RUBY THE HATCHET
(photo: Troy Memis)
Philly heavy psych
quintet RUBY THE HATCHET has completed work on its highly anticipated new
album. The bewitching rock troop featuring vocalist Jillian Taylor, guitarist
Johnny Scarps, bassist Lake Muir, drummer Owen Stewart and organist Sean Hur,
recorded the album in an 1800's era estate deep in the Pennsylvania woods with
engineers Joe Boldizar (Retro City Studios) and Zach Goldstein (Kawari Sound).
The as-yet-untitled album is slated for a spring 2017 release via Tee Pee
Records. The upcoming full-length follows the band's celebrated sophomore LP,
Valley of the Snake, which was hailed as "trippy, organ-tinged doom
metal" by Revolver and "a commanding display of hard rock" by
Verbicide.
"Setting up
shop and recording ourselves in an 1800's era estate has been a pleasure and a
labor," comments Taylor.
"We built the studio in house from the ground up – mostly Sean (organ),
with help from our friends at Kawari Sound and Retro City Studios. From
homemade preamps to third floor room mics hidden in echo chambers, the tones on
this album are truly vintage. Putting ourselves into seclusion provided a
process that influenced the album's sound, allowing us to create our own pocket
of deep space rock inside of a time warp where everything else stopped -
politics, personal shit, the day-to-day worries that tarnish the soul…all gone.
This album is like nothing we have ever made before."
More details on
RUBY THE HATCHET's upcoming album will be released soon. The band will launch a
U.S. tour alongside
labelmates Earthless on December 2 in Chicago,
IL. Fans can expect to hear a
taste of the band's new material on the two week trek, which runs through
December 17 in Detroit, MI. The tour wraps up two years of heavy
touring by the band in support of Valley
Of The Snake, which saw RUBY THE
HATCHET hit the road with Black
Mountain, Uncle Acid
& The Deadbeats and The Sword.
RUBY THE HATCHET
tour dates:
* All shows with
EARTHLESS
December 2 Chicago,
IL Empty Bottle
December 3 St
Louis, MO The Firebird
December 4 Norman, OK OPOLIS
December 6 Dallas,
TX Club Dada
December 7 Austin,
TX Barracuda
December 8 Houston,
TX Rudyard's Pub
December 9 Baton
Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
December 10 Atlanta,
GA The EARL
December 11 Raleigh,
NC Barcade
December 12 Richmond,
VA Strange Matter
December 13 New
York, NY Bowery Ballroom
December 14 Brooklyn,
NY Saint Vitus
December 15 Pittsburgh,
PA Club Cafe
December 16 Cleveland,
OH Grog Shop
December 17 Detroit,
MI El Club
About RUBY THE HATCHET
Psychedelic space
rockers RUBY THE HATCHET are one of heavy music’s finest on-the-rise bands.
Evoking a decade’s worth of growth and maturity gained in just a few short years,
the genesis from the band’s 2011 self-titled EP to present day has been nothing
short of stunning. Forming after a series of New Jersey basement practices,
this doomy quintet bring an organ-driven Deep Purple groove, wailing female
vocal harmonies and fuzzy guitar and bass tones that are nostalgic, but not
dated. Live intensity and tightness is paramount for these in-the-pocket
groovers who not only write together, but live together. RUBY THE HATCHET
conjure occult-flavored, evil hard rock with hypnotic and mythical lyrics for a
witchy brew of ominous wild rock sounds. If the Wilson sisters had a 5-headed Sabbath love
child and Stevie Nicks was the mid-wife, consider RUBY THE HATCHET the bastard
that strikes a balance between psych density and metal grandiosity.
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