Chicago, IL cybergrind trio BLIND EQUATION has today announced that they’ll be touring in East Asia and Australasia this spring with Your Arms Are My Cocoon and support from Soccer., Mouseatouille and DEATHTRIPPA on select dates. The Death Is Colorful tour will be the first time BLIND EQUATION has toured outside of the United States and runs from April 3 – May 2.
Of the tour announcement, BLIND EQUATION‘s James McHenry comments: “It’s been a dream of mine to tour overseas for such a long time, especially in Japan. It is always something that I would hope for the opportunity for one day, but never actively tried to plan something out there. My friend Dylan from Singapore who runs the booking company Dogswain had been a fan of us since 2020 and had been wanting to bring us over there for awhile. Back in March 2023, he reached out to me with the idea of wanting to bring us over to East Asia as he had some friends & connections over there. I obviously said yes, and we had been going back and forth with ideas & planning for the run since then.
“During fall of 2023, he really wanted to bring Your Arms Are My Cocoon to East Asia as well, and suggested that I ask them to come along with us. I have been friends with Tyler from YAAMC ever since we played together in Milwaukee back in July 2022, and he was very down with the idea. We agreed that we wanted to hit Japan as well, and we slowly started adding more countries in the mix until what started as a 5 day Southeast Asia tour turned into a 5 week tour in countries I never imagined playing. It’s definitely a very ambitious tour to be doing DIY, but who knows if we will have another chance to do something like this again? Regardless, the promoters we have been in the talks with have been very excited to bring us over and have all been super helpful & accommodating in the process as well. This will be the longest tour Blind Equation has ever done and will be our first shows outside of the US, we couldn’t be more excited. People have always asked us to play Australia, New Zealand as well as Japan and surrounding countries throughout the years and I had always said “Maybe one day, I hope!” in the past. It feels good that I can now confidently say “Yeah, we are playing there next month” now.”
Having become a staple name in the burgeoning modern cybergrind scene, BLIND EQUATION has seen sole songwriter James McHenry nurture his talents for the better part of a decade in the form of various split releases, EPs and full-lengths Life Is Pain and 2023’s DEATH AWAITS. Abandoning genre confines, McHenry’s unique amalgam of grind, hardcore, extreme metal, chiptune and electronics has come to define BLIND EQUATION’s sound.
BLIND EQUATION Death Is Colorful tour dates:
April 3 – TBA – Ho Chi Minh, VD
April 4 – TBA – Bangkok, TH
April 5 – Mow’s Bar – Manila, PH
April 6 – TBA – Singapore, SG
April 7 – TBA – Johor, MY
April 10 – The Aftermath – Hong Kong, CN
April 13 – Club Sharp – Seoul, SK
April 14 – ACS – Seoul, SK
April 18 – Hokage – Osaka, JP
April 19 – Studio 246 – Nagoya, JP
April 20 – Spread – Tokyo, JP
April 21 – Peak Action – Fukushima, JP
April 22 – Moonstep – Tokyo, JP
April 24 – TBA – Jakarta, ID
April 25 – The Bearded Lady – Brisbane, AU
April 26 – TBA – Sydney, AU
April 27 – Thornbury Bowls Club – Melbourne, AU
May 1 – Whammy Bar – Auckland, NZ
May 2 – Valhalla – Wellington, NZ
DEATH AWAITS tracklist:
1. death awaits
2. speedrunning life
3. you betrayed the ones you loved
4. fade away
5. choke
6. never getting better
7. killing me (featuring Rat Jesu)
8. suffering in silence (featuring DEATHTRIPPA)
9. warmth
10. the last glimpse of me
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