Solid State recording artist THE CHARIOT has announced a national tour this March with label mates NORMA JEAN and Ferret Music’s A LIFE ONCE LOST.

The Atlanta, GA based Chariot are in the midst of preparing their second full-length album, The Fiancée. for an April release. Armed with technical skill, creativity and head-tripping unpredictability in song structures, the band rest on post-hardcore plateau of their own. Their music utilizes guitar noise, squeals and dissonance as riffs that rarely repeat in the same song, fractured tempos, fluctuating rhythmic attacks and one of the most commanding and legitimately pissed off vocals since Tim Singer fronted DEADGUY.

Speaking on the difference between the upcoming album and 2004’s debut, Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing… vocalist Josh Scogin says, “I believe this album is a lot more mature, musically and lyrically and will define who The Chariot is. The lyrics actually came out darker than anything I have ever put out in the past, which was not intentional since my life is actually brighter

than it has ever been, it just sort of came out that way.”

Composed of Scogin, Jake Ryan (drums), Jonathan Terrey (guitar), Dan Eaton (guitar) and Jon (KC Wolf) Kindler (bass) The Chariot is currently finishing up a full European run with BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE and SHAPED BY FIRE.

Commenting on playing live Scogin comments, “The live show is the most fun of being in a band. We try to write songs that we feel passionate about playing every single night, whether we are in front of eight kids or fifteen hundred.”

Though fierce in his music, Scogin in known to fans for his warm, inviting persona, often cracking jokes in-between songs and speaking to a crowd of hundreds as if he is spinning yarns around the campfire. However during songs, The Chariot take to playing like a gladiator in the coliseum with guitar heads being swung in full arcs, mic stands being demolished and one time Scogin relates “our drummer threw his high hats and stand into our bassists eyeball.”

Touring non-stop the last few years the band have cut their teeth supporting such diverse groups as HIGH ON FIRE, UNDEROATH, THROWDOWN, EVERY TIME I DIE, AS I LAY DYING and GWAR.

Upcoming dates (with Norman Jean and A Life Once Lost) include:

March

17 - Homewood, AL - Homewood Armory
18 - New Orleans, LA - House Of Blues
19 - Corpus Christi, TX - House Of Rock
21 - Dallas, TX - The Door
22 - Tulsa, OK - The Other Side
23 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
24 - El Paso, TX - Chic’s Bar
25 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock
27 - Ventura, CA - Alpine
28 - Orangevale, CA - Club Retro
30 - Ft Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
31 - Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep

April

1 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Auditorium
2 - Springfield, MO - Remington’s Downtown
4 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
5 - Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection
6 - Indianapolis, IN - Emerson Theater
7 - Toledo, OH - Headliners
9 - Clifton Park, NY - Northern Lights
10 - New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place
11 - Providence, RI - Lupo’s
12 - Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
14 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm