Southern
California's GOATSNAKE has just released the first single from
their anxiously awaited brand new LP, Black Age Blues, with a
premiere of the album's second track, "Elevated Man," through
Revolver Magazine.
GOATSNAKE's Black
Age Blues closes a fifteen-year gap between full-length albums from
the revered act, without a doubt making it one of the most highly anticipated
doom/metal releases of 2015. With nearly fifty minutes of their most soulful
yet boisterous material to date, the quartet expands their already mammoth
tones and pummeling rock riffs with a variety of additional influences and
elements, and guest contributions from a variety of players including David
Pajo (Slint, Aerial M, Papa M) and soul vocal trio Dem Preacher's Daughters,
comprised of Wendy Moten, Gale Mayes and Andrea Merrit. "Elevated
Man" pumps in with a cavalcade of percussion and a riff that instantly
becomes engrained in your mind for days, melding cool boogie blues rock with a
monstrous doom underbelly, and a wild harmonica solo that scorches like four
lead guitarists at once riding high.
Blast
GOATSNAKE's "Elevated Man" as loud as possible through Revolver
Magazine now at THIS LOCATION.
Black
Age Blues is an instant classic, with each one of
the nine songs an anthem, and each of the four members of GOATSNAKE in
top form. Everything is magnified; the vocals of Pete Stahl (Scream) vocals
have never sounded so powerful, the rhythm section comprised of Greg Rogers
(The Obsessed) on drums and Scott Renner on bass is the driving force on each
track, and the riffs of guitarist Greg Anderson (SunnO))), Southern Lord
Recordings) are heavier than ever before. Recorded and mixed at Rock Falcon
Franklin, Tennessee by Nick Raskulinecz (Queens Of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters,
Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Rush) and mastered by Brian Big Bass Gardner (N.W.A.,
Stevie Wonder, Parliament), the production values of Black Age Blues back
the top-notch musicianship, creating a seriously unstoppably entertaining
album.
Black
Age Blues will be released through Southern
Lord Recordings in North America on June 2nd, 2015.
A
listening party for Black Age Blues has been scheduled for May
3rd in Los Angeles. The event will be held at Black, in Hollywood, and the
public is invited to attend and hear the album. Members of GOATSNAKE will
be in attendance.
Internationally
planned live actions have been set in stone, with scattered festival performances
and tour dates confirmed through the end of Spring. The month of May sees GOATSNAKE performing
at a special gig in Pioneertown, California (Joshua Tree area) with Mojave
Lords on the 2nd, followed by a record release show for Black Age Blues in Los
Angeles with Southern Lord brethren Bl'ast and Eagle Twin on the
20th. Also in May, GOATSNAKE makes band's maiden voyage to
Maryland Deathfest in Baltimore, Maryland on Memorial Day weekend, and a week
later sees the band at Temples Festival in Bristol, England. Following Temples,
the band has a string of additional European tour dates confirmed, including a GOATSNAKE headlining
set at Siegen, Germany's Freakvalley Festival on June 4th, and upon their
return stateside, June 20th will see the band headlining Crucialfest
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
GOATSNAKE
Live Actions:
5/02/2015 Pappy
And Harriet's - Pioneertown, CA w/ Mojave Lords
5/03/2015 Black
- Los Angeles, CA *Black Age Blues listening party [info]
5/20/2015 Complex
- Glendale, CA *Record Release Show w/ Bl'ast, Eagle Twin [info]
5/24/2015 Maryland
Deathfest - Baltimore, MD [info]
5/30/2015 Temples
Festival - Bristol, UK [info]
6/01/2015 De
Kreun - Kortrijk, BE
6/02/2015 Melkweg
- Amsterdam, NL
6/03/2015 SO36
- Berlin, DE
6/04/2015 Freakvalley
Festival - Siegen, DE [info]
6/07/2015 AN
Club - Athens, GR
6/20/2015 Crucialfest
- Salt Lake City, UT [info]
Source:
Earsplit PR
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