Screenshot from Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair |
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| Torche band members have joined Mario, Gordon Freeman and Zelda, as the quartet become video game characters in Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair, with news coming via Crave (http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/820559-exclusive-torche-fight-killer-robots-in-video-game-album-promo).
The desktop based, single-player, side-scrolling game (www.torchevsrobots.com) allows players to pick their favorite band member on a quest to save Miami from becoming a post-apocalyptic wasteland. A mobile version will be released shortly. Fans who play the game are eligible to win a prize pack that includes Restarter on vinyl, a t-shirt, two tickets to see Torche on tour and stickers. To enter, contestants must upload a video to YouTube which shows them beating the game with the hash tag #torchevsrobots. One prize pack per band member/character will be awarded with winners picked on Feb. 23. Torche release Restarter, their Relapse Records’ debut on Feb. 24 and will return to the road for a headlining tour on March 4, with a hometown show at Churchill’s Pub in Miami. Torche tour dates: March 4 Miami, Fl Churchill’s Pub # March 6 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade March 7 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree March 8 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon March 9 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s Downstairs March 10 Austin, TX Red 7 March 11 Dallas, TX Club Dada # March 12 Memphis, TN The Hi-Tone March 13 St. Louis, MO The Firebird March 14 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle March 15 Milwaukee, WI The Cactus Club March 16 Columbus, OH Skully’s Music Diner March 17 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop March 18 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme March 20 Detroit, MI The Pike Room March 21 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace March 22 Montreal, QC Bar Le Ritz March 23 Buffalo, NY Mohawk Place March 25 Boston, MA Great Scott March 26 Brooklyn, NY St. Vitus March 27 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts March 28 Richmond, VA Strange Matters # March 29 Washington, DC DC 9 # May 2 Leipzig, DE Taubchental May 3 Wroclaw, PL Asymmetry Festival May 4 Prague, CZ 007 May 5 Munich, DE Ampere May 6 Milan, IT Lo Fi Club May 8 Barcelona, SP Rocksound May 9 Madrid, SP Boute Live! May 10 Lisbon, PT Musicbox May 11 Bilbao, SP Kafe Antzokia May 13 Zurich, SZ Dynamo May 14 Wiesbaden, DE Schlachthoff May 15 Cologne, DE Underground May 16 Berlin, DE Hafenklang May 18 Nijmegen, NL Merelyn May 19 Haarlem, NL Patronaat May 20 Paris, FR Glazart May 21 Antwerp, BE Kavka May 22 London, UK Underworld * May 23 Leeds, UK Belgrave Social Club * May 24 Galway, IR Roisin Dubh May 25 Cork, IR Craine Lane May 26 Dublin, IR Grand Social May 27 Belfast, IR The Limelight May 28 Glasgow, UK CCA ** May 29 Manchester, UK Sound Control ** May 30 Bristol, UK Temples Festival May 31 Nimes, FR This is Not a Love Song June 1 Nantes, FR Le Ferrailleur All U.S. dates w/Wrong; Nothing appears on all dates except when noted with a # Torche has previewed three new songs from Restarter: “Loose Men,” which Rolling Stone called “sunny” and Outburn called a “ridiculously catchy rocker” (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/torche-loose-men), “Minions” (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/torche-minions/s-8JCbr), a track Stereogum described as “a towering, walloping steamroller of a song” and “Annihilation Affair” (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/torche-annihilation-affair) which Spin dubbed “a thundering single” and went on to describe as featuring “pulverizing eardrums with screeching, sludgy guitars, head-pounding percussion, and gut-wrenchingly aggressive vocals.” Restarter will be released on CD/LP/Deluxe 2xLP/Cassette/Digital, with pre-orders available now with songs “Harmonslaught” and “Rock ‘N’ Roll Mantasy,” will be included on deluxe editions. Digital pre-orders offer an instant download of “Annihilation Affair” and “Minions” (http://geni.us/RestarterDLX), Bandcamp (www.torche.bandcamp.com) and physically via Relapse (http://www.relapse.com/torche-restarter). |
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