Russian Circles have just released the audio for new song “Betrayal“. Perhaps the heaviest song on the album, “Betrayal” is a five-minute unmitigated assault and follows the first single “Conduit”. Both tracks show how the Chicago stalwarts have created their most fuming and focused work to date – an album that favours the exorcism of two years’ worth of tension over the melancholy and restraint that often coloured their past endeavours.
Forthcoming full length Gnosis eschews the varied terrain of those past works by employing a new song writing technique. Rather than crafting songs out of fragmented ideas in the practice room, full songs were written and recorded independently before being shared with other members, so that their initial vision was retained. While these demos spanned the full breadth of the band’s varied styles, the more cinematic compositions were ultimately excised in favour of the physically cathartic pieces.
Gnosis is arriving via Sargent House on 19th August. Russian Circles will also be on tour throughout 2022 and 2023; a full list of dates appears below.
RUSSIAN CIRCLES N. AMERICA TOUR 2022
Sep 15 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
Sep 17 Denver, CO – Gothic
Sep 18 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
Sep 20 Seattle, WA – Croc Showroom
Sep 21 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
Sep 23 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
Sep 24 Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall
Sep 25 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent
Sep 26 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
Sep 29 Austin, TX – Empire Garage
Sep 30 Dallas, TX – Amplified Live
Oct 01 Memphis, TN – Growlers
Oct 27 St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
Oct 28 Louisville, KY – Headliner’s
Oct 29 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Oct 30 Orlando, FL – The Social
Nov 01 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
Nov 02 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Nov 04 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
Nov 05 Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
Nov 06 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
Nov 08 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
Nov 09 Montreal, QC – Theatre Fairmount
Nov 10 Toronto, ON – Opera
Nov 11 Detroit, MI – El Club
Nov 12 Chicago, IL – Metro
RUSSIAN CIRCLES EU TOUR 2023 (Co Headline w/ Cult Of Luna)
March 17 Copenhagen, DK – Store Vega
March 18 Berlin, DE – Huxleys
March 19 Wiesbaden, DE – Schlachthof
March 20 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Ronda
March 21 Brussels, BE – AB
March 22 Paris, FR – Olympia
March 23 Stuttgart, DE – Wizemann
March 24 Lausanne, CH – Les Docks
March 25 Ljubljana, SI – Kino Siska
March 27 Vienna, AT – Arena
March 28 Munich, DE – Muffathalle
March 29 Prague, CZ – Roxy
March 30 Krakow, PL – Studio
March 31 Warsaw, PL – Progresja
GNOSIS TRACKLISTING
1. Tupilak
2. Conduit – official audio
3. Gnosis
4. Vlastimil
5. Ó Braonáin
6. Betrayal – official audio
7. Bloom