Dark electronic artist, Gost, has just signed a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records, which will see the band’s sixth album, Prophecy, released in spring of 2024. Pre-orders will come in Fall, with a tour supporting Katatonia also in motion. Find live dates and more below.
Gost had this to say about signing onto Metal Blade:
“Signing with Metal Blade is surreal for me personally as a lifelong metal listener and musician. If you grew up listening to metal in the 80‘s and 90‘s like I did, Metal Blade‘s impact on metal is undeniable. There were my favourite bands and behind them was Metal Blade. Gost signing with Metal Blade feels predestined and born from Baal himself. All hail Berith and all hail Metal Blade.”
Gost exist in the dark crack between black metal and the most shadowy end of electronic music. Since the release of the Radio Macabre EP at the start of 2013, and the remorseless digital nightmare of their Skull debut album six months later, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist, producer and main-brain James Lollar has become an increasingly singular force in music. Far more aggressive and sinister than the synthwave he‘s often grouped with, Gost is a harsh and unique digital nightmare that takes the listener right into the heart of the abyss.
In the meantime, catch Gost live when he joins Katatonia on their upcoming tour across America with stops in Canada, which kicks off Thursday, November 9 in Bostan, Mass. at The Sinclair and concludes in Orlando, FL on Saturday, December 9, 2023 at Level 13.
Here‘s what Gost had to say about hitting the road with Katatonia:
“I‘ve always enjoyed tours that mix genres and take chances. These types of support tours have become a sort of tradition for Gost and I look forward to hitting the road with Katatonia and bending some minds. Many thanks to the band for bringing us on for this one, should be one hell of a ride.”
Katatonia‘s Sky Void of the Stars North America Tour w/ special guests Gost
11-09-23 US MA Boston The Sinclair
11-10-23 US CT Hartford Webster Theater
11-11-23 US MD Baltimore Ram’s Head
11-12-23 US NY New York City Warsaw
11-13-23 CA ON Montreal Studio TD
11-15-23 CA ON Toronto The Axis Club
11-16-23 US PA Pittsburgh Thunderbird Music Hall
11-17-23 US OH Cleveland The Roxy
11-18-23 US IL Joliet The Forge
11-19-23 US MN Minneapolis Lyric Theater @ Skyway
11-21-23 US CO Denver The O
11-22-23 US UT Salt Lake City Commonwealth
11-24-23 US OR Portland Bossa Nova Ballroom
11-25-23 CA BC Vancouver Rickshaw
11-26-23 US WA Seattle Neptune Theater
11-28-23 US CA Berkeley Cornerstone
11-29-23 US CA Fresno Strummer’s
11-30-23 US CA Los Angeles Echoplex
12-01-23 US CA Pomona The Glass House
12-02-23 US AZ Phoenix Crescent Ballroom
12-04-23 US TX Dallas Granada Theatre
12-05-23 US TX Austin Come and Take It Live
12-06-23 US TX Houston Scout Bar
12-08-23 US GA Atlanta Hell @ The Masquerade
12-09-23 US FL Orlando Level 13
Discography:
Albums
Skull (July 2013)
Behemoth (April 2015)
Non Paradisi (September 2016)
Non Paradisi (Secret Arcana) (September 2016)
Possessor (March 2018)
Valediction (October 2019)
Rites of Love and Reverence (August 2021)
EPs
Radio Macabre (January 2013)
The Night Prowler (February 2013)
Nocturnal Shift (April 2013)
Gost (February 2014)
Singles
Driller Killer – From out of Nowhere (Gost – cover) (January 2014)
Christine – Death on Wheels Part II (Gost remix) (January 2014)
Online at:
https://gost1980s.bandcamp.com/music
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https://www.instagram.com/gost1980s/
https://www.twitter.com/gost1980s/