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Denver misanthropes PRIMITIVE MAN have announced a colossal world tour that will see the band leveling countries from Europe and North America to Japan and Southeast Asia over the course of the next six months. The band will get the ball rolling at the end of February with a slew of European dates alongside Relapse comradesMagrudergrind (including an appearance at Netherlands Deathfest), which will conclude with a handful of Scandinavian dates with Morbid Evils and Rotten Sound. PRIMITIVE MAN will then head to Japan and Southeast Asia in April for a ten-date tour with Weekend Nachos, who recently announced their disbandment and final shows. Following those dates, it’s back to the UK in June for a two-week tour with Sea Bastard (with whom PRIMITIVE MAN recently released a new split EP) before the band embarks on a nearly two-month-long run of US dates with Cult Leader, Dragged Into Sunlight, Yautja, and others. The extensive itinerary is listed in full below.
PRIMITIVE MAN‘s last release for Relapse, Home Is Where The Hatred Is, was released in 2014 to widespread critical acclaim. Since the release of the EP, the band has been devastating audiences on the live circuit, and has further established itself as a leading name in the metal underground for all things doom, death, and gloom. You can stream Home Is Where The Hatred Is along with the band’s 2013 full-lengthScorn via the band’s Bandcamp page HERE, and the (NSFW) video for “Bag Man” can be viewed HERE.
PRIMITIVE MAN Live:
Feb 20 Denver, CO Dad Fest (hi-dive)
***All Dates with Magrudergrind***
Feb 26 Tilburg, NL Netherlands Deathfest
Feb 27 Winterthur, CH Gaswerk
Feb 28 Lausanne, CH Le romandie
Feb 29 Nevers, FR Cafe Charbon
Mar 1 Toulouse, FR Pavillon Sauvages
Mar 2 Barcelona, ES Rocksound
Mar 3 Madrid, ES Baracudas
Mar 4 Donostia, ES Mogambo
Mar 5 Montpellier, FR Secret Place
Mar 6 Milano, IT Lo Fi
Mar 7 Bologna, IT Freakout Club
Mar 8 Ljubljana, SL Gromka
Mar 9 Kosice, SK Collosseum
Mar 10 Cluj Napoca, RO Shelter
Mar 11 Bratislava, SK Fuga
Mar 12 Budapest, HU Durer Kert
Mar 13 Linz, AT Kapu
Mar 14 München, DE Feierwerk
Mar 15 Wurzburg, DE Immerhin
Mar 16 Rostock, DE JAZ
Mar 17 Aalborg, DK 1000 Fryd
Mar 18 Gothenburg, SE Truckstop Alaska
Mar 19 Stockholm, SE Bergsunds Strand 43
Mar 20 Copenhagen, DK Pumpehuset
Mar 21 Hamburg, DE Hafenklang
Mar 22 Leipzig, DE Westwerk
Mar 23 Prague, CZ Modra Vopice
Mar 24 Berlin, DE Cassiopeia
Mar 25 Utrecht, NL DB’s
Mar 26 Saarbrucken, DE Garage
Mar 27 Antwerp, BE Het Bos
Mar 28 Paris, FR Le Pub ADK
***All Dates with Morbid Evils***
Mar 30 Lahti, FI Roosterburn Fest 2016
Mar 31 Helsinki, FI Bar Loose
***All Dates with Rotten Sound***
Apr 1 Jyväskylä, FI Katse
Apr 2 Turku, FI Klubi
***All Dates with Weekend Nachos, Endzwreck, Fight It Out***
Apr 6 Yokohama, JP TBA
Apr 7 Tokyo, JP TBA
Apr 8 Osaka, JP TBA
Apr 9 Nagoya, JP TBA
Apr 10 Tokyo, JP TBA
***All Dates with Weekend Nachos, Tools of the Trade, Wormrot***
Apr 14 Manila, PH TBA
Apr 15 Johor Bahru, MY TBA
Apr 16 Kuala Lumpur, MY TBA
Apr 17 Singapore, SG TBA
***All Dates with Sea Bastard***
Jun 2 Brighton, UK Bleach
Jun 3 Leeds, UK Brudenell Social Club
Jun 4 Bristol, UK Temples Fest
Jun 5 Sheffield, UK TBA
Jun 6 Edinburgh, UK Bannermans
Jun 7 Glasgow, UK Nice N Sleazy
Jun 8 Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Northumberland Arms
Jun 9 Manchester, UK The Star And Garter
Jun 10 Nottingham, UK Thee Cosmic Goat
Jun 11 London, UK Underworld
***All Dates with Cult Leader, Of Feather And Bone***
Jun 19 Laramie, WY Baby Hospice
Jun 20 Omaha, NE TBA
Jun 21 Sioux Falls, SD TBA
Jun 22 Minneapolis, MN Hexagon
Jun 23 Milwaukee, WI TBA
Jun 24 Madison, WI Forbidden Pleasures
Jun 25 Peoria, IL Rail II
Jun 26 Toronto, ON TBA
Jun 27 Montreal, QC TBA
Jun 28 Portland, ME Space Gallery
***All Dates with Dragged Into Sunlight***
Jun 29 New Haven, CT Bar ~
Jun 30 Boston, MA Middle East Upstairs ~
Jul 1 Brooklyn, NY Bell House *~
Jul 2 Ithaca, NY The Haunt (ONE FEST) *
Jul 3 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie *
Jul 5 Cleveland, OH Now That’s Class *
Jul 6 Chicago, IL Reggies Rock Club *
Jul 7 St. Louis, MO Fubar *
Jul 8 Kansas City, MO Riot Room *
Jul 9 Denver, CO Bluebird *
Jul 10 Salt Lake City, UT Metro *
Jul 11 Boise, ID Shredder *
Jul 12 Seattle, WA Highline *
Jul 13 Portland, OR Panic Room *
Jul 14 Sacramento, CA Starlite Lounge *
Jul 15 Oakland, CA Golden Bull *
Jul 16 Los Angeles, CA Complex *
Jul 17 Tucson, AZ Club Congress *
Jul 18 El Paso, TX Mesa Music Hall *
Jul 19 San Antonio, TX Paper Tiger #
Jul 20 Dallas, TX Three Links #
Jul 21 New Orleans, LA Siberia #
Jul 22 Atlanta, GA The Earl #
Jul 23 Raleigh, NC Kings #
Jul 24 Richmond, VA Strange Matter
Jul 25 TBA
~ w/ Churchburn
* w/ Cult Leader
# w/ MAKE
***All Dates with Yautja***
Jul 26 Nashville, TN DRKMTTR
Jul 27 Memphis, TN TBA
Jul 28 Little Rock, AR Vino’s
Info/Bio:
Denver’s PRIMITIVE MAN’s music matches its name: a savage, sparse mix of death metal, blackened noise, and doom riffs. The threepiece was formed in February of 2012 by Ethan Lee McCarthy, Jonathan Campos, and Bennet Kennedy (all current and former members of Vermin Womb, Withered, Clinging To The Trees of A Forest Fire, Death of Self and Reproacher). In October of 2012 the band recorded their debut LPScorn at Flatline Audio with Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage, Cobalt, Catheter, CTTTOAFF). Scorn was released a collaboration between Throatruiner and Mordgrimm Records. After the release of Scorn, the band parted ways with Kennedy and recruited Isidro “Spy” Soto to take over on drums. The band also self-released a three-song EP in February titled P/M.The unique metal hybridization of Scorn caught the attention of Relapse, who liked the record enough to sign the band and reissue the full-length in summer 2013. Dubbed a “totally malignant sounding record and one that will consume you whole if you’re not careful,” by Cvlt Nation and called “the best worst thing that has ever happened to you,” in an 8/10 review from Metal Hammer, Scorn found PRIMITIVE MAN celebrating a slow-roasted apocalypse through seven suffocating hymns of hatred, disease and sonic deviance. The record put the band on the map for many listeners, and enabledPRIMITIVE MAN to embark on a relentless touring schedule that would soon see the band playing live shows across the US and Europe (often for the vast majority of the year) in company with acts such as Hexis, Reproacher, Fister, Celeste, Opium Lord, and Mammoth Grinder. PRIMITIVE MAN also played Denver Black Sky in 2013 alongside Relapse brethren Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Skinless, Iron Reagan, Call of the Void, and Weekend Nachos.
All of Ethan McCarthy’s projects have been prolific, and PRIMITIVE MAN is no exception – the band released four splits between 2013 and 2015, and dropped another bombshell of nihility in 2015 with its Relapse EP Home Is Where The Hatred Is. The EP was well-received by publications including Metal Injection, MetalSucks, Revolver, and Exclaim!, the latter of who stated, “unapologetically bleak and permeated by loathing and hostility, Home Is Where The Hatred Is will either leave you wanting more or contemplating teetering off a ledge.” Despite their primeval, bludgeoning approach,PRIMITIVE MAN wouldn’t exist without their savage awareness of modern humanity: simultaneously old and new, atavistic and groundbreaking, PRIMITIVE MAN stands to redefine current conceptions of hope, faith, and metal music.
PRIMITIVE MAN is:
ELM – Guitars, Vocals
JPC – Bass
JDL – Drums
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