a psych rock journey through the energy centers of the body, and is designed to help you sink deeper within yourself 🌀

Awakening the masses one groove at a time 😎

#psychrock #femalemusician #chillvibes #healingvibrations #indieartist

Tuned to the key of A minor and using the sacred syllable “ey” — this song matches the vibrational frequency of the 3rd eye. My entire album Underworld is a psych rock journey through the energy centers of the body, and is designed to help you sink deeper within yourself 🌀

Awakening the masses one groove at a time 😎

#psychrock #femalemusician #chillvibes #healingvibrations #indieartist

Ahhh there’s so much video I haven’t shared from tour yet but this is one of my fav clips of our jam on “Energy in Motion” in Vancouver @fortunesound 🚀🌀✨

I could sit in this groove forever 🔥 let me know if you’re digging it too!!!

#psychrock #independentartist #livemusic #femalebassist

Ahhh there’s so much video I haven’t shared from tour yet but this is one of my fav clips of our jam on “Energy in Motion” in Vancouver @fortunesound 🚀🌀✨

I could sit in this groove forever 🔥 let me know if you’re digging it too!!!

#psychrock #independentartist #livemusic #femalebassist

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