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Dead Cross Releases Surprise Self-titled EP!
Dead Cross, the SoCal hardcore outfit featuring Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Misfits), Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox) and Michael Crain (Retox, Festival of Dead Deer), has released a self-titled, four-track EP via Ipecac Recordings!
“I think part of Dead Cross’ motives are to bridge gaps between useless genres and definitions,” explained Pearson. “Part also might be to just burn that shit down. It’s in our collective DNA. Either way, as long as people love it or hate it, we succeed.”
News of the EP arrives as the band premieres a video for “My Perfect Prisoner”, which was produced by Eric Livingston who also created the cover art for both the band’s full-length debut and this EP.
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Dead Cross, which is also the title of the band’s 2017 full-length debut, is available digitally, with a limited 10-inch black/green swirl vinyl version set for a June 29 release. Pre-orders are available now. Dead Cross tracklist:
The band embarks on their debut European tour on June 2, kicking off the six-week trek at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival and including stops at several festivals including Download, Novarock, Graspop, Roskilde and Dour. Dead Cross tour dates: May 2 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall May 4 Mexico City, Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez June 2 Barcelona, Spain Primavera Sound June 3 Nimes, France This Is Not A Love Song Festival June 5 Bologna, Italy Estragon June 6 Milan, Italy Alcatraz June 7 Interlaken, Switzerland Greenfield Festival June 10 Donington, UK Download June 12 Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Rockhal June 13 Munich, Germany Backstage Werk June 14 Nickelsdorf, Austria Novarock June 16 Cologne, Germany Gloria Theater June 17 Paris, France Download Paris June 19 Lausanne, Switzerland Les Docks June 20 Cognac, France Les Abattoirs June 22 Vitoria, Spain Azkena Rock Festival June 24 Dessel, Belgium Graspop June 26 Eindhoven, Netherlands Effenaar June 27 Hamburg, Germany Markthalle June 29 Helsinki, Finalnd Tuska Metal Festival July 3 Berlin, Germany SO 36 July 4 Gydnia, Poland Open’er Festival July 6 Roskilde, Denmark Roskilde July 8 Belfort, France Eurokeenes Festival July 10 Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg July 12 Dour, Belgium Dour Festival The band’s self-titled, full-length debut arrived in August of 2017. The 10-track album was dubbed a “28-minute blitzkrieg” by Revolver, awarded four-stars by Alternative Press, who called it “viciously contagious,” and Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward, in an interview with Rolling Stone, plainly said, “they’re fucking incredible.” |
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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