Chicago’s IMMORTAL BIRD today confirms the details of their upcoming headlining Fall takeover. The band’s latest journey – which follows their recent and successful Summer excursion — will commence on October 12th in Denver crumbling the stages of over a dozen venues through nine states including an appearance at this year’s Southwest Terror Fest (Sleep, Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Dropdead, Bongripper etc.) in Tucson, Arizona. IMMORTAL BIRD will be joined by Colombian Necktie as well as Metal Blade recording artists Secrets Of The Sky on select dates. As a precursor to the tour, the band will make an appearance at Shadow Woods Metal Fest (Midnight, Occulation, Iron Man etc.) later this month.
Offers vocalist Rae Amitay of IMMORTAL BIRD‘s latest live adventure: “Our East Coast tour was our first run of dates since Empress/Abscess was released and we had a blast. Louisville Deathfest and Death To False Metal Fest were awesome and we can’t wait to get out there again for Shadow Woods Metal Fest in September, as well as a more extensive West Coast tour in October. During the latter we’ll be playing Southwest Terror Fest before we’re joined for about a week by our pals in Secrets Of The Sky. We’ll also be visiting several new cities for the first time. Lots to be stoked about!”
IMMORTAL BIRD:
9/25-27/2015 Shadow Woods Metal Fest – White Hall, MD
10/12/2015 Mutiny – Denver, CO
10/13/2015 Flux Capacitor – Colorado Springs, CO
10/14/2015 Duke City Sound – Albuquerque, NM
10/16/2015 Southwest Terror Fest – Tucson, AZ w/ Sleep, Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Dropdead, Xibalba, Landmine Marathon, more…
10/19/2015 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA w/ Colombian Necktie
10/13/2015 Flux Capacitor – Colorado Springs, CO
10/14/2015 Duke City Sound – Albuquerque, NM
10/16/2015 Southwest Terror Fest – Tucson, AZ w/ Sleep, Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth, Dropdead, Xibalba, Landmine Marathon, more…
10/19/2015 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA w/ Colombian Necktie
10/20/2015 Perez Tire – Los Angeles, CA w/ Colombian Necktie
10/21/2015 The Golden Bull – Oakland, CA w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/22/2015 Starlite Lounge – Sacramento, CA w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/23/2015 Wandering Goat – Eugene, OR w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/24/2015 TBA – Portland, OR w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/25/2015 The Highline – Seattle, WA w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/26/2015 TBA – Spokane, WA
10/27/2015 Black Sparrow Tattoo Club – Billings, MT
10/28/2015 Latitude 44 – Sioux Falls, SD
10/30/2015 TBA – Minneapolis, MN
10/21/2015 The Golden Bull – Oakland, CA w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/22/2015 Starlite Lounge – Sacramento, CA w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/23/2015 Wandering Goat – Eugene, OR w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/24/2015 TBA – Portland, OR w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/25/2015 The Highline – Seattle, WA w/ Secrets Of The Sky
10/26/2015 TBA – Spokane, WA
10/27/2015 Black Sparrow Tattoo Club – Billings, MT
10/28/2015 Latitude 44 – Sioux Falls, SD
10/30/2015 TBA – Minneapolis, MN
IMMORTAL BIRD continues to tour in support of their scalding Empress/Abscess full-length, released earlier this Summer via a collaborative effort with Broken Limbs Recordings (vinyl/cassette) and the band’s own Manatee Rampage Recordings (CD/digital). Recorded by Pete Grossmann (Weekend Nachos, Harms Way, Dead In The Dirt) at Bricktop Recording in Chicago, Illinois and mixed and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, Nader Sadek, Atheist, Origin etc.) at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves in Queens, New York, Empress/Abscess is a vexing sound excursion through the very bowels of human existence. Picking up where 2013’s lauded Akrasia EP left off, the record delves deeper into an audio cesspool of desolation, wrath, and overall suffering and with its members having sharpened their skills both as individual musicians and as a functioning unit, the final outcome is nothing short of terrifying.
“Duality, sonically and lyrically, drives IMMORTAL BIRD‘s music…It’s what makes the music so interesting to listen to. IMMORTAL BIRD‘s Empress/Abscess is not a collection of music to only be consumed. It’s a densely layered meditation on anger and abuse, and an equally challenging collage of extreme music sub-genres.” – Invisible Oranges
“…a strange, powerful record that delivers on and then exceeds the promise of this group’s first EP. With this much muscle and brains packed into such a lean, tight package, IMMORTAL BIRD are going to do great things.” – Exclaim
“IMMORTAL BIRD takes everything intoxicating about their debut – nasty, nasty vocals, an ethereal aesthetic deftly intertwined with machine-like, grinding precision, and pure musicality – and expounds on them tenfold while taking their sound on new and imaginative flights.” – Metal Insider
“Thoroughly engrossing from start to finish, Empress/Abscess is an impressive display of genre-mashing that others simply dream of attaining…” – Dead Rhetoric
“…a raging slab of sludgy blackened deathgrind that signals another step forward towards potential greatness in years to come.” – Teeth Of The Divine
“A brilliant and exciting rush, Empress/Abscess really does impress, leaving the listener ready to hit play all over again. Despite its ambiguity and in-flux style, it shines through with excellent guitar work, well composed lyrics, and even some piano surprises. Immortal Bird brings a whole new level of A-game to the table, one that could be hoped for in other band.” – Mxdwn
” If the band’s goal was to drag the listener across the hot sticky pavement of some dystopian Epcot Center of aggro styles, mission-fucking-accomplished.” – Dusted Magazine
“IMMORTAL BIRD peddle a ferocious blend of black metal, thrash metal, death metal and crusty grindcore that can only really be summed up with the word… extreme.” – Intravenous
“…there’s definitely something incredible going on here and it’s fundamental to the future of heavy metal music.” – The Grim Tower
“‘Saprophyte’ heaves with desperate terror; then, three minutes in, it suddenly throws a glorious, blast-beaten wrench in the works, with a black-metal riff out of Immortal. In the midst of it all, drummer-turned-vocalist Rae Amitay’s oil-gargling serpent scream – reminiscent of Jeff Walker’s vocals on Carcass’ Heartwork – seethes, ‘She is an abscess / Masquerading as an empress / A sparrow passing for an ibis.’ It’s absolutely electric in its execution, providing a strong insight into what IMMORTAL BIRD can become.” – NPR Music on second single, “Saprophyte”
