ATRÆ BILIS: Vancouver Tech Death Metal Act Announces Spring Western US Tour With Xoth And Atoll; Second LP, Aumicide, To See April 19th Release Through 20 Buck Spin

photo by Savannah Bagshaw

Having just announced their second LP, Aumicide, for April release on 20 Buck Spin, Vancouver’s technical death metal force ATRÆ BILIS today announces a Western US tour in direct conjunction with the album’s street date.

The Galactic Gore ‘24 tour will see ATRÆ BILIS on the road with Xoth and Atoll, as well as Angelic Desolation on three shows. The tour will launch on April 20th, the day after the release of Aumicide, and will run through Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Texas, ending on May 5th.

Immediately following the tour, ATRÆ BILIS will head straight to Seattle to play at Northwest Terror Fest 2024 alongside Amenra, Forbidden, Repulsion, Weekend Nachos, Eternal Champion, Primitive Man, and many more including labelmates Ascended Dead, Daeva, Immortal Bird, Ulthar, and Kommand, the fest running May 9th through 11th.

Tickets for all shows are on sale now. Find all confirmed shows below and watch for additional live updates to post over the weeks ahead.

ATRÆ BILIS – Galactic Gore ‘24 w/ Xoth, Atoll, Angelic Desolation*:
4/20/2024 Black Bridge Brewery – Kingman, AZ
4/21/2024 Kucklehead Hollywood – Los Angeles, CA
4/22/2024 The Blue Lagoon – Santa Cruz, CA
4/23/2024 Humdinger Brewing – San Luis Obispo, CA
4/25/2024 Twilight Cafe and Bar – Portland, OR
4/26/2024 Funhouse – Seattle, WA
4/27/2024 The Big Dipper – Spokane, WA
4/28/2024 The Shredder – Boise, ID
4/29/2024 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT
4/30/2024 Trailside Saloon – Denver, CO *
5/02/2024 Rockhouse Bar And Grill – El Paso, TX *
5/03/2024 Metalhead Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ *
5/04/2024 Neck Of The Woods – San Francisco, CA (no Atoll)
5/05/2024 John Henry’s – Eugene, OR (no Atoll)
End Tour
5/09-11/2024 Northwest Terror Fest @ Neumo’s & Barboza – Seattle, WA [info]

Like all bands that meld metal’s numerous disparate incarnations, ATRÆ BILIS are not easily pigeonholed. Death metal, atmospheric dissonance, tech brutality, and much more are all thrown into the ATRÆ BILIS meat grinder coalescing beautifully and disturbingly into their own signature fusion like a perfectly functioning innovative machine.

On their new album Aumicide, the follow-up to the band’s 2021 debut full-length, Apexapien, ATRÆ BILIS has taken axiomatic strides in expanding the scope of their elegantly perplexing mélange of incinerating invocations. Sounding both crushingly concrete and slickly organic, the band amputates all boundaries, injecting Cyberdyne slams, serrated inscrutability, and unfettered new magnitudes of vocal abuse. Conceptually as committed as it is musically, Aumicide tells of a test specimen subject to experiments in faith removal by intromitting simulations of Hell to sever the self from the multiverse, resulting in the genesis of a new era; an egregore engineered by an absolute godlessness.

Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Christian Donaldson of Cryptopsy, the massive production on Aumicide utterly pulverizes, elevating the Canadian power to uncharted extremities of deadly heaviness. This manifestation results in one of the most singularly ambitious underground releases of 2024, propelling the often-backward-looking death metal genre unflinchingly into a far more terrifying future.

The album is completed with cover art featuring a sculpture by Michael Perry and Angela Webber at Grayhouse Studios, photography by Rob Zawistowski and Savannah Bagshaw, and the layout and design by Marko Jerković at Wrathdesign. Fans of Ulcerate, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Neuraxis, Beyond Creation, Gorguts, Afterbirth, Deeds Of Flesh, Dying Fetus, Decapitated, and Circle Of Dead Children must hear ATRÆ BILIS’ Aumicide.

Aumicide will be unveiled on LP, CD, MC, and digital platforms April 19th. Find preorders for all formats and merch at the 20 Buck Spin webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “Salted In Stygia” is streaming HERE.