Fruition

     Everything's been coming together very well lately. Despite running around, locating a spot to store our trailer  until tour, moving out of our studio, juggling everyone's schedules to see what shows we can and can't play, I'd say that, all in all, it will pay off in the end.
     Test pressings for the Perfect State EP should be arriving at Glory Kid HQ any minute now and all of our tour dates have been more or less filled. Just need a few final confirmations from one or two guys in one or two cities and then I can relax.

     I'm extremely excited for you guys to hear this EP, too. It's been difficult sitting on these songs for weeks on end, waiting for production to reach it's boiling point. Rest assured, the streams are coming and the EP will be out and available for purchase before we hit the road.

     If that doesn't tie you over and you want to listen to these songs ASAP, don't worry. We actually play a good amount of the EP live and have some shows coming up. Like this one at Unit B in late May:

So, you've got that going for you.
Also, here are all the details for the West Coast tour w/ Griever, along with links to some of the shows, so you can get the nitty gritty of it all.
Rock out:

06/19 - Murrieta, CA - The Dial w/ They as in Them, The Cold Front
http://www.facebook.com/events/143354369164197/

06/20 - Pomona, CA - Aladdin Jr II w/ Graf Orlock, Discourse, Stresscase
http://www.facebook.com/events/131530177022370/?ref=br_tf

06/21 - La Puente, CA - Bridgetown w/ Graf Orlock, Stress Relief
http://www.facebook.com/events/546597978714143/
06/22 - San Francisco/Bay Area, CA - TBA

06/23 - Portland, OR - The Know w/ Young Turks

06/24 - Seattle, WA - Black Lodge w/ The Helm
https://www.facebook.com/events/154823448012490/

06/25 - Vancouver, BC - TBA

06/26 - Boise, ID - Android House

06/27 - Las Vegas, NV - House Show TBA

06/28 - Mesa, AZ - The Nile Theatre w/ Krampus
http://www.niletheater.com/event/262893-griever-plagues-mesa/

06/29 - Tucson, AZ - Tanline w/ Sex Prisoner, Man Bites Dog
https://www.facebook.com/events/467904769943043/?ref=br_tf

Westward.

     The way I perceive the world is slowly changing. I'm not nineteen anymore and am not bound to certain social settings or specific tastes of music. I mean, it's never really been about the cut and dry, elitist viewpoint of "Hardcore for Hardcore" for me, but I used to be very particular with what songs I wrote and how they would be performed in music projects I was involved with. Now, I can spin Violence Violence one minute and just as quickly (and just as easily) spin Frame and Canvas the next. Which is uplifting in its own way, right?

     That being said, our new EP, Perfect State, isn't anything that we've attempted to do before. Granted, it still captures the same raw emotion that Plagues has always successfully been able to convey, but we really stepped back with this one and put more substance into our songwriting.

    

     I know this is my first time ever blogging, so I'm not expecting a lot of heavy traffic for just the one blog post at the moment. But we'll be touring the west coast with our boo's, Griever.
The Dates are all set and I'll be posting fliers and fb event links to each one as they surface on the internet, but for now here are the dates, cities and all the info I have on each show:

06/19 - Murrietta, CA - The Dial w/ They As In Them, The Cold Front 

06/20 - Pomona, CA - Aladdin Jr II w/ Graf Orlock, Stresscase, Discourse, Fissure

06/21 - La Puente, CA - Bridgetown w/ Graf Orlock, Stress Relief, Curmudgeon

06/22 - SF/Bay Area, CA 

06/23 - Portland, OR - The Know w/ Young Turks

06/24 - Seattle, WA - The Black Lodge w/ The Helm

06/25 - Vancouver, BC 

06/26 - Boise, ID - Android House

06/27 - Las Vegas, NV

06/28 - Mesa, AZ - The Nile Theatre w/ Rotting Out

06/29 - Tucson, AZ - Tanline w/ Sex Prisoner, Man Bites Dog