Aussie heavy rockers/drinkers Mammoth Mammoth are slated to hit Europe for a round of dates next month built on slots at Stoned from the Underground and the Sky High festival. Most of the shows are in Germany, but still, says something that the band are getting to the Euro circuit at all. Rumor has it — and by “rumor,” I mean what they said on Thee Facebooks — the four-piece are trying to put together a stint in the States for 2016. Having dug earlier 2015’s Volume IV: Hammered Again (video premiere here), it seems like if they were going to go all out and make the trip, the least one might do is show up. Of course, they’ll probably be on the other side of the country, since that’s how it goes, but sometimes it’s just nice to be on the same continent.

Alright then. Tour dates follow, presented by Sound of Liberation, yoinked and rezonked off the wire of PR:

MAMMOTH MAMMOTH – On Tour In Germany In July 2015!

These Australian Rockers mix the finest dirty hard rock with a healthy dose of stoner vibes! Their latest album Volume IV – Hammered Again was released earlier this year on Napalm Records!

All European fans can get stoked now, as MAMMOTH MAMMOTH are coming on an extensive tour this July all over Germany! Find all upcoming tour dates below & make sure to see them live on the road:

Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland.

Armed with only a stolen wheelie-bin full of Melbourne Bitter cans, a shopping bag full of water damaged pornos found near the railway line, and a shit-tonne of songs from their face-melting new album, ‘Hammered Again’, MAMMOTH MAMMOTH are skipping bail and blazing trail straight to Europe for another round of church-burning, skull-crushing, unicorn-thumping mayhem.

So call your dealer, buy a Flashlight and put your lawyer on speed dial, because you have been warned friends. This will be more awesome than God’s tits!

WED, JUL 08 GERMANY BERLIN, CASSIOPEIA
THU, JUL 09 GERMANY KIEL, SCHAUBUDE
FRI, JUL 10 GERMANY ERFURT, Stoned from the Underground
SAT, JUL 11 GERMANY DUESSELDORF, PITCHER
SUN, JUL 12 NETHERLANDS UTRECHT, DB’s
MON, JUL 13 T.B.A.
TUE, JUL 14 GERMANY WUERZBURG, IMMERHIN
WED, JUL 15 GERMANY MUENCHEN, FEIERWERK
THU, JUL 16 SWITZERLAND OLTEN, COQ D OR
FRI, JUL 17 GERMANY SIEGEN, VORTEX
SAT, JUL 18 GERMANY HAMBURG, ROCK CAFÈ
SUN, JUL 19 T.B.A.
MON, JUL 20 GERMANY BREMEN, RÖMER
TUE, JUL 21 T.B.A.
WED, JUL 22 GERMANY GIEßEN, ON THE ROCKS / UNDER THE ROCKS
THU, JUL 23 GERMANY DRESDEN, OSTPOL
FRI, JUL 24 AUSTRIA VIENNA, ARENA
SAT, JUL 25 GERMANY FRANKFURT, SKY HIGH

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Mammoth Mammoth, “Lookin’ Down the Barrel” official video

Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris‘ 1988 documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, was among the first genuine cinematic looks at heavy metal subculture that carried little-to-no element of condescension. While the 1986 short Heavy Metal Parking Lot was all spectacle and gags, mocking a group of people by letting them hang themselves with the noose of their own words, Spheeris‘ work chronicling ’80s metal and particularly the Sunset Strip was less judgmental, and for anyone who’s seen it — if you haven’t, consider it recommended viewing — one of its most memorable scenes involved then-WASP guitarist Chris Holmes, who, flanked by his mother and sitting fully clothed on a floating recliner in a backyard pool while downing a bottle of vodka, showcased the loneliness underlying the ultra-masculine braggadocio of metal at that time in slurred, miserable poetry.

For a movie centering around “glam,” it was a particularly human moment once you looked past the surface, and Melbourne four-piece Mammoth Mammoth recreate that scene and parody the excess of the day in their new clip for “Lookin’ Down the Barrel,” complete with back yard pool, floating bottles and mom in a lawnchair beside. It’s tongue-in-cheek, to be sure, and the band — whose new album, Volume IV: Hammered Again, is due out in April on Napalm Records — are no strangers to a boozy reputation themselves. They made their Napalm debut in late 2012 with Volume III: Hell’s Likely, and as “Lookin’ Down the Barrel” proves, the sound of vocalist Mikey Tucker, guitarist Ben Couzens, bassist Pete Bell and drummer Frank Trobbiani has only gotten more raucous. They not only recreate the pool scene from The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, quoting Holmes at the beginning of the clip as Couzens wears a WASP t-shirt just to drive the point home, but right down to the jiggling dancers, they tap into the recklessness that fueled that age and that still holds an appeal some 30 years later.

Of course, the difference is those bouncing ladies end up inflating water-wings for the band, maybe to remind us of the childishness of that kind of fantasy/objectification, but the song’s a hook-laden, heavy-riffed party one way or another, and far be it from me to stand in the way of such a thing. Volume IV: Hammered Again arrives April 7 in North America, and you can find other release dates and the preorder link following the video itself below.

Enjoy:

Mammoth Mammoth, “Lookin’ Down the Barrel” official video

Pre-order “Volume IV – Hammered Again” now at http://shop.napalmrecords.com/mammothmammoth

A naked, pot-smoking beauty on the cover and song titles like ‘Hammered again’ or ‘High as a kite’ – Mammoth Mammoth definitely won`t turn a good party down! The scruffy Australians deliver the soundtrack mixing dirty hard rock with a healthy dose of stoner: Volume IV – Hammered Again comes roaring down the highway with lotsa fuzz, a raw production and pure force! That`s why this fourpiece is called Mammoth Mammoth – one mammoth ain`t enough for this massive orgy…

Street Date:
G/A/S/Europe/AUS 27.03.2015
UK/NO/FR/DK/IT 30.03.2015
SE/ESP 01.04.2015
USA/CAN 07.04.2015

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