New Orleans’ BRAT has today announced the Social Grace US tour, starting on March 23 and running until May 21, in support of their debut album. The self-described barbiegrind band will be playing songs from Social Grace for the first time, with support slots alongside MDC and D.I. and support from Bonginator on select BRAT headline shows. Social Grace is out now via Prosthetic Records – full details and dates below.
BRAT – SOCIAL GRACE US TOUR DATES
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Speaking on the tour announcement, BRAT comments: “We’re amped to get out on the road and play so many of these songs that we’ve been waiting to unveil until now. The response to the album has been amazing and we can’t wait to show everyone how much fun it’ll be live, with almost all of the album tracks making an appearance in the set.”
Between an intense live schedule over the last three years, which saw BRAT share the stage with the likes of Eyehategod, Cro-Mags and contemporaries in grind such as ACxDC and No/Mas, the band recorded Social Grace over the course of a year and a half at HighTower Recording studio (Thou, A Wilhelm Scream, Eyehategod). Recording songs in batches helped BRAT finetune and focus their songcraft in condensed bursts, resulting in a coalescence of death metal, thrash, and powerviolence brutality.Social Grace follows extreme music’s well trodden themes of futility and rage throughout it’s 10 tracks, with the band’s reverence for psychological horror fiction and admiration for Stephen King genre classics evident on songs such as Hesitation Wound and Truncheon, as well as the title-track’s scathing rebuttal of aristocracy.BRAT’s self-described barbiegrind / bimboviolence aesthetic is one of intentional dichotomy to their sound, with a keen focus to allow space and inclusivity for outsiders that shirks the traditional in favor of jubilant authenticity. Feral and ferocious in content and anti-purist in nature, BRAT’s Social Grace is a cataclysmically heavy party that everyone’s invited to.
BRATSocial Grace US tour dates:
March 23 – Free Store – New Orleans, LA
March 27 – JJs – Chattanooga, TN
March 28 – Brickyard – Knoxville, TN
March 29 – BTCH Fest – Richmond, VA
March 30 – Static Age – Asheville, NC
April 27 – George’s Majestic – Fayetteville, AR^
April 28 – Regency – Springfield, MO^
April 29 – MiniBar – Kansas City, MO^
April 30 – Lefty’s – Des Moines, IA^
May 1 – X-Ray Arcade – Milwaukee WI^
May 2 – The Swamp – Lincoln, NE^
May 3 – Remedy Brewing – Sioux Falls, SD^
May 4 – The Lyric – Fort Collins, CO^
May 5 – HQ – Denver, CO^
May 6 – Gallatin Labor Temple Bozeman, MT^
May 8 – Mootsys – Spokane, WA^
May 9 – Neumos – Northwest Terror- Seattle, WA
May 10 – Rays Golden Lion – Richland, WA^
May 11 – Aces High – Bitch Fest – Salt Lake City, UT
May 12 – Shredder – Boise, ID^
May 14 – Ribald Brewing – Nevada City, CA
May 15 – Steamers – South Lake Tahoe, CA
May 16 – Crybaby – Oakland, CA+
May 17 – Transplsnts – Palmdale, CA+*
May 18 – First St Billards – Los Angeles CA+*
May 19 – Solaris – Murrieta, CA+*
May 21 – Purgatory – El Paso, TX
^ supported by bonginator, + supporting MDC, * supporting D.I.
BRAT – Social Grace tracklist
1. Ego Death
2. Hesitation Wound
3. Slow Heat
4. Truncheon
5. Human Offense
6. Rope Drag
7. Blood Diamond
8. Snifter
9. Sugar Bastard
10. Social Grace
BRAT is:
Brenner Moate – Guitar
Liz Selfish – Vocals
Dustin Eagan – Drums
Ian Hennessey – Bass
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