-(16)- Tour Starts This Weekend; New Video Posted
I’m all about -(16)- being on Relapse, all about them continuing to put out killer records like the upcoming Into Dust, all about them going on tour. And you know someone behind the scenes also gives a shit about the release because not only are the long-running Los Angeles sludge metallers getting out to support the record on the West Coast, which is fair enough — I’m gonna hold onto the hope they come east to play Desertfest New York in 2023, while acknowledging that hope is based, like most, on absolutely nothing — but they’ve now put out three videos before the record is even out. That just doesn’t happen for something that isn’t a priority somewhere along the line. Someone, be it band, label, management, mysterious benefactor, is invested.
Economics, at least on the micro level with implications for the broader system, would seem to be relevant to the album itself as well, and fair enough, but the bottom line is this band doesn’t owe anyone anything, and they deserve whatever push they get. I’m sure there are those who swear by their ’90s-era offerings, but for me, they’ve been doing their best work over the last decade, and Into Dust keeps that momentum alive for sure.
So yeah, blah blah good band. Okay. Videos at the bottom of the post, info from the PR wire:
Watch -(16)-’s “Lane Splitter” video at THIS LOCATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjpxalkr58
Into Dust will be available on CD, LP, and digital formats.
Pre-Order ‘Into Dust’ Here: http://bit.ly/16-intodust
Digital Downloads/Stream: http://orcd.co/16-intodust
In advance of the release of Into Dust, -(16)- will embark on US headlining tour set to kick off this weekend. Support will be provided by Doc Hammer. See all confirmed dates below.
-(16)- w/ Doc Hammer:
11/12/2022 Tower Bar – San Diego, CA
11/13/2022 Knucklehead Hollywood – Los Angeles, CA
11/14/2022 Transplants Brewing – Palmdale, CA
11/15/2022 The Fulton – Fresno, CA
11/16/2022 Ivy Room – Oakland, CA
11/17/2022 Café Colonial – Sacramento, CA
11/18/2022 The High Water Mark – Portland, OR
11/19/2022 The Bar House – Seattle, WA
11/20/2022 Mootsy’s – Spokane, WA
11/22/2022 Shredder – Boise, ID
11/23/2022 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT
11/25/2022 The Hive – Flagstaff, AZ
11/26/2022 The Den – Prescott, NV
From the frantic opening of “Misfortune Teller” to the undeniable pounding and swagger of “Scrape The Rocks,” Into Dust lives up to its name, as -(16)- beats the listener into submission through the lowest of ends and the sour, palpable malaise prevalent throughout the album’s dozen tracks.
“There’s a story arc in the lyrics that start with an eviction notice served amid the ruins of Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys, to running aground metaphorically and drowning in midlife, bearing witness to the modern suffering of hunger and poverty on the Mexico California border,” Ferry says. The negativity persists on tracks aptly titled “Null And Eternal Void,” and the dizzying, pill-induced, “The Floor Wins.” Elsewhere, “Born On A Bar Stool” sends the listener off with a sobering album closer; ending on a foggy and rainy jazz-tinged San Francisco night, with an anti-drinking drinking song, proclaiming, “Raise your glass all things pass.”
-(16)-:
Bobby Ferry – guitar, vocals
Alex Shuster – lead guitar
Barney Firks – bass
Dion Thurman – drums
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