All Them Witches Release Music Video for 'Diamond' and Announce Headlining Tour
By: Kaitlin Milligan Sep. 12, 2018
All Them Witches has announced today's premiere of an extraordinary new visual. "Diamond" is streaming now at the Nashville-based psych-rock experimentalists' official Youtube channel. In addition, the track is available now at all DSPs and streaming services. FLOOD magazine premiered the video earlier today, saying, "Nashville's sludgiest jam band carry over their genre-blending brilliance to the video for their latest single."
Directed by All Them Witches drummer Robby Staebler, "Diamond" heralds All Them Witches' hugely anticipated fifth studio album, ATW, out September 28th via New West.
"Visually I wanted to present the song in a cinematic and contemplative way," says Staebler, "something that people enjoy re-watching and finding new details in. I wanted a lush landscape and a peaceful and patient environment to work in. Something that would bleed its own blood into the final product by simply existing in the place. I shot the video on 16mm film on location and in studio. Film bleeds its own blood too and I think this video holds the real feelings of the song, the environment and the medium."
"I wanted 'Diamond' to show TWO SIDES of a common problem I have with my ego and personality," adds All Them Witches singer-bassist Charles Michael Parks, Jr. "The first is being content with where I am, physically and mentally, and the second being a constant drive to leave, to go anywhere other than where I am, to let my scattered thoughts draw me to a comparable scattered lifestyle. If forced to go to town, I seem to develop the city equivalent of allergies and slowly take note as my windpipe or nasal cavities shut down. I don't get sick at home and I seem to always get sick on tour. Music does not exist in the country though. I can't get on stage in the cow pasture and let my aggression out, so I go on tour to satiate a lust for a non-sedentary lifestyle and stay home to drown out the sensory Hellscape of the city. Both personalities can and do appear at random, and both can take the wheel and lead me anywhere."
Produced by All Them Witches guitarist Ben McLeod and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Kurt Vile), ATW also includes the recently unveiled single, "Fishbelly 86 Onions," available for streaming and download.
All Them Witches will celebrate ATW with an epic North American headline tour, kicking off Friday, October 12th at Lake Perris, CA's Desert Daze alongside such like-minded artists as Tame Impala, Warpaint, Connan Mockasin, and more. That Sunday, October 14th, will then see All Them Witches rocking the Monster Energy Aftershock Festival, joining a stacked bill that also features System of a Down, Alice In Chains, At The Drive-In, and many others. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.allthemwitches.org/tour.
In addition, All Them Witches will cross the Atlantic next year for a major European tour, set to begin April 11th in Helsinki, Finland before making stops in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, England, and Wales.
ALL THEM WITCHES
WORLD TOUR 2018-19
OCTOBER
12 - Lake Perris CA - Desert Daze Festival
14 - Sacramento, CA - Monster Energy Aftershock Festival
31 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn
NOVEMBER
1 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
2 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall: Upstairs
3 - Austin, TX - Antone's
4 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada
7 - Phoenix, AZ - REBEL Lounge
8 - Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar
9 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
10 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
13 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
15 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
16 - Seattle, WA - Freakout Festival
17 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
19 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
20 - Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room
21 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
23 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
24 - St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill Duck Room
APRIL 2019
11 - Helsinki, FIN - On The Rocks
13 - Oslo, NOR - John Dee
14 - Stockholm, SWE - Debaser
15 - Copenhagen, DK - Hotel Cecil
17 - Leffinge, BE - De Zwerver
18 - Sint-Niklaas, BE - De Casino
19 - Hasselt, BE - MOD
22 - Paris, FR - Maroquinerie
24 - Madrid, ESP - Caracol
25 - Barcelona, ESP - Razzmatazz 2
26 - Nimes, FR - PALOMA Club
27 - Milan, ITA - Bloom
29 - Vienna, AT - Arena
30 - Prague, CZ - Rock Cafe
MAY 2019
1 - Poznan, POL - U Bazyla
2 - Warsaw, POL - Hydrozagadka (Noebo*)
4 - Nijmegen, NL - Sonic Whip Festival @ Doornroosje
6 - Brighton, UK - The Haunt
8 - Manchester, UK - Band On The Wall
9 - Cardiff, UK - Clwb Ifor Bach
ATW follows All Them Witches' sprawling fourth studio LP, SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR, acclaimed worldwide upon its 2017 release. "Stoner rock is crying out for an overhaul," wrote Classic Rock. "Thankfully, All Them Witches are taking it apart and piecing it back together again. Not for them the slavish Iommi worship of your average bong-huffing longhairs. The NASHVILLE band's fourth album parties like it's 1969 and 2019, looking forward to the future as much as it does backwards over a well-trodden past." "SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR is a slow burning experience but once that fire is lit then there's no putting it out," enthused The Quietus. "Harnessing classic rock tropes and transposing them to the present, it encapsulates All Them Witches beautifully, a mélange of influences and contemporary statement that smolders before blinding ignition." "Bands have been ladling big, colourful spoonfuls of psychedelia over the bare bones of the blues for generations," declared CLASH in a 9/10 rave, "but somehow All Them Witches find a way to make it sound exciting and brand new...(SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR) is so flawlessly crafted that I could happily compare it to Zep's 4 without feeling blasphemous, a rare honour indeed."
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