PSYCROPTIC have today announced that they’ll be touring North America from 04 August to 03 September, alongside Decrepit Birth. The Uncreation of Civilization tour continues the long running Australian extreme metal group’s extensive tour cycle in support of their acclaimed eighth album, The Divine Council. Full details and dates for PSYCROPTIC‘s North American tour are below.
Speaking on the tour announcement, Todd Stern (bass) comments: “We are coming in hot to have one more go around in the States on this album cycle, and we couldn’t be more excited to do it with our boys in Decrepit Birth! Come and catch us at the nearest show to you. We guarantee what we always guarantee: heaps of fun, blazing hot riffs, and a beer-soaked evening you’re sure to remember bits and pieces of. Cheers!”
Brothers Dave Haley (drums) and Joe Haley (guitar) have steered PSYCROPTIC through different shades of death metal, from the technical to the experimental, with longtime vocalist and lyricist Jason Peppiatt and bassist Todd Stern further embellishing the sound of the band to create something that is distinctively PSYCROPTIC.
Origin vocalist Jason Keyser has long been considered a part of PSYCROPTIC’s extended family, and on Divine Council he contributes vocals to the album tracks. As Peppiatt wrote the lyrics and vocal patterns, the group were able to utilise an extended palette of styles to further enhance his sound, courtesy of Keyser and additional vocals from Amy Wiles, hitting upon a collective approach to complement the Haleys.
With writing and recording punctuated by a pandemic and subsequent strict lockdowns, Divine Council was recorded in various locations across Australia and North America. Drums were tracked at Anubis Studios by Chris Thelemco, bass was captured by Justin Spaeth at Cave Bound Studio, and guitars, vocals and synths were recorded by the band’s own Joe Haley at his Crawlspace Studios before he mixed and mastered the albums nine tracks.The suffocating atmosphere carries through to the lyrics that detail the myriad ways that human beings waste, destroy or devalue what’s in front of them – captured in the evocative album artwork, courtesy of the prolific Eliran Kantor. With narrative threads that throw back to tracks on both their self-titled album and As The Kingdom Drowns, PSYCROPTIC have found yet more new ways to explore human’s inherent inability to see the bigger picture – or change track before a miserable demise becomes a crushing inevitability.
Divine Council is an album that oozes confidence, maturity and a relaxed self assurance befitting of a band with a rich legacy behind them and an unconstrained future ahead of them.
The Uncreation of Civilization North American tour
w/ Decrepit Birth 04 August – Above DNA – San Francisco, CA
05 August – Dante’s – Portland, OR
06 August – The Wise – Vancouver, BC
07 August – El Corazon – Seattle, WA
08 August – The Shredder – Boise, ID
09 August – Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
10 August – The Black Sheep – Colorado Springs, CO
11 August – 1867 Bar – Lincoln, NE
12 August – Reggies – Chicago, IL
13 August – No Class – Cleveland, OH
14 August – Preserving Underground – Pittsburgh, PA
15 August – Empire Underground – Albany, NY
16 August – The Garrison – Toronto, ON
17 August – The Brass Monkey – Ottawa, ON
18 August – Fairmount Theater – Montreal, QC
19 August – La Source De La Martiniére – Québec City, QC
20 August – Meadows – Brooklyn, NY
21 August – Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ
22 August – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
23 August – Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
24 August – Boggs Social and Supply – Atlanta, GA
25 August – Ground Zero – Spartanburg, SC
26 August – Conduit – Orlando, FL
28 August – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
29 August – Come and Take It Live – Austin, TX
30 August – 89th Street Collective – Oklahoma City, OK
31 August – Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
01 September – Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
02 September – Brick by Brick – San Diego, CA
03 September – 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
Divine Council tracklist:
1. Rend Asunder
2. A Fool’s Errand
3. This Shadowed World
4. Enslavement
5. Ashes of Our Empire
6. The Prophet’s Council
7. Awakening
8. A Fragile Existence
9. Exitus
PSYCROPTIC is:
Jason Peppiatt -Vocals
Jason Keyser -Vocals (Recording only)
Joe Haley -Guitar
Todd Stern -Bass
Dave Haley -Drums
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