All Them Witches Post “1×1” Video; Announce Spring US Tour
Brutal, harsh, and dark with manic flashes of color and the band themselves sped up and slowed down, thrashing about and tearing at themselves amid some sort or other form of depicted ritual in the woods, drummer Robby Staebler‘s video for All Them Witches‘ recently-unveiled single “1×1” (discussed here) does nothing if not capture the mood of the song. He, along with guitarist Ben McLeod and bassist/vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr., are currently on tour in Europe with Ghost and Tribulation, and they’ve newly announced a Spring run of mostly East Coast dates that will follow a festival stop in Mexico City this March. They’ve also got three hometown shows in Nashville to round out the year from Dec. 27-29. No substitute for staying busy.
The loneliness, intensity and seething feeling of “1×1” is writ large throughout the song, and I don’t feel particularly compelled to wax poetic about it, but I’ll say it’s the outright heaviest thing I’ve heard from All Them Witches since they signed to New West Records in 2015 ahead of releasing that Fall’s Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (review here), 2017’s Sleeping Through the War (review here) and 2018’s ATW (review here), but neither are they attempting to recapture the vibe of 2013’s Lightning at the Door (review here), instead incorporating the lessons they’ve learned since about crafting an atmosphere and blending that with a hard-hitting riff and amorphous melody and shouts of “I can’t wait to be defeated!” and “I can’t wait to throw this all away!” amid other proclamations. It is brutal.
And though the lyrics are easily read as a statement on touring life, or the band itself, the one constant with All Them Witches has always been change, and I’d no more expect what they do next to sound like “1×1” than I expected “1×1” to sound like it does coming off ATW. Their recorded material has always been about capturing a moment in time. So here’s one.
Enjoy:
All Them Witches, “1×1” official video
The video for our single, 1X1 premiered. It stars Emmy-award winning actress, Drea de Matteo, and was directed by our drummer, Robby Staebler.
We’ve added new Spring tour dates including two festivals: Vive Latino (Mexico City, MX) and Shaky Knees (Atlanta, GA).
Full list of dates below.
Single available now: https://geni.us/ATW1X1?track=yt
ON TOUR with Ghost and Tribulation
NOV 25 – Black Box Pangea – Kobenhavn, Denmark
NOV 28 – Hartwall Arena – Helsinki, Finland
NOV 30 – Spodek – Katowice, Poland
DEC 1 – Universum – Prague, Czech Republic
DEC 3 – BSA – Budapest, Hungary
DEC 4 – Mo?vara – Zagreb, Croatia
DEC 5 – Palabam – Mantova, Italy
DEC 6 – Halle 622 – Zürich, Switzerland
DEC 8 – Palau Sant Jordi – Barcelona, Spain
DEC 10 – Altice Arena – Lisboa, Portugal
DEC 11 – WiZink Center – Madrid, Spain
DEC 13 – Zenith Of Strasbourg – Strasbourg, France
DEC 14 – Stattbahnhof – Schweinfurt, Germany
DEC 15 – Zenith – München, Germany
DEC 17 – Rockhal – Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg
DEC 18 – Zenith Nantes Metropole – Saint-herblain, France
DEC 19 – Zénith de Toulouse – Toulouse, France
DEC 27 – Exit/In – Nashville, TN
DEC 28 – Exit/In – Nashville, TN
DEC 29 – Exit/In – Nashville, TN
SPRING 2020 DATES
MARCH 14 – Vive Latino – Mexico City, MX
MARCH 15 – Vive Latino – Mexico City, MX
APRIL 17 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
APRIL 18 – Space Ballroom – Hamden, CT
APRIL 19 – The Met – Pawtucket, RI
APRIL 21 – 3S Artspace – Portsmouth, NH
APRIL 22 – Gateway City Arts – Holyoke, MA
APRIL 23 – Asbury Lanes – Asbury Park, NJ
APRIL 24 – Mr. Smalls Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA
APRIL 25 – Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI
APRIL 26 – Woodward Theatre – Cincinnati, OH
APRIL 28 – Skully’s – Columbus, OH
APRIL 29 – The Burl – Lexington, KY
MAY 1 – Shaky Knees Music Festival – Atlanta, GA
MAY 2 – Shaky Knees Music Festival – Atlanta, GA
MAY 3 – Shaky Knees Music Festival – Atlanta, GA
All Them Witches is:
Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals
Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals
Robby Staebler – drums, vocals
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Tags: 1x1, All Them Witches, All Them Witches 1x1, Nashville, New West Records, Tennessee
Saw them on Friday on the Ghost tour. Could not fathom the match-up with Ghost/Tribulation (and Wembley!) but made me want to check them out at a club show.