A decade-old favorite is hitting the road again. Hail The Sun announce a 10-year anniversary tour for ‘Culture Scars’, the band’s 2016 third studio LP, their Equal Vision Records debut, and an album that charted at No. 38 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. The run kicks off Tuesday, August 11 at The End in Houston, sweeping through five more east coast nights before wrapping at Brighton Music Hall in Boston on Sunday, August 16.
The band is leaning into the intimacy of it all. They share that they’re thrilled to play these smaller shows in venues similar in size to the ones they hit back in 2016 when ‘Culture Scars’ first dropped. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 5 at 10 a.m. ET.
There’s always been more bubbling under the surface with this band. Their songs probe the nature of existence and don’t flinch from self-reflection, a through-line since lead vocalist Donovan Melero, guitarists Shane Gann and Aric Garcia, bassist John Stirrat, and drummer Allen Casillas formed in Chico, California in 2009.
That ambition runs especially deep on their latest album ‘cut. turn. fade. back.’. Produced and engineered by Pete Adams and GRAMMY winner Johnny Kosich of Beach Noise, then mixed and mastered by Zakk Cervini (Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon), the record encompasses the complete cycle of life through its four monosyllabic words. Its 11 songs touch on military atrocities, humanitarian crises, addiction, lost love, and death, capturing the cyclical nature of all of it.
‘Culture Scars’ Anniversary Tour Dates:
August 11 – Houston, TX – The End
August 12 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
August 13 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
August 14 – Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents
August 15 – Long Island, NY – Amityville Music Hall
August 16 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall