Merlock Announce West Coast Tour With Robots of the Ancient World
I guess if you don’t follow Merlock on the social medias — and I would encourage you to do so — you might look at the below all about ‘tru zoinked warriors’ and a crusade against ‘Big Riff,’ and have no idea what’s going on. The best advice I can give you is roll with it. The band, and particularly founding guitarist/vocalist Taylor D. Waring, have dug out a kind of niche-language about cranked mids — I actually had to look up what that means, it’s a guitar-recording thing — and I tried to join their Facebook group but I think they called me a cop, so I left because I’m insecure. Whatever ‘Big Riff’ is, I have no doubt I’m more part of the problem than the solution. So it goes.
But, Merlock released their debut album, Onward Strides Colossus (review here), earlier this year, and it remains among the best first-records I’ve heard in 2023, so their doing a West Coast tour to support it is right on, regardless of my constabular status (still testing negative for being a cop, by the way). If you didn’t hear that mids-cranked sludgebeast of a long-player, it’s down below because you can do that in the future — used to be way less of an option; ask me about it sometime and I’ll tell you a grandpa story about physical media — and because it’s worth hearing if you haven’t. If you can make it to a show, so much the better. They’ll be out with Robots of the Ancient World, who are also awesome.
From Facebook:
Tru Z0inked Warriors!!! Soon, we ride again to crank our mids and battle the sound-cops in YOUR town (assuming you live in one of nine West Coast locations).
But wait, there’s more! We’ll be joined by fellow warriors Robots of the Ancient World in our CRUSADE against Big Riff.
We trust we will see you there.
MERLOCK live:
07/15 Olympia WA Cryptatropa
07/16 Eureka CA Sirens Song
07/17 TBA
07/18 Las Vegas NV The Griffin
07/19 Tempe AZ Yucca Tap Room
07/20 Oceanside CA Pour House
07/21 San Francisco CA Thee Parkside
07/22 Crescent City CA Enoteca
MERLOCK is:
Taylor D. Waring – Guitar / Vox
Andrew Backes – Bass
Lucas Barrey – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/MerlockSpokane/
https://www.instagram.com/merlocklives/
https://merlock.bandcamp.com/
https://www.merlocklives.com/
