SOURVEIN - Ghetto Angel Due Next Week
February 5, 2008, 16 years ago
BW&BK; has received the following press release:
SOURVEIN are serious, down-tuned sludge/doom with the Southern flavor of bands like DOWN and EYEHATEGOD. Following their debut full-length on Southern Lord Records, the band's This Dark Reign debut EP Emerald Vulture was an ugly 17 minutes of slow, hateful, grinding darkness, full of thick guitars and malicious vocals. Ghetto Angel, the band's second EP in a series of three for TDR, charges forth with the bands' signature style of buzzsaw guitars and droning bass with the tempered pace of a sloth, but the songwriting has found a groove not heard on previous recordings. Let's face it, this band has had bad luck on top of bad luck with labels failing on them, natural catastrophes, drug habits taking toll, loved ones lost and everything between, but still they kept their eye on the ball. And we're all the benefactors as they turn it all into a gut-wrenching mix of swamp metal and doom.
With Ghetto Angel set for release February 12th, the band are currently plowing-over towns on tour with ZOROASTER. After finishing off the South/Southwest and hitting the West Coast they'll swing and head back East, meeting up with GANON mid-month for the Metal Maniacs sponsored tour that takes them through the Northeast. Plans for a new European tour are in the works for the coming months, and the band is set to burn down Roadburn Fest this year as well.
SOURVEIN and ZOROASTER on tour now:
February
5 - Emo's - Austin TX6 - Whiskey Dix - Lubbock TX
7 - Zeppelin's - El Paso TX
8 - Hollywood Alley - Mesa AZ
9 - The Jumping Turtle - San Marcos CA
10 - Knitting Factory - Los Angeles CA
11 - The Stork Club - Oakland CA
12 - Annie's Social Club - San Francisco CA
13 - Ash Street Saloon - Portland OR
14 - Funhouse Seattle - Seattle WA
15 - The Palace - Missoula MT
16 - Kingdom of Doom - Denver CO
17 - Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines IA
18 - Big V's - St. Paul MN
SOURVEIN, GANON, ZOROASTER:
February
19 - Vnuks - Cudahy WI20 - Reggie's Live - Chicago IL
21 - The Belmont - Hamtramck MI
22 - 31st St. Pub - Pittsburgh PA
23 - Ravari Room - Columbus OH
24 - Knitting Factory - New York NY
25 - The Red & Black - Washington DC
26 - Khyber - Philadelphia PA
27 - The Sterling Hotel - Allentown PA