Place of Skulls Sign to Giddy Up! Records
Well how do you like that? Looks like Giddy Up! Records has picked up none other than the mighty Place of Skulls for their roster. This is killer news not just for the band, who’ve secured a US release date for their new album, As a Dog Returns (review here), but also for the label, because Victor Griffin is a fucking legend. Congratulations to all parties involved.
Here’s how the PR wire tells it:
Giddy Up! Records is pleased to announce the addition of Tennessee doomers Place of Skulls
to their expanding artist roster, which currently includes Moth Eater, Black Water Rising and Demonica. The New York City-based indie imprint will release Place of Skulls‘ fourth full-length, As a Dog Returns, in North America on Nov. 9, 2010.
Says Giddy Up! label head Steve Seabury: “To me, Victor Griffin is a legend in the doom scene. I am like a little kid at the doom store. It’s an absolute honor and privilege to have Place of Skulls join the Giddy Up! Records family. This record is just amazing. I love it.”
In related news, the band will kick off a two-week European tour with Eternal Elysium this Saturday. As a special bonus, Place of Skulls fans in or around Berlin are eligible for a free pass to Hammer of Doom 4 in Wurzburg and a free copy of As a Dog Returns. Contact placeofskulls@msn.com for more info!
Place of Skulls European Tour 2010
w/Eternal Elysium
10/23 Posthalle, Hammer of Doom 4 Festival – Würzburg, GER
10/24 Gebäude 9 – Köln, GER
10/25 Le Klub – Paris, FR
10/26 Little Devil – Tilburg, NL
10/28 Loppen – Kopenhagen, DK
10/29 Rockefeller/ John Dee – Oslo, NOR w/Orange Goblin
10/30 Tribute Sandnes, Stavanger, NOR w/Orange Goblin
10/31 TBA
11/02 Hafenklang – Hamburg, GER
11/03 Mau – Rostock, GER
11/04 White Trash – Berlin, GER
11/05 Falkendom – Bielefeld, GER
11/06 JH De Lochtink – Eeklo, BEL
11/07 Baroeg, Dutch Doom Days 9 – Rotterdam, NL
11/08 Rosenkeller – Jena, GER
