Following the release of their latest full length, End Of Mirrors (Neurot Recordings, May 2016), Oakland-based dark punk alchemists, ALARIC, have announced European tour dates, including an appearance at Roadburn Festival. Here are the dates in full:
ALARIC EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
April 19 - Willemeen - Arnhem - The Netherlands
April 20 - Roadburn - Tilburg - The Netherlands
April 21 - Doom Over Leipzig - Leipzig - Germany
April 22 - Klub Poglos - Warsaw - Poland
April 23 - Collosseum Club - Kosice - Slovakia
April 24 - Dürer Kert - Budapest - Hungary
April 25 - Klub 007 - Prague - Czech Republic
April 26 - Divaldo Pod Lampou - Pilsen - Czech Republic
April 27 - Kulturbahnhof - Jena - Germany
April 28 - Die Friese - Bremen - Germany -
April 29 - Northern Discomfort - Copenhagen - Denmark
April 3 - tbd
May 1 - Hafenklang - Hamburg - Germany
May 2 - Antwerp Music City - Antwerp - Belgium
May 3 - LA Zone - Liège - Belgium
May 4 - Strumpf - Hannover - Germany
ALARIC — featuring within its ranks current and former members of Dead And Gone, Pins Of Light, Noothgrush, Hedersleben and UK Subs — began their voyage in 2008 with an eye toward creating moody and compelling music unlike any other. ALARIC’s previous releases include a debut single Animal/Shadow Of Life (FYBS/ Buried In Hell Records, 2010), a self-titled LP (20 Buck Spin, 2011) and a split 12” LP, with Atriarch (20 Buck Spin, 2012). They released End Of Mirrors on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Neurot Recordings, and on cassette via Sentient Ruin Laboratories in May 2016. The record was captured and mixed by Skot Brown at Kempton House Studios and provides an emotional and deeply physical journey viatheir shadowy sounds - beginning with influences from such progenitors as Killing Joke and Christian Death to the darkest, heaviest punk bands and psychedelia.
Browse Alaric, End Of Mirrors on CD, LP, Cassette & Digital in the Neurot Recordings store HERE.
"Its a brave new direction that brings to mind the kind of electronic atmospherics that Tom Constanten added to the sound of The Grateful Dead at the height of their psychedelic San Francisco period during the late 1960s. Here, however, the Kool-Aid has been spiked with battery acid and the vibe is mean, lean and bristling with something that sounds like a hybrid of Motorhead and Genesis." - WIRE
“As a whole, it’s a dark, almost apocalyptic sweep of sound. Sitting alongside the recent releases by Se Delan and Madame Mayflower, 2016 is starting to look like the year goth is reborn. Forget darkwave and all that cal: emerging from a protracted period of social and economic turmoil, uncertainty, unrest, fear, and an all-pervading sense of existential trauma, we’re back in the late ‘70s and early 80s, and this is the real deal.” - AURAL AGGRAVATION