Escuela Grind announce UK/EU tour with Rotten Sound
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USA extreme metal powerhouse, Escuela Grind, have announced UK and EU tour dates with Finnish grindcore legends Rotten Sound.
Escuela Grind comment: "EUROPE! We're coming back for 18 days to crush a bunch of shows with our homies in Rotten Sound, plus a few SICK festivals like Incineration, Music Match, 0161 Festival and Vort 'N Vis Festival!
"We're stoked to bring the Nike and New Balance shod feet of Escuela Grind back to Europe to grind posers into jelly and go crazy with friends old and new. These shows are going to be chaotic, violent and very, very gay. Plus we'll have new music out and we'll be playing even more songs from our NEW ALBUM!
"So come on out to these shows, grind your face off, two step, stage dive, meet your new bestie, make an archnemesis, get spin kicked in the face by a 17 year old drinking Radler, buy some merch. (Please buy some merch).
"It's gonna rule! See you there!"
UK dates as follows:
May 10: London, Incineration Festival, Black Heart
May 11: Manchester, 0161 Festival
May 12: Plymouth, The Junction
May 13: Newcastle, The Head of Steam
May 14: Nottingham, Ye Old Salutation Inn
May 15: Glasgow, Audio
May 16: Birmingham, The Devil's Dog
Tickets from: https://www.escuela-grind.com/shows
The news follows Escuela Grind's huge new EP, DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL, released January via MNRK Heavy.
Recorded with Will Killingsworth, mixed by the GRAMMY-winning Kurt Ballou (High on Fire), and mastered by Nick Townsend (Cheap Trick, Dr. Dre), the EP houses four new songs including the lead cut, 'Ball and Chain'.
Order DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL here: https://escuelagrind.ffm.to/ddmm
Escuela Grind's DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL EP is the crown jewel in a themed trilogy of releases, including the duo of 2020 EPs PPOOWWEERRVVIIOOLLEENNCCEE and GGRRIINNDDCCOORREE, which saw the band espousing their unique takes on the respective underground music sub-genres. DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL delivers the first new Escuela Grind music since the release of last year's celebrated full-length LP, Memory Theater, hailed by The New York Times as ''an opus of extremity", "witheringly intense yet righteously life-affirming" by SPIN, "the heaviest Escuela Grind have ever sounded" by Decibel, both "a masterclass in punishing, invigorating grindcore" and "a fascinatingly intellectual take on the genre" by Revolver, and "a multifaceted album that goes beyond 'fast and faster' simplicity" by Metal Hammer.
Fresh off U.S. spotlight tour dates with Baroness, and the extreme metal legends, Napalm Death, who have taken the young U.S. band under its proverbial wing in 2023, Escuela Grind are inarguably one of the hungriest young groups in music today. Escuela Grind have engaged in a seemingly unending live gauntlet since the September 2022 release of Memory Theater, relentlessly trekking the globe to bring their eye-opening energy and sound to welcoming music fans the world over.
"DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL is the third installment of our EP series where we dive into the genres that most influence this band," offers Economou. "Finishing this trilogy has been years in the works. We are so excited to release these songs as they are perhaps the best reflection of our live performance. The stage has honed these hectic songs to perfection. Originally we were going to have three songs on this EP, but we wanted to create another track that had a huge buildup. This eventually developed into this brutal song, 'Ball and Chain', that marks the point in our live shows where we have a wall of death every night. Lyrically, it references death metal tropes of murder and revenge, but with a decidedly feminine angle."
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Escuela Grind are:
Katerina Economou (vocals)
Jesse Fuentes (drums)
Kris Morash (guitar)
Tom Sifuentes (bass)
Escuela Grind DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL' tracklisting:
1.) Ball and Chain (Watch VIDEO)
2.) Punishment Ritual
3.) Abyssal Plane
4.) Meat Magnet (w/ Napalm Death's Barney Greenway)
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