METAL HAMMER, ALTERNATIVE PRESS, STEREOGUM, PASTE AND METAL SUCKS ROLLING OUT NEW SONGS BEGINNING TODAY
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Feb. 9, 2015, Philadelphia – Torche roll out several songs from Restarter (Feb. 24, Relapse Records) this week, with Metal Hammer premiering “Bishop In Arms” today (http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/news/2015-02-09/torche-unveil-bishop-in-arms).
Alternative Press shares “Undone” tomorrow, Stereogum debuts “Restarter” on Wednesday, followed by Paste’s stream of “Blasted’ on Thursday and Metal Sucks hosting “Barrier Hammer” on Friday. Noisey will begin streaming the album in its entirety, with a first listen to “Believe it” and “No Servants” on Monday, Feb. 16.
Late last week, Relapse unleashed Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair (www.torchevsrobots.com), a single-player game featuring each of the Torche band members as characters trying to save the city of Miami from destruction bend robots. Fans who play the game are eligible to win a prize pack that includes Restarter on vinyl, a t-shirt, two tickets to see Torche on tour and stickers. To enter, contestants must upload a video to YouTube which shows them beating the game with the hash tag #torchevsrobots. One prize pack per band member/character will be awarded with winners picked on Feb. 23.
The Southeastern quartet is on the current cover of New Noise Magazine and their new album received a perfect 10 from Outburn. Torche has previously previewed three new songs from Restarter: “Loose Men,” which Rolling Stone called “sunny” and Outburn called a “ridiculously catchy rocker” (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/torche-loose-men), “Minions” (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/torche-minions/s-8JCbr), a track Stereogum described as “a towering, walloping steamroller of a song” and “Annihilation Affair” (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/torche-annihilation-affair), which Spin dubbed a “thundering single” and went to describe as featuring “pulverizing eardrums with screeching, sludgy guitars, head-pounding percussion, and gut-wrenchingly aggressive vocals.”
Upcoming headlining shows from Torche:
March 4 Miami
March 6 Atlanta
March 7 Birmingham , AL
March 8 Baton Rouge , LA
March 9 Houston , TX
March 10 Austin , TX
March 11 Dallas , TX
March 12 Memphis
March 13 St. Louis
March 14 Chicago , IL
March 15 Milwaukee
March 16 Columbus , OH
March 17 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop
March 18 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme
March 20 Detroit
March 21 Toronto
March 22 Montreal
March 23 Buffalo NY Mohawk Place
March 25 Boston , MA
March 26 Brooklyn , NY
March 27 Philadelphia , PA
March 28 Richmond , VA
March 29 Washington, DC DC 9 #
May 2 Leipzig , DE
May 3 Wroclaw
May 4 Prague
May 5 Munich , DE
May 6 Milan
May 8 Barcelona
May 9 Madrid
May 10 Lisbon
May 11 Bilbao
May 13 Zurich
May 14 Wiesbaden , DE
May 15 Cologne , DE
May 16 Berlin , DE
May 18 Nijmegen
May 19 Haarlem
May 20 Paris, FR Glazart
May 21 Antwerp
May 22 London , UK
May 23 Leeds , UK
May 24 Galway , IR Roisin Dubh
May 25 Cork IR Craine Lane
May 26 Dublin
May 27 Belfast
May 28 Glasgow, UK
May 29 Manchester , UK
May 30 Bristol , UK Temples
May 31 Nimes
June 1 Nantes
All U.S.
Restarter will be released on CD/LP/Deluxe 2xLP/Cassette/Digital, with pre-orders available now with songs “Harmonslaught” and “Rock ‘N’ Roll Mantasy,” will be included on deluxe editions. Digital pre-orders offer an instant download of “Annihilation Affair” and “Minions” (http://geni.us/RestarterDLX), Bandcamp (www.torche.bandcamp.com) and physically via Relapse (http://www.relapse.com/torche-restarter).
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Source: Speakeasy PR
