Massachusetts hellions, GOZU, will take their riffs overseas next week for their first-ever European takeover! Set to begin at the legendary Roadburn Festival, the band will wage a full-on volume ambush through ten select locales in the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and Italy, concluding with a performance at Desertfest in Berlin.
GOZO will be touting the fruit of their The Fury Of A Patient Man full-length released last Spring via Small Stone. The self-produced ten track monster earned widespread praise for its Chris Cornellian vocal swells and robust, heavy rock swagger. Describes The Big Takeover of the release, "Besides wielding bruising riffs like katanas, the Cambridge, Massachusetts quartet shows an impish sense of pop culture humor with titles like 'Charles Bronson Pinchot,' 'Disco Related Injury' and the Welcome Back, Kotter referencing 'Signed, Epstein's Mom.' But the primary reasons GOZU stomps most pot smoking riffmeisters into the ground are their two frontdudes. Guitarist Doug Sherman maintains a melodic touch even as his amps scream for mercy, and singer Marc Gaffney exudes as much soul as bravado." Adds MetalSucks, "GOZU play the tunes on their sophomore album with a pair of great grizzled gonads. We're talking balls, people, some truly tremendous twin testes. The kind so deeply and scraggily forested that those epic ball-beards have epic ball-beards; the kind that require a high quality wide-angle lens to get any real perspective on... At times, The Fury Of A Patient Man plays like a de-progged Mastodon after a dozen successful anger management sessions, or a laid back King Giant. The consistently competent delivery, the thick lowdown chords, dynamic proficiency and attention to density all point that direction. It's the kind of heavy rock that just about anybody can enjoy over a few foamy brews in a hazy basement bar on a Saturday night. And when your date agrees to take the evening back to your place, you can even pretend she's thinking of you the whole time."
A special deluxe edition of The Fury Of A Patient Man was recently released via Small Stone in celebration of the upcoming European journey. Limited to 500 copies, the 2XLP set comes on 180-gram wax with a wide spine jacket, poly-lined sleeve, and two colors - LP one is "clear green" while LP two is "solid purple." Sides one, two and three feature tracks from the original album, while side four offers up exclusive vinyl-only numbers with one original tune ("Break You") and GOZUed renditions of Simply Red's "Holding Back The Years" and D'Angelo's "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker."
GOZU Spring Tour 2014: 4/12/2014 Roadburn - Tilburg, NL 4/13/2014 Hafenklang - Hamburg, DE 4/15/2014 Feierwerk - Munich, DE 4/16/2014 Channel Zero - Ljubiljana, SI 4/17/2014 Magnolia - Milano, IT 4/18/2014 E20 Underground - Montecchio, IT 4/19/2014 TBA 4/20/2014 TBA 4/22/2014 Das Bette - Frankfurt, DE 4/23/2014 Musicon - Den Haag, NL 4/24/2014 The Underground - Cologne, DE 4/25/2014 Astra Kulturhaus Desertfest - Berlin, DE
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