– August 14th, 2024 –
Acclaimed Prophecy Album Out Now On Metal Blade Records
Photo by Tracy Lolla
Slasherwave soloist GOST is preparing to assault the Western half of the US on the Prophecy Tour 2024. Launching with Scorched Fest in Tucson on August 17th, the tour will run through Texas and up the West Coast into the Midwest, ending with sets at Crucialfest in Salt Lake City September 13th and Heavy Hell V open air fest in Indianapolis September 14th. The journey precedes the band’s European tour with HEALTH and Zetra this October. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.
GOST – Prophecy Tour 2024:
8/17/2024 Scorched Fest – Tucson, AZ
8/23/2024 Dark Summer Fest – Los Angeles, CA
8/31/2024 Andy’s – Denton, TX
9/01/2024 Mohawk – Austin, TX
9/03/2024 Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
9/04/2024 The Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
9/05/2024 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
9/07/2024 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
9/08/2024 Cafe Colonial – Sacramento, CA
9/10/2024 Substation – Seattle, WA
9/11/2024 Dante’s – Portland, OR
9/13/2024 Crucialfest – Salt Lake City, UT
9/14/2024 Heavy Hell V – Indianapolis, IN
w/ HEALTH, Zetra:
10/11/2024 Soulcrusher – Nijmegen, NL
10/12/2024 Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL
10/13/2024 Burgerhaus Stollwerck – Cologne, DE
10/15/2024 Institute 2 – Birmingham, UK
10/16/2024 O2 Ritz – Manchester, UK
10/17/2024 The Garage – Glasgow, UK
10/18/2024 Opium – Dublin, IR
10/19/2024 O2 Academy 2 – Liverpool, UK
10/20/2024 Electric Brixton – London, UK
10/22/2024 La Machine De Moulin Rouge – Paris, FR
10/24/2024 Backstage Halle – Munchen, DE
10/25/2024 Szene – Vienna, AT
10/26/2024 A38 – Budapest, HU
10/27/2024 Fuchs2 – Prague, CZ
10/28/2024 Progesja – Warsaw, PL
10/29/2024 UT Connewitz – Leipzig, DE
10/30/2024 Hole 44 – Berlin, DE
GOST‘s acclaimed Prophecy full-length, out now on Metal Blade Records, claimed multiple Billboard chart positions upon its first week of release, including #1 Electronic Albums, #14 Current Hard Rock Albums, #20 Top New Artist Albums, and more.
GOST exists in the dark crack between black metal and the most shadowy end of electronic music. Since the release of the Radio Macabre EP at the start of 2013, and the remorseless digital nightmare of their Skull debut album six months later, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and main-brain James Lollar has become an increasingly singular force in music. Far more aggressive and sinister than the synthwave he’s often grouped with, GOST is a harsh and unique digital nightmare that takes the listener right into the heart of the abyss.
Prophecy serves as Lollar’s most exhilarating and dangerous sounding work to date. It’s a record that perfectly reflects the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with religious and political overreach, and progress, “being rolled back to the fucking 1950s.” Prophecy was recorded by Lollar alone in Texas during a burst of creativity at the end of 2022. Following the experimentation and more melodic touches of 2019’s Valediction, the record also acts as something of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of GOST.
From the industrial scrape of “Death In Bloom,” the doomy “Decadent Decay,” and the demonic pulse of “Golgotha,” Lollar welds together elements of pulsing synthwave, the otherworldly nastiness of black metal, and the pound and snarl of Ministry at their most unhinged to create a whole that sounds genuinely dangerous, somewhere between metal and a rave in Hell.
Prophecy is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Find ordering options at: metalblade.com/gost
Watch GOST‘s “Leviathan“ video HERE, the “Judgement/Prophecy“ video HERE, and the “Widow Song“ lyric video HERE.
GOST:
James Lollar – everything
“Hellish blasts of blackened industrial like ‘Death In Bloom’ and ‘Digital Death’ harken back to the digital demonology of 2018’s Possessor. While harshness eclipses hooks, mascara traces remain: ‘Widow Song’ enjoys the silence if humanity’s demise.” — Decibel Magazine
“Bewitching black-metal hisses laid over thumping darkwave synths and thwacking industrial drums. A match made in Hell.” — Revolver on “Widow Song“
“The world his music inhabits is nocturnal and sinister, bathed in crimson neon; while its electronic beats might point a bony finger in the direction of the dancefloor, the environment it portrays is more ritual than rave…Prophecy continues in this established trajectory, with Satanic soundbites and Biblical artwork conjuring an end-of-days vibe altogether in keeping with the horror movie synths reverberating throughout.” — Kerrang
“…while each song could stand alone as a pop banger, there’s a definite flow to the album as well… If you’re frustrated with the world today and don’t know whether to get mad or dance about, it this record will make you do both. It’s a confusing feeling, but bear with us; it’s also strangely cathartic.” — MetalSucks
“GOST provides both synth and metal purists a focal point to indulge upon with hellish glee. Prophecy will no doubt go down as a stylistic staple, an example of how to make immense music of infinite flavors that pulverizes all fortunate enough to be in its wake.” — No Clean Singing
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