Black Salvation Sign to Relapse Records; Uncertainty is Bliss Due in April
You can stream the opening track from the new Black Salvation album now. The record is called Uncertainty is Bliss and it’s the Leipzig, Germany three-piece’s first for Relapse Records and second overall behind 2014’s In Deep Circles, and the track in question, “In a Casket’s Ride,” holds much promise for what might unfold thereafter. Think a European touring partner for labelmates Ecstatic Vision and you might be on the right track, and of course connections through drummer Uno Bruniusson to the likes of In Solitude and Death Alley don’t hurt their cause either. Either way, sounds like cool stuff and it’s an interesting reach for Relapse, so I’m intrigued to hear what the record actually sounds like.
It’s an April release, so I guess we’ve got a minute or two before we get there, but details and tour dates and that opening cut follow here, all courtesy of the PR wire:
BLACK SALVATION Signs to Relapse Records; New Album Uncertainty Is Bliss To See Release This April + New Song Unveiled
Relapse Records is proud to announce the official signing of German psychedelic hard rock trio BLACK SALVATION.
BLACK SALVATION — featuring Uno Bruniusson formerly of In Solitude and Grave Pleasures and currently of Death Alley — challenges the listener to open wide the doors of perception and slowly drift away among their transcendental compositions and deeply hypnotic tales of magic and mysticism. Across eight tracks and over forty minutes, BLACK SALVATION exquisitely blends hard rock, doom, and psychedelia into an intoxicating synthesis of rock ‘n’ roll alchemy. Uncertainty Is Bliss is surely one of the most captivating rock debuts in years.
BLACK SALVATION’s Uncertainty Is Bliss is due out April 6th on CD, LP, and digital formats via Relapse Records. Physical packages are available at Relapse.com HERE. The digital edition can be purchased at THIS LOCATION.
Issues the band of the signing and new album, “Our hands and minds are trembling in anticipation to release this record, as it’s been a long and intense road for us to get here. Throughout the entire process, we traveled down a path trenched in uncertainty, which was both disarming and blissful. Signing to Relapse Records is probably the most unexpected door that opened up in the process of finding a home for the record. We’re very eager to have an open minded, diverse label to spread our words and music to all corners of your perception.”
BLACK SALVATION has announced a headlining European tour in April around the album’s release. A full list of dates is available below.
Uncertainty Is Bliss Track Listing:
1. In A Casket’s Ride
2. Floating Torpid
3. Breathing Hands
4. The Eye That Breathes
5. Leair
6. A Direction is Futile
7. Grey River
8. Getting Slowly Lost
9. The Chapel (Bonus Track)
10. Follow Me Down (Bonus Track)
BLACK SALVATION:
4/03/2018 Ostpol – Dresden, DE
4/04/2018 Dots – Gottingen, DE
4/05/2018 Kurzbar – Mannheim, DE
4/06/2018 Neues Schauspiel – Leipzig, DE
4/07/2018 Schlachthof – Eisenach, DE
4/08/2018 TBA – Cologne, DE
4/10/2018 Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE
4/11/2018 Lygtens Kro – Copenhagen, DK
4/12/2018 Zukunft am Ostkreuz – Berlin, DE
BLACK SALVATION’s Uncertainty Is Bliss is to today what The Stooges’ eponymous debut was to 1969. It’s what Led Zeppelin IV was to Fast Times At Ridgemont High. And it’s how Can’s Tago Mago continues to blaze minds after nearly fifty years on wax. Songs like “Getting Slowly Lost,” “Breathing Hands,” “Grey River,” and the short but filmic instrumental “The Eye That Breathes” — as well as the other four previously named songs — transcend today and yesterday. They’re tumultuous, pensive, rebellious, noisy, and perfectly imprecise hard rock tunes for otherworldly enjoyment.
So, the adage isn’t true. Bands do make hard rock like they used to. BLACK SALVATION’s Uncertainty Is Bliss is psychedelic hard rock for all.
BLACK SALVATION:
Paul Schlesier – guitar, vocals
Birger Schwidop – bass
Uno Bruniusson – drums
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