There are a lot of albums coming out on October 2nd by a diverse crop of heavy bands. You’ve got Trivium’s Silence in the Snow, Clutch’s Psychic Warfare, and of course Kylesa’s Exhausting Fire. The Savannah band has been fine-tuning their sound for a while now, which is a nice combination between sludge and psychedelia, led by a pair of drummers and the dual vocals (and guitars) of Philip Cope and Laura Pleasents. And while our favorite album up until now has been a toss-up between 2009s Static Tensions and the following year’s Spiral Shadow, they might have just made their best one with Exhausting Fire, which is streaming now on Noisey.
Crushing grooves like “Inward Debate” find the band sludgy as all hell, and if you’ve listened to previously-released tracks “Shaping the Summer Sky” and “Lost and Confused,” you know their melody and riff game is on point. In short, their seventh album is perhaps the best if their 14-year career, and you should listen to it now. They’ll also be undertaking a tour starting next month, and when we saw them with Cult of Luna earlier this month, they were at the top of their game. Here’s where you’ll be able to catch them:
10/6 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theater
10/7 Miami, FL @ Grand Central
10/8 Orlando, FL @ The Social
10/9 Savannah, GA @ Jinx Savannah
10/10 Asheville, NC @ New Mountain
10/11 Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
10/13 Columbus, OH @ The Basement
10/14 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
10/15 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
10/16 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
10/17 Pittsburgh, PA @ ALTAR BAR
10/19 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
10/20 Philadelphia, PA @ The Black Box at Underground Arts
10/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus Bar
10/22 Jersey City, NJ @ Monty Hall
10/23 Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
10/24 Washington, DC @ Rock And Roll Hotel
10/25 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
11/2 Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street Collective
11/3 Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s Sports Cafe & Backroom
11/4 El Paso, TX @ Sandbox
11/5 Tucson, AZ @ club congress
11/6 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House Concert Hall
11/7 Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
11/8 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
11/10 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic
11/11 Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
11/13 Austin, TX @ Red 7
11/14 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
11/15 Dallas, TX @ The Prophet Bar
11/17 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
11/18 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
11/19 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
11/20 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
11/21 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/22 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
