photos by Kei Mowry
San Francisco gore dealers CARTILAGE will launch their Surgical Strangulation Tour with Unidad Trauma this week. The slashing begins this Friday, April 11th in Oakland, runs through the Southwest into Mexico and back up to California, ending in Los Angeles on April 24th. See all dates below.
CARTILAGE Surgical Strangulation Tour w/ Unidad Trauma:
4/11/2025 Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA
4/12/2025 Destructive Warehouse – Fresno, CA
4/13/2025 Republica de Hops – Tijuana, MX
4/14/2025 Tower Bar – San Diego, CA
4/15/2025 The Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
4/16/2025 URBNXN Tucson – Tucson, AZ
4/17/2025 Club 101 – El Paso, TX
4/18/2025 Hi Tones – San Antonio, TX
4/19/2025 Three Links – Dallas, TX
4/21/2025 Valhalla – Austin, TX
4/22/2025 The Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
4/23/2025 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
4/24/2025 Knucklehead – Los Angeles, CA
The new tour follows CARTILAGE’s brief run with Impaled and sets at Northwest Terror Fest and Disemboweled God Fest, all in support of their new EP, Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology, released mid-March on Everlasting Spew Records. The blastmasters took their studio operations to home base, enlisting Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Ghoul, Thrice) for recording and mixing duties, while the genre’s perennial grindfather Leon del Muerte (Impaled, Exhumed, Nails) handled mastering, the record then completed with art by Jason V Roberts and photos by Kei Mowry.
The Bay Area gore titans continue to spill their guts across the land but with new tools in their trade: twisting harmonies and cinematic set-pieces now compliment CARTILAGE’s arsenal of blistering blasts, ripcord riffs, and deranged shrieks fans know to expect. Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology offers the biggest color palette on a CARTILAGE release to date. Now with even more shades of red.
Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology is available on digital, CD, MC formats at the Everlasting Spew webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. A vinyl pressing is due this Summer. Also watch the “Globs Of Glimmering Gore” video HERE and “Frothed Vomit Slosh” playthrough HERE.
“…this track hits like a speeding car hits a brick wall — violently and with full force.” – MetalSucks
“…vicious death/grinding savagery that will rev your internal engines by pumping out skull-popping beats, gut-rumbling bass-lines, and feverishly ravenous riffage, as well as maniacal screams and ghastly gutturals… as head-spinning as it is savage.” – No Clean Singing
“A mongrel fusion of death metal and grindcore, its influence is as immutable as it is unsavoury, and it’s here that we really begin to see the foundational basis for Cartilage’s own DNA… a tumultuous ambush of fantastic grind riffs awaits you.” – The Razor’s Edge
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