After returning final year with their wonderful In Resonance Nexus comeback file, reunited cult Brit steel outfit earthtone9 have introduced a run of gigs to rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of 2000’s landmark third album, arc’tan’gent.
The band will hit the highway by way of autumn to play the album in full. Helps will come variously from Bristol post-doomsters Sugar Horse, equally reunited UKHC veterans Stampin’ Floor, Nottingham Brutalists The 5 Hundred and London metallers Burner.
arc’tan’gent was the jewel of earthtone9’s authentic three-album run earlier than the band break up in 2002. Receiving a glowing assessment from Okay! upon its launch, it was praised for its intelligence, creativity, and skill to combine visceral heaviness with deep creative imaginative and prescient. It grew to become an underground hit, leaving a mark on the Brit steel scene.
Competition director James Scarlett appreciated it a lot he named his ArcTanGent fest after it, and after years of pestering, managed to e-book the band to play the album in full there final summer time.
Talking to Okay! concerning the tour, the band underlined the event by declaring that this would be the final time they do such a factor.
“These twenty fifth anniversary arc’tan’gent exhibits are going to be actually particular, and an actual celebration,” says singer Karl Middleton. “We’re going to play arc’tan’gent in full on this tour. Each monitor. You’re gonna hear songs which have by no means been performed stay, and after this tour, will by no means be performed once more. It is a 2025 solely, by no means to be repeated factor. One probability to come back celebration with us, people. Be there.”
“Wanting again now, it is clear that the arc’tan’gent album was the zenith of our authentic incarnation of earthtone9,” provides guitarist Owen Packard. “4 years of relentless writing, touring and simply dwelling collectively as a band all coalesced into 10 songs and a defining musical assertion about who we had been as a collective. We had been actually pleased with that file. It got here out precisely as we had hoped. And it dropped at a time in historical past – the early 2000s – that felt thrilling, communal and bursting with risk. It was a good time to be a band, and the celestial paths aligned to permit us to be part of it.”