Lazer/Wulf, the Georgia-based instrumental trio – whose music “echoes the best math, metal, and prog rock craftsmanship of the last decade,” according to Creative Loafing – premiereBeast Reality (Center Piece) from their forthcoming album The Beast of Left and Right via Noisey HERE.
The nine-track album is written as a palindrome, that is, it is the same backwards and forwards with two distinct halves, Left and Right. For instance, the first song on the album, Choose Again, uses the exact same chords, riffs and drum tracks as the final song on the album, Mutual End but one is major and the other is minor. As the band explains it, “The idea is that either way you choose, Left or Right, the paths are the same.”
Lazer/Wulf have self-released two EPs: 2009’s The Void That Isn’t and the 2012 release There Was a Hole Here. It’s Gone Now. The three-piece, who Flagpole called “maniacal, prog-obsessed precisionists” is Bryan Aiken (guitar), Sean Peiffer (bass) and Brad Rice (drums).
Lazer/Wulf join Kylesa for a European tour, which kicks off on June 9 in Germany. Full dates are as follows:
June 9 Braunschweig, Germany Kulturclub Hansa
June 10 Lyngby, Denmark Templet
June 11 Malmo, Sweden Babel
June 12 Oslo, Norway Vulkan Arena
June 13 Bergen, Norway Bergenfest
June 15 Kiel, Germany Pumpe
June 16 Drachten, Netherlands Iduna
June 17 Stuttgart, Germany Juha West
June 18 Siegen, Germany Vortex
June 19 Saarbrucken, Germany Garage
June 20 Clisson, France Hellfest
June 21 Vitoria, Spain Canopy
June 22 Porto, Portugal Hard Club
June 23 Madrid, Spain Boite Live
June 24 Barcelona, Spain Razzmatazz 3
June 25 Toulouse, France Le Connexion
June 26 Montpellier, France La Taf
June 27 Lausanne, Switzerland Inferno Fest
June 28 Dessel, Belgium Graspop
June 29 Wiesbaden, Germany Schlachthof
June 30 Munchen, Germany Strom
July 1 Pisa, Italy The Jungle
July 2 Bolonga, Italy Freakout Club
July 3 Ljubljana, Slovenia Gala Hala
July 4 Rijeka, Croatia Delta Summer Street Session
July 5 Gleisdorf, Austria Bang Bang Club
July 7 Warsaw, Poland Progresja
July 8 Gdansk, Poland B90
July 9 Berlin, Germany Magnet
July 10 Dresden, Germany Scheune
July 11 Erfurt, Germany Stoned From The Underground
July 12 Linz, Austria Ottenheimer Open Air
July 13 Monchengladbach, Germany Horst Festival
July 15 St. Petersburg, Russia Zal Ozhidaniya
July 16 Moscow, Russia Volta
The Beast of Left and Right is released via Retro Futurist Records on July 15th, but is available exclusively at the shows listed above prior to it’s official release.
Retro Futurist Records was formed by the core members of the heavy rock/psych/metal group KYLESA (Phillip Cope, Laura Pleasants, Carl McGinley II). Veterans of the underground music scene and diehard music fans in general, they wanted to put together a label to showcase young and promising talent while offering artists a friendly home.
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