Massachusetts crossover act, High Command have scheduled a run of co-headline EU dates with Inhuman Nature and their first-ever live appearances in the UK. The string of shows comes in support of their 2022 album Eclipse of the Dual Moons, kicking off at Damnation Festival in Manchester in November.
The band say of Eclipse of the Dual Moons:
“It’s one thing to make a good metal record, but it’s another to put on top of it a sort of overarching story that makes sense to listeners. The whole High Command project is enriched by lyrics articulating characters, a world, and trials faced within it. We want our records to be immersive and leave listeners with a feeling they’ve experienced something bigger than the music.”
High Command EU/UK tour dates:
November 04: Damnation Festival – Manchester, UK
November 05: The Black Heart – London, UK
November 06: Green Door Store – Brighton, UK
November 07: Trefpunt – Ghent, BE
November 09: Rosenkeller – Jena, DE
November 10: Club Novitas – Dresden, DE
November 11: Kabinet Muz – Brno, CZ
November 12: Escape – Vienna, AT
November 13: Dürer Kert – Budapest, HU
November 14: Rockhouse – Salzburg, AT
November 16: Die Trompete – Bochum, DE
November 17: La Zone – Liege, BE
November 18: Mukkes – Leeuwarden, NL
November 19: The Jack – Eindhoven, NL
November 20: Urban Spree – Berlin, DE
November 21: BETA – Copenhagen, DK
November 22: Plan B – Malmo, SE
November 23: Abyss – Gothenburg, SE
November 24: Hus7 – Stockholm, SE
More about High Command:
Swords and metal go hand in hand. That’s what crossover thrash band High Command say, having turned heads with their debut album Beyond The Wall of Desolation (2019), and most recently with their blistering follow-up Eclipse of the Dual Moons (2022).
With this second album, the band take their love of storytelling a step further, deepening and widening the world of Secartha, the realm of High Command’s songs. The band place themselves as omniscient narrators of the world they have created, and say that they are inseparable from Secartha and its people.
It’s not just a question of widening the world, which the band first started exploring on The Secartha Demos (2016); Eclipse of the Dual Moons sees High Command honing their process to a fine art “it’s like we started with chiseling a rock… this record is the moment the rock in question begins to look like an actual sculpture.”
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