Earthless to Tour Australia in September

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 6th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

Earthless (Photo by JJ Koczan)

Cali psych-shred lords Earthless will spend the first half of August on tour in Europe for festivals and such — look up Palp if you haven’t; jaw-dropping — and as September brings in the Australian Springtime, they’ll head down under for a stretch of six shows wrapping at Blacken Festival on Sept. 20 in Alice Springs. They’ve got some off-days there, and one can’t help but be curious if guitarist Isaiah Mitchell might team up with Seedy Jeezus — whose Lex Wattereus handled the poster below — for another Tranquonauts jam, perhaps to be released sometime in the next few years to follow later-2024’s 2 (review here). Not holding my breath, not privy to insider info, just a thing that would be cool that could potentially happen next to another cool thing that already is happening — i.e. the tour.

Of course, Earthless have been hither and yon, back and forth to Europe since their 2022 album, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (review here), came out on Nuclear Blast. As the bulk of their impact has always been on-stage — no, I have nothing against Earthless records; calm down — this is only appropriate. The European run will see them celebrating the 20th anniversary of 2005’s Sonic Prayer, their first album. As good an occasion as any, but really, the point is once you see Earthless on stage, you understand the band in a different way, and I guess maybe I’m speaking to anybody who hasn’t and maybe doesn’t see the impact they’ve had and what they’re able to tap into musically, but in their own or any other generation of rockers you’d want to place them, they are something special.

From socials:

earthless australian tour poster by Lex Waterreus

We are beyond stoked to be returning to the beautiful land of Australia this coming September 2025!! Australia is a home away from home for the band and any opportunity we get to play there is a massive honor. Thank you for all the love and support through the years!! We’re really looking forward to seeing you at the shows!! Tickets are on sale now: https://www.earthlessofficial.com/tour-dates OR https://davidroywilliams.com/

AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2025
10 Sept – Brisbane – Crowbar Brisbane
11 Sept – Sydney – Crowbar Sydney
12 Sept – Melbourne – Corner Hotel
13 Sept – Castlemaine – Theatre Royal Castlemaine
14 Sept – Geelong – The Barwon Club Hotel
20 Sept – Alice Springs – BLACKEN OPEN AIR
Poster by Lex Waterreus 🤯

EUROPE SUMMER 2025
TICKETS: www.earthlessofficial.com/tour-dates
2 August – Milan IT – MAGNOLIA STONE FESTIVAL
3 August – Bagnes CH – PALP festival
5 August – Barcelona ES – Sala Upload Barcelona *
6 August – Portugalete ES – Groove *
7 August – Ancora PT – SonicBlast Fest
8 August – Madrid ES – Nazca Madrid *
10 August – Kortrijk BE – ALCATRAZ MUSIC
11 August – Breda NL – MEZZ
12 August – Dortmund DE – Musiktheater Piano
13 August – Berlin DE – Neue Zukunft
14 August – Hamburg DE – Knust Hamburg
15 August – København DK – Spillestedet Stengade
*: Heavy Trip (Canada) supporting

EARTHLESS Lineup:
Isaiah Mitchell – Guitar & Vocals
Mike Eginton – Bass
Mario Rubalcaba – Drums

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Earthless, Night Parade of 100 Demons (2022)

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Enslaved to Play Select NYC & Montreal Dates Around Milwaukee Metal Fest

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 2nd, 2025 by JJ Koczan

Enslaved

Okay, you got me. It’s two shows — one in NYC at Gramercy Theatre, one in Montreal at Beanfield Theatre — so when I say “select” in the headline above, yeah, I mean very select. The reason the Norwegian progressive cosmic black metal progenitors are coming to the US at all is a slot (their first; how many ‘firsts’ can be left in a 35-year career?) at Milwaukee Metal Fest on May 16. Whatever gets them over is cool by me. I’m sure they’ll kill it. They’ve been over for Fire in the Mountains in the last I don’t know how many years, and are ostensibly still supporting 2023’s Heimdal (review here), but really if you see them it’s about the whole arc of their latter era and the place to which it’s brought them in terms of sound.

As to that, I’m not sure how Grammys exist and Enslaved don’t have one for metal, but I don’t think they’ve ever been chasing that kind of mainstream validation. They’ve earned it regardless, and if you make heavy metal, the Grammys don’t want to know you until you’ve been doing it for 30 years minimum. Right on that cutting edge.

From the PR wire:

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ENSLAVED Embarks On US/Canada Shows In May

Cosmic metal pioneers ENSLAVED will make their anticipated return to North America in May for a trio of extraordinary shows featuring hand picked support acts and distinct set lists.

Commenting on the dates, founding guitarist Ivar Bjørnson says:

“Greetings from the western mountains of Norway, as one does. We’re getting close to May, and that means Enslaved is coming back to North America. Not a moment too soon, if you ask us. We’re going to start off in Montreal on May 12th with special guest Spectral Wound. The day after, May 13th, we’re hitting New York with the Infinity Ring as our special guest. Then on May 16, the day before the Norwegian National Day of all things, we’ll be at the legendary Milwaukee Metal Fest for the first time. We have special guests. We have special set lists. Yes, we have it all now. We want to see you there.”

ENSLAVED North American Dates:
May 12 – Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theatre (w/ Spectral Wound)
May 13 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre (w/ The Infinity Ring)
May 16 – Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee Metal Fest

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Tickets: https://enslaved.no/tour/

ENSLAVED is currently on tour in support of their latest avant-garde creation Heimdal. Stream the Deluxe Edition of the record here: https://enslaved.bfan.link/heimdal-deluxe.ema

Heimdal (Deluxe) includes the studio album in full, as well as alternative versions of two album tracks ‘Forest Dweller’ and ‘Congelia’, both with sublime performances from renowned cellist Jo Quail, bonus track ‘Gangandi’, plus the entirety of ‘The Otherworldly Big Band Experience’ – Enslaved’s stunning 2022 streaming event featuring fellow psychedelic Norwegian prog band Shaman Elephant.

Enslaved’s latest studio album Heimdal (released March 2023) is both a departure and a communion with roots forged over three decades ago in the turbulent birth throes of Norway’s black metal scene. It’s a record that points towards new beginnings, and a dawn that’s on the other side of the apex of the land. A psychedelic journey through arcane Norse folklore, connecting with one’s ancient ancestors and our future selves.

Enslaved are:
Ivar Bjørnson | guitars
Grutle Kjellson | vocals
Arve ‘Ice Dale’ Isdal | guitar
Håkon Vinje | keyboards, clean vocals
Iver Sandøy | drums

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Enslaved, Heimdal (2023)

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Gaupa: New Mini-Album Coming Soon from Magnetic Eye and Nuclear Blast

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 23rd, 2025 by JJ Koczan

Not that I would expect news about record labels collaborating to ‘break the internet,’ as they used to say in the 2010s, but I’m a little surprised not to have seen more hullabaloo about this one as Nuclear Blast and Magnetic Eye Records are partnering up to release a new ‘mini-album’ — I assume like an EP-plus? — from Swedish ethereal heavy psych rockers Gaupa.

Of course, it’s to the band’s credit that imprints are lining up to work with them, but the real kicker here is that Gaupa are already a Nuclear Blast band. So it’s not that the bigger metal label is reaching down to the smaller underground heavy label and plucking a band to add to its roster. That happens sometimes, but not here. The alignment with Nuclear Blast and Magnetic Eye puts the two entities on a similar level. I don’t know if Magnetic Eye (which is part of the Spkr Media family of labels) is handling US distribution while Nuclear Blast does Europe or what the details are, but if this is going to be a thing, it will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years.

Or it could be a one-off and that’s it. Hell if I know. In any case, new Gaupa is nothing to sneeze at even amid springtime pollen, so by whatever angle, the news is good. Here it is from socials, sans hashtags:

Gaupa (Photo by matstxswe)

Tremendous news: MER will be collaborating with Nuclear Blast Records to release a new mini-album from the singular GAUPA this summer 😳🎸🧚

We’re massively stoked to be involved in bringing forth a new record from this heavy and ethereal Swedish band whose music has been described as “Björk meets Soundgarden,” and we’re confident that many of our longtime listeners and supporters are already huge fans of what they do 🤘💚

More to share on this momentous event very soon!

📸 by @matstxswe

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Gaupa, Myriad (2023)

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Earthless Announce August European Touring

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 2nd, 2025 by JJ Koczan

If you’ve never had the pleasure of seeing Earthless live, certainly a hot Europe in August is as good a time as any. The Cali instrumentalist kingpins are set to appear at Italy’s Magnolia Stone Festival, PALP Fest in the Swiss Alps, SonicBlast Fest in Portugal and Alcatraz Festival in Belgium on an efficient two-week stint presented by Ben Ward of Orange Goblin‘s agency, Route One Booking, as well as Napalm Events. They’ll be joined for the run by Canadian upstarts Heavy Trip, who also this month undertook their first tour of the US East Coast.

Earthless touring, well, yeah, it’s not exactly a surprise when they get out at any point. It’s probably pretty convenient if you’re in a band to be able to basically look anywhere in the world and say, “okay, let’s go here at this time,” and then make it happen, and Earthless aren’t playing stadiums, but among underground heavy of any sort, they’re one of the farthest reaching bands the genre and its infinity of offshoots has to offer. Kicking ass is the least of what they do, and their influence continues to spread as a new generation of heavy psych and heavy anything takes shape in their wake.

Looks like a good time to me:

Earthless Summer Europe 2025

EARTHLESS – EUROPE SUMMER 2025

HEADS UP! 🌍✈️🔥🤯 We’re returning to Europe this summer! Tickets are on sale now for all dates! Hope to cross paths with many of you on the road…

EUROPE SUMMER 2025
🛸🚀☄️🛸🚀☄️🛸🚀☄️
TICKETS: www.earthlessofficial.com/tour-dates

2 August – Milan IT – MAGNOLIA STONE FESTIVAL
3 August – Bagnes CH – PALP festival
5 August – Barcelona ES – Sala Upload Barcelona *
6 August – Portugalete ES – Groove *
7 August – Ancora PT – SonicBlast Fest
8 August – Madrid ES – Nazca Madrid *
10 August – Kortrijk BE – ALCATRAZ MUSIC
11 August – Breda NL – MEZZ
12 August – Dortmund DE – Musiktheater Piano
13 August – Berlin DE – Neue Zukunft
14 August – Hamburg DE – Knust Hamburg
15 August – København DK – Spillestedet Stengade

*: Heavy Trip (Canada) supporting

Flyer illustration by Mike Eginton
Flyer design by Ake Arndt
EARTHLESS Lineup:
Isaiah Mitchell – Guitar & Vocals
Mike Eginton – Bass
Mario Rubalcaba – Drums

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Earthless, Night Parade of 100 Demons (2022)

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Corrosion of Conformity Welcome New Bassist Bobby Landgraf

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 3rd, 2024 by JJ Koczan

Granted it wasn’t the first time in Corrosion of Conformity‘s more than four decades that they did so, but it was a surprise nonetheless in September when the band bid farewell to founding bassist/vocalist Mike Dean, announcing they’d be continuing on with someone new. The someone has turned out to be Bobby Landgraf, who solidifies the lineup around guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, guitarist/backing vocalist Woodroe Weatherman, and onstage drummer (I think it’s still) John Green.

The band didn’t make an announcement as such — it was the holidays, you know how it is — but Landgraf posted the photo-collage and brief confirmation on his socials. If you’re not familiar, his pedigree includes shenanigans-laced heavy rockers Honky, playing guitar alongside Keenan, fronting Snakes of Central Texas, teching for Pantera and a bunch of others, and so on. And of course, there’s video of him doing the thing filmed at Headbangers Boat a few weeks back (the photos below would seem to have originated there as well). It’s bootleg sound, but it’s also “Albatross,” so even if they weren’t showing off a revamped dynamic, really it’s its own excuse for being.

Last I heard, C.O.C. were still in-progress on the follow-up to their 2018 album, No Cross No Crown (review here), working with drummer Stanton Moore (who last appeared on the band’s 2005 outing, In the Arms of God) in the studio with Warren Riker producing. Videos go up periodically of this or that being recorded, but you wouldn’t accuse them of rushing it, and fair enough. No doubt the proceedings will be different without Dean there, but change is the order of the universe, so there you go.

2025 release? Surprise album and tour drop sometime in Spring? That’d rule. I, of course, know nothing. Ever. About anything. You get used to it after a while. A stupid kind of zen.

From socials:

corrosion of conformity (Photos by Kevin RC Wilson)

Absolutely Thrilled to be in Corrosion of Conformity. Onwards and Upwards

Pics by Kevin RC Wilson

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C.O.C., “Albatross” Live on Headbanger’s Boat

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Friday Full-Length: Meshuggah, Destroy, Erase, Improve

Posted in Bootleg Theater on November 15th, 2024 by JJ Koczan

Destroy, Erase, Improve pretty much did what it set out to do. It took heavy metal, specifically the burly metallithrash that Umeå, Sweden’s Meshuggah offered on their first LP, Contradictions Collapse, broke it down, wiped it away, and made it better. The band’s second album, issued through Nuclear Blast in 1995 — a 30th anniversary that will almost certainly be celebrated in some way next year — is among the most landmark releases in metal, regardless of subgenre. Hell, it’s its own subgenre. They only called it “djent” because to say “that thing Meshuggah does where the time signatures bend reality” would both be too on the nose and take too long to say. Certainly it’s implied, and for good reason.

At 46 minutes, Destroy, Erase, Improve is shorter than a lot of what was happening at the time deep in the peak of the CD era, and that relative brevity continues to serve how intense it feels when it hits the ear. The band comprised of vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarists Fredrik Thordendal (lead, also synth) and Mårten Hagström (rhythm), bassist Peter Nordin and drummer Tomas Haake (also responsible for most of the lyrics) found a niche in an intricacy of rhythm and timing that simply hadn’t been done before in an aggressive-music context.

They didn’t invent playing in ‘odd’ time signatures by any means, but they did something genuinely new with it. That it would go on to basically be the cornerstone of a subgenre unto itself — I’d add 1998’s Chaosphere (discussed here) to that list, and some of the band’s later work — but as much as Neurosis‘ style became the basis for post-metal, Meshuggah informed metalcore in the aughts, as every breakdown was really just trying to be ‘the Meshuggah part’ and everyone knew it, and their influence still resonates in modern metal more broadly. Not only did they create their own style for others to emulate as invariably would happen, but they affected multiple microgenres under the ‘heavy music’ umbrella.

The album’s no secret, of course. It’s one of the most celebrated releases of its generation, and I seriously doubt that anything I say about it will either never have been said before or provide some new insight as to how Meshuggah took on the direction they did, but from where I sit, comfortably on the couch that used to belong to my wife’s grandmother, the heat on for a chilly November morning, in socks, the lesson of Destroy, Erase, Improve feels an awful lot like it’s teaching the value of finding your place.

In this case, it’s an angry place. Destroy, Erase, Improve is immediate in its violent intention — ‘destroy’ comes first — and “Future Breed Machine”meshuggah destroy erase improve readily displays the characteristic temporal twists that would come to define the band’s impact, along with a kind of jangly gallop that offsets those undulations. Like any decent literature, Destroy, Erase, Improve teaches you how to read it as it unfolds. I don’t necessarily mean that the average person hearing it is going to start counting measures. Maybe you latch onto those parts as a life raft amid the tumult surrounding of tones that would only grow more tectonic with passing years finding their preface in the mighty chug of “Soul Burn.” Or maybe you follow Kidman‘s vocals, or Haake‘s drums — the hi-hat or the snare can assist if you’re looking to nod, see “Beneath” or the penultimate highlight “Suffer in Truth”  — or maybe you just let go and it unfolds in a wash over you. Maybe that’s your zen. I’m jealous if so.

But whatever route they take to get there, Meshuggah‘s vision of progressivism — because that’s kind of what any search for sonic/stylistic individualism is going to lead to, isn’t it?; a chase toward an ideal centered around deeper consideration of one’s work? — remains singular in its impact. There’s very little in the world that sounds both as intelligent and devastating. Destroy, Erase, Improve is this at its rawest, and “Future Breed Machine,” “Inside What’s Within Behind,” “Suffer in Truth” and others here are heralds for the path the band were putting themselves on through the material. Even in the three-minute ambient interlude “Acrid Placidity” — prescient of some of what Thordendal would do in his solo work — the album never lets its audience get fully away from the sense of things being off-kilter, weird in untraceable ways, and undeniably distinctive.

That Meshuggah went on to become one of metal’s most singularly crushing bands — their latest album, Immutable, came out in 2022; they’ve slowed down a little and that’s just fine by me because I like slow heavy metal music thank you very much — is immaterial to Destroy, Erase, Improve in the face of the risk the band were taking at the time. And to be sure, it was a few years before what was being heard was processed into an influence and Meshuggah really got ‘their due’ — recall there was no mobile social media at the time; fandom didn’t happen instantaneously as it can now — but not only are these 10 songs executed with precision, they’re poised even as they hit their hardest or explore the far reaches of where metal had previously been.

Those reaches turned out to be the place for themselves that the band were finding. They’ve dwelled there since, to largely undeniable results — they have enough fans that individual records are debated, but speaking broadly there’s no getting past their impact — and continued to refine and reshape what they do while retaining the inhuman superposition Destroy, Erase, Improve lays out. I know this kind of thing isn’t what’s always covered around here, and I know not everybody gets into harder and more extreme sounds, but you should know that I’m not trying to gatekeep. If you’ve never heard this record at all, I’d say put it on just for the experience of being able to say you heard it. If you know it, it’s its own excuse. For me, it’s unto itself, which 29 years later still very much feels like what they were going for at the time.

As always, I hope you enjoy. Thanks for reading.

6:49AM now. I woke up at 5:30 with the alarm. Actually, I woke up at 1, then at 3, then at 5:30 with the alarm. I guess. It was a stupid kind of sleep. I’d been setting the alarm for a luxurious 6:30AM, because since The Pecan is in school, I have more time during the day to write, but since the time change a couple weeks ago — the ‘fall back’ in the US’ ridiculous ‘spring ahead, fall back’ like we can’t just fucking leave it alone? really? — she’s been getting up at around 6:20 where that had been an hour later. The time differential wasn’t a ton, but 40 minutes to an hour of conscious, focused, low-distraction writing time isn’t nothing to me.

So the experiment this morning was to see what my effect on her waking up was. As I’m banging around half-conscious through my morning routine, making coffee and tea and taking the dog out, etc., if it’s 6:30, is she at a point close enough to awake anyway that I’m tipping her over? She’s always been up with daylight, which can be brutal. That she’s already slept until nearly seven, and that it’s nearly fully light out, tells me that maybe I am part of what’s been getting her up. It’s kind of academic, I guess, but I’m home a lot these days and I guess that’s where you end up.

If you clicked that Chaosphere link above and read any of that post, or maybe you remember which I’m willing to believe two people do one of whom is my wife, the US political situation is a factor in my choice this week. It was in 2020 as well. I’ve been thinking about some of the differences between now and then, and mostly it works out to it’s sadder this time. In 2016, it was easy to be angry. There were protests in the streets, a million women getting out in the cold to proclaim themselves against an acknowledged sex offender being made president. This time everything just feels numb.

The absurd cabinet picks, the impossible-to-ignore parade of hateful bullshit. Yeah, I get sad thinking people actually voted for this, because it’s not like nobody knew what was coming. The country has been through this before, and people collectively decided that yeah, we need more of that as a nation. I wasn’t a huge fan of Harris either, or Biden, or Obama once he started drone-bombing civilians in foreign lands, but at least they held the country together. And even if you’re for anarchy, for letting it all go off the rails running up Don Jr.’s nose, how on earth can this be the vision of anarchy that speaks to people?

So yeah, sad. People voting away the rights of others, environmental protections and functional institutions (no, I’m not talking about Congress, but the lower-level bureaucracies of American government function just fine and employ tens of thousands) just to be mean. That is fucking sad. I should be moving on from that, to righteous anger or whatever impotent-ass stage of grief is next, but no.

Needless to say, the news yesterday that The Onion bought InfoWars was a bright light in all that encompassing dark. It’s been a lot of weed and Zelda in my downtime. Escapism. Fine. Give me a few more weeks to get my feet back under me in this already-was-awful–and-is-about-to-get-worse reality. And if you voted Republican and your still reading this because it thinks it makes you civil or some self-affirming garbage, when they take away my daughter’s right to exist and persecute your LBGT friends, neighbors and family — because everyone’s got ’em — remember it was all worth it to own the libs like a spiteful 12-year-old shithead.

A little anger peeking through, maybe. See? It’s a process. But should you require any extra leftist tears to sate whatever self-indulgent nazi — vote for a fascist you’re a fascist; disagree and be wrong — dopamine chase you’re on, I’ve got plenty.

To the rest, a great and safe weekend. May your blinders hold up as it all continues to unravel, and may you get through the day without having to hang your head at the realization of the moment in history you occupy. Don’t forget to hydrate!

FRM.

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Green Lung Announce Early 2025 European Tour

Posted in Whathaveyou on September 5th, 2024 by JJ Koczan

As Green Lung make ready to embark on their first round of US touring ever — I always worry touring the States is going to break up UK or Euro acts who’ve never been here before because, well, traveling bands get treated like garbage here compared to other places; good luck to them on living in that stereotype for a week-plus; see you at Desertfest — in about a week’s time, they’re already announcing plans for early next year. What will reportedly be the end of the touring cycle for 2023’s Nuclear Blast label-debut and their third LP overall, This Heathen Land (review here) will also be the most extensive continental jaunt they’ve undertaken to-date. As they have all along, then, Green Lung continue to grow and expand their listenership/fanbase.

And of course, what does the end of a touring cycle mean except the start of an album cycle? I have no info on new Green Lung material, where they’re at in writing or recording, if they’re playing new songs live or digging into the back catalog or what, but as a band who’ve only moved forward since their outset, it seems reasonable/fair to expect that to continue in good order. Unless America ruins it, which, again, one hopes doesn’t happen.

From a Bandcamp update:

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GREEN LUNG – THE HEATHEN NEVERLAND TOUR 💚 🗡️ 🌙

We are thrilled that in addition to the previously announced London and Manchester shows, we will be embarking on our biggest tour of Europe yet with Unto Others in February next year, which will include club shows in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Portugal for the first time, and feature support from Satan’s Satyrs. We’re so excited to be bringing the THIS HEATHEN LAND cycle to an end with this grand finale. Tickets for all new shows are available now from greenlung.co.uk. Come, join our rites!

06.02.2025 – SE, Gothenburg – Pustervik
07.02.2025 – NO, Oslo – John Dee
08.02.2025 – SE, Stockholm – Debaser Strand
10.02.2025 – FI, Tampere – Olympia-Kortteli
11.02.2025 – FI, Helsinki – Korjaamo
13.02.2025 – DK, Copenhagen – Amager Bio
14.02.2025 – DE, Hamburg – Gruenspan
15.02.2025 – BE, Antwerp – Zappa
17.02.2025 – UK, Bristol – Marble Factory
18.02.2025 – IE, Dublin – The Academy
20.02.2025 – UK, Glasgow – The Garage
21.02.2025 – UK, Manchester – O2 Ritz
22.02.2025 – UK, London – O2 Forum Kentish Town
23.02.2025 – NL, Utrecht – Tivoli Vredenburg-Pandora
24.02.2025 – LU, Esch-Sur-Alzette – Rockhal
25.02.2025 – FR, Paris – Trabendo
26.02.2025 – FR, Toulouse – Rex
28.02.2025 – PT, Lisboa – LAV – Lisboa ao Vivo
01.03.2025 – ES, Madrid – Sala Copernico
02.03.2025 – ES, Barcelona – Razzmatazz 2
04.03.2025 – IT, Milan – Legend Club Milano
05.03.2025 – AT, Vienna – Flex
06.03.2025 – DE, Munich – Backstage
07.03.2025 – DE, Berlin – LIDO
08.03.2025 – DE, Bochum – Matrix

Green Lung US dates:
09/13/24 BALTIMORE, MD Metro Gallery
09/14/24 BROOKLYN, NY @desertfest_nyc
09/15/24 BOSTON, MA Sonia
09/16/24 MONTREAL, QC Fairmount
09/17/24 TORONTO, ON Velvet Underground
09/18/24 DETROIT, MI Small’s
09/19/24 COLUMBUS, OH Ace of Cups
09/20/24 PHILADELPHIA, PA Milkboy
09/21/24 RICHMOND, VA Music Hall

Green Lung:
Tom Templar: Vox
Scott Black: Guitars
Joseph Ghast: Bass
John Wright: Keys
Matt Wiseman: Drums

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Green Lung, This Heathen Land (2023)

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Green Lung Announce First-Ever US Touring

Posted in Whathaveyou on July 15th, 2024 by JJ Koczan

It’s the first, but you can place a solid bet it won’t be the last time London-based folkloric heavy rockers Green Lung travel to the US to tour. The widely celebrated purveyors of all-in, grandiose cult melodic classicism were previously announced for Desertfest New York, so the greater likelihood was a round of shows beyond that was coming, but the whens and wheres and particulars make it real, and if those don’t, the fact that tickets are on sale certainly should.

It’s been six years since Green Lung made a clarion debut with the Free the Witch EP (review here), and their momentum has hardly let up since, which is all the more impressive considering that particular six-year span. Their arrival on US (and Canadian) shores — it can only happen first once — comes after their 2023 third album and Nuclear Blast debut, This Heathen Land (review here), saw them flirt with classic heavy rock and pop sounds, the material tied together with tight craft and a flair for the epic that’s been with them all along, if not before to such a sweeping degree. With a pointed sonic vision brought to life in memorable style, the occasion could hardly be more fitting.

It’s East Coast, and Brooklyn ultra-theatrical dark rockers Castle Rat will support. Tickets are on sale now. As per socials:

Green Lung us tour

GREEN LUNG 🇺🇸 HEATHEN REALM MMXXIV 🇨🇦

It’s finally happening! Our first ever North American tour is booked for September, taking in eight cities around our Desertfest NYC appearance, with support from very special guests in the mighty and fantastical Castle Rat. We can’t wait to hail the Old Gods in the New World! Artwork by Kris Putter 🇺🇸 👹🇨🇦

USA and Canada, come join our rites! Tickets for our first ever North American tour are on sale now at greenlung.co.uk. We’ll be supported by the mythical and magical Castle Rat. We look forward to spreading the folklore, riffs and legends of Britain stateside in a couple of months! 🇺🇸 👹 🇨🇦 🏰 🐀

09/13/24 BALTIMORE, MD Metro Gallery
09/14/24 BROOKLYN, NY @desertfest_nyc
09/15/24 BOSTON, MA Sonia
09/16/24 MONTREAL, QC Fairmount
09/17/24 TORONTO, ON Velvet Underground
09/18/24 DETROIT, MI Small’s
09/19/24 COLUMBUS, OH Ace of Cups
09/20/24 PHILADELPHIA, PA Milkboy
09/21/24 RICHMOND, VA Music Hall

Green Lung is:
Tom Templar – Vocals
Scott Black – Guitar
Joseph Ghast – Bass
John Wright – Organ
Matt Wiseman – Drums

https://www.facebook.com/greenlungband
https://www.instagram.com/greenlungband/
http://www.greenlung.co.uk/
https://greenlung.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/nuclearblastusa
https://www.instagram.com/nuclearblastrecords/
http://shop.nuclearblast.com/en/shop/index.html

Green Lung, This Heathen Land (2023)

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