THOSE DAMN CROWS RELEASE NEW SINGLE "NO SURRENDER"

THOSE DAMN CROWS RELEASE NEW SINGLE “NO SURRENDER”

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NEW ALBUM GOD SHAPED HOLE OUT APRIL 11TH VIA EARACHE RECORDS

Determined Welsh rockers THOSE DAMN CROWS start the new year by releasing a mission statement new single, making their intentions crystal clear. New track “No Surrender” comes from their forthcoming new album God Shaped Hole, due out April 11th via Earache Records. Previous album Inhale/Exhale soared straight into the UK official album chart at #3.

Frontman Shane Greenhall comments, “‘No Surrender is about coming to a point in your journey where the sacrifices outnumber the rewards, leading most to give up. With us Crows – it’s always a case of we can’t quit, we don’t know how, we’ve come too far, it’s not even a thought. It’s just another milestone towards the bigger picture, towards the so-called End Game! We will overcome and achieve what we’ve always known is potentially ours… IF we believe and by f*** WE DO! And, it’s going to hit when we perform it live!”

Did you see THOSE DAMN CROWS headline the Utilita Arena in Cardiff last month? Maybe you’ll spot yourself in the single’s official video! Watch the video for “No Surrender” here. Get the track here.

Don’t hang about to snap up your tickets to see THOSE DAMN CROWS on their special underplay headline tour in March – dates are already selling out.

Shane says, “Feels so good to say us Crows are back with a very unique U.K. tour, just a week or two before the release of our new album ‘God Shaped Hole’. We can’t wait to catch up with you all, performing live and loud in these smaller, unique venues. Crowfamily… it’s gonna be killer! Let’s F***in Crow!”

Dates are:

Mon 10th Mar – OXFORD O2 Academy Main Room

Tue 11th Mar – FROME Cheese & Grain low tickets

Thu 13th Mar – BOURNEMOUTH The Old Fire Station low tickets

Fri 14th Mar – NORWICH Waterfront low tickets

Sun 16th Mar – EXETER Phoenix low tickets

Tue 18th Mar – SHEFFIELD Corporation sold out

Wed 19th Mar – LINCOLN The Drill sold out

Fri 21st Mar – MORECAMBE Alhambra low tickets

Sat 22nd Mar – EDINBURGH La Belle sold out

Mon 24th Mar – ABERDEEN Lemon Tree low tickets

Tue 25th Mar – LIVERPOOL O2 Academy 2 sold out

Thu 27th Mar – LONDON 100 Club sold out

What separates THOSE DAMN CROWS from so many other bands is the beating emotional heart at the centre of their music. God Shaped Hole reaffirms the band’s place at rock’s top table. It marries music fuelled by power, passion, and melody to an intelligence and emotional honesty that’s increasingly rare these days. Like all the best music, God Shaped Hole comes from the heart and the head.

“I don’t know how to write any way other than being completely honest,” says Shane. “Maybe I’m a little too honest and reveal a bit too much of myself. But I think that’s what people connect with.”

In the decade-plus since they formed in the fiercely working class town of Bridgend, South Wales, Those Damn Crows have gone from wide-eyed hopefuls playing to 20 people at the Camden Barfly to the leading lights of their generation, a genuine modern rock powerhouse spearheading the scene’s current resurgence, notching up a Top 3 album with 2023’s Inhale/Exhale and sharing massive stages with everyone from Queens Of The Stone Age and ZZ Top to the Alice Cooper/Johnny Depp supergroup The Hollywood Vampires and German punk superstars Böhse Onkelz.

Even by their standards, God Shaped Hole – recorded with longtime producer Dan Weller – covers a lot of musical bases while still retaining Those Damn Crows’ unique identity.

Anthemic opening track “Dancing With The Enemy” and the electrifying “Let‘s Go Psycho!” (released as a single before their triumphant main stage performance at 2024’s Download Festival) are guaranteed crowd-starters, while the supremely melodic “Dreaming” would sound perfect spilling from an open-top convertible as it powers down the Pacific Coast Highway and the pummelling “Spit And Choke” crackles with punky energy. Elsewhere, “Fake” possesses an unexpected yet muscular waltz-like groove as it turns an eye on those who use social media to sell a distorted perception of their own lives, “No Surrender” is as defiant as its title suggests, “Glass Heart” is a gleaming pop rock gem, and the soaring “The Night Train” possesses a beautifully restrained, folky edge.

Pre-order God Shaped Hole here.

God Shaped Hole Track List:

1. Dancing With The Enemy

2. Glass Heart

3. Fake

4. Dreaming

5. Let’s Go Psycho

6. No Surrender

7. The Night Train

8. Turn It Around

9. Spit & Choke

10. Still

The album’s detailed artwork, by Alex Tillbrook, has a lot of thought behind it. Shane comments, “It’s a collection of what’s happened in the timeline of (my) life. It’s a combination of realities and dimensions. Each item on the album cover visually represents a song on the album and the emotion tied to it. The album landscape is another dimension where the dream world exists, images/songs/emotions are scattered around the vast desert in disarray. Is the sink hole there to destroy, to take away, or is it the path to a new dimension, new reality, new life? I feel that life, the dream state, psychedelics, technology are all co-existing and blurring the lines while asking the question ‘what is real?'”

At a time when rock music is constantly (and incorrectly) written off, Those Damn Crows prove it’s more vibrant than it has ever been. God Shaped Hole is the sound of a band at the very peak of their powers – but one who are determined to keep building on their achievements.

“We’ve never been the sort of band who sit back and think at what we’ve done,” concludes Shane. “It’s always about what’s the next goal, the next tour. We can’t rest, we need to keep moving forwards. That’s what keeps us alive.”

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