New Uncle Acid kind of speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Some breaking-ish news in that the UK four-piece, who’ve only gotten huger since the release of their 2013 sophomore outing, Mind Control (review here), are set to make a direct assault on US shores this fall. They’ll still be releasing The Night Creeper on Rise Above, but I think it’s especially telling in terms of the band’s priorities that they’ll launch the new album just a few days later with a full run of North American major markets.

Not a thing to complain about, at least if you happen to live in one of those markets. Last time I caught Uncle Acid — last Sept., in NYC — they held the stage in full command under mostly-dim lights, backed by tube-television static and a single pair of light-up cat’s eyes. What grainy and lysergic horrors will unfold with The Night Creeper? We’ll know come the fall.

From the PR wire:

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats Announce New Album The Night Creeper

Out September 4 via Rise Above Records

Touring the US This Fall

The United Kingdom’s greatest cult band Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats are to return with their fourth full-length studio album The Night Creeper on September 4 via Rise Above Records. In support of the release they will also be embarking on their largest and longest tour to date, with a variety of US shows which can be viewed below.

Recorded at Toe Rag Studios in early 2015 with engineer Liam Watson (White Stripes, Tame Impala, Electric Wizard), The Night Creeper oozes louche evil. Hear flesh-melting riffs that creep like hot magma bubbling up through the earth’s crust combine with an ear for melody born out of the bands love for girl groups like The Ronettes and The Shangri-La’s. This is Sabbath-meets-Spector and it’s a heady combination.

The Night Creeper has a distinct concept as a starting point. “The idea is that this album could have started life as an old cheap, grime-covered 25 cent pulp paperback like the type sold at news-stands outside train stations,” says enigmatic band leader Kevin Starrs. “But then perhaps it is adapted into a film noir, which itself is then re-made twenty years later as an ultraviolent, slasher Italian Giallo film. The album follows this aesthetic lineage as it descends from trash to noir to something discernibly darker…”

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats have been called many things: a subversive, dark-hearted, pop band who sing about death and murder; a psyche-frazzling heavy psychedelic band; the greatest cult quartet in the British rock scene by a country mile; the heirs apparent to the dark satanic majesty of both The Beatles and Black Sabbath. They exist in their own self-created world; hoovering up trash/pop culture and spitting it back out in hot chunks of finely hewn riffola and righteous rock ‘n roll noise.

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats’ breakthrough album Blood Lust (2011) was an homage to British Hammer and folk horror films of the 1970s, a candle-lit head-trip of withered hands, ritual knives and gallows ropes. Mind Control (2013) looked further afield, to the post-Charles Manson US for inspiration: Jim Jones dosing the Kool-Aid, Blue Cheer, Blue Oyster Cult, B-movie biker movies, war, Watergate, serial killers, and suicidal TV evangelists. Now comes The Night Creeper, their darkest journey yet.

The Night Creeper will be released on September 4 via Rise Above Records. Check out the band’s North American tour dates below.

Tour Dates

9/9 at Center Stage in Atlanta, GA

9/11 at Baltimore Sound Stage in Baltimore, MD

9/12 at Webster Hall in New York, NY

9/13 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA

9/14 at Royale in Boston, MA

9/16 at Corona Theater in Montreal, QC

9/17 at Phoenix Theater in Toronto, ON

9/18 at Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh, PA

9/19 at Metro in Chicago, IL

9/20 at Mill city Nights in Minneapolis, MN

9/22 at Summit Theater in Denver, CO

9/23 at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City, UT

9/25 at Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, BC

9/26 at El Corazon in Seattle, WA

9/27 at Wonder Ballroom in Portland, OR

9/29 at Slims in San Francisco, CA

9/30 at Slims in San Francisco, CA

10/1 at The Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, CA

10/2 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA

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Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, “Mt. Abraxas” Live at Truckstop Alaska, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11.23.13