Destroyer of Light Announce “Smothered and Covered” Tour
Can’t help but feel like Destroyer of Light have the right idea. Even coming from Austin, which, you know, isn’t exactly the Antarctic, you don’t head north to tour in January. You play the South. Six dates in Florida? Yeah, that sounds about right. The riff-pummeling Texan four-piece are out in support of last year’s Endsville split LP (video premiere here) on Battleground Records with Arizona brutality merchants Godhunter, and while they may or may not have a follow-up in the works, that split is a cause worthy enough of getting back out, particularly in a friendly climate.
If you didn’t hear it, the Bandcamp stream is below, so dig in and find the catharsis your seasonally-depressed ass has been longing for, and then peruse the dates carefully. I’m pretty sure the name of the tour, “Smothered and Covered,” is a Waffle House reference, that greasiest of greasy spoon chain having supported many a hangover battle, but don’t quote me on it. Either way:
Still waiting on the confirmations in Mississippi on January 25th and South Carolina on February 3rd, but here’s the Smothered & Covered tour of 2016. Let’s drink, eat waffle house, and get crazy!!! Flyer by Erik Bredthauer.
Destroyer of Light Smothered and Covered Tour:
01.22 Houston TX Rudyard’s
01.23 Lake Charles LA Luna
01.24 New Orleans LA Siberia
01.25 Jackson/Biloxi MS TBA
01.26 Tallahassee FL Pug’s Live
01.27 Jacksonville FL Burro Bar
01.28 Gainesville FL Loosey’s
01.29 Tampa FL Bend’s Bar
01.30 Fort Lauderdale FL The Poorhouse
01.31 Orlando FL Uncle Lou’s
02.01 Savannah GA The Jinx
02.02 Atlanta GA 529
02.03 Greenville SC TBA
02.04 Birmingham AL 412
02.05 Fayetteville AR JR’s Lightbulb Club
02.06 Tulsa OK Downtown Lounge
02.07 Lubbock TX The Depot
02.08 Austin TX The Grand
Formed in 2012 from constantly boiling musical cauldron that is Austin, TX, Destroyer of Light has taken a straight forward approach to tempering the disparate and harmonious parts of their influences into a total sum of slow motion tidal heaviness that bows to no altar but that of the riff. With the smoky flavors of hazed out doom and the stomping cadence of rock’s heyday, the band both tickles and deafens the ears with the theatrical flashes of Mercyful Fate, the ominous tones of Electric Wizard, and the ferociously feral feedback of a Sleep dirge.
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