Not only will San Francisco black metal project Botanist be coming to the UK with avant garde-ists Kayo Dot this April, but they’ll also be releasing a rare EP to be sold on the European tour! Limited to only 250 physical copies, The Hammer Of Botany will feature 5 new tracks from the ‘Green Metal’ group.

(Fear not Americans! It’ll be released online after the tour).

As with all Botanist’s music the concept is fleshed out and fascinating, the band posted that “Hammer of Botany refers to the EP’s titular character, Arctopoides, a hammer-wielding floral giant who walks the earth and is invisible to man”. This should be a really exciting EP as Botanist’s last release IV: Flora saw them step into something really special.

If being able to see Botanist and Kayo Dot in the UK wasn’t incentive enough, vinyl collectors are gonna want to get on an early date of this tour before this limited offer runs out. See the tour dates below.

Go to a show, buy the EP, re-enter the Verdant Realm.

Jack Richard King