The Spiritual Dark Age

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To Kill A King have today released details of their new studio album The Spiritual Dark Age, to be released on January 12, 2018 on These Are My Bones via AWAL and Republic Of Music. The album contains the single The Good Old Days (listen here), title track The Spiritual Dark Age (watch the video here .Zips9I)?

Produced by Gethin Pearson and the bands keyboard player Ben Jackson, The Spiritual Dark Age is the London five-pieces third album and the follow-up to 2015s critically acclaimed To Kill A King (Theyve upped their game beyond all recognition **** Q).

The Spiritual Dark Age is the last three years of my life painstakingly distilled into 40 minutes of music, says frontman Ralph Pelleymounter of the album. It has ballads for my single friends watching everyone else gradually pair off, and deities and fables getting drunk in bars. It has moments of anger and disgust at characters like Peter Popoff and their parasitic feeding of the most vulnerable people, and it has folk songs about two gods whod rather burn down the world than admit they still love each other. But hopefully, in amongst the chaos and darker tales, it has an underlying message that compassion being such a beautiful and complex thing may just save the day.

Earlier this year To Kill A King played three consecutive London headline dates (at The Borderline, Oslo, and Omeara) and in support of the album they will head out on a full UK tour, starting at Sheffield Plug on January 11th and culminating at Islington Assembly Hall on January 27th. Says guitarist Grant McNeill, After roughly 2 years in a room with a single window and a bare lightbulb making this record, we cant wait to get out on the road, if for nothing else but to get some sunlight. Thats why we chose to tour in January.

After releasing two albums, 2013s Cannibals With Cutlery and 2015s self-titled follow-up, and touring incessantly since 2010, To Kill a King took a well deserved break in 2016, Ralph using the time to write with Ragn Bone Man and Zibra, while keyboardist Ben Jackson produced albums for Childcare and Little White Things.

Theyve upped their game beyond calling card is singer Ralph Pelleymounters voice, a gorgeous flexible croon **** Q

The likes of Compare Scars and Love Is Not Control are instantly, insanely catchy, with feverish rhythms and call-and-response routines The Guardian

The love child of INXS, The Maccabees and The National, with everything from charming ballads to big anthems Shortlist