Following on from the release of their new album All That Divides, Black Peaks have now announced a short headline run of dates through February 2019, with support on all dates from Phoxjaw. These shows will follow on directly from their month-long support tour with the brilliant Enter Shikari. The tour with Enter Shaikari, which starts on Friday 11th January at Nottingham’s Rock City, will come to Liverpool’s 02 Academy on Wednesday 16th January, before culminating in Lincoln on February 15th with support from Phoxjaw.
The bands recently released its second album All That Divides, which garnered rave reviews across the board and is now appearing in magazine End Of Year lists (currently the number 1/Album Of The Year’ in Upset Magazine as well as in both Metal Hammer and The Independent lists).
NME gave the album 5/5 and said “With “All That Divides”, the band delivers an album that’s confident, stylistically cohesive, and points towards their ascending star in the future. If there’s one thing that this album shows, it’s that Black Peaks are a force to be reckoned with.” whist Upset Magazine (of whom put the band on the cover for their September issue) gave the album 5/5 and said, ”BLACK PEAKS bellow unity from the rooftops. It’s not a political record, but it does dish out the blame…rather than dwelling in the more though, BLACK PEAKS want hope. They need it…A call to arms entwined, it’s a record of struggle and resistance. It doesn’t have the answers, but it knows they’re out there. It wants to find them together”.
The band have already released the singles Home, Electric Fires and Can’t Sleep, and the later was a Radio 1 Rock Show Rockest Record and Huw Stevens Single Of The Week in April, and is the opening track on All That Divides.
Live wise in 2018, on top of their recent U.K. All That Divides headline tour (that took in two sold out London show at The Omera and The Underworld) the band have toured with A Perfect Circle across Europe, a U.K. tour with Marmozets and a special one-off show for B.B.C. Radio 1 in Swansea, as a headliner for their Biggest Weekend Fringe Festival/event.
These tours add to an already impressive touring history that includes dates and tours in U.K. and Europe with the likes of Mastodon, Architects, A System Of A Down, Prophets Of Rage, Dillinger Escape Plan, Bury Tomorrow, Lonely The Brave and Arcane Roots. In the summer, the band will play a host of U.K. and European festivals including ArcTanGent (August) and Reading and Leeds (August), a 2nd stage headlining slot at the 2000trees Festival (July) and Fat Lip Festival (August).
Tickets for the show at Liverpool’s 02 Academy are on sale now.