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\nVancouver BC\u2019s BISON will be returning this fall to ON\/QC Canada with their mighty mammoth sound starting Oct. 12 in Armstrong BC and ending Oct. 23 in Hamilton, ONT! These dates are in support of their latest release \u201cDark Ages\u201d that came out via Metal Blade Records on April 13\/10.
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\nA bison is \u201ca big, hairy, strong animal,\u201d says James Farwell, who plays guitar and sings for Bison b.c. That could as just as well describe the band, which rose from the ass-end of the continent in Vancouver, Canada, to utter its doomed, plaintive call, and tramples through the constellations on its four shaggy limbs (James, Dan And, Masa Anzai, and Brad Mackinnon). Ghostly, windswept prairies, the mythical haunts of native lore: it is all there. Self-described \u201cCanadian dirtbags\u201d and veterans of Vancouver\u2019s deep thrash and indie scenes, they are hitting their stride and offering up a new soundtrack for our last party before certain extinction. There is illness, abuse, apocalypse, and French horn.
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\nTheir first Metal Blade release, Quiet Earth, showed what that earth\u2019s last sound might be like. It was heavy, sick, and crazy; stomping and banging, elegiac with cello. Just beneath the rock they described a bad trip through a devastated world where resigned dignity and camaraderie with the friends that remain are the only consolations.
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\nThis mixture of rowdiness and gentleness is very much of their hard-living, hard-loving hometown: fucked-up modernity\u2019s last outpost on the rim of a vast, menacing wilderness. In their new release, James sings, \u201cVancouver\u2019s an empty bottle, our dying thirst causing problems. Stand at dawn, the beginning of something heartfelt and replaceable.\u201d No matter where we are, this is what it has come to in this age. So let\u2019s listen to these gentlemen and rock out together.
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\nRelentless touring \u2013 with the likes of Priestess, Baroness, 3 Inches Of Blood, Shadows Fall, Helmet, Voivod, Kylessa, High On Fire and more \u2013 has fine tuned the band\u2019s dedication to the riff to metallic perfection. Dark Ages breathes like a rabid animal that you\u2019d find tied up in WINO\u2019s backyard. It\u2019s Flying V\u2019s, analog perfection, loud & sludgy, played by hairy dudes in dirty denim jackets.
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\nBISON B.C. TOUR DATES:<\/strong>
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\n10.12 Armstrong, BC @ Branding Iron Pub
\n10.14 Saskatoon, SK @ Amigo\u2019s
\n10.15 Brandon, MB @ Parthenon Pizza
\n10.16 Winnipeg, MB @ The Royal Albert Arms
\n10.19 London, ON @ London Music Hall #
\n10.20 Ottawa, ON @ Dekcuf
\n10.21 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
\n10.22 Toronto, ON @ Sneaky Dee\u2019s
\n10.23 Hamilton, ON @ Casbah
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