photos by Xavier Del Callejo
Following several other expansive tours throughout North America, Europe, and the UK in support of their Dumesday Book album over the past two years, Baltimore-based transapocalyptic galaxy rock duo DARSOMBRA and their allies in Stinking Lizaveta will return to Europe on an extensive Spring tour, running from May 25th through late June.
DARSOMBRA transmits, “A lot of interesting new music and video is fermenting right now at the DARSOMBRA mothership… but the real excitement on the horizon is a five-week tour of Europe with our friends Stinking Lizaveta which begins at Desertfest Berlin in late May and goes until late June! We’ll be playing shows in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, and our first ever performances in Slovakia and Hungary. So, EU buddies, hope to see you out there this Spring!”
See all confirmed dates below and watch for updates to post shortly.
DARSOMBRA Europe Tour 2025 w/ Stinking Lizaveta:
5/25/2025 Desertfest Berlin – Berlin, DE
5/28/2025 Mlodsza Siostra – Warsaw, PL w/ Tabaka
5/29/2025 Kalambur – Wroclaw, PL
5/30/2025 Club Awaria – Krakow, PL
5/31/2025 Collosseum – Kosice, SK
6/01/2025 Aurora – Budapest, HU
6/03/2025 Arena – Austria, AT
6/04/2025 KAPU – Linz, AT w/ Dead Meadow
6/05/2025 Kunstverein Hintere Cramergasse e.V. – Nuremberg, DE
6/06/2025 Archiv – Potsdam, DE
6/07/2025 Veranderbar – Dresden, DE
6/09/2025 Eternia – Prague, CZ w/ Princenzy
6/11/2025 Kabinet MUZ – Brno, CZ
6/12/2025 Schokoladen – Berlin, DE
6/13/2025 TBA – Brandenburg, DE
6/20/2025 TBA – Herzberg, DE (no Stinking Lizaveta)
6/21/2025 Halle am Rhein – Cologne, DE w/ Octo, O R T (no Stinking Lizaveta)
DARSOMBRA continues touring on their most recent double-LP, Dumesday Book. Originally conceived as a surreal take on a pop album to contrast with their ominously prescient monolithic 2019 release, Transmission, DARSOMBRA’s Dumesday Book is a ten-song survey of sentiment and human experience in the pandemic, from initial lockdown to vaccinated re-emergence and beyond – which, in the DARSOMBRA microcosm, means from cancelled tours to returning to the road. Dumesday Book delivers seventy-five minutes of sonic revelry recorded and mixed by Brian Daniloski at the band’s Whale Manor and mastered by Jon Smulyan. Ann Everton handled the cover art, photography, and videography.
Stream DARSOMBRA’s Dumesday Book everywhere including Bandcamp HERE, and watch multiple videos from the album at YouTube HERE.
Dumesday Book is available on CD, 2xLP, and digitally on DARSOMBRA’s Pnictogen Records. Physical formats include a 12-page booklet, a sticker, and a download code with access to bonus material. Place orders at the band’s webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. Crucial Blast released the record in a limited double-cassette box set, available HERE.
“Dumesday Book swings from despondency to exhilaration, exhaustion to hope, surveying landscapes as internal, external, and cosmic. Theirs has always been an expansive music; here it covers more ground than ever and with considerable confidence … a kaleidoscopic reflection on the weirdness of the pandemic.” – The Wire Magazine
“Throughout the album’s 75-minute-long psychedelic journey, the music rises higher and higher, becoming almost transcendental, all the while reflecting a very down-to-earth story of pandemic isolation. It might take a specific state of mind for this music to properly click, but once it does, it becomes nigh transformative. – PopMatters
“…the visual fluidity of movement of wind through the dark fabric that becomes ghostly, cosmic, colorized, and so on, is somewhat ironic given the title’s inherent stillness…” – The Obelisk
“They take lengthy songs and turn them into full-blown adventures for the listener. It’s so easy to get lost in their music and just feel good about the passage of time, to where you don’t even realize how much time is passing as you listen.” – Everything Is Noise
“With Dumesday Book, DARSOMBRA creates a psychedelic-oriented reality that revolves around a synergy of musical styles… Listening to this prodigious album makes you feel like entering a sonic illusion where you feel comfortably numb and don’t want to leave.” – Echoes And Dust
“DARSOMBRA are nothing if not ambitious, following a forty-one-minute single track album (2019’s Transmission) with a seventy-five-minute record does not suggest a band who do things by half. Therefore, Dumesday Book is a remarkable piece of work and a testament to the band’s creative vision which you need to check out ASAP.” – The Sleeping Shaman
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