Cheers and safe travels to Deathcave, as the Seattle-dwelling three-piece — who also stylize their name as deathCAVE, which is neat — are set to head out for two weeks of West Coast dates early in December. With just one day “off” that they’ll probably spend driving — that’s about 11 hours on Rt. 80 for you — the band go in support of 2020’s Smoking Mountain on Satanik Royalty Records while heralding a follow-up sophomore LP that will likely be complete by the time they go and set for issue sometime next year.

As I suck at this, I missed the debut completely last year — a bummer since it hits pretty hard according to what my ears are telling me right now — and I’m happy to have caught the tour dates coming down the PR wire since it gave me the excuse to get caught up. And since spreading the word about a thing is part of the reason touring exists in the first place, well, at least they got me on board, even though I’m on the other side of the country from where these shows are happening.

If you’re headed out, please congratulate the band on this badass, print-flyer-in-scrapbook-worthy poster design:

DEATHCAVE: Seattle Doom/Sludge Trio Announces December Tour With Heiress And More!

Seattle-based doom/sludge trio DEATHCAVE will return to the stage this Winter for a two-week run of live dates beginning December 2nd in Seattle, Washington and concluding December 15th in Sacramento, California. Support will be provided by labelmates Heiress as well as Worship, Duhkha and Ugly on select shows. See all confirmed dates below.

DEATHCAVE:
12/02/2021 Bar House – Seattle, WA w/ Heiress
12/03/2021 Kenton Club – Portland, OR w/ Heiress
12/04/2021 Elbo Room Jack London – Oakland, CA w/ Heiress, Worship
12/05/2021 The Blue Lagoon – Santa Cruz, CA w/ Heiress, Worship
12/06/2021 Programme Skate Shop – Fullerton, CA w/ Heiress, Duhkha
12/07/2021 Que Sara – Long Beach, CA w/ Heiress, Duhkha
12/08/2021 Til-Two Club – San Diego, CA w/ Heiress, Duhkha
12/09/2021 Disco Inferno – Phoenix, AZ
12/10/2021 Moonlight Lounge – Albuquerque, NM w/ Forebode, Ugly
12/11/2021 Triple Nickel – Colorado Springs, CO w/ Forebode, Ugly
12/12/2021 The DLC – Salt Lake City, UT
12/14/2021 Bottom Of The Hill – San Francisco, CA
12/15/2021 Cafe Colonial – Sacramento, CA

Named after the Apache Death Cave in Arizona, DEATHCAVE was forged in 2018 and hit the ground running as its three members — Freiburger (Throne Of Bone, Brain Scraper), Benny Koslosky (Swampyheavy), and Tony Muñoz (Razorhoof, Worship) — are longtime veterans of the underground touring circuit.

The band released their critically lauded Smoking Mountain full-length last year. A devouring fusion of thrash, psychedelic, stoner, and doom elements with lyrics based on personal stories reinterpreted in the realm of mythological tales, DEATHCAVE’s Smoking Mountain revolves around the concept of inevitable death and decay of not only humans, but nature as well.

Smoking Mountain was recorded by Ben Verellen (Harkonen, Helms Alee) at The Unknown in Anacortes, Washington, mixed by Verellen at Verellen Amplifiers and mastered by Brad Boatright (Integrity, Full Of Hell, Gatecreeper, High Command) at Audioseige. The thundering five-track offering, which includes guest vocals by Andrea Vidal (Holy Grove), Dave Verellen (Botch, Narrows), and Neil McAdams (Black Breath), as well as a track dedicated to late Black Breath bassist Elijah Nelson, and is available digitally and on limited edition vinyl.

Stream Smoking Mountain via the DEATHCAVE Bandcamp page at THIS LOCATION: https://deathcave.bandcamp.com/album/smoking-mountain

DEATHCAVE is putting the finishing touches on their followup to Smoking Mountain with details to be unveiled in the weeks to come.

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Deathcave, Smoking Mountain (2020)