Phoenix,
Arizona death metal horde, LAGO, has booked a tour of the West
Coast of the country this Spring, supporting their debut LP, Tyranny.
The album, initially released to excellent critical acclaim in September 2014
via Battleground Records, will now see a vinyl edition courtesy of Blood
Harvest Records, who has just unveiled the details on the wax version of the
brutal record.
From
April 24th through May 2nd, LAGO will inundate the Western US
masses with their dominating, ominous black-tinged death metal retribution on
the Tyranny Tour, with shows in Flagstaff, Long Beach, Los Osos, San Jose,
Portland, Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake City and Denver confirmed. Updates to the
tour, additional LAGO live actions and further news on the
band can be expected in the coming weeks.
LAGO
Tyranny Tour:
4/24/2015
The Hive - Flagstaff, AZ
4/25/2015
Blacklight District Lounge - Long Beach, CA
4/26/2015
Sweet Springs Saloon - Los Osos, CA
4/27/2015
Rock Shop - San Jose, CA
4/28/2015
Soundcontrol - Portland, OR
4/29/2015
El Corazon - Seattle, WA
4/30/2015
The Shredder - Boise, ID
5/01/2015
TBA - Salt Lake City, UT
5/02/2015
TBA - Denver, CO
Tyranny will
see its vinyl debut on March 16th, with 100 copies on blood red and 200 on
standard black vinyl. In addition, LAGO also just secured an
ESP guitar endorsement, only solidifying the band's deadly capabilities even
more.
Preorders
for Tyranny on red vinyl are available through Blood Harvest
Records HERE, on black vinyl HERE and on CD via Battleground Records HERE.
Produced
by Ryan Butler at Arcane Digital Recording (Exhumed, Phobia, Landmine Marathon)
and mastered by Dave Shirk at Sonorous Mastering (Incantation, Exhumed, Today
is the Day), LAGO reigns down forty minutes of primal, breakneck
death metal with an ominous, blackened atmosphere, the album including a guest
appearance from Jonny Davy of Job For A Cowboy. Issued Invisible Oranges,
"the Phoenix quartet plays competent and well-executed death metal...
Besides a blackened foray here and a chamber music segue there, they blast
along like streamlined icons, strengthened by a proven Floridian flow."
MetalSucks called in an equally positive write-up: "LAGO know
when to beat you over the head with sheer brutality, they know when to slow
things down for gargantuan effect, and they know how write a real, artful
guitar solo. In short, they're the perfect death metal band." Headbang Or
GTFO gave the record a 5/5, issuing, "Tyranny is a modern day
death metal masterpiece, that features some of the best things to happen to the
genre but keeping it simple and relatively grim. And No Clean Singing called Tyranny,
"...top-shelf death metal, like some hellish blackened offspring of early
Morbid Angel and Disma, fully armed with an arsenal of impressive technical
chops and infectious hooks...Tyranny has vaulted onto our list of
highly anticipated 2014 albums."
Source:
Earsplit PR
