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Sinister Haze European Tour with Cough Starts Tonight; New EP Emperor of Dreams Released

Posted in Whathaveyou on August 2nd, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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For anyone who heard Virginia’s Sinister Haze make their full-length debut with last year’s filth-caked Laid Low in the Dust of Death (review here), the just-released, limited-to-100-copies follow-up Emperor of Dreams EP is going to hit as a marked surprise. Reveling in dreary psychedelic atmospheres, it’s not a complete departure from the preceding LP in terms of atmosphere, but as one can hear on the melancholy post-punk centerpiece “Astral Procession” and in the inclusion of ambient interludes surrounding its tracks, the four-piece are clearly looking to engage a different wavelength. If not several different wavelengths.

It works for them, as showcased in “Astral Procession,” the preceding title-track and the eight-minute “Divine” — which is the high point achievement-wise of the release and perhaps of Sinister Haze‘s output to-date — as well as the aforementioned interludes, which carry an air of experimentation the would seem to have extended to the songwriting as well. In short: fucking a. Does this mean Sinister Haze won’t turn back to the graveyard-dirt-under-the-fingernails approach they had on the record? Not a clue, but I’m digging the vibe of the new outing, and today, that’s enough for me.

They’re on the road in Europe starting tonight in the Netherlands with fellow Virginians Cough. Dates, more info and audio follow, courtesy of the band:

Sinister Haze – Emperor of Dreams

Out August 2nd via Graven Earth Records
Limited to 100 copies

Production for this has been all DIY, recording/mastering/artwork has been handled by us and were excited to show it off in due time. It’s easily the most psychedelic thing we’ve achieved thus far.

02/08 NL Haarlem – Patronaat
03/08 DE Stuttgart – Jugendhaus West
04/08 AT – Innsbruck PMK
05/08 IT Giavera del Montello – Disintegrate your Ignorance Festival
06/08 AT Wien – The Viper Room
07/08 HU Budapest – A38
08/08 PL Krakow – WARSZTAT
09/08 CZ Pevnost Josefov – Bastion Brutal Assault Festival
10/08 DE Berlin – Cassiopeia
11/08 NL Eindhoven – Stroomhuis
12/08 BE Ieper – Ieper Festival
13/08 PT Vagos – Vagos Metal Fest
14/08 UK London – Electrowerkz
15/08 UK Leeds – Brudenellsocialclub
16/08 FR Paris – Gibus

Sinister Haze is:
Brandon Marcey
Sam Marsh
Eli Pizzuto
JK

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http://sinisterhaze.bigcartel.com/
https://sinisterhaze.bandcamp.com/

Sinister Haze, Emperor of Dreams (2017)

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