GOATWHORE – Tour Dates With RINGWORM

GOATWHORE and Ringworm will team up this August for two weeks of touring. Dates include:

8/13 Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s Sports Cafe
8/14 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
8/15 Flagstaff, AZ @ Green Room
8/16 Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas (no Ringworm)
8/19 Portland, OR @ Paris Theatre
8/20 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
8/21 Spokane, WA @ The Pin
8/23 Cheyenne, WY @ Ernie November
8/24 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
8/25 Wichita, KS @ Rock Island Live

“We wanted it raw. We wanted it organic. We wanted it to sound the way we do in the live setting,” relays Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust of the band’s latest output, Vengeful Ascension. Their seventh full-length and second recorded reel-to-reel, Vengeful Ascension was captured at Earth Analog in Tolono, Illinois (near Champaign, Illinois) with longtime soundman and comrade Jarrett Pritchard (1349, Gruesome), breaking a four-album tradition of working with Erik Rutan.

“Working with Rutan was awesome. We did some great records with him,” Falgoust is quick to point out. “But you come to a point where you’re like, ‘All right. Let’s try something new.’ It was part of trying to remove ourselves from a comfort zone and a risk thing we needed to take. Plus, we really wanted to hit the essence of where we are live and what better way to harness that than by having our live sound guy involved. Jarrett is knowledgeable with the studio stuff. He also knows how we sound coming out of a PA and we really wanted to get closer to that. Pritchard really focused on that live aspect from every members’ perspective and I think he pushed us out of our personal comfort zones. He really understands our vision.”