Orchid is an American doom metal band founded in San Francisco, California, United States, in 2007.
Both of those initial releases on the Church Within label were later reissued together on the Nuclear Blast compilation album The Zodiac Sessions in 2013.
In November of that year, the band embarked on a European tour, alongside Scorpion Child and Blues Pills.
[4] On April 21, 2016, Orchid announced that Kennedy had left the band the previous July, that Ted "TJ" Cox had joined as their new drummer that August, and that they were writing and demoing new material for a third full-length album due out in 2017.
[9] Orchid also draw inspiration from other '70s rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.