Right now it’s looking like Blackwater Holylight‘s Fall tour of Europe alongside Monolord is going to happen. It would not be the soon-to-formerly-be-Portland-Oregon-based outfit’s first run alongside the Swedish trio, but it arrives as a herald for Blackwater Holylight‘s third album, Silence/Motion, and that’s a significant distinguishing factor. Due next month through RidingEasy, the record brings new darkness and flourishes of extremity that coincide with the flowing psychedelia and melody previously established in the band’s sound.

Much has already been made and more surely will of the band — bassist/vocalist Allison “Sunny” Faris (also guitar on the record), guitarist/bassist Mikayla Mayhew, drummer Eliese Dorsay and synthesist Sarah McKenna — working with guest vocalists on Silence/Motion like ALN of Mizmor, who also produced, as well as Bryan Funck of Thou and Mike Paparo of Inter Arma on the record’s opening and closing tracks. I’m not saying that’s not interesting — it sure as shit was something I wanted to talk about in the interview — just also to consider the downward motion of guitar in the suitably titled “Falling Faster,” or the burst in the latter half of “Silence/Motion” itself, the charred-style squibblies in “MDIII” or the bleak post-punk in “Around You.” Yes, “Delusional” is a striking opener with Funck‘s rasp behind Faris‘ clean-sung verse, and “Every Corner” branches into territory Blackwater Holylight have never gone in its consuming second half especially, but there’s no less growth to be heard in the tense synth and guitar of “Who the Hell?” than in the novelty of the company the band are keeping.

I’m going to review the album (I kind of just did; whoops), so I’ll stem the opinion-izing there as much as possible, but in atmosphere and dynamic, Silence/Motion is a pull in a new direction from 2019’s Veils of Winter (review here) and 2018’s self-titled debut (review here), and deserves to be considered in its own light and in terms of what it portends for the band. Apparently new guitarist/backing vocalist Erika Osterhout can scream. Faris talks about wanting to write some death metal. I’d be up for that as interpreted by Blackwater Holylight.

There was, in fact, a lot to talk about, from making the album on a deadline underscored by a pregnancy in the band to working with an outside producer for the first time, to broadening the stylistic reach, to touring, to playing Psycho Las Vegas last month, to the sexual abuse that inspired the title-track, to moving to Los Angeles from Portland — which I think happened last week — to what kind of protein powder Faris puts in her morning shake alongside the peanut butter and banana. Spoiler alert: it is made from the crushed bones of her enemies.

Please enjoy the interview:

Blackwater Holylight, Silence/Motion Interview with Sunny Faris, Sept. 1, 2021

Blackwater Holylight release Silence/Motion Oct. 22 on RidingEasy Records. As of this post, their Fall tour of Europe with Monolord is still a go. Dates follow. Their early-2022 tour dates with All Them Witches are here. Check the links below for updates.

Monolord w/ Blackwater Holylight
Europe 2021:
18/11 DE Oberhausen Kuttempel
19/11 NL Utrecht DB’s
20/11 NL Nijmegen Doornroosje
21/11 BE Antwerp Zappa
22/11 UK Bristol Exchange
23/11 UK Glasgow Stereo
24/11 UK London Underworld
25/11 UK Manchester Soup
26/11 FR Dunkerque 4 Ecluses
27/11 FR Paris Petit Bain
28/11 FR Toulouse Rex
30/11 SP Madrid Caracol
01/12 SP Barcelona Boveda
02/12 FR Annecy Brise Glace
03/12 CH Aarau Kiff
04/12 AT Vienna Arena
05/12 DE Dresden Chemiefabrik
06/12 DE Berlin Zukunft am Ostkreuz
07/12 DE Hamburg Bahnhof St. Pauli
08/12 DK Copenhagen Stengade
09/12 SE Gothenburg Pustervik
10/12 SE Stockholm Debaser Strand
11/12 SE Malmo Babel
12/12 NO Oslo Youngs

Blackwater Holylight, Silence/Motion (2021)

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Good show. Starts heavy, stays heavy. Gets a little rocking by the end, but even the Acidemia jam that caps has a good sense of heft behind it. I noticed last episode had a pretty fair amount of drift — and this one isn’t entirely without, as you’ll notice — but I guess sometimes those aggro tendencies surface. Plus I’ve been very much enjoying the new LLNN album, and you can’t really start with that and not keep going with more extreme fare. Or I can’t, anyway. Or at least I didn’t. So there.

The Pecan joined in on the voice tracks, which was fun. I tried to get him to say his letters but he was like “up yours,” as ever. He knows them, and I guess that’ll have to do for now. But he got such a kick out of hearing himself on the playback that he started sprinting back and forth across the sectional in our living room, so I’m glad to know he at least enjoys taking part, even if having your toddler on is about as un-metal a thing I can think of. I’ve always maintained I have no business being on Gimme, even before they renamed it. It’s nice to be right every once in a while, even if it’s gonna feel bad when they eventually shitcan me.

Either way, thanks for listening and/or reading. I hope you enjoy.

The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at: http://gimmemetal.com

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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is Sept. 3 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.

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But wait, there’s more! On the very day it begins hosting its 2021 festival, Psycho Las Vegas has announced a new label imprint, Psycho Waxx. Sadly I don’t think they’re hiring A&R, otherwise I’d surely apply for the job and clog there roster with Swedish bands who won’t sell. Shame though.

Instead, they throw their hats into the tribute compilation game — who doesn’t like a gritty reboot? — with Löve Me Förever, a suitably umlauted homage to Motörhead that will boast new recordings from High on Fire, Blackwater Holylight, Mothership, Nick Oliveri and a slew of others. One expects that by the time it’s out it will be completely over the top, because Psycho is nothing if not on-brand in how they do.

One would remiss not to note that Löve Me Förever isn’t the first of recent heavy underground Motörhead tributes. Midwestern label The Company exceeded a Kickstarter goal to produce Ferociously Stöned: The Company Tribute to Motörhead, which it released in April and has out on physical as well as digital formats, with Keef Mountain, Hyborian and others in the label’s sphere taking part. While we’re on the subject, Psycho Waxx‘s Motörhead tribute probably won’t be the last either. These kinds of thing are going to be happening for a long time. At least as long as they sell, if not longer.

What follows came from social media:

PREORDERS are now open for LÖVE ME FÖREVER, a @psychowaxx tribute to one of the greatest rock ‘n roll bands of all time.

Motörhead is embedded deep in Psycho’s DNA, which is why we’ve got a slew of this year’s bombers hitting our Downtown Vegas studio during the fest to lay down their love in epic homage to the undeniable legends.

Löve Me Förever arrives on lavish double vinyl in 2022, with insane Motörhead cuts from the likes of HIGH ON FIRE, MIDNIGHT, EXHORDER, BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT, EYEHATEGOD, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, MOTHERSHIP, FOIE GRAS, HOWLING GIANT, CREEPING DEATH and more, plus an all-star collaborative take on “Ace of Spades” featuring Phil Anselmo, Gary Holt, Chuck Garric, Nick Oliveri and Dwid Hellion, among others. It’s everything you’d expect from Psycho as we throw down the gauntlet on our first official release.

2021 Psycho Las Vegas attendees pre-ordering on site at the fest will take home a limited edition cover art print, and receive a deluxe Psycho Waxx slipmat with record shipment. Art prints can be picked up at the Psycho showroom on Sunday, August 22 at 3 PM, held under the name on your pre-order.

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Motörhead, “Love Me Forever”

Listen to the damaged jangle and fuzzy undercurrent of the new Blackwater Holylight track. Really let those layers sink in. And that melodic drift. Fuck yes I’m dying to hear this album. The Portland, Oregon-based once-again-five-piece have a slew of tour dates domestic and international slated for the coming months, starting in just a couple weeks at Psycho Las Vegas before they head abroad to join forces with Monolord — with whom they also toured the US in the before-times — this Fall, then post-holidays, they’ll be out with All Them Witches for a run that was supposed to happen in Spring 2020 and I think rescheduled once or twice along the way. Who can even remember?

Silence/Motion is the name of the new Blackwater Holylight LP, and it’s out Oct. 22 on RidingEasy Records as the follow-up to 2019’s Veils of Winter (review here). I know there’s a lot of cool stuff coming up, but this is my most anticipated album for the rest of 2021.

The PR wire has details:

Blackwater Holylight – Silence/Motion – RidingEasy Records

‘Empty surrounds all of me.’ It’s a poignant line from the third album by Blackwater Holylight that encapsulates the search for self when suddenly everything has changed. There’s a theme of processing vast personal trauma throughout Silence/Motion that eloquently — both lyrically and musically — and simultaneously embodies the crushing emptiness, sorrow, strength and rebuilding of recovering from personal devastation.

“There was so much grief both in the world and interpersonally during the process of creating Silence/Motion,” says vocalist/bassist Allison “Sunny” Faris. “The four of us gave one another more space to be ourselves, to experiment with each other’s ideas and to be gentle with one another more than we ever have before. So, we knew this tenderness would manifest in extremely honest arrangements, and I think that you can hear that throughout the record.”

Curiously, considering the dark times in which it was created, this is the band’s most melodic and catchy music so far. Blackwater Holylight, as the name suggests, is all about contrasts: It’s a fluid convergence of sound that’s heavy, psychedelic, melodic, terrifying and beautiful all at once. And, Silence/Motion finds the band honing those contrasts, letting ideas and moods fully develop from song to song, rather than filling every song with a full range of their capabilities. It allows the band to go fully prog-rock here, and simply stay hushed and intimate there. There’s a new confidence to the band in how seamlessly they wield their stylistic amalgam.

“Writing this album was extraordinarily difficult emotionally, however it did come to fruition fairly quickly,” Faris says. “In the past, the theme of vulnerability has always been a big player and it definitely showed up full force while writing this album.”

Blackwater Holylight recorded the album as a four piece: Faris on vocals and guitar (on “Silence/Motion”, “MDIII”, “Around You” and “Every Corner”) and bass for the remainder, Sarah McKenna on synths, Mikayla Mayhew on guitar (and bass when Faris plays guitar) and drummer Eliese Dorsay. New second guitarist Erika Osterhout will perform the songs with them live. For Silence/Motion the band chose to work with a producer for the first time, bringing in A.L.N. (of Mizmor, Hell) to produce, along with recording engineer Dylan White — who also helmed their previous album Veils of Winter (2019) — at Odessa Recording Studio in Portland, OR. Guest vocals on album opener “Delusional” are by Bryan Funck (Thou.) Mike Paparo (Inter Arma) and A.LN. (Mizmor, Hell) lend guest vocals to album closer “Every Corner.”

Silence/Motion opens softly with interwoven folky single note guitars over an ominous sounding drone for the first minute, akin to moments from Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Suddenly an irresistibly head-nodding, groovy droptuned riff kicks in with the drums and it’s a full on blackened rocker with soaring synths and Funck’s witchy whispers over the top. “Who The Hell,” the track quoted above, takes proceedings into a Krautrock direction, centered around McKenna’s arpeggiated synth loop and Dorsay’s tom-tom triplets, while 16-note guitar strums add tension as Faris wearily sings, “So tell me who the hell would want to live this way — so afraid/ To feel this void, to dwell in it… I can’t describe this pain I wear/ It suffocates and you left it here.” It’s an incredibly powerful 6 minutes.

The title track delivers the 1-2-3 punch of the album’s brilliant opening trilogy. It starts with lightly plucked acoustic guitar, plaintive piano chords and Faris’ voice gliding so softly it sounds more like a Mellotron. The song builds slowly toward crescendo, led by a swinging tom pattern, that abruptly switches back to a heavier version of the opening melody. “Silence/Motion” is about digesting and healing from sexual assault. As Faris explains, “It is an ode to the juxtaposition of feeling paralyzingly blank and and like your entire life is moving through you simultaneously.” Elsewhere, Black Metal guitars collide with dreamlike melodies. “Around You” brandishes a hopeful, hummable synth melody and shimmering shoegaze guitars like throwing down a gauntlet. In the end, it becomes undeniably clear just how completely into their own Blackwater Holylight has come.

“The analogy is that with our first record (Blackwater Holylight, 2018) we were getting into to the car and buckling up,” Faris says. “The second (Veils of Winter, 2019) we were turning the car on, and with this third we have kicked into drive toward our destination. Our destination is a bit mysterious and has the ability to change from day to day, but we’re on our way.”

Silence/Motion will be available on LP, CD and download on October 22nd, 2021 via RidingEasy Records.

Artist: Blackwater Holylight
Album: Silence/Motion
Record Label: RidingEasy Records
Release date: October 22, 2021

01. Delusional
02. Who The Hell?
03. Silence/Motion
04. Falling Faster
05. MDIII
06. Around You
07. Every Corner

BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT LIVE 2021 – 2022
08.19 – Las Vegas, NV – Psycho Las Vegas
11.18 – Oberhausen (DE) – Kulttempel *
11.19 – Utrecht (NL) – DB’s *
11.20 – Nijmegen (NL) – Doornroosje *
11.21 – Antwerp (BE) – Zappa *
11.22 – Bristol (UK) – Exchange *
11.23 – Glasgow (UK) – Stereo *
11.24 – London (UK) – Underworld *
11.25 – Manchester (UK) – The Bread Shed *
11.26 – Dunkerque (FR) – 4 Ecluses *
11.27 – Paris (FR) – Petit Bain *
11.28 – Toulouse (FR) – Rex *
11.30 – Madrid (SP) – Caracol *
12.01 – Barcelona (SP) – Boveda *
12.02 – Annecy (FR) – Brise Glace *
12.03 – Aarau (CH) – Kiff *
12.04 – Vienna (AT) – Arena *
12.05 – Dresden (DE) – Chemiefabrik *
12.06 – Berlin (DE) – Zukunft am Ostkreuz *
12.07 – Hamburg (DE) – Bahnhof St. Pauli *
12.08 – Copenhagen (DK) – Stengade *
12.09 – Gothenburg (SE) – Pustervik *
12.10 – Stockholm (SE) – Debaser Strand *
12.11 – Malmö (SE) – Babel *
12.12 – Oslo (NO) – Youngs *
* w/ Monolord

01.21 – Dallas, TX – Trees #
01.22 – Austin, TX – Mohawk #
01.23 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger #
01.24 – Phoenix, NV – Crescent Ballroom #
01.27 – San Diego, CA – Belly Up Tavern #
01.28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater #
01.29 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore #
01.31 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom #
02.01 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom #
02.02 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox #
02.04 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
02.05 – Denver, CO – Gothic Theater #
02.06 – Fort Collins, CO – Aggie Theater #
# w/ All Them Witches

Blackwater Holylight:
Allison “Sunny” Faris – Vocals/bass/guitar
Sarah McKenna – Synths
Mikayla Mayhew – Guitar/bass
Eliese Dorsay – Drums
Erika Osterhout – Guitar (not on LP)

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Blackwater Holylight, “Around You”

Blackwater Holylight, Veils of Winter (2019)

If you’re looking for insight into the Psycho Las Vegas 2021 lineup, I have precious little to offer. What started out being accused of being an American answer to Roadburn has become a spectacle unto itself, operating at a scale that’s more in competition with the likes of a heavy metal Riot Fest or Coachella, and has likewise developed a community of its own. As for what catches my eye here, Cephalic Carnage for sure, as well as a few carryovers from what would’ve been 2020, and the likes of The Sword, who I guess are back together now? Fair enough. Oh, and the GZA, for good measure. Katatonia and Mercyful Fate and Elder and a couple others aren’t making the trip, but there’s certainly plenty here to occupy your weekend. If the Vegas-in-August heat don’t melt your brains, the riffs surely will.

What’s a guy gotta do to get invited to do a DJ set at Psycho Las Vegas? I’m gonna send Nate Carson an email and see if he’s got any tips.

Ty Segall next to Satyricon. Fatso Jetson and Profanatica. Immolation and Dengue Fever. The Flaming Lips and Cannibal Corpse. If you’re asking for it to make sense, you’re doing Psycho wrong. This is an event that defines its own parameters.

Approach thusly:

PSYCHO LAS VEGAS 2021 Lineup

America’s rock n’ roll bacchanal returns to Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino August 20th through August 22nd, with another resort-wide casino takeover unlike any of its kind.

Now approaching its fifth year in the swirling neon decadence of Las Vegas, PSYCHO will feature over seventy artists across four stages including the world-class Events Center, the iconic House Of Blues, Mandalay Bay Beach, and the vintage Vegas-style Rhythm & Riffs Lounge in the center of the casino floor.

PSYCHO LAS VEGAS 2021 will continue to redefine America’s conception of what a festival can be.

Psycho Swim “The Official Psycho Las Vegas Pre-Party”
Old Man Gloom, Bongzilla, Death Valley Girls, Polyrhythmics, The Skull, Blackwater Holylight, Here Lies Man, DJ Scott Seltzer

PSYCHO LAS VEGAS 2021 Lineup:
Emperor, GZA, Mayhem, Obituary, Ty Segall, Satyricon, Watain, Paul Cauthen, The Sword, Cephalic Carnage, Health, The Bridge City Sinners, MGLA, Intronaut, Exhorder, Pinback, King Dude, Khemmis, Mothership, Toke, Lord Buffalo, Psychlona, Claude Fontaine, Hippie Death Cult, Foie Gras, ALMS, Mother Mercury, DJ Ethan MCCarthy, DJ Scott Seltzer, DJ Nate Carson, DJ Painkiller, Danzig, The Flaming Lips, Thievery Corporation, Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus, Red Fang, Cursive, Pig Destroyer, Poison the Well, Eyehategod, Primitive Man, Death by Stereo, Curl Up & Die, Boysetsfire, Fatso Jetson, Profanatica, Adamantium, Silvertomb, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Withered, Flavor Crystal, Highlands, Vaelmyst, Black Sabbitch, The Tim Dillon Comedy Hour, Down, Exodus, High on Fire, Osees, Amigo the Devil, Drab Majesty, Crippled Black Phoenix, Weedeater, Full of Hell, Midnight, Repulsion, Cult of Fire, Zola Jesus, Tsol, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Guantanamo Baywatch, Immolation, Dengue Fever, Creeping Death, Kanga, Warish, Glacial Tomb, Relaxer, Vitriol, DJ Scott Seltzer, “Ask Doc” Q&A with Doc Mcghee

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Psycho Las Vegas 2019 aftermovie

Blackwater Holylight have a new record in the can, and if you’ve spent the better part of your day, week, month, etc., doomscrolling various endtimes scenarios of escalating culture-war-as-actual-war, climate crisis, rampant plague, and so on, this might just be enough to hang your hat on for a little bit. 2019’S Veils of Winter (review here) was easily among the most repeat-listenable offerings of that so-long-ago-now year, and the fact that the Portland-based heavy psych rockers have returned to work with engineer Dylan White bodes well, even as they also brought in A.L.N. of Mizmor to produce.

What the hell, something to look forward to. I’m still pretty bitter about not getting to catch Blackwater Holylight for what would’ve been the first time in my beloved Garden State on their game-called-on-account-of-pandemic tour with All Them Witches, but at least it’s good to know they were writing songs this year. You may also likely note in the studio picture below that synthesist Sarah Mckenna is very, very pregnant. The band noted in an earlier post she’s at nine months, so cheers on that and here’s hoping the studio had someplace comfortable to sit.

Obviously I haven’t seen a release plan or even a title for what will be Blackwater Holylight‘s third album, presumably for RidingEasy Records, but when I do I’ll let you know. In the meantime, if you want to take the opportunity to pay Veils of Winter a revisit, it’s as good a time as any and the Bandcamp stream follows here.

The band’s Instagram post was short and sweet and went like this:

That’s a wrap! Was such a pleasure working with @whollydoomedblackmetal and @glasswavs… fucking dream team, dream family, we are bursting! Excited to share with you all soon.

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Blackwater Holylight, Veils of Winter (2019)

Plenty of this lineup looks familiar from what Psycho Las Vegas would’ve been in 2020, and duh, that’s the idea. You’ve still got Danzig doing Lucifuge, still got At the Gates and Katatonia and Emperor and Mercyful Fate. Still got the possibility that if I go, I can hang out after Pinback‘s set and bother Rob Crow about how badly he needs to do another Goblin Cock record. Wino, Fatso Jetson, Elder and Blackwater Holylight playing the pool party, six or seven curveball emo bands — all that fun stuff. Spectacle unmatched in heavy music, set in the Planet Earth’s official home for damned souls. It’s as perfect as it is incongruous.

Makes me wonder what Crowbar have going on next August.

But what you probably want to know is whether your ticket if you had one for 2020 is still good for 2021. Yes.

Behold:

Psycho Entertainment presents Psycho Las Vegas 2021

Psycho Las Vegas has been rescheduled to August 20th – 22nd, 2021. Psycho Swim has been rescheduled to August 19th, 2021. If you already purchased a pass for either event and want to attend in 2021, there is nothing you need to do – your passes will automatically be valid for the new dates.

80 of the 83 bands originally booked on the lineup are returning in 2021. The bands who are not joining us next year are Ty Segall, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Crowbar.

Danzig, Mercyful Fate, Emperor, The Flaming Lips, Blue Oyster Cult, Down, Mayhem, Satyricon, Obituary, Warpaint, Blonde Redhead, HEALTH, Watain, Ulver, Katatonia, At the Gates, Poison The Well, Paul Cauthen, Amigo The Devil, Exhorder, Wolves in the Throne Room, Thursday, Pinback, Zola Jesus, Drab Majesty, Boris, Eyehategood, Repulsion, Immolation, Midnight, MGLA, Windhand, Cursive, Tsol, King Dude, Pig Destroyer, Brutus, Profanatica, Lower Dens, Cult of Fire, Intronaut, boysetsfire, Death by Stereo, Curl Up and Die, Adamantium, This Will Destroy You, Khemmis, Mothership, Guantanamo Baywatch, Dengue Fever, Kaelan Mikla, Black Joe Lewis, Fatso Jetson, Wino, Creeping Death, Mephistofeles, Frankie and The Witch Fingers, Toke, Foie Gras, Flavor Crystals, Silvertomb, Lord Buffalo, Warish, Alms, Bombers, Glacial Tomb, Relaxer, Black Sabbitch, Hippie Death Cult, Vaelmyst, Mother Mercury, Two Minutes to Late Night

America’s rock n’ roll bacchanal returns to Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino August 20th through August 22th, with another resort-wide casino takeover unlike any of its kind. Now approaching its fifth year in the swirling neon decadence of Las Vegas, PSYCHO will feature over seventy artists across four stages including the world-class Events Center, the iconic House Of Blues, Mandalay Bay Beach, and the vintage Vegas-style Rhythm & Riffs Lounge in the center of the casino floor. PSYCHO LAS VEGAS 2021 will continue to redefine America’s conception of what a festival can be.

Psycho Entertainment presents Psycho Swim “The Official Psycho Las Vegas Pre-Party”

Old Man Gloom, Elder, Polyrhythmics, Death Valley Girls, The Skull, Blackwater Holylight, Here Lies Man, DJ Scott Seltzer

America’s rock n’ roll pool party returns to DAYLIGHT Beach Club on August 19th for the second annual PSYCHO SWIM. This official all-day pre-party celebrates the best of previous PSYCHO LAS VEGAS lineups with performances from a host of festival alumni as well as new PSYCHO additions.

DAYLIGHT Beach Club is nestled next to the Mandalay Bay Resort And Casino and features a 4400-square-foot main pool, daybeds, cabanas, and bungalows, with an elevated stage offering unobstructed, up-close-and-personal views of artist performances.

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A Message from Psycho Las Vegas

Yes, All Them Witches had previously announced these dates for the Spring mostly-East Coast US tour that runs into May 1 at Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta, but I feel like the fact that they’ll be joined for the run by Portland’s Blackwater Holylight makes it worth another look at the dates. April 23 in NJ, you say? Well, I’ll have gotten back from Roadburn earlier that week, but if anything’s worth a trip to Asbury Park, it’s a show like this at The Lanes, with open bowling surrounding the bandstand on either side.

It’s been many, many years since the last time I was there, and but for the aforementioned travel plans, I actually think Hamden would have fewer people even on a Saturday, so a somewhat less anxious experience, but still, I’ll take it as it comes. We’ll see how dead on my feet I am when we get there, but you bet your ass it’s going on the calendar.

All Them Witches live dates follow. Note the beginning of an August European tour already starting to take shape. I assume there will be more to come there, and honestly, they’re kind of coming up on due for a new album too, so if that emerges around September, I wouldn’t be surprised, especially given their penchant for sometimes recording in secret.

Shows with the asterisk are with Blackwater Holylight:

ALL THEM WITCHES: APRIL=TOUR

INFO/TICKETS: http://www.allthemwitches.org/tour

MAR 14 SAT Vive Latino Mexico, Mexico
FRI. APRIL 17 – BALTIMORE MD – Ottobar*
SAT. APRIL 18 – HAMDEN CT – Space Ballroom*
SUN. APRIL 19 – PROVIDENCE RI – THE MET*
TUE. APRIL 21 – PORTSMOUTH NH – 3S Artspace*
WED. APRIL 22 – NORTHAMPTON MA – Gateway City Arts*
THU. APRIL 23 – ASBURY PARK NJ – Asbury Lanes*
FRI. APRIL 24 – PITTSBURGH PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre*
SAT. APRIL 25 – ANN ARBOR MI – The Blind Pig A2*
SUN. APRIL 26 – CINCINNATI OH – The Woodward Theater*
TUE. APRIL 28 – COLUMBUS OH – Skully’s Music-Diner*
WED. APRIL 29 – LEXINGTON KY – The Burl*
FRI. MAY 1 – ATLANTA GA – Shaky Knees Music Festival*
JUL 22-26 WED FloydFest Floyd, VA
AUG 7 FRI Krach Am Bach Beelen, Germany
AUG 8 SAT Re-Generation Fest Leipzig, Germany
AUG 17 MON Mascotte Zurich, Switzerland
*w/ Blackwater Holylight

All Them Witches is:
Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals
Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals
Robby Staebler – drums, vocals

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All Them Witches, “1×1” official video

Blackwater Holylight, Veils of Winter (2019)