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What’s better than big wagons? MASSIVE WAGONS! And the chief rock squad are rolling across the UK this May for four select dates through England and Wales with support from alternative metallers InMe.
Riding high from a fruitful, successful and busy 2024, the hard-working rockers are fresh back from living it up on the USA’s Monsters of Rock Cruise, and celebrating a massive #1 album in the UK Rock Album Charts and a stellar #4 placement in the Official UK Top 40 Album Charts for their new release Earth To Grace. Out now via Earache Records, the five party animals from Lancaster will not only be promoting the 11-track LP on Part 2 of their UK headline run, but with a slew of headline European dates in April and as main support to Myles Kennedy’s EU shows in June to boot.
The Earth To Grace Tour Pt. 2:
Sun 20th Apr – HAMBURG, Bahnhofpauli
Tues 22nd Apr – ASCHAFFENBURG, Colos-saal
Weds 23rd Apr – OSNABRÜCK, Rosenhof
Thu 24th Apr – NUREMERG, Hirsch
Sat 26th Apr – ZURICH, Exil
Mon 28th Apr – PRAGUE, Rock Cafe
Tues 29th Apr – BUDAPEST, Dererkert
Weds 30th Apr – VIENNA, Viper Room
Fri 2nd May – JENA, F-Haus
Sat 3rd May – LEIPZIG, Hellraiser
Thu 15th May – CAMBRIDGE, Junction
Fri 16th May – NEWCASTLE, Uni
Sat 17th May – LEEDS, Stylus
Sun 18th May – CARDIFF, Tramshed
Get your tickets here: https://www.massivewagons.com/
New album Earth To Grace brings the anthemic muscle and punked-up gusto that Massive Wagons have made their name with, while adding a pinch of stardust that shoots the band into the stratosphere as master songcrafters. Earth To Grace found diverse inspiration in the sad passing of Sinéad O’Connor, the unsettling movie Sound Of Freedom, the “brutal” TikTok algorithm, and themes to ’80s TV shows like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and Cities Of Gold.
Earth To Grace smacks the bullseye every time when it comes to Wagons’ ability to create memorable anthems. From the gleaming slow dancer “Night Skies”, to the match-striking dynamism of “The Good Die Young” (featuring Hundred Reasons’ vocalist Colin Doran) and the landsliding force of Adam ‘Bowzer’ Bouskill’s bass and Alex Thistlethwaite’s drumming on album opener “Sleep Forever”, every track is a head-turner in its own right. The album also sees the welcome return of the direct sincerity of Mills’ lyricism, as well as Adam Thistlethwaite and Stevie Holl’s twin guitars, which, entwine to create a hulking double helix of guitar brawn.
Order the album now on coloured vinyl, black vinyl, signed bonus edition CD and more at earache.com/massivewagons.
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