“The Unconquerable Dark”

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Premiering in North America exclusively through New Noise Magazine, BLACK TONGUE has launched their new music video for the single “In the Wake ov the Wolf”. Watch it below.

“In the Wake Ov the Wolf, the latest and last music video to be released before The Unconquerable Dark is unleashed, is the ultimate expression of our delving further into darkness with its audiovisual hideousness. Where “L’appel Du Vide” expressed the reach of the influences we’ve incorporated into the new sound, “In the Wake Ov the Wolf” is the refinement of the core of Black Tongue drenched in the trappings of the new beast we have unearthed. A beast that has been waiting to be uncovered for the last three years. We hope you will enjoy watching our descent as much as we reveled in its recording. With The Unconquerable Dark we wanted to create something of dreadful, suffocating atmosphere. Something oppressive, dystopic and threatening. We called upon all our darkest aspects, ignored all detractors and created something that we felt fulfilled the darkness that had been growing at the backs of our minds for quite some time. While definitely recognizable as Black Tongue, we dropped any confining pretence of genre and what was acceptable for a band in our niche, and wrote the music we enjoyed with any and all of the facets of music we had hitherto left untouched. This is the next step for Black Tongue, a step that has lead us over the precipice of a pit of unconquerable darkness. We are beyond excited to be joining the mighty Carnifex on their 10 year anniversary tour. What an honor to be supporting one of the greatest names of the genre and personal inspirations for a lot of us on such a momentous occasion in a bands career. Not to mention on the same tour also supporting the incredible Within The Ruins with our good friends and incredible rising acts The Last Ten Seconds of Life and Lorna Shore. It’s going to be one hell of a tour and a fantastic end to the year” states BLACK TONGUE’s very own Alex Teyen.

Produced by BLACK TONGUE & Jesse Kirkbride (Traitors, Demolisher), “The Unconquerable Dark” will be released September 4th via Century Media Records.

Tracklisting is as follows:
1. Plague Worship
2. In the Wake ov the Wolf
3. Young Gloom
4. L’appel du Vide
5. Vermintide (ft Eddie Hermida)
6. Prince of Ash
7. The Masquerade
8. A Pale Procession ii: Death March
9. I’m so Tired of Sighing. Please Lord, Let It Be Night

“The Unconquerable Dark” will be available as LP+CD incl. poster and can be pre-ordered here: http://smarturl.it/tudBlackTongue

You can also pre-order the digital album here:
http://smarturl.it/tudITUNES
http://smarturl.it/tudAMAZONMP3

Black Tongue Cover Art

BLACK TONGUE will also join the CARNIFEX Tenth Anniversary Tour entitled “Decade of Despair” alongside Within The Ruins, Lorna Shore and The Last Ten Seconds Of Life. Dates kick off in Los Angeles on October 7th at The world famous Whiskey A Go Go. Complete list below.

REVOLVER MAGAZINE & MESA BOOGIE Presents: DECADE OF DESPAIR feat. CARNIFEX, WITHIN THE RUINS, BLACK TONGUE, LORNA SHORE & LAST TEN SECONDS OF LIFE
10/7 Los Angeles, CA @ The Whisky
10/8 Sacramento, CA @ The Boardwalk
10/9 Reno, NV @ PBJ’s
10/10 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
10/11 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
10/12 Spokane, WA @ The Pin
10/13 Calgary, AB @ Dickens
10/14 Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room
10/15 Saskatoon, SK @ Louis Pub
10/16 Regina, SK @ The Exchange
10/18 Moorhead, MN @ Gio’s Event Center
10/19 St Paul, MN @ Amsterdam
10/20 Iowa City @ Blue Moose
10/21 Joliet, IL @ Mojoes
10/22 Cleveland, OH @ Agora
10/23 Buffalo, NY @ The Waiting Room
10/24 Toronto, ON – Sneaky Dees
10/25 Montreal, QC @ Foufounes
10/26 Quebec City, QC @ Le Cercle
10/27 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
10/28 New York, NY @ Studio @ The Webster Hall
10/29 Reading, PA @ Reverb
10/30 Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club
10/31 Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street
11/1 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
11/2 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
11/3 Jacksonville, FL @ 1904 Music Hall
11/5 Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
11/6 Corpus Christi, TX @ House Of Rock
11/7 San Antonio, TX @ Korova
11/8 Dallas, TX @ Tomcats
11/9 Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street Collective
11/10 Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theatre
11/11 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
11/12 Phoenix, AZ – Joe’s Grotto
11/13 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
11/14 San Diego, CA @ Soma

BLACK TONGUE will release their new full-length album, “The Unconquerable Dark”, on September 4th via Century Media Records.

“The Unconquerable Dark” is a devastatingly bleak record that showcases the Hull Hate Crew’s trademark downtempo sound to absolute full effect. From the opening doom drenched riffs of ‘Plague Worship’ to the black metal tinged ‘L’appel du Vide’, to the unfathomably heavy ‘Prince Of Ash’ and ‘Vermintide’ (featuring guest vocals from SUICIDE SILENCE’s Eddie Hermida), the hatred spews out of the speakers.

The lyric video for ‘L’appel du Vide’ can be seen here:
http://smarturl.it/blacktonguevideo

Black Tongue Cover Art

Produced by BLACK TONGUE and Jesse Kirkbride (Traitors, Demolisher), the album features artwork by Ken Sarafin (Oceano, Catalepsy).

The band comments: “Our original mindset for ‘Falisfier’ and ‘Born Hanged’ was to create the most ridiculously crushing music around. We created the heaviest music because there just wasn’t anything around at the time that was as heavy as we wanted to hear. We feel like we did a pretty good job. Now there’s a plethora of bands that are taking the reigns of the heavy and we love it, but a new direction is in order. With The Unconquerable Dark we wanted to keep the slow, low and crushing vibe but add some maturity to it. More riffs, more memorable choruses and some juicy lead thrown in. Don’t get us wrong, this is the heaviest thing we’ve ever released (and probably that you’ve ever heard), but we took the time to give it atmosphere and structure instead of being heavy for heavy’s sake.

We spent a lot of time on this album mixing and mastering it ourselves so that we could get the closest representation of the heaviness that is in our minds. We didn’t want to let someone else’s polished and clean mix detract from the dimension-shattering sound that we strive to achieve. This is album is in our opinion the best thing we have released so far.”

“The Unconquerable Dark” Tracklisting:
1. Plague Worship
2. In the Wake ov the Wolf
3. Young Gloom
4. L’appel du Vide
5. Vermintide (ft Eddie Hermida)
6. Prince of Ash
7. The Masquerade
8. A Pale Procession ii: Death March
9. I’m so Tired of Sighing. Please Lord, Let It Be Night

BLACK TONGUE live:

Australian Tour with MAKE THEM SUFFER
Jun 13, 2015 – Gasometer, Melbourne VIC. 18+.
Jun 14, 2015 – Gasometer, Melbourne VIC. AA.
Jun 17, 2015 – Magpies Club, Canberra ACT. Lic/AA.
Jun 18, 2015 – Bald Faced Stag, Sydney NSW. 18+
Jun 19, 2015 – Hombre Records, Newcastle NSW. AA.
Jun 20, 2015 – Crowbar, Brisbane QLD. 18+.
Jun 21, 2015 – 199 Upstairs, Brisbane QLD. AA.
Jun 22, 2015 – 199 Upstairs, Brisbane QLD. AA.
Jun 25, 2015 – Prince Of Wales, Bunbury QLD. 18+.
Jun 26, 2015 – Capitol, Perth WA. 18+.
Jun 27, 2015 – HQ, Perth WA. AA.
Jun 28, 2015 – HQ, Perth WA. AA.

Jul 04, 2015 – Mosh on the Tyne Festival, Newcastle College, Newcastle, UK
Aug 14, 2015 – Ieperfest, Ieper, BE

BLACK TONGUE online:
https://www.facebook.com/blacktongueuk

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