King Dead Announce Live Shows; Woe and Judgment LP out Now
Doubly-bassed three-piece King Dead first issued their Woe and Judgment (review here) debut album last year digitally as a means to raise funds for a vinyl pressing. Well, it seems to have worked. Woe and Judgment is out now on LP — the record looks great — and the Eastern Pennsylvania trio have a few live shows lined up along the Northeastern Corridor to help spread the word over the course this summer. They’re keeping good company universally with groups like Geezer and Snail, and I’d keep an eye out for more dates to come, as once momentum is on a group’s side like this it’s hard to stop going. I’ll hope to see them again soon.
From the PR wire:
KING DEAD: Psychedelic Bass And Drum Trio Confirms New Live Dates; Vinyl Edition Of Woe & Judgement Now Available
Pennsylvania mostly-instrumentalists, KING DEAD, will bring their spacious, tripped out, post-metal/doom manifestations to the stage on a smattering of live performances this Summer. The band’s latest excursions include an in-store appearance this weekend at Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, New York with Geezer and Linear North.
Comments drummer Steve Truglio of the upcoming dates, “It’s really getting fun now. Not only are we enjoying the hell out of playing the new Woe & Judgment stuff, but we just started test driving an even newer song in the set. We are playing cool places with great bands and things are really starting to click.”
KING DEAD undraped their three-song full-length, Woe & Judgement, earlier this year. Having impressed with the spacious post-metal textures of their 2014 demo, the scope of Woe & Judgement has expanded considerably even from where it started. With three tracks constructed to fit on two sides, KING DEAD – Truglio with four-string bassist Kevin Vanderhoof, and six-string bassist Wil McGrath – pushes its way into an encompassing rumble that still seems to hold onto a human core even as it lumbers between airy doom and rawer, thoroughly-reverbed noise.
Woe & Judgement is currently available on limited edition vinyl and can be streamed at THIS LOCATION.
KING DEAD:
6/11/2016 Darkside Records – Poughkeepsie, NY w/ Geezer, Linear North
6/13/2016 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Chiefs, Beast Modulus, River Cult
8/06/2016 Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Iron Man, Caustic Casanova, Horehound
8/19/2016 O’Briens Pub – Allston, MA w/ Snail
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