Portland doom miscreants, GRAVES AT SEA, will embark upon a European live incursion later this month with fellow riff worshippers, SOURVEIN. Set to initiate with what's bound to be a cataclysmic performance at this year's Roadburn Fest in Tilburg, the band will punish twenty-four locales with the trek coming to a ceremonious close at Heavy Days In Doomtown in Denmark.

Graves At Sea will drop their This Place Is Poison 12” EP upon the living this spring via the menace merchants at Eolian Empire. Their first release since 2005's scathing split with ASUNDER, This Place Is Poison was tracked by drummer Bryan Sours (ex-SUBARACHNOID SPACE) and Steve Lobdell at Audible Alchemy and mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering on their home turf. Side A's ‘This Place Is Poison’ finds the overwhelming, tar-thick sludge for which the band is so notorious smothering ear holes with a deluge of crust-ridden guitars anchored by swampy bass rumbles and planet-fracturing drums all submersed in the deadly howls and shrieks of the damned. On Side B, BLACK SABBATH's ‘Orchid’ and ‘Lord Of This World’ get bold revisions: ‘Orchid’ is eroded beyond its essence into a morose march towards death while ‘Lord Of This World’ gets a grim reconfiguration with grisly riffs, bilious hisses and a blackened atmosphere that takes the original to a dark, desolate realm of desperation and despair.

Dates:

April

10 – Tilburg, The Netherlands – Roadburn
11 – Leipzig, Germany – Doom Over Leipzig
12 – Berlin, Germany – Lovelite
13 – Dresden, Germany – Chemiefabrik
14 – Wroclaw, Poland – Ciemna Strona Miasta
15 – Vienna, Austria – Arena
16 – Zagreb, Croatia – AKC Medika
17 – Laussane, Switzerland – PornoDiesal
18 – Zurich, Switzerland – TBA
19 – Milano, Italy – Blue Rose Saloon
20 – Barcelona, Spain – Rocksound
21 – San Sebastian, Spain – Mogambo
22 – Madrid, Spain – La Boite
23 – A Corunha, Spain – A Casa Tomada
24 – Barroselas, Portugal – SWR Metalfest
25 – Bordeaux, France – Heretic Club
26 – Paris, France – Le Klub
27 – London, England – DesertFest
28 – Sheffield, England – The Lughole
29 – Manchester, England – The Roadhouse
30 – Antwerp, Belgium – Music City

May

1 – Bruxelles, Belgium – Magasin 4
2 – Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
3 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Heavy Days In Doomtown

This Place Is Poison will be released via Eolian Empire on 12" vinyl on April 15th. The EP will be limited to 1000 copies and come available on 140-gram black wax in black inner sleeve with a standard metallic gold on black jacket and one-sided metallic gold on black insert with an included download code. Preorders will be limited to 300 and are being taken at this location.