Inter Arma begin “New Heaven EU tour” on October 11

INTER ARMA begin the New Heaven EU/UK Tour tomorrow night at the Soulcrusher festival in Nijmegen, NL. The 26 date run ends November 10 and includes additional festival appearances at the Damnation festival, Desertfest, Amplifest, Keep It Low, Tyrant Fest & more! A full list of tour dates is available below & tickets are on sale at https://www.interarmamusic.com/events

INTER ARMA are touring in support of their critically acclaimed new album New Heaven available now on LP/CD/CS/Digital via Relapse Records. Order / Listen: orcd.co/interarma-newheaven

11 October – Nijmegen, NL – Soulcrusher 
12 October – Munich, DE – Keep It Low 
13 October – Berlin, DE – Zunkuft 
14 October – Warsaw, PL – Hydrozagadka
15 October – Poznan, PL – Pod Minogą
16 October – Prague, CZ – Modra Vopice
17 October – Jena, DE – Kuba
18 October – Aachen, DE – Wild Rover 
19 October – Oignies, FR – Tyrant Fest
20 October – Antwerp, BE – DesertFest 
22 October – Karlsruhe, DE – P-8
23 October – Basel, CH – Hirscheneck
24 October – Bologna, IT – DEV
25 October – Martigny, CH – Caves Du Manoir
26 October – Oslo, NO – Hostsabbat
28 October – Paris, FR – La Boule Noire
29 October – Brighton, UK – DUST
30 October –  London, UK – Underworld
31 October – Nottingham, UK – Billy Bootleggers
1 November – Glasgow, UK – The Hug & Pint
2 November – Manchester, UK – Damnation Fest
3 November – Bournemouth, UK – Bear Cave
6 November – Nantes, FR – Le Ferrailleur
7 November – Montpellier, FR – Antirouille
8 November – Barcelona, ES – Sala Vol 
10 November – Porto, PT – Amplifest 

New Heaven, INTER ARMA’s new album, is a compelling testament to perseverance, top to bottom. Its thicket of ever-dense layers of doom, death, and black metal occasionally let bits of light slip in, fleeting reminders to keep going amid the tumult. The record marks a sharp turn for INTER ARMA, showcasing some of the most extreme and angular songwriting the band has ever laid bare. Known for their cinematic take on sludgy, extremely cavernous and borderline psychedelic metal, the Richmond band broadens their dynamics by seesawing between piledriving momentum and swirling oblivion. New Heaven crushes and conquers, and illustrates what INTER ARMA can truly be.

Though New Heaven is indeed another triumph for the band, it is not a triumphant album, meant to offer some glib or naïve assurance that everything will be fine. They call it the ‘Inter Arma Curse’: for nearly two decades, the band has emerged as one of the most inspired and fearless acts in or around American metal. They’ve also endured an endless parade of complications, hurdles, and slights: visa problems in Russia, stolen passports in Europe, unexpected member turmoil in their ranks, accidents and near death experiences, and a pervasive paradoxical sense that they have either been too metal or not metal enough. It’s been forever Sisyphean, except that INTER ARMA has sporadically crested the hill to make a series of visionary albums.

As New Heaven started to take shape, the curse roared to life. Worldwide pandemic that squashed tours and writing sessions aside, INTER ARMA churned through four bassists before finding salvation in Joel Moore, a guitar-and-engineering whiz who had never before played bass in a band. With the addition of Moore, drummer T.J. Childers admits that New Heaven features some of the kind of music INTER ARMA could have never executed. Listen for the uncanny keyboards wedged between Mike Paparo and the band, for the ways Steven Russell and Trey Dalton coil and collide with Moore, for Childers’ way of slipping some Southern soul into what borders on truly brutal prog. Paparo’s keen and empathetic lyrics explore arduous facets of the human experience, from innocent victims of war, to addiction, and social apathy. New Heaven is a record about enduring brambles and curses and lasting long enough to make something profound, honest, and even affirming about it all every now and again..

Childers comments, “New Heaven is the culmination of four years worth of adversity ranging from near death experiences, multiple member changes and of course a global pandemic. It marks a new chapter for us musically as we feel we’ve taken our songwriting to places we’ve never explored before. We’re excited to have come out of the madness relatively unscathed and feel as though we’ve created something completely unique that will stand apart in the sometimes homogenous extreme music community.”  

INTER ARMA is:
T.J. Childers – Drums, Percussion, guitars, lap steel, piano, noise 
Trey Dalton – Guitar, synthesizers, mellotron, vocals 
Joel Moore – Bass, synthesizers, tape loops, samples, and noise 
Mike Paparo – Vocals 
Steven Russell – Guitars