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King Dead Announce Live Shows; Woe and Judgment LP out Now

Posted in Whathaveyou on June 9th, 2016 by JJ Koczan

Doubly-bassed three-piece King Dead first issued their Woe and Judgment (review here) debut album last year digitally as a means to raise funds for a vinyl pressing. Well, it seems to have worked. Woe and Judgment is out now on LP — the record looks great — and the Eastern Pennsylvania trio have a few live shows lined up along the Northeastern Corridor to help spread the word over the course this summer. They’re keeping good company universally with groups like Geezer and Snail, and I’d keep an eye out for more dates to come, as once momentum is on a group’s side like this it’s hard to stop going. I’ll hope to see them again soon.

From the PR wire:

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KING DEAD: Psychedelic Bass And Drum Trio Confirms New Live Dates; Vinyl Edition Of Woe & Judgement Now Available

Pennsylvania mostly-instrumentalists, KING DEAD, will bring their spacious, tripped out, post-metal/doom manifestations to the stage on a smattering of live performances this Summer. The band’s latest excursions include an in-store appearance this weekend at Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, New York with Geezer and Linear North.

Comments drummer Steve Truglio of the upcoming dates, “It’s really getting fun now. Not only are we enjoying the hell out of playing the new Woe & Judgment stuff, but we just started test driving an even newer song in the set. We are playing cool places with great bands and things are really starting to click.”

KING DEAD undraped their three-song full-length, Woe & Judgement, earlier this year. Having impressed with the spacious post-metal textures of their 2014 demo, the scope of Woe & Judgement has expanded considerably even from where it started. With three tracks constructed to fit on two sides, KING DEAD – Truglio with four-string bassist Kevin Vanderhoof, and six-string bassist Wil McGrath – pushes its way into an encompassing rumble that still seems to hold onto a human core even as it lumbers between airy doom and rawer, thoroughly-reverbed noise.

Woe & Judgement is currently available on limited edition vinyl and can be streamed at THIS LOCATION.

KING DEAD:
6/11/2016 Darkside Records – Poughkeepsie, NY w/ Geezer, Linear North
6/13/2016 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Chiefs, Beast Modulus, River Cult
8/06/2016 Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Iron Man, Caustic Casanova, Horehound
8/19/2016 O’Briens Pub – Allston, MA w/ Snail

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King Dead, Woe and Judgment (2016)

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Here are Full Sets from All Them Witches and King Buffalo from Their Tour Last Month

Posted in Bootleg Theater on October 2nd, 2014 by JJ Koczan

all them witches

I drove five hours to go to this show. That’s not something I mention because I’m Johnny Lovesriffs or something like that, like I’m all hard core, it just means I really wanted to see these bands play together. Nashville’s All Them Witches and Rochester’s King Buffalo were on the road and East Stroudsberg was about as close as they were coming to me. I could’ve waited a month and caught All Them Witches with Windhand — that tour came right through Boston — but this was the one I wanted to catch. These bands, playing together, right now. So I did.

And from the curious layout of the Living Room to All Them Witches drummer Robby Staebler climbing a tree when I showed up, it was one of the best gigs I’ve seen this year, easily (review here). Local post-metallers King Dead opened, and their drummer, Steve Truglio, also happened to tape both King Buffalo and All Them Witches‘ sets for a A/V series he calls My Show — back in 2012 I went to a taping he did with The Atomic Bitchwax (review here) — and the footage of both acts has been posted as part of that series. Needless to say, I’ve been digging in to remember the good times.

Everything All Them Witches played came off their sophomore full-length, Lightning at the Door (review here), and King Buffalo played all three tracks from their 2013 demo (review here) and then some, giving a taste of what their debut long-player will have to offer when it arrives, hopefully sometime in the New Year. Most importantly, both bands were in complete command of their sound — King Dead weren’t half bad either, for that matter — and revisiting the footage only affirms for me host lucky I was to be at the Living Room to see this one in the first place.

Hope you enjoy:

King Buffalo, Live at the Living Room, East Stroudsberg, PA, Aug. 23, 2014

All Them Witches, Live at the Living Room, East Stroudsberg, PA, Aug. 23, 2014

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King Buffalo on Thee Facebooks

Steve Truglio’s My Show

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