David Gold, frontman and founder of Canadian doomsters WOODS OF YPRES, is featured in a new interview with BeatRoute.ca's Sarah Kitteringham. He discusses the band's recent signing to Earache Records after four independently released albums. An excerpt from the story is

available below.

“After eight and a half years of doing this band independently, and ever since the beginning, always being on the edge of something bigger happening, but always on the edge but a little bit short, the time came that we finally had some good news and I think that for our own entertainment we thought it would be fun to announce we were tired and broken and giving up, finally, and then we let everybody sit with that for a few days, and then of course announced the news that we had created that news and were signed,” reveals Gold.

These antics seemed to really piss off some of the message board trolls, who have taken a dislike to Woods due to the band’s ever-changing sonic assault that has transformed from traditional black metal with gruff howls, to blackened doom featuring morose clean vocals sprinkled with shrieks.

“That’s just going to happen. I think what’s always kept me grounded on that is obviously I’ve always been a huge TYPE O NEGATIVE fan, and I have been for years,” says Gold. “You’d always see people online, especially metal heads, who would just hate Type O Negative and hate Peter Steele and I always thought maybe those guys who hate Peter Steele so much are secretly attracted to him, or envious of him or jealous that women are attracted to him.”

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Woods Of Ypres' tour schedule is currently as follows:

May

11 - Detroit, MI - The Magic Stick
12 - Chicago, IL - Reggies
13 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
14 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Station 4
15 - Winnipeg, MB - The Death Trap
16 - Regina, Saskatchewan - The Club
17 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Walker's Event Centre
18 - Edmonton, AB - The Mead Hall
19 - Calgary, AB - The Distillery
20 - Kelowna, BC - Dave's Sports Bar
21 - Vancouver - The Rickshaw Theatre
23 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
25 - San Francisco, CA - The Hemlock Tavern
26 - Chico, CA - Lost on Main
27 - Los Angeles, CA - venue tba
28 - Escondido, CA - JT's Limelight
30 - Farmington, NM - venue tba

June

1 - Odessa, TX - The Pine Box
2 - San Marcos, TX - Triple Crown
3 - San Antonio, TX - Zombie's
6 - Panama City, FL - C-Level Bar
7 - Birmingham, AL - The FireHouse
8 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone

As previously reported, Woods Of Ypres are gearing up to release a special 'Home' 7" vinyl single. The first two songs taken from the August 2010 post-North American tour Woods IV.5 recording sessions released by the band's Practical Arts Records. Details are as follows:

Features:

- artwork by Fursy Teyssier.
- cello by Raphael Weinroth-Browne
- Day & Night (beer and deep blue) swirled coloured vinyl
- mp3 download cards.
- limited to 500 copies.
- the first 150 (ONLY!) will be hand numbered and autographed.

Available in May, now accepting pre-orders at $20 per copy. First come first served. No limit.

Paypal to: davidypres@gmail.com, or cheque, money order or well-hidden cash snail mailed to:

Woods Of Ypres HQ

c/o David Gold

44 Poplar Ave

Sault Ste. Marie, ON

P6B 2W7

CANADA