 Like its well-received predecessor Ride The Wilderness (listen below), the fruit of Demon Head's communal work is powerfully crafted from start to finish. While the sound stays true to the sinister atmosphere of the debut album, the music has evolved to the next logical step: darker, more tight-knitted, and more diverse. Demon Head is not about trends or imitation. It is about the burning love for music. While in part an homage to the first heavy music, the songs have their own voice. The attitude is of originality and urgency rather than pretense. Since the beginning, the band has relentlessly traveled on the road and off the beaten path, playing loud, wild concerts with bands from many genres and scenes. In the same way, the influences on Thunder On The Fields are hard to pinpoint; many have experienced that nothing sounds quite like the doom-tinged heavy rock of Demon Head, while it retains a strange familiarity of haunting melodies that don’t seem to want to escape the listeners cranium. Comparison is always difficult and limiting, but you might get an idea of the direction if you imagine if the tour bus of Judas Priest had crashed into a whiskey bar where The Doors and Neil Young throw dice with the devil, while The Stooges cover Big Mama Thornton on the decrepit corner stage. Out on vinyl and CD via The Sign Records - LISTEN HERE Limited to 200 cassette tapes - ORDER HERE
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At The Drive-In has released a music video for “Hostage Stamps,” the third single from the new album "in • ter a • li • a," which will be released on May 5th. A Spring / Summer tour will coincide (see below for complete list). About the song, frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala says “It's like walking through the hallway in some war-torn ghetto and reading the writing on the wall. When you hear things like, ‘Raise your nothing pole,’ I don’t think anyone will know what that is right away, but when you look it up, it’s this curse. We are going to be victorious. Here’s the fucking head on the stake in front of our army. We’re coming back. It’s reading the writing on the wall. It’s going and keeping your ear to the ground and listening to the heartbeat of young people.” and just in case you forgot how good they are live... (tour dates follow) 2017 LIVE DATES (+ sold out)
5/6/17 — El Paso, TX — County Coliseum 5/8/17 — Tempe, AZ — Marquee Theatre 5/9/17 — San Diego CA — Soma 5/12/17 — San Francisco CA — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium 5/13/17 — Los Angeles CA — Shrine Auditorium 5/17/17 — Mexico City — Pepsi Center WTC 6/7/17 — Austin, TX — Stubb’s + 6/9/17 — San Antonio, TX — Aztec Theater + 6/10/17 — Houston, TX — Revention Music Center 6/12/17 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom 6/13/17 — Oklahoma City, OK — The Criterion 6/15/17 — Denver, CO — The Fillmore 6/17/17 — St. Paul, MN — Palace Theatre 6/18/17 — Chicago, IL — Aragon Ballroom 6/20/17 — Columbus, OH — Express Live! 6/21/17 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theatre 6/22-25/17 — Montebello, Canada — Amnesia Rockfest 2017 8/15-17/17 — St. Pölten, Austria — FM4 Frequency Festival 2017 8/16-19/17 — Paredes De Coura, Portugal — Paredes De Coura Festival 2017 8/16-19/17 — Kiewit, Belgium — Pukkelpop Festival 2017 8/18-20/17 — Biddinghuizen, Netherlands — Lowlands Festival 2017 8/22/17 — Sesto San Giovanni, Italy — Carroponte 8/23/17 — Munich, Germany — Zenith 8/25-27/17 — Weatherby, UK — Leeds Festival 2017 8/25-27/17 — Reading, UK — Reading Festival 2017 8/25-27/17 — Saint Cloud, France — Rock En Seine 2017 |