Cities of Mars Announce April Tour Dates
With the caveat of more shows to come, Swedish heavy-nodder three-piece Cities of Mars have let it be known they’re headed out on a round of touring next month. They go in support of their Ripple-issued 2022 self-titled full-length (review here), which was both their most accomplished and broadest reaching album to-date. That’s cause enough to celebrate if you need it, and they’ll meet up with Dirt Forge along the way for an added bonus, but amid the crush of quality records that came out in 2022 — a genuine splurge post-covid — Cities of Mars managed to stand out through their use of space and the largesse with which they filled it, as well as the progressive spirit in which their heft was delivered, methodically, patiently.
They’ve always been dense when it comes to tone, but in the increase in melody and the continued scope of their narrative were brought to a different level of realization this time out and it felt like the arrival they’d been pushing toward all along. I am not sorry to have the excuse to revisit it that posting these tour dates represents, is what I’m trying in my roundabout-ass way to tell you.
The poster below isn’t final, as the Prague date got added after they first put out word of the shows — living up to that whole ‘TBA’ thing — but you get the idea anyway. If more gigs are announced or I get that poster, I’ll add it in accordingly.
From social media:
CITIES OF MARS – Spring Tour
Earthlings! The Cosmonauts of Doom are hitting the roads in April.
Together with our friends in the mighty Dirt Forge we’ll make #denmark dance again.
It’s been way to long since we hung out with our brethren so these shows will go down in history.
It’s happening.
Where will you be seeing us??
Cities of Mars live:
8 April Gloomy Easter Linköping SE
12 April Vaterland Oslo NO
13 April Basement Copenhagen DK
14 April Kontrast Herning DK*
15 April Headquarters Aarhus DK*
18 April Chemiefabrik Dresden DE
19 April Modra Vopice Prague CZ
21 April Reset Club Berlin DE
22 April Archiv Potsdam DE
+more TBA
* w/ Dirt Forge
Line-up:
Danne Palm – lead vocals, bass, synths
Christoffer Norén – lead vocals, guitar
Johan Aronstedt – backing vocals, drums & percussion, sound FX
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http://citiesofmars.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/citiesofmars
https://www.facebook.com/theripplemusic/
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/
http://www.ripple-music.com/
