Texas fuzz forerunners Wo Fat announce a May 20 release date for their upcoming album, Midnight Cometh, through Ripple Music and stream the new track “Three Minutes to Midnight.” The band announced the “Texas Takeover II” with Mothership back in November, but the unveiling of the new song should be of particular note to longer-term followers of the band. The penultimate of six included tracks, it’s a swirling, fuzzed out Wo Fat jam playing off one of heavy metal’s best-known hooks with an identity all its own. As representation for the album, it speaks to the chemistry in the trio and their growth intuitively knowing where each member is going to be at any given moment within the song. I could go on. I’ll save it for the review. Point is you should check out the track.

The following just came in from the PR wire:

WO FAT confirm EU tour and release date for new album Midnight Cometh | Share brand new song ‘Three Minutes To Midnight’

Midnight Cometh by Wo Fat will be released on 20th May 2016 through Ripple Music

After slinging their Texas-sized psychedelic blues doom for over a decade, Dallas legends Wo Fat are thrilled to announce that this May will see the official release of their brand new studio album, Midnight Cometh on Ripple Music.

Throughout their sonic odyssey spanning five studio albums, a live album, and two splits, beginning in 2006 with The Gathering Dark, they have stayed true to the deep, dark blues that wails from within and have continually forged their riffs with a primal groove. Going stronger and rocking harder than ever before, the band are currently readying their next chapter – and first with Ripple – with the release of Midnight Cometh. Looming on the horizon and due for release on 20th May 2016, this newest slab of riffage is easily their most daring and psychotropic exploration of heaviness to date.

“We are thrilled to be working with our brothers in the riff at Ripple for this new record!” says vocalist Kent Stump. “We’ve been friends with Todd and Pope for a while and have always had a lot of respect for them personally, as well as the label itself, and we just kinda realised, that, hey, we should be working together. They are passionate about the music they release, they make really good choices when it comes to signing bands, they’re all about treating artists fairly and trying to help this scene grow, and they’re also a label on the rise.”

“We’ve been huge fans of Wo Fat and their maniacal brand of riff-heavy psychedelic grooves,” explains Ripple Music’s Todd Severin. “And they never fail to be one of the most mesmerizing bands we’ve ever seen on stage. We’re beyond thrilled to welcome them into the Ripple family.”

The critical success of their albums, most notably 2009’s Psychedelonaut, which truly solidified the Wo Fat name in the Stoner Rock community and secured them world wide recognition, helped land the band appearances at the legendary Roadburn Festival, Desertfest, Freak Valley Festival, Psycho California Festival and Sylak Open Air Festival as parts of a number of successful international tours.

Midnight Cometh will be released on 20th May 2016 and will be supported by a European tour (see dates below), which will also include appearances at Desertfest in Berlin and London and Hellfest, France.

Live Dates – Texas Takeover Tour II Europe 2016

18 April – Mephisto – Hannover, Germany

19 April – Schaubude – Kiel, Germany

20 April – TBA

21 April – Pokalen Pub – Oslo, Norway

22 April – Loppen – Copenhagen, Denmark

23 April – 1000FRYD – Aalborg, Denmark

24 April – Rock Café – Hamburg, Germany

25 April – The Vortex – Siegen, Germany

26 April – Feierwerk – Munich, Germany

27 April – Arena – Vienna, Austria

28 April – Desertfest – Berlin, Germany

29 April – Doornroosje – Nijmegen, Netherlands

30 April – Pre-Roadkill Festival Party – Waarschoot, Belgium

1 May – Desertfest – London, UK

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Wo Fat, “Three Minutes to Midnight”