Melbourne thrash grind unit, KING PARROT, will be leveling North America on a near-six-week run of live assaults. As the tour kicks off in Ventura, California this Friday, the band will ravage their way through nearly three dozen cities including an appearance at this year’s Tone Deaf Touring Showcase at SXSW featuring Spirit Caravan, Iron Reagan, Pilgrim and more as well as two additional SXSW abrasions. The band will be joined by atmospheric blackened doom bringers, Vattnet Viskar, and stoner death doomers, Vaporizer, on select dates.
Shouts the band simply, “Raw, extreme and right over the top! Australia’s KING PARROT embark on their first North American Tour starting this week! Be there.”
Among Australia’s most lethal and extreme new bands, KING PARROT will be touring in support of their Bite Your Head Off full-length released via Candlelight Records last year. Produced by Jason Fuller (Blood Duster, Dern Rutlidge) and Adam Calaitzis (Damaged, Abramelin), the record manages to capture the raw intensity of their live shows, defying genres with a cross section attack of thrash, grind, punk and hardcore. Beat.com crowned the record, “a calculated piece of extreme art, with strong musicianship and a production job skilfully left just on the right side of raw and dirty,” in a 9/10 score Ghost Cult boasts, “its ceaseless brutality will do much more than just rip your head off… from start to finish it tears you limb from limb,” while the Metal Observer adds, “Whether it’s ‘Dead End,’ the shortest, meanest track on the album, or ‘Cold Steel Probe,’ an infectious onslaught of multi-leveled grind that has no qualms about dragging coffins or simply setting them afire, KING PARROT‘s Bite Your Head Off is a no-brainer, comfortably taking a seat next to other 2012 entries like Strong Intention’s Razorblade Express, Mulletcorpse’s Disinfect, and Kess’khtak’s Nurturing Conditions For Rupture. Killer stuff.”
Don’t take their word. Peep the video for “Shit On The Liver” at THIS LOCATION.
KING PARROT Live Assaults 2014:
3/08/2014 Whiskey a Go Go – West Hollywood, CA w/ Cattle Decapitation
3/09/2014 Porters Pub – La Jolla, CA w/ Cattle Decapitation
3/12/2014 Tomcats West – Fort Worth, TX w/ Vattnet Viskar, Vaporizer
3/13/2014 SXSW @ Wonderland – Austin, TX w/ Pilgrim, Lazer/Wulf, Vaporizer
3/2014/2014 SXSW – Austin, TX w/ Vattnet Viskar, Vaporizer
3/15/2014 Tone Deaf Touring SXSW Showcase @ Red Eyed Fly – Austin, TX w/ Spirit Caravan, Iron Reagan, Vattnet Viskar, Lazer/Wulf, Pilgrim, Vaporizer
w/ Vattnet Viskar, Vaporizer
3/17/2014 Mud & Water – Baton Rouge, LA
3/18/2014 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
3/19/2014 Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA
3/20/2014 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
3/21/2014 Hoodie’s – Longwood, FL
3/22/2014 The Standard – St. Augustine, FL
3/23/2014 Churchill’s Pub – Miami, FL
3/25/2014 The Chop Shop – Charlotte, NC
3/26/2014 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
3/27/2014 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD
3/29/2014 Ralph’s – Worcester, MA
3/30/2014 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
3/31/2014 Nectars – Burlington, VA
w/ Vattnet Viskar
4/01/2014 Il Motore – Montreal, QC
4/02/2014 Bug Jar – Rochester, NY
4/03/2014 Hard Luck – Toronto, ON
4/04/2014 Kobo Live – Columbus, OH
4/08/2014 Reggies – Chicago, IL
4/09/2014 Triple Rock – Minneapolis, MN
4/10/2014 Replay Lounge – Lawrence, KS
4/11/2014 Marquis Theater – Denver, CO
4/12/2014 Burt’s Tiki Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
4/13/2014 The Shredder – Boise, ID
4/14/2014 Electric Owl – Vancouver, BC
4/15/2014 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
4/16/2014 Rotture – Portland, OR
4/17/2014 Thee Parkside – San Francisco, CA
4/20/2014 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
“I’ve never felt so personally threatened by a record before” — Hysteria Magazine
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KING PARROT: Australian Thrash Grind Unit Kicks Off North American Tour
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