Montreal noisemaker four-piece The Great Sabatini have announced a European tour set to kick off Nov. 5 that will find them supporting their 2014 third album, Dog Years. The band released Dog Years last June on Solar Flare Records and toured did a similar round of Canadian and US dates to mark its arrival, so they’re nothing if not covering their bases. Next year? Japan! Or maybe a new record or something else, I have no idea. Sometimes I get worried people are going to take me seriously when I say stuff like that. I need a talking-out-my-ass alert.

TOMA: The Great Sabatini announce tour of Martian riverbeds.

Not sure that’s clear enough. I’ll work on it.

In the meantime, here’s the Euro tour info and the Dog Years stream:

The Great Sabatini announce Europe dates.

Montreal noise rock/sludge/doom outfit The Great Sabatini will be touring Europe next month to help push their latest LP “Dog Years” which was released through France’s Solar Flare Records. Order your copy at www.thegreatsabatini.bandcamp.com

“Hey, here’s a thing we’re doing, called TOUR OF EUROPE, NOVEMBER 2015,” says the band. “We can’t wait for: vegan meals/beers in warm company, places to crash without begging, being told we are way loud most nights, righteous bands and friends we ain’t seen in a couple years, jet lag, drinking in public, tiny fuckin’ coffees that rule, etc. Oh god make it November now please. Poster design by Wurmzilla Art.”

Check the dates below:
11/05-Frankfurt, Germany @ Dreikönigskeller
11/06-Hamburg, Germany @ Astrastube
11/07- Hildesheim, Germany @ Thav
11/08-Vienna, Austria @ EKH
11/09-Budapest, Hungary @ Aurora
11/10-Burcharest, Romania @ Question Mark
11/11-Zilina, Slovakia @ Bullwar
11/12-Neratovice, Czech Republic @ U Nádraží
11/13-Paris, France @ La Mécanique Ondulatoire
11/14-Berlin, Germany @ He Sherer8
11/15-Antwerp, Belgium @ Music City
11/16-London, UK @ Powerlunches
11/17- Leeds, UK @ Chunk
11/18-Mons, Belgium @ Le Bateau Ivre
11/19- Renens, Switzerland @
11/20-Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia @ Mknz
11/21-Clermont Ferrand, France @Raymond Bar

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The Great Sabatini, Dog Years (2014)

If you checked out the video for Montreal four-piece The Great Sabatini‘s “Akela” back in July, you’ll want to go into their new one for “The Royal We” with advance notice that it’s a much different affair. Compiled from still photographs taken at the release show for their new album, Dog Years, it’s kind of herky-jerky visually, but I’m talking even more about the difference in the songs between the two. Where “Akela” was instrumental, contemplative acoustics, “The Royal We” is a noise basher through and through, bordering on black metal screams topping undulating, raw riffs. They could not be much farther apart from each other, and no doubt that was The Great Sabatini‘s intent all along.

The Great Sabatini have announced East Coast and Midwestern dates in Canada and the US, and you’ll find those courtesy of the PR wire after the video below. Enjoy:

The Great Sabatini, “The Royal We” official video

THE GREAT SABATINI Releases Yet Another Video From Recent LP; New Eastern North American Tour Announced

Montreal’s noise/sludge rock ringleaders, THE GREAT SABATINI, have just pulled the fifth official video from their Dog Years LP out of their hat, letting “The Royal We” loose into the crowd, while also declaring another new tour in support of the album.

In the ongoing outbreak of videos for their early June-released third album, Dog Years, already including “Akela,” “Periwinkle Love Hammer,” “Munera” and “Guest Of Honour,” THE GREAT SABATINI filmed the latest at a recent gig among their massive, ongoing tour schedule — from loading in, to getting loaded, to unloading onto the crowd, with “The Royal We,” playing RIGHT HERE.

THE GREAT SABATINI will also reload and fire into the US again later this month, with another widespread incursion in support of Dog Years. The Dog Years Fall Tour 2014 will kick off with two shows in Canada before hitting eighteen Eastern American cities through the first week of October.

Dog Years was recorded, mixed and mastered by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota), and boasts THE GREAT SABATINI’s raw, unpolished approach to capture n act with years of accumulated experience touring, writing and recording together. The aim was to create a hi-fi document with all of their lo-fi sensibilities, grit and live energy intact, and the results are astoundingly destructive. French noise/metal label, Solar Flare Records, released the album on CD, digital and LP formats, the latter available on both black and transparent red vinyl; place orders through Solar Flare Records HERE and via the band HERE.

THE GREAT SABATINI Dog Years Fall Tour 2014:
9/17/2014 Petit Campus – Montreal, QC
9/18/2014 Sneaky Dees – Toronto, ON
9/19/2014 The Lair – Buffalo, NY
9/20/2014 The Mr. Roboto Project – Pittsburgh, PA
9/21/2014 Grandbar – Chicago, IL
9/22/2014 TBA – Appleton, WI
9/23/2014 The Habitat – Duluth, MN
9/24/2014 The Triple Rock – Minneapolis, MN
9/25/2014 West Wing – Omaha, NE
9/26/2014 Vandals – Kansas City, MO
9/27/2014 Blind Bob’s – Dayton, OH
9/28/2014 Three Kings Bar – Cincinnati, OH
9/29/2014 Highline Taproom – Louisville, KY
9/30/2014 Poison Lawn – Knoxville, TN
10/01/2014 The Big Gay Shanty – Roanoke, VA
10/02/2014 The Blue Nile – Harrisonburg, VA
10/03/2014 Lava Space – Philadelphia, PA
10/04/2014 TBA – Long Island, NY
10/05/2014 The Batcave – Montclair, NJ
10/06/2014 O’Briens – Allston, MA

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Adventurous Montreal rockers The Great Sabatini released their third full-length, Dog Years, last month on Solar Flare Records. Their sound, while rooted in heavy rock, freely takes on various genre elements from hardcore and grind bombast to unplugged intricacies, and their latest video, for the song “Akela” from the new record, proves no less individualized. It’s quite individual, as it happens.

As in, four individual screens. In “Akela,” we see the four members of The Great Sabatini — Joey, Steve, Rob and Sean, all who’ve donned the last name Sabatini — more or less going about their day. They play video games, shave their hair, check their email, and yes, play the song itself, each one moving into and out of a stationary shot. It’s a creative take on the traditional rock video, and if you’d like an immediate contrast, visually and aurally, look no further than their corresponding “Guest of Honor” clip, which surfaced back in may in advance of the Dog Years release.

Enjoy:

The Great Sabatini, “Akela” official video

Dog Years is The Great Sabatini’s third full length album. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota), and uses a raw, un-polished approach to capture a band with years of accumulated experience touring, writing and recording together. The aim was to create a hi fi document with all of their lo fi sensibilities, grit and live energy intact.

With the songs, the band strives to bring more focus and muscularity to their ideas… to reign in their use of musical devices and create a series of pieces that each expressed some facet of their sonic personality as a band, without wasting too much time, or bogging down the compositions with too many needless bells and whistles.

Each song has a different story to tell, musically and lyrically, so the band hopes to leave listeners with a diverse set of tunes that reveal nuances inside the noise and grime with each listen.

Having said that, the weight of every riff, the conviction behind every note, is the thread used to sew it all together. Every tune should represent the balance of precision playing and sonic pummel which they strive for. They want to move people. Not just the heshers who worship the almighty riff, but the folks out there with ears tuned to different marriages of sound.

The Great Sabatini on Thee Facebooks

Solar Flare Records

Noisy Quebecois four-piece The Great Sabatini got together in 2007 and already have a couple tours under their belt, but their new and cleverly-titled Napoleon Sodomite EP is the first I’m hearing of them. The three-song release (vinyl and download, I have the latter) is full of harsh tones, weighted low-end and the occasional in-your-ear yell from guitarist Sean Sabatini.

And in case you’re thinking otherwise, no the band name isn’t an ego trip on the guitarist/vocalist’s part. Each of the four members — Steve on drums, Joey on bass, Rob on guitar and Sean — have taken the last name Sabatini, so I’m thinking it’s like a Voltron thing. When they all come together, it’s great. If that’s the theory they’re working on, Napoleon Sodomite seems to bear it out. The three-minute opening title track hits with Converge-style bombast and modernly doomed groove, and “Helter Skeletor,” which follows, is a banjo and rhythmic chain instrumental piece that sets up the end of the last cut as well as giving the whole affair an even more demented feel.

“Trap Sequence,” the last of the bunch, is also instrumental and longer than the other two songs put together at 5:59. The pace gradually builds to a noise-laden finish before the banjo returns to ride the song into oblivion. All told, the EP is barely enough to get a sense for what The Great Sabatini are doing, but their darkened atmospheric noise should be familiar-sounding to those who take it on. There’s still an individual edge, there, however, and if the musical adventurousness that rears its head on “Trap Sequence” is anything to go by, the Montreal outfit will be well worth keeping on the radar in the days to come.

Get a sampling of The Great Sabatini‘s wares on their Facebook page, or the ReverbNation player below: