In support of CATTLE DECAPITATION's new album, Death Atlas, the band has announced a North American 'The Geocidal Tendencies Tour'. Joining them on the trek will be ATHEIST, FULL OF HELL, PRIMITIVE MAN, AUTHOR & PUNISHER, and VITRIOL. The tour kicks off on November 22nd in Austin, TX and scheduled to run through December 22nd in San Diego, CA.

Frontman Travis Ryan comments: "It's that time again! We've put together quite a lineup for our first headlining tour for our new album 'Death Atlas'! In the spirit of diversity and keeping things interesting, we'll be hitting the road this November with Atheist, our hometown buddy Author & Punisher, with Full of Hell and Primitive Man switching on some dates – plus, kicking off the festivities every night will be Portland's Vitriol! Our new album will be out, and we'll be ripping through tracks on it nightly and playing some others that we haven't done in a while. Don't miss this absolute monster of a tour!!!"

11/22 Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room *
11/23 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill *
11/24 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
11/25 New Orleans, LA @ The Parish @ House of Blues *
11/26 Orlando, FL @ The Abbey *
11/27 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room * +
11/29 Atlanta, GA @ Hell @ Masquerade * +
11/30 Richmond, VA @ Canal Club *
12/01 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge *
12/02 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *
12/03 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ The Fillmore *
12/04 Toronto, ON @ Opera House *
12/05 Chicago, IL @ Metro *
12/06 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater %
12/07 Denver, CO @ The Oriental %
12/08 Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theater %
12/10 Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater %
12/11 Mesa, AZ @ Club Red %
12/12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent/ Decibel Pre-Party %
12/13 Las Vegas, NV @ Fremont Country Club %
12/14 Fresno, CA @ Strummers %
12/15 Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre %
12/17 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox %
12/18 Portland, OR @ Bossanova Ballroom %
12/19 Sacramento, CA @ Holy Diver %
12/20 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House %
12/22 San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick %

*=Full of Hell
+=No Author & Punisher
%=Primitive Man

On July 31st, 2020, sludgy doom metal act PALE HORSEMAN will launch their fifth full-length, "From Dust Thou Art" that continues the band's tradition of majesty, misanthropy and thundering riffs, but today we're thrilled to present the opening track, 'Tundra'.

I'm not all too certain what "sludgy" doom metal is to this day, or what the word sludgy has to connote in the world of metal. I suppose I understand its purposed role of trying to illuminate metal that has a slow, almost oozing quality in a thick wraparound tapestry of sound, but it's always been a turn-off for me for whatever reason. I guess I always pictured a band playing out by a Florida swamp for people straight out of a casting call for Deliverance, but I digress. When I focus on the word "doom," my OCD allows for things much easier. Methinks I shouldn't be so damn complicated...

Now, I've seen Chicago's PALE HORSEMAN live a few times, and I own most, if not all of their releases because they're a damn solid doom metal band with perfectly thick edges and currents, which is all for the better. In short, I really dig these guys, and the latest addition to their impressive arsenal, "From Dust Thou Art", is wonderfully impressive and keeping in line with their lineage of Chicago metal goodness. I've seen the obvious comparisons to fellow artists Indian, Bongripper and Atlas Moth, and while the three are solid in their respective field of the art, PALE HORSEMAN always seems to have some stranglehold on the necessary feel for this music that is both organic and well-orchestrated.

Gone are the days of the so-called traditional doom of Black Sabbath, St. Vitus, Pentagram, Warning and the ilk, embellished upon by the likes of PALE HORSEMAN, who offer us a sincerely decimating sound in this album as well as their other four full-lengths and split release. By the time I was on the second track, 'Scourge,' I had moments of reflective summation and pride that such a band existed among our storied milieu. Doom / sludge metal has become, in my humble opinion, somewhat lazy and uninspired of late in that bands will throw down-tuned songs together and lay some pseudo-psychoanalytical jargon all over it to make the waters appear deep. What PALE HORSEMAN does here is what the slow, prodding music is supposed to do – both solicit and impart responses both cerebral and emotional, and in the course of six tracks, the band manages that to a very fine degree, both musically and lyrically. Dare I say, it's music not designed for the casual fan but more for the select few in touch with the insides it seeks to penetrate?

Full review of the PALE HORSEMAN's new album, "For Dust Thou Art" can be found here.

PALE HORSEMAN is:

Rich Cygan - Bass
Jason Schryver - Drums
Eric Ondo - Guitars, Vocals
Andre Almaraz - Guitars, Vocals

MORE INFO AND PRE-ORDERS:

https://www.facebook.com/palehorsemanband
https://palehorseman.bandcamp.com/