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News : Beastwars Announce Australia/NZ Album Release Tour This April

By on April 5, 2016

Resident New Zealand sludge metallers Beastwars have announced a brand new album tour in light of their new record, ‘The Death Of All Things’; which is set to be released on April 22 through Destroy Records. They have also streamed the premiere for a new song off this same album via No Clean Singing, entitled “Devils Of Last Night”.

You can find the full stream HERE.

OBEY THE RIFF… As far as aphorisms go few hit harder than Beastwars’ heavy metal mantra.

Returning in 2016 with what will undoubtedly become one of this year’s most revelatory releases, Beastwars are a band so heavy, and heavily admired by fans in the Southern Hemisphere, they practically weigh the world in place and stop it spinning wildly off its axis.

The Death Of All Things was produced by the band and James Goldsmith in their hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, mixed by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Big Business) and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Windhand) and is the third and final full-length in a post-apocalyptic trilogy. An album that signals the arrival of one of metal’s best-kept secrets out from under; primed to take on the world full tilt.

In 2011, Beastwars released their self-titled debut to critical acclaim and in doing so transformed New Zealand’s metal landscape. Reviewers celebrated the album’s, “slow-burning furnace of bass-trawling riffage,” (The Sleeping Shaman) as well as its distinctive blend of lysergic and premonitory metal that compared the band to Kyuss, Neurosis and Godflesh, while hinting at influences as distinctive as The Jesus Lizard, Black Sabbath, and in Hyde’s ‘avant-grunt’, Celtic Frost. Music that at its very core channels a colossal mood filtered to a point where, “every wail, every riff, every bass thump and every cymbal crash serves to remind you that this is enigmatic and darkened metal, straight from the murky heart of the Antipodes.” (Sixnoises)

Two years on from their internationally acclaimed debut, Beastwars returned in 2013 with Blood Becomes Fire which landed at #2 in the nations music charts. The album delivered ten songs retaining all the strength and psychedelic fire of their first while presenting a powerful evolution in vision.

The Death Of All Things is released worldwide through Destroy Records on 22nd April 2016.

Presented by Tone Deaf, tickets are available now via Oztix.

Thurs 21 April – Churchills, Christchurch, NZ
Fri 22 April – San Fran, Wellington, NZ
Sat 23 April – Galatos, Auckland, NZ
Wed 27 April – Frankie’s Pizza, Sydney, AUS
Thurs 28 April – Producers Bar, Adelaide, AUS
Fri 29 April – Ding Dong, Melbourne, AUS
Sat 30 April – Crowbar, Brisband, AUS

Beastwars Aus Tour 2016

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Jonathon is an aspiring fantasy/sci-fi novelist and music journalist. Thanks to the influence of the music he grew up with, he has always possessed a keen interest in metal and rock. He is also a huge fan of mythology, legend, and folklore from all across the world. You should follow him on Twitter.