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PINKISH BLACK: Premiere second single from the Great Tyrents Final Recording; Announce additional US dates
“With each scuzzy opus pumped from the billows of their industrial warehouse headspace, the Fort Worth, TX-based duo Pinkish Black continue to erase the boundaries between the metal, post-punk, and doom traditions.” – Tiny Mix Tapes
“Pinkish Black is the real deal… a dense mix of transformative metal spanning every genre or itch you could want.” – Noisey
“Pinkish Black resemble a Popol Vuh that suddenly became obsessed with denim and leather” – Pitchfork
Avant-garde post-punk innovators PINKISH BLACK have added a number of headlining dates as adjuncts to their fall tour supporting fellow Relapse synth wizards ZOMBI! The tour kicks off shortly after the release of the band’s new album, Bottom of the Morning (out 10/30 on Relapse Records). In celebration of the impending tour, PINKISH BLACK have shared “Softly, Everyone Dies,” a track by their previous band THE GREAT TYRANT, whose long-unissued final record The Trouble With Being Born is finally being released via Relapse in conjunction with the new PINKISH BLACK album.
“Softly, Everyone Dies” has premiered via Decibel and is available for streaming HERE. You can find a full list of PINKISH BLACK tour dates below.
Stream The Great Tyrant’s “Softly, Everyone Dies” via Decibel HERE
Stream new music from Bottom of the Morning and The Trouble With Being Born and pre-order physical copies HERE. You can also pre-order digital copies via the bands’ Bandcamp pages HERE.
PINKISH BLACK Live:
***All dates with Zombi***
Nov 05 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Nov 06 Ferndale, MI The Loving Touch
Nov 07 Toronto, ON The Hard Luck
Nov 08 Montreal, QC Bar le Ritz PDB
Nov 10 Providence, RI Columbus Theatre
Nov 11 Brooklyn, NY St. Vitus
Nov 12 Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle
Nov 13 Baltimore, MD Floristee
Nov 14 Pittsburgh, PA Cattivo
Nov 15 Richmond, VA Strange Matter (late show)*
Nov 16 Raleigh, NC Slim’s*
Nov 17 Atlanta, GA 529*
Nov 18 Birmingham, AL Spring St. Firehouse*
Nov 19 Nashville, TN East Room*
Nov 20 Little Rock, AR Vino’s*
*no Zombi
Info/Bio:
The history of experimental duo PINKISH BLACK is as mournful and tumultuous as the band’s music. The Fort Worth, TX band originally formed in 2005 as a threepiece doom/jazz project known as THE GREAT TYRANT, but THE GREAT TYRANT never got the chance to release any music – in February 2010, midway through a battle with technical problems, the band’s bassist Tommy Atkins tragically committed suicide, bringing the album’s recording and production processes to a halt. After Atkins’s passing, remaining members Jon Teague (drums/synths) and Daron Beck (vocals/synths/ keyboards) set out to redefine current conceptions of heavy music with an unorthodox and forward-thinking synth- driven approach, furthering the work they had started with THE GREAT TYRANT.
The band, now a duo, changed its name to PINKISH BLACK in 2010, and released its self-titled debut that same year on Handmade Birds. Pinkish Black was critically acclaimed, as was the band’s 2013 follow-up on Century Media, Razed to the Ground. Since Razed to The Ground, PINKISH BLACK have solidified both their confidence and their direction – they signed to Relapse in December 2014, and have steadily refined their songwriting and style over the course of the last two years. October 2015 will see the release of PINKISH BLACK‘s newest opus, Bottom of the Morning,a 7-track dark music journey that runs the full gamut of influences PINKISH BLACK have touched on in the past in addition to many new experimentations that have been added to their palette. Recorded at Echo Lab Studios in Argyle, TX by Matthew Barnhart and mastered by James Plotkin (Cave In, Electric Wizard), Bottom of the Morning stands to see PINKISH BLACK affirm themselves as one of the most interesting and far-thinking experimental duos currently active.
