Friday, March 13, 2009

DREDG Announces Release of Highly Anticipated NEW Studio Album 'The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion Out June 9th

Aggressive and beautiful, visceral and thoughtful, Dredg are set to release their highly anticipated release, The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion on their own Ohlone Recordings through Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group June 9, 2009. The album will be available online and in stores with a limited edition disc featuring alternate artwork and a vinyl recording also to be offered. More InformationAggressive and beautiful, visceral and thoughtful, Dredg are set to release their highly anticipated release, The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion on their own Ohlone Recordings through Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group June 9, 2009. The album will be available online and in stores with a limited edition disc featuring alternate artwork and a vinyl recording also to be offered.

In support of The Pariah, Dredg will headline a special North American club tour with Torche, kicking off March 15th in Iowa City before taking the country by storm this summer. Drawing massively as an underground favorite, Dredg has toured extensively, headlining multiple tours as well as supporting some of the most respected and popular of their peers.

Produced by Matt Radosevich, The Pariah marks the Bay Area band's fourth full-length studio album. On this release, Gavin Hayes (vocals, guitar), Drew Roulette (bass, moog, speak & spell, samples), Mark Engles (guitar) and Dino Campanella (drums, keys) combine to create equal parts punk aggression and metallic complexity - a sound that brings together the artistic instrumentation, haunting vocals and emotional intensity that is Dredg.

Though driven by rhythms and guitars, The Pariah is far from a typical rock album. Inspired in part by Salman Rushdie's essay "Imagine There's No Heaven: A Letter to the 6 Billionth Citizen," Dredg capture the madness of the modern world, particularly its battles over religion and science, within a musical missive to the future. Fittingly, The Pariah is packaged and constructed like a letter, its songs and instrumental interludes connected by eerie, evocative Wurlitzer piano-and-voice segments. Diverse and textured, these intentional imperfections allow some of Dredg's mellowest recorded moments to mingle with some of their harshest.

After forming in 1993 and self-releasing two EPs, Dredg's independent 1998 debut Leitmotif threaded melody into their heavy sound. Leitmotif was re-released in 2001 on Interscope, followed by 2002's El Cielo, which was more ambitious in its concept and instrumentation. Inspired by a Salvador Dali painting depicting sleep paralysis, the album was dark and atmospheric. Dredg responded to the density of El Cielo by focusing on songwriting over concept for 2005's Catch Without Arms. Coming full circle, The Pariah combines the raw power of the band's earliest records with both the epic, cinematic sweep and operatic ambition of El Cielo as well as the exceptional songwriting and searing ballast of Catch Without Arms.

As creative as these albums have proven to be, Dredg's members have artistic wings that span beyond the band. Engles and Campanella scored the 2005 independent film Waterborne, while Campanella scored the '06 comedy Carbabes on his own. Hayes also collaborated with founding Queensryche guitarist Chris DeGarmo to create music for the '06 film Expiration Date and has toured numerous times as a vocalist for Dan the Automator. In addition, Hayes and Roulette are accomplished painters whose work has graced Dredg's records and merchandise. Roulette has also designed album art for many other bands, and he and Hayes have contributed lyrics to the experimental rockers The Sounds of Animals Fighting.

The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion will be available June 9, 2009. Tickets to the upcoming Dredg North American tour are now on sale exclusively at www.dredg.com


UPCOMING SHOWS:
March
15 - The Picador @ Iowa City, IA
16 - Riot Room @ Kansas City, KS
17 - The Marquee @ Tulsa, OK
18 - Scout Bar @ San Antonio, TX
20 - Buffalo Billiards (SxSW - ILG Showcase) @ Austin TX
21 - Emo's (SxSW) @ Austin, TX

April
3 - Hawthorne Theatre @ Portland, OR
4 - Nightlight @ Bellingham, WA
5 - Neumo's @ Seattle, WA
7 - Avalon Theater @ Salt Lake City, UT
8 - The Marquis Theatre @ Denver, CO
10 - Varsity Theatre @ Minneapolis, MN
11 - Vaudville Mews @ Des Moines, IA
12 - Empty Bottle @ Chicago, IL
13 - Eagle Theater @ Pontiac, MI
15 - Middle East Downstairs @ Boston, MA
16 - Theater of Living Arts @ Philadelphia, PA
17 - Chameleon Club @ Lancaster, PA
18 - Sonar @ Baltimore, MD
19 - Highline Ballroom @ New York, NY
21 - The Brewery @ Raleigh, NC
22 - Masquerade @ Atlanta, GA
24 - Social @ Orlando, FL
25 - Culture Club @ Ft Lauderdale, FL
26 - State Theater @ Tampa, FL
30 - Meridian @ Houston, TX

May
1 - Grenada @ Dallas, TX
2 - Emo's @ Austin, TX
4 - Launchpad @ Albuquerque, NM
5 - Martini Ranch @ Phoenix, AZ
6 - Club Congress @ Tucson, AZ
8 - Glasshouse @ Pomona, CA
9 - Velvet Jones @ Santa Barbara, CA
10 - House of Blues @ San Diego, CA
12 - Starlite @ Fresno, CA
13 - Downtown Brew @ San Luis Obispo, CA
15 - The Underground @ Reno, NV
16 - Senator Theatre @ Chico, CA
19 - Great American @ San Francisco, CA
20 - Bimbo's 365 @ San Francisco, CA
21 - Catalyst @ Santa Cruz, CA
22 - Troubadour @ Los Angeles, CA
23 - Troubadour @ Los Angeles, CA



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