One-man industrial doom magus, Tristan Shone, more commonly known as AUTHOR & PUNISHER, will bring his tectonic-shifting sound conjurings to the stage next month on a lengthy North American headlining tour. The proceedings will commence on September 17th in Los Angeles and crumble the infrastructures of fourteen venues through October 2nd in Boston. From there, Shone will take a brief respite before pillaging another fourteen venues on a second leg of the tour beginning November 3rd in Brooklyn and running through November 21st in San Diego. The trek includes a performance at Philip H. Anselmo’s annual Housecore Horror gala. AUTHOR & PUNISHER will be joined by special guests, atmospheric drone doom duo, Muscle And Marrow.
Comments Shone, “This tour is 100% AUTHOR & PUNISHER as I intended it from day one: designed to be overwhelming, suffocating and disorienting with new tracks, a reinforced A&P-designed onstage sound and a killer touring partner in Muscle And Marrow, from Portland.”
AUTHOR & PUNISHER w/ Muscle And Marrow:
9/17/2015 Complex – Los Angeles, CA
9/18/2015 Thee Parkside – San Francisco, CA
9/19/2015 Star Theater – Portland, OR
9/20/2015 The Astoria – Vancouver, BC
9/21/2015 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
9/23/2015 Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO
9/24/2015 The Riot Room – Kansas City, MO
9/25/2015 Coldwaves IV @ The Metro – Chicago, IL
9/26/2015 Corktown Tavern – Detroit, MI
9/28/2015 Howlers – Pittsburgh, PA
9/29/2015 The Cave – Toronto, ON
9/30/2015 Mavericks – Ottawa, ON
10/1/2015 L’aize – Montreal, QC
10/2/2015 Voidstar Fest @ Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA
11/3/2015 Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY
11/4/2015 Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
11/5/2015 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD
11/6/2015 Extravaganza Fest @ Strange Matter – Richmond, VA *
11/7/2015 Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC
11/8/2015 The Earl – Atlanta, GA
11/10/2015 Will’s Pub – Orlando, FL
11/11/2015 New World Brewery – Tampa, FL
11/12/2015 The Handlebar – Pensacola, FL
11/13/2015 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
11/15/2015 Housecore Horror Fest @ The Aztec Theater – San Antonio, TX
11/17/2015 Sidewinders – Austin, TX
11/20/2015 Club Red – Mesa, AZ
11/21/2015 Hideout – San Diego, CA
* no Muscle And Marrow
AUTHOR & PUNISHER will be touring in support of Melk En Honing, released earlier this year via Housecore Records. Produced by label founder, Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual et al), with Melk En Honing, Shone has incorporated various drone machinery, multiple physical rhythm machines, some synth and the new electromechanical masks that began to appear in AUTHOR & PUNISHER performances across the US and Europe in 2014. After a year of heavy touring and festival appearances, the goal with this album was to capture the live dissonant power of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER experience. The combination of Anselmo’s persistence, expertise and Shone’s new experimentation with various vocal devices, led to a vocal-prominent, bass heavy album that combines AUTHOR & PUNISHER‘s signature elusive drone sequences and hard hitting rhythms with unexpected terrains of melody and musicality that sustain Shone’s reputation as an unorthodox innovator in a class all of his own.
