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Brimstone Howl Go Soph


07/31/2008
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(The Lippin Group) Alive Records has announced the upcoming album release from Nebraska's 60's influenced garage and old school punks Brimstone Howl. The follow-up to their Dan Auerbach produced debut, the band enlisted Detroit's legendary producer Jim Diamond to man the boards for their sophomore effort, We Came in Peace, hitting stores September 2nd.

Led by charismatic singer/songwriter John Ziegler and guitarist extraordinaire Nick Waggoner, with Calvin Retzlaff on drums, the boys traveled to Ghetto Recorders in Detroit for a very productive recording session with the legendary Jim Diamond (The Dirtbombs, The Hentchmen, The Sights, The White Stripes) . Described by NME as "Beatles-headed psych-nerds with a taste for razor sharp snake-rock, We Came in Peace is the follow-up to Guts Of Steel (Alive 2007) an album hailed as "unholy hot-wiring of the Sonics, the Damned and the Blues Explosion" (Magnet) and "cranked lo-fi blues rock from Nebraska's hoodlums" (Uncut).

Despite its cryptic title We Came in Peace is another fun explosion of fuzz and American-gothic chit-chatter, with "weird fictional adventure stories, and beginner blues guitar lessons from mongoloids," as they like to describe it. The album is packed with great songs, including the amazing power punk pop "A Million Years," the Cramps-worshiper "Child of Perdition" or the VU-psych influenced "Easy to Dream".

Brimstone Howl will begin a U.S. tour in August, followed by a European in October with additional dates being added through next year. Currently, the band has been sharing stages with fellow travelers Jay Reatard (who produced one of their first singles) and the Black Lips, among many others, gathering reviews such as this one: "Pumping with hot red blood, they slopped their rock & roll around the room: dirty, gritty, just right. For the finale, the four players became two piggyback stacks. The playing continued as the dueling human towers wobbled about the room, knocking into the lampshades and ending up in a heap of bodies on the floor and a blistering wall of noise. Now THAT'S how you do it." (Orlando Weekly).

The CD version of We Came in Peace includes one bonus track not on the VINYL version. The first LP pressing on purple vinyl is a limited edition run of 500 copies.

August 4 TBA Denver, CO
August 5 Launch Pad Albuquerque, NM w/The Foxx
August 6 TBA Tucson, AZ
August 7 Ken Club San Diego, CA
August 8 TBA Los Angeles, CA
August 9 TBA Los Angeles, CA
August 10 Crash Mansion Los Angeles, CA w/Electric Prunes
August 11 Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, CA (early show)
August 13 Double Down Saloon Las Vegas, NV
August 14 TBA Salt Lake City, UT
August 15 Rocket Room Colorado Springs, CO
August 16 Platte Valley Brewery Kearney, NB
September 11 GT's Des Moines, IA w/Crusaders of Love
September 12 Turf Club St. Paul, MN w/Crusaders of Love
September 13 Vault Milwaukee, WI w/Crusaders of Love
September 14 TBA Chicago, IL w/Crusaders of Love
September 15 TBA Detroit, MI w/Crusaders of Love
September 16 Now That's Class Cleveland, OH w/Crusaders of Love
September 17 TBA Buffalo, NY w/Crusaders of Love
September 18 Caf� Nine New Haven, CT w/Crusaders of Love
September 19 TBA New York, NY w/Crusaders of Love
September 20 Passout Records instore New York, NY w/Crusaders of Love
September 20 Don Pedro's New York, NY w/Crusaders of Love
September 21 TBA Columbus, OH w/Crusaders of Love
September 22 The Knickerbocker Lafayette, IN w/Crusaders of Love
September 23 TBA St. Louis, MO
September 24 Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, GA w/Crusaders of Love



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