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DARK TRANQUILLITY Kicking Off U.S. Tour This Week!

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Swedish melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity are kicking off their first U.S. tour in support of their new album, We Are The Void. They are supporting The Devil Wears Prada and headliners Killswitch Engage. We Are The Void is set to hit U.S. stores March 9th, so mark your calenders!

Mikael Stanne (vocals) describes his excitement over the upcoming tour: “We are really excited to come back to the states. This tour with Killswitch Engage and The Devil Wears Prada will be the perfect way to kick off this new album of ours. We are looking forward to premiering the new material in front of the many new and uninitiated, as well as our devoted and awesome fans. This will be the start of a long string of tours that we will be doing for this album. We feel that these new songs are some of the strongest material that we’ve ever written and we are dying to tour the hell out this album! See you in the front row.”

Read on for a full list of dates. These are the tour dates:

February 4 – House of Blues – Boston – MA
February 5 – House of Blues – Atlantic City – NJ
February 6 – NorVa Norfolk – VA   *KsE and Dark Tranquility only
February 8 – House of Blues – Lake Buena Vista – FL
February 10 – Tabernacle – Atlanta – GA
February 11 – Amos’ Southend – Charlotte – NC
February 12 – Sonar – Baltimore – MD
February 13 – House Of Blues – Cleveland – OH
February 15 – House of Blues – Chicago – IL
February 18 – First Avenue Loop Station – MN
February 19 – Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee – WI
February 20 – Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak – MI
February 21 – The Egyptian Room at the Murat Center – Indianapolis – IN
February 23 – Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa – OK
February 24 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin – TX  (w/ Dark Tranquility and special guest)
February 25 – Warehouse – Live Houston – TX
February 26 – Palladium Ballroom – Dallas – TX
February 27 – Concrete Street Amphitheatre Corpus Christi – TX  (w/ special guest)
March 1 – Sunshine Theatre – Albuquerque – NM
March 3 – House of Blues – Las Vegas – NV
March 5 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe – AZ
March 6 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles – CA
March 7 – The Warfield – San Francisco – CA
March 9 – Roseland Theater – Portland – OR
March 10 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle – WA
March 12 – The Great Salt Air – Magna – UT
March 13 – Fillmore Auditorium – Denver – CO
March 14 – The Midland by AMC – Kansas City – MO
March 15 – The Pageant – St. Louis – MO
March 16 – Rocket Town – Nashville – TN   (w/ special guest)
March 18 – Irving Plaza – New York – NY
March 19 – Irving Plaza – New York – NY
March 21 – The Dome – Wallingford – CT
I’m gonna be at the Royal Oak show on Feb. 20th. Anyone else going to any of the dates?

Managing editor/music guy/social media fella of Bloody-Disgusting

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‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ – John Carpenter Announces New Album & Releases New Music Video!

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(l-r) Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter, Daniel Davies - Photo Credit: Sophie Gransard

John Carpenter has been teasing big news for a couple weeks now and all has been revealed this morning. Carpenter is back with Lost Themes IV: Noir from 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.

John Carpenter called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.”

From John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Lost Themes IV: Noir is set for release on May 3 via Sacred Bones Records. The album pays tribute to Noir cinema!

In conjunction with the announcement, they’ve shared a music video for the album’s first single, “My Name Is Death”, a miniature noir film directed by Ambar Navarro, starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl). “Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema,” states Carpenter. “ We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album. The video celebrates this style and our new song, My Name is Death.”

Sacred Bones previews, “The scene-setting new single marks new territory for Carpenter and his cohorts, propelled by a driving post-punk bassline that is embellished by washes of atmospheric synth, pulsing drum machine, and, at the song’s climax, a smoldering guitar solo.”

“Sandy [King, John’s wife and producer] had given John a book for Christmas, of pictures from noir films, all stills from that era,” Davies says of the lightbulb moment for Lost Themes IV. “I was looking through it, and I thought, ‘I like that imagery, and what those titles make me think of. What if we loosely based it around that? What if the titles were of some of John’s favorite noir films?’ Some of the music is heavy guitar riffs, which is not in old noir films. But somehow, it’s connected in an emotional way.”

Sacred Bones notes, “Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes the songs on Lost Themes IV ‘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 noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it.”

“It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that became the initial Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts,” the label explains. “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. In the years since, Carpenter, Carpenter, and Davies have released close to a dozen musical projects, including a growing library of studio albums and the scores for David Gordon Green’s trilogy of Halloween reboots. It helped that they grew up in a musical environment. Daniel’s dad is The Kinks’ Dave Davies, and he would pop by the L.A. studio – the same one the Lost Themes records are made in today – to jam, or to perform at wrap parties for John’s films. That innate free-flowing chemistry helps Lost Themes IV: Noir run 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.”

Here’s the full Lost Themes IV: Noir track list:

1. My Name is Death
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes

The following physical variants will be available:

  • Sacred Bones Exclusive Red on Clear Splatter vinyl w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Sacred Bones Society Exclusive on Black and White Splatter on Clear w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • All retail Transparent Red, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Indie Exclusive Tan and Black Marble, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Rough Trade Exclusive Oxblood Red and Black Splatter, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Shout Exclusive Black and Clear cloudy, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Black LP, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • CD
  • Tape

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now!

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