In conjunction with the release ofReflection Of The Negative-- their split album with local doom outfit Windhand, released by Relapse in April --Richmond, Virginia-based sludge crewCOUGHtook to Europe on a three-week tour with included performances atCopenhagen, Denmark’s Heavy Days in Doomtown festival, as well as the massive annual Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. For a limited time, audio evidence of band’s entire fifty-minute set is streaming at massive Dutch portalVpro 3voor12as well as the officialRoadburn website.
Additionally, COUGH is one of the main acts confirmed to invade New York City at the end of next week for Martyrdoom II, the second annual installment of the massive underground doom/black/death gathering. Running from Friday, June 28th through Sunday the 30th, the brutal lineup of nearly thirty acts including Atrum Inritus, Decrepitaph, Kommandant, Ptahil, Morbosidad, Bestial Mockery, Crucifier, Hour of 13, Morpheus Descends, Bastard Sapling and more set to overthrow two clubs in the city, COUGH set to perform the opening night at Manhattan’s club Paper Box. View full info on the fest here.
COUGH are currently working on their third LP and second for Relapse, the follow-up to 2010’s praised Ritual Abuse full-length, coming together for release sometime in early 2014. Stay tuned as further details are hacked up and spat into the public.
Relapse Records this week unveils a pummeling upcoming split between two prime acts in the contemporary doom/sludge circuit, COUGH and WINDHAND.
With both COUGH and WINDHAND hailing from the unrestrained Richmond, Virginia underground, the choice to team the two of them up for the brutal Reflection Of The Negative split album was a simple one, and the results are, as expected, thunderous and immense. COUGH leads off, delivering a characteristically electrifying down-tuned epic track, while their brethren in WINDHAND serve up two brand new epic songs for their half of the dirge. While the track listing bears merely three tracks, this monstrous split bears nearly forty minutes of premier doom at its absolute gloomiest. The album acts as a precursor for both bands’ upcoming full-lengths, which are both currently being conceived.
Reflection Of The Negative will see official release on April 16th in North America, preceded by international street dates of April 12th (Germany/Benelux) and April 15th (UK/World). Today Relapse has released a visual trailer for the LP, as well as preorders for the album including digital and CD formats, as well as a super-limited mailorder-only black/white vinyl combo.
In conjunction with the release of the split, COUGH will embark on a brutal month-long European tour. The majority of the dates will see the band joined by Witch Mountain, while several later dates will instead be with Grime, the entire trek leading up to Heavy Days in Doomtown. The festival, an international DIY doom/stoner/sludge festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, runs from May 2nd through the 5th, and will see COUGH sharing the stage alongside Graves At Sea, Pagan Altar, Samothrace, Moss, Bell Witch, Dark Buddah Rising, Lecherous Gaze, Mournful Congregation and many others.
Richmond, VA’s COUGH has announced a three-week tour covering the southern U.S.. These dates will kick-off on September 1st in Durham, NC and also include a performance as part of the Boomslang Fest with SWANS, PELICAN, HORSEBACK, and more in Lexington, KY. A listing of tour dates and cities can be found here or below with more information on Boomslang availablehere.
Additionally, COUGH has a couple of east coast shows lined up for this weekend in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Frederick, MD. Saturday night’s show in Brooklyn follows the NYC screening of “Slow Southern Steel”, a documentary about southern metal produced by CT from RWAKE and Sunday’s performance in Frederick is part of the 11th annual Stoner Hands of Doom festival.
COUGH are touring in support of their recently released Relapse debut Ritual Abuse.Ritual Abuse saw its international release last October on CD, LP, and digitally. The album is currently streaming in its entirety at this location.
