Posted in Whathaveyou on July 2nd, 2026 by JJ Koczan
No, 1000mods aren’t hurting for stuff going on. The Greek heavy rock forerunners have summer tour dates coming up starting with Monolit Festival in Hungary on July 24 and running to and through SonicBlast in Portugal in August, and then they pick up at the end of September for a full Fall tour split between October and November in Europe and the UK, respectively, that also includes more festival stops.
Still not enough? Well, the band have newly announced the first-ever Chiliomodi Rock Fest, named for and set to take place in their hometown on Sept. 12. The bill is five acts, and I’m not sure if more will be added, but either way, testing the ground and see if such a thing can become sustainable seems to be the intention they’re working with, and certainly having 1000mods themselves at the top of the lineup is going to be points in that festival’s favor as it is so many others included in their summer/fall touring plans.
The occasion, though they don’t say so, is the 20th anniversary of the band, who got their start in 2006, and for sure that’s reason enough. They’re set to be joined by Frenzee, Sadhus. The Smoking Community, Grim Rhythm and Drunk Jackals, and their lineup-reveal was posted to social media. Note that Grim Rhythm will also take part in the Fall tour, and they’ll meet up with Frenzee for a few shows along the way as well. Nobody’s strangers here and I think that’s part of the idea as well.
From social media:
🔥 Chiliomodi Rock Fest 🔥
After years of touring the world, we’re bringing it all back home for a big rock party in Chiliomodi, where it all began.
We will be joined by our friends Frenzee, Sadhus, Grim Rhythm & Drunk Jackals
Posted in Whathaveyou on March 31st, 2026 by JJ Koczan
The October run that Greek heavy rock forerunners 1000mods will undertake this Fall precedes a UK stint set to start Nov. 20, and it continues the strong touring schedule the band have had since beginning the cycle for their 2024 album, Cheat Death (review here), and really for much longer than that, since touring has long been a part of what they do. And having been lucky enough to see them on multiple occasions, I’m a little surprised they’ve never done a live album, because they bring it, but that’s a box yet to be ticked.
Note there are three of them on the poster. They’d been working with a fill-in second guitarist last I heard, and I don’t know if there will be four of them on stage for these tours or not. I’d be curious how it all works as a three-piece, since that’s not a configuration I’ve ever seen them in before, but it’d make sense too if they have someone there holding the spot. Guess you’ll find out if you go to a show.
From social media:
1000MODS – ***GIVE ME MY MEDICINE TOUR – FALL 2026***
Supervan is hitting the European roads next fall, spreading madness and loudness everywhere.
The mighty Grim Rhythm will be joining us as special guests on most of the shows.
1000mods – Give Me My Medicine Tour Sep 25 Fri Forum Bielefeld, Germany Sep 26 Sat Into The Void Festival 2026 Leeuwarden, Netherlands Sep 27 Sun Effenaar Eindhoven, Netherlands Sep 28 Mon Trabendo Paris, France Oct 3 Sat Up In Smoke Festival 2026 Pratteln, Switzerland Oct 4 Sun La Laiterie Strasbourg, France Oct 6 Tue Gala Hala / Kapa – Društvo za kulturno in umetniško produkcijo Ljubljana, Slovenia Oct 7 Wed Randal Club Bratislava I, Slovakia Oct 8 Thu Futurum Music Bar Praha, Czech Republic Oct 9 Fri F-Haus Jena, Germany Oct 10 Sat Keep It Low Festival 2026 MĂĽnchen, Germany Oct 11 Sun Beatpol Dresden, Germany Oct 13 Tue Centralstation Darmstadt, Germany Oct 14 Wed Kulturzentrum Faust Hannover, Germany Oct 15 Thu Factory Event Center Dominion Club GbR Magdeburg, Germany Oct 16 Fri Tower Musikclub Bremen, Germany Oct 18 Sun Lindenpark Potsdam, Germany Nov 20 Fri Whelan’s Dublin, Ireland Nov 21 Sat Voodoo Belfast, United Kingdom Nov 22 Sun Dolans Warehouse Limerick City, Ireland Nov 24 Tue Rebellion Manchester, United Kingdom Nov 25 Wed Slay Glasgow, United Kingdom Nov 26 Thu Brudenell Social Club Leeds, United Kingdom Nov 27 Fri Rescue Rooms Nottingham, United Kingdom Nov 28 Sat Thekla Bristol, United Kingdom Nov 29 Sun The Garage London, United Kingdom
Posted in Whathaveyou on November 20th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
With their Fall tour — as opposed to the summer one; yeah, it goes like that — currently ongoing, Greek heavy rockers 1000mods have announced more European undertakings set for early next year. The run begins March 5 at A38 HajĂł in Budapest, which I’m excited to see on a list of dates because I went there one time, and carries the band into April as they continue to support their new album, Cheat Death (review here). Note that the new tour has them out with Frenzee, whose Apollonia “Api” Xylouris contributes guest vocals on the record. Some potential for onstage collaboration then, certainly, as the two bands run through a succession of shows in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal.
Lest we forget, 1000mods were in the US in Fall 2023. I haven’t heard anything about a return trip for the new record, but with a North American release through Ripple — the band’s imprint, Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug (also a booking company), has it for the rest of the world — it’s by no means outside the realm of possibility. Whatever you can do though to see them, they are second to none at what they do.
Sound of Liberation, which is co-presenting the tour, posted the following. Remaining Fall shows are included, new dates underneath. You’ll figure it out:
1000MODS – NEW ALBUM & TOUR DATES
Their brand new album “Cheat Death” just dropped, and they’re bringing it live across Europe! Don’t miss out on these epic shows – check the dates below and catch them in a city near you. Plus, we’re thrilled to have them on stage at SOL SONIC RIDE COLOGNE on 29.03.2025 at Carlswerk Victoria + Club Volta, Cologne (tickets via link in bio). 🔥
Looking for 1000Mods merch and vinyl? Head over to our shop:www.sol-records.com. đź›’
Fall 2024 Tour Dates:
20.11.2024 (FI) Helsinki, Ääniwalli 22.11.2024 (SE) Stockholm, Fuzz Festival 23.11.2024 (SE) Borlänge, Broken Dreams 24.11.2024 (SE) Gothenburg, Hemligheten 25.11.2024 (NO) Oslo, Goldie 26.11.2024 (SE) Malmö, Plan B
Spring 2025 “Cheat Death” Album Release Tour: 05.03.2025 (HU) Budapest, A38 06.03.2025 (AT) Vienna, Arena 07.03.2025 (DE) Lindau, Club Vaudeville 08.03.2025 (CH) Pratteln, Z7 09.03.2025 (CH) Geneva, PTR L’Usine 10.03.2025 (FR) Lyon, Transbordeur Club 12.03.2025 (FR) Toulouse, Metronum 13.03.2025 (FR) Montpellier, Victoire 2 14.03.2025 (ES) Barcelona, Apolo 2 16.03.2025 (ES) Madrid, Nazca 17.03.2025 (PT) Lisbon, RCA Club 18.03.2025 (PT) Porto, Mouco 20.03.2025 (ES) Bilbao, Stage Live 21.03.2025 (FR) Alençon, La Luciole 23.03.2025 (FR) Paris, La Maroquinerie 24.03.2025 (FR) Wasquehal, Black Lab 25.03.2025 (BE) Brussels, La Botanique 26.03.2025 (NL) Amsterdam, Melkweg 27.03.2025 (NL) Nijmegen, Doornroosje 28.03.2025 (NL) Groningen, Vera 30.03.2025 (DE) Cologne, Carlswerk Victoria (SOL Sonic Ride Cologne) 31.03.2025 (DE) Aschaffenburg, Colos Saal 01.04.2025 (DE) Erlangen, E-Werk 02.04.2025 (DE) Munich, Backstage 03.04.2025 (DE) Regensburg, Alte Mälzerei 04.04.2025 (DE) Leipzig, Werk 2 05.04.2025 (DE) Hamburg, Knust 06.04.2025 (DE) Berlin, Columbia Theater
All tickets and info available on the official 1000Mods website:www.1000mods.com/tour. 🎫
Posted in Reviews on November 11th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
Greece’s foremost heavy rock export, 1000mods return to work with producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis, tons more) after collaborating on their 2020 LP, Youth of Dissent (review here, discussed here), for their fifth album, Cheat Death, which collects 10 new tracks across an hour of music issued through the band’s own Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Recordings and Ripple Music (in the US). And like Youth of Dissent, the album feels somewhat defiant in its vision of what heavy rock is and can do.
That is to say, where those familiar with 1000mods‘ earlier work might have an expectation of desert style party-isms of the kind that were offered on 2011’s full-length debut, Super Van Vacation (review here; discussed here, also here), with the choice sandy grooves that helped ignite/expose a generational shift in the Greek underground the ramifications of which are still panning out 13 years later, the truth of 1000mods‘ catalog when you listen to it front to back is that they’ve always been a more complex band. Even as they bring Bayles back on board to produce/engineer and mix Cheat Death (Brad Boatright mastered), the band have continued to evolve as they’ve done all along, refusing to stagnate and so — although the title-track lyrically is about love — part of the death being cheated across the album’s not-insignificant timespan is creative stagnation.
1000mods — now the core trio of vocalist/bassist Dani G., guitarist/vocalist George T. and drummer Labros G.; that’s down from the four-piece they were with Giannis S. on guitar; they still have two guitars live — have never put out the same album twice, and as they have all along, the band have not neglected to learn what worked for them and what didn’t on Youth of Dissent, and as Cheat Death moves forward, from the stark colors of its Eva Mourtzi cover compared to the muted tones of the album prior — both covers have a message to send; I’m not belittling either approach — to the rhythmic drive behind “Götzen Hammer” or the get-what-you-see galloping frenzy of “Speedhead,” it both works from its own foundations and remains aware of what 1000mods have done before.
The hooky and somewhat melancholic “Overthrown” and the dreamier build of golly-I-hope-I-get-to-see-them-play-it-live-at-some-point-ever 10-minute finale “Grey, Green Blues” each showcase a mature songwriting process, and special attention seems to have been given to conveying a sense of energy in the material; in both the speedier shuffle of “The One Who Keeps Me Down” and the Hammond-tinged alt-rock verses of “Love,” even in the cello’ed and finger-plucked (plus piano) instrumental “Bluebird” later on, the band are able to direct their songs to different ends that feed into the overarching flow and depth of Cheat Death as a whole. Classic stuff, but there seems to be more consciousness in Cheat Death in terms of the band wanting to shake up the proceedings between the songs. Sometimes that’s a change in mood, as when the mostly-swaying (until the solo, which shreds) “Misery” and “Bluebird” offer a somber stretch before the title-track twists and careens like modern progressive metal playing back to ’80s riffing as the lyrics present a more hopeful take.
Arrangements are part of it too. As noted, “Bluebird” brings in cello (by Nikos Veliotis), while that same song, “Love,” and “Grey, Green Blues” boast keys/organ from Jiomy Amaranth. The feeling of expansion around the core of what 1000mods do musically is almost immediate on Cheat Death as Godsleep‘s Amie Makris joins Dani on vocals, and while also giving the album a singular heavy blowout, “Götzen Hammer” incorporates the voice of Apollonia “Api” Xylouris from Frenzee, semantron by Panos Z. and guitar by John S. That both of these songs appear early on doesn’t feel like a coincidence, as the procession of cuts across Cheat Death bears out an intentional push-pull dynamic, for example, as “Astral Odor” opens up some of the relative intensity of crush, which is something that “Cheat Death” answers back to later on side B. Most of the lyrical framework is brooding, emotive, longing and questioning, but the album is by no means all-downer in terms of point of view.
“Speedhead” might be almost afraid of its own manic shove, but “Love,” “Cheat Death” and “Grey, Green Blues” remind that it’s not all self-doubt and recriminations, and the music behind, in front of and generally all around the words follows suit. In this way, 1000mods create a diverse impression without ranging so far as to lose the plot or cohesion of the material itself, and their songs, which even in mid-album pieces like “Astral Odor” and “Love” are capable of reaching toward seven minutes long, have a quality underlying construction that not only justifies the breadth, but makes it an important part of the point. Shifts in perspective, subject, riff, whatever it might be become part of the album’s persona, and the included guest appearances do much to showcase 1000mods‘ big-picture considerations in terms of how the songs interact, what each one brings to the album, and why and what that adds to the course of its entirety.
To call the skill with which 1000mods execute Cheat Death anything less than masterful is probably underselling how much actual work the band have put into their growth over the last 15-plus years between the studio and touring, and where from 2014’s Vultures (review here, discussed here) onward, they could have been issuing clones of Super Van Vacation and still be one of the biggest names Greece has ever produced in heavy rock, the fact that they’re so uncompromising in their direction, that they don’t write any songs other than the ones they want to write, that somehow-daring chase toward authenticity, makes them all the more respectable.
They could take a probably an easier path but don’t because it wouldn’t be as fulfilling, and accordingly, their albums play out in succession to tell the story of their evolution in installments. Cheat Death is the latest of these, and that it’s their fifth record and the listener still comes out of it wondering where on earth they might go next should be taken as a sign of how special a band they are in the first place. Their commitment to exploring new ideas in their work is unflinching, paramount, and Cheat Death does this with correspondingly punkish grace and heart.
Posted in Whathaveyou on September 17th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
The new 1000mods album, Cheat Death, will be out Nov. 8 through Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Recordings in Europe/ROW and, as announced just over a week ago, through Ripple Music in North America, and what’s happening below, in addition to spreading the word for preorders opening through both imprints is setting up the unveiling of the first single from the record, the opening track “Overthrown.”
At a little under eight minutes in runtime, the album’s lead cut is a not-unsubstantial sampling of what the hour-long LP has in store for listeners taking it on. If you’re a longtime fan of the band, you know to there’s a lot that’s fair game in terms of where they’re progression might take them at this point, and if the band are cheating death creatively, they’re for sure doing it by continuing to grow as players and artists. I have no ‘skin in the game’ in terms of involvement making or promoting the release, but I find all the same I’m excited and interested to see what people make of it when they hear it. Also I guess I’m no longer pretending not to have heard it. Oops.
Found this on socials. Bonus points for misleadingly punkish cover art:
***1000mods – Cheat Death***
Dear friends,
We’re thrilled to announce that our new album Cheat Death will be released on November 8th through Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug worldwide and Ripple Music in North America only.
You can pre-order Cheat Death through our brand new website for Ouga Booga!
Pressings: Yellow & Red Splatter Vinyls 2LP Ltd to 500 (available only for pre-order) 180g Black Vinyl 2LP
1. Overthrown 2. The One Who Keeps Me Down 3. Götzen Hammer 4. Astral Odor 5. Love 6. Speedhead 7. Misery 8. Bluebird 9. Cheat Death 10. Grey, Green Blues
Artwork by Eva Mourtzi
On Friday, the 20th of September we will release our first single “Overthrown”
Posted in Whathaveyou on September 9th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
One understood Ripple Music has been on something of a kick signing new bands, between Gin Lady, 10,000 Years, Godzillionaire and SoftSun, setting the stage for a busy rest of 2024 and, assumably, an early 2025 that follows suit. Bringing Greek heavy rock forerunners 1000mods, who over a decade ago emerged from their home country with a powerful fanbase and essentially forced the rest of Europe to take the Greek underground seriously, only to set about a regular course of touring and quality, progressive album releases that have continued to deepen the story of who they are as a band, puts that “kick” on a different level. Ripple will handle US label-stuff, while the band’s own imprint, Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Recordings holds down European/rest of world operations.
I’m not going to tell you I’ve heard the next 1000mods album. I’m not saying I’ve heard it. What I am saying is that if you caught wind of 2020’s Youth of Dissent (review here), expect a shift in vibe. The upcoming release — which I’m not saying I’ve heard — follows its own intentions as regards atmosphere, mood, heft and songwriting, and it’s definitively 1000mods in its refusal to hinder the progression on display. It’s not Youth of Dissent, and it’s not Super Van Vacation, either. Set apparently for release in November, it brings new elements and new depths to the band’s style, exploring different influences and showcasing a growth that, at least in terms of listening — not that I’ve done that — seems born organically from how the members have grown as people.
Note the trio configuration here. I’m pretty sure the record was still done as a two-guitar four-piece, but my understanding is the band will press on as three at least for the time being. I don’t know if they’re looking to get someone else in or not. Basically I just saw Todd Severin from Ripple posted the below on social media and got excited. I assume there’s more to come in terms of album details and all that, either in the next five minutes or the next two months.
For now:
This one has been kept under lock and key for a long while, now it’s time to open the box. Please welcome 1000mods to the Ripple Family! New album coming this November. Will be joint release with the band’s own Ouga Bouga and the Mighty Oug Recordings Gonna be massive.
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 14th, 2024 by JJ Koczan
You know what was pretty awesome? Last year in Summer and Fall when Greek heavy rockers 1000mods partnered with Heavy Psych Sounds to do full-catalog reissues for their four full-lengths to-date (see here and here for full streams) and the band toured in the US for like a month and I got to see them at Desertfest New York (review here), that’s what.
I hadn’t seen the band in a decade, and in that interim they became arguably the most crucial Greek heavy rock act of their generation — a sonic spearhead for desert-heavy and those who’d branch elsewhere alike — and one of the staples of the broader European underground tour circuit. To wit, in addition to these April UK dates, they’ve got a show in Germany on May 30 and they’re set to play Hellfest in France on June 30. I would not be the least bit surprised if they did the entirety of the span between those two shows on the road.
The UK/Ireland dates were first announced almost a month ago but the band added to the tour the other day, so here they are now in all their currently-relevant glory as per social media:
***1000mods – UK & Ireland Tour 2024***
UK calling!
We ‘re so stoked to announce our first UK tour ever!
Upcoming Shows 04 Apr Bear Cave, Bournemouth, United Kingdom 05 Apr Rebellion, Manchester, United Kingdom 06 Apr Slay, Glasgow, United Kingdom 07 Apr Corporation, Sheffield, United Kingdom 09 Apr Voodoo, Belfast, United Kingdom 10 Apr The Grand Social, Dublin, Ireland 11 Apr The Bunkhouse Bar and Music Venue, Swansea, United Kingdom 12 Apr Garage, London, United Kingdom 13 Apr Thekla, Bristol, United Kingdom
Also: 30 May Colos-Saal Aschaffenburg, Germany 28 Jun Hellfest 2024, Clisson, France
1000mods is: Dani G. Giannis S. Giorgos T. Labros G.
Following on from last week’s reissue of their first two albums and the first installment of this retrospective, 1000mods this Friday will re-present 2016’s Repeated Exposure To… and 2020’s Youth of Dissent, specifically for US distribution through Heavy Psych Sounds. In between the one batch of reissues and another, the Chiliomodi-based generational forerunners of Greek heavy rock also announced a full round of American tour dates with their prior-confirmed appearance at Desertfest NYCÂ as its centerpiece. It’s been, as the saying goes, quite a week.
The September trip will not be the first time 1000mods have come to the US. They visited in Feb. 2018, playing shows coast-to-coast and making stops in Mexico and Canada. The following Spring, they’d make their first voyage to Australia, and if the story of this era of the band is one of their reach expanding beyond Europe — which they covered first in this cycle as one would expect; Fall 2016 and again in early 2017 — that came very much with a mirroring expansion in scope with Repeated Exposure To…, which was released Sept. 26, 2016.
1000mods were beginning to show the band they would become, in sound and presence. Their first record, 2011’s Super Van Vacation (discussed here; review here), had portrayed them as a bunch of upstart groovers with an affection for Kyuss, perfect (yes, perfect) pacing and an ability to convey largesse in their songs through more than just tone. Vultures (review here) had followed in 2014 and charted the course for this growth. Already by then, 1000mods were a working band, touring vigorously, making videos, engaging in the kind of social networking that, at the time, was much newer and not always done. They’d even gone so far as to wrap the Vultures touring cycle with a video for “Claws” filmed at various shows. Everything they had went into pushing themselves forward.
These records are the manifestations of that. Let’s go:
Maybe a case of a band having their collective cake while also eating it? The full title as it appears on the cover: Repeated Exposure to High Sound Levels (More Than 80 Decibels) May Cause Permanent Impairing of Hearing. This warning was well issued as 1000mods returned to engineer George Leodis to co-produce their third album, drawing together aspects of the first two into a cohesive and obviously maturing 51-minute outing. Seven songs, massive hooks. The sound of 1000mods growing could be heard in the finer details — the right-channel guitar mutes after and before the Monster Magnet garage jangle of “A.W.,” or even the way the siren call of feedback at the start of opener “Above179” howls into a fade as the first rolling nod kicks in loud — as well as in the overarching atmosphere of the recording. As much as Vultures had attempted to capture their live sound, Repeated Exposure To… answered back by doing the same, but in a bigger venue.
If Vultures was the club show, the tracks on Repeated Exposure To… like the energetic shover “Loose,” the short and explosive “Electric Carve,” which follows, and the later build into the sing-along-with-us chorus of “On a Stone” seemed to emanate from a festival stage. From the gang-shout hook of “Above179” and the sweep and chug and precision of its finish onward, 1000mods made it clear they were reaching out to a broader audience. It wasn’t about changing their core style — they were still very much a heavy rock and roll band, and the fuzz of “Loose” reinforced the notion well — but as their take came into its own after two previous LPs and more shows than some do in a band’s lifetime, the sense of professionalization was audible in it. Repeated Exposure To… was higher stakes.
The band played back and forth between shorter and longer cuts on side A and dug in shortest-to-longest in side B, with the closing pair of “Groundhog Day” (7:18) and “Into the Spell” (7:50) contrasting the earlier trades between the eight-plus-minute “Loose” and “Above179” before it or the three-minute “Electric Carve” ahead of rhythmic first-half capper “The Son,” which its layered highlight soloing, uptempo-but-not-too-uptempo swing and, absolutely, another ultra-engaging chorus. That’s the heart of the whole record. It feels written with the live audience in mind, all the way through to the build happening in “Into the Spell,” with its early meandering and guitar creep under the watery verse, turning to massive stoner nod and more urgent thrust as it moves to the big finish of its final third, wrapping the album as much as itself with a long fade.
This was the sound of 1000mods going all-in. They stepped up to the challenge of being a pro-shop act and wrote an accordingly pro-shop bunch of songs to mark the occasion. Still touring constantly — and in new territories, as noted above — 1000mods began to reap the fruits of their significant labors and became one of Europe’s most crucial heavy rock bands. It wouldn’t have worked if these songs weren’t there to carry them.
The story of Youth of Dissent — album number four and the latest 1000mods full-length — should have been that the band traveled to Seattle, Washington, to record and mix with producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Sandrider, Isis, etc.), outdoing their own professionalism, directly waving at the American market, and offering an even tighter collection comprised of 11 songs that, in cuts like “Warped” and “Blister” leaned into a grunge influence, while in “Dear Herculine,” “Less is More” (some grunge in there too, for sure) and the interlude “21st Space Century,” the band were also atmospheric in a way they’d never yet been and their doing most melodically complex work on record. If you missed the word ‘should’ in that far-too-long sentence, it’s there because Youth of Dissent came out on April 24, 2020.
Greece’s first case of covid-19 was discovered that fateful February, and by the time Youth of Dissent was released, the entire country had been locked down for a month, and after another few weeks of in-place sheltering would gradually begin to reopen later in a terrifying, traumatic Spring when live music and so much else evaporated. Youth of Dissent was defined in part by the resistance mindset inherent in its title and album cover, and while tracks like “So Many Days,” “Blister,” “Less is More” and the concluding “Mirrors” were resonant in speaking to the experience of depression and “Young” and “Dissent” — split between sides C and D of the 55-minute 2LP — seemed to use the platform of 1000mods‘ audience-building to speak directly to that audience and encourage them to stand up, be involved in making their world, to dissent from the various systems holding them back, the moment in which the album arrived completely undercut that statement.
Certainly the covid pandemic did not just happen to 1000mods. It happened to everybody’s everything and the heavy underground is only a teeny-tiny sliver of a microculture. Acknowledged. But to see an act who’d put in by-then eight years of road work while also building a catalog of landmarks, earning Greece a respect it maybe didn’t have before them as a hotbed of heavy in Europe, changing the geopolitics of the underground, and begun to expand their reach even beyond that have that momentum obliterated by circumstances genuinely out of their control was painful. Covid happened to every band, but not every band was 1000mods in late 2019/early 2020 making and releasing their fourth record. Of course the European tour that was to start in May 2020 didn’t happen, and it wouldn’t be until Spring 2022 that they could hit the road in earnest to support it.
Which they did and are continuing to do. Removed from the moment of its release, at three years’ distance, Youth of Dissent answers the greater reach of the record before it with even more refined and cognizant approach, and a bevvy of new ideas and directions taken. Mature as songwriters, 1000mods proved able to conjure epics regardless of a track’s runtime, communicating ideas in new ways that signaled ongoing development and a refusal to stagnate, greeting an unknowable future with hope and progressivism even as it offered some of the band’s darkest lyrical themes.
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As they’ve gotten back to live performance, that the material on Youth of Dissent has held up to the years-long split between its arrival should convey its urgency. This Fall, 1000mods return to the States all the more as a veteran act. That they’ll have these reissues along with them lends this tour — especially as a Winter 2023 Australia/New Zealand tour was canceled — an edge of celebrating the entire catalog as well as giving Youth of Dissent its overdue due, but 1000mods have only looked in one direction over the 15-plus years of their tenure, and whatever else one might expect from them, expect them to keep their eye on the future.
Thanks for reading. Again, if you missed the first part of this retrospective, it’s right here.
