▲▲▲ The Mighty Cozmik EUROGASM Adventure ▲▲▲

The Coazamik Young Teem with punmaster generaal Harriswon Reid. (c) goDi 2013

Wow. 3 weeks of pretty much non-stop gigging, and y'know, we weren't even tired by the end of it! (well, maybe just a little bit). So much fun, so many good times, so many nice people. Let me assure you that Europe is the place to go for good food, good beer and good vibes. Do it. Do it now. Every single show of the tour was an absolute pleasure to play, and everywhere we travelled, we were made to feel incredibly welcome. Big shout out to Walter for asking us to play this year's Roadburn, which in fact provided the main incentive to do a european tour in the first place! Other big shout outs go to Ricky Biondetti & Swamp Booking for booking all of our European dates on the tour, Bloc for providing us with our transport, and not forgetting; the ever impeccable, veracious, punmaster generaal himself, Harrison Reid! Harrison was kind enough to drive us about for pretty much most of the round trip, kept us all sane, in high spirits, and made sure we didnt go all Jack Torrance and kill each other. He also took many a photo and video during the tour, so stay tuned, as that stuff will probably surface soon! In the meantime, we order you to head over to his website HERE and view his photography as it's pretty fucking special. The talented bastard. Do it NOW.

Standing about in front of a motherfucking mountain. Motherfucks.

Anyway, big thanks again to everyone else who helped make our Euro tour, first of all, happen, and secondly, made it so enjoyable! We love you - David Weaver, Chris Cusack, Thom Bettney, Nathan Gibson, Matt Cargill, You're Smiling Now, But We'll All Turn into Demons, BlackHOODS, Tony Erdélyi, Lucile Heintz, Stone Rising Festival, My Sleeping Karma, Corrado Montonaro, Suzie & Rachel, Golden Void, Da Captain Trips, That fucking ice cream shop in Milan, Giacomo & Scoia, Menrovescio, Pawel Zandl, Otehi, Vlad & Jan, Teeth Of The Sea, Klaus Brotkorb, Elder, Pet The Preacher, Frank, Mr Peter Hayden, Sascha, Gnod, The White Trash burgers, Walter & Roadburn, Pieter Coolen, Endless Boogie, Jasper Verleyen, Cécile Beirinckx, Cécile's amazing parents, Daniel Fontana, Matthias Rein, Bastien, Pussywarmers, Réka Csiszér, Francois and the Monarch guys, Bagarre Generale & Datcha Mandala, Vince (& his lost Delegation), The Mushroom heads, The Channel Tunnel, Neil & Al of Champagne Justice, Heloise Zamzam, Olmo Uiutna, Anthropropph, Olanza, Uiutna, Zak and Pus North, Bish, Cromlech, Electric Church, Ewan Cameron, Buried Sleeper, []wall[] & Glacier. Also not forgetting everyone who came to see us play, especially those who travelled long distances! (Apologies if we missed anyone out)

YOU'RE ALL FUCKING W.O.N.D.E.R.F.U.L.

Lastly, here's a couple of videos from the tour, the left video is our entire set from our show in Paris, and to the right, a short snippet of our set at Roadburn! Thanks to ShinjuGumi and mwegeland for filming!
Enjoy, and we'll see you again SOON Europe. Watch your back.

▲▲▲ These Things Always Come in Three's ▲▲▲

We're very happy to announce that Sheffield based label Evil Hoodoo will be releasing our third album proper, Inner Sanctum this month! (Artwork just on the left there) It's 74 minutes long in total (what else did you expect?!?) and spread over 4 tracks.

It will initally be released on cassette tape with some lovely hand-sewn cases, courtesy of Thom, and possibly on other formats later!

Big thanks goes out to mircophone pointer/mixing desk jockey/secret pornstar Gary Milne, who kindly recorded us as part of his course at the SAE in Glasgow, way back in March 2011! We've been sitting on these recordings for quite a while now, so it's good to finally get them out there! We hope you enjoy our sonic transmissions!


Here's a nice little review the folk over at Funky Gibbins have written about the release. [LINK]
You can also listen to a little sample of the album below, featuring 1 minute snippets of all 4 songs!

▲▲▲ Trans European tour and Djαmβα video! ▲▲▲

So, after a lot of effort and patience, our European tour is all booked up for April! 4 weeks of shows on the road, with only ONE day off. ONE DAY OFF. No sleep till Edinburgh. We're a bunch of hardcore motherfuckers, that's for sure. Anyway, we'll have quite a few things for sale on the tour, including large A2 prints of the tour poster as designed by our drummer Julian (Moonshake Design) new t-shirts, our S/T album and The Exalted King on vinyl, our new live album - Live at The Note on cassette (featuring the same version of Djamba used in the video below!) and a new album which you will hear all about very very very soon! In the meantime, you can view all of our tour dates below -

8th ► Sheffield (ENGLAND) ► The Redhouse
9th ► Basingstoke (ENGLAND) ► Sanctuary
10th ► London (ENGLAND) ► The Unicorn
11th ► Brussels (BELGIUM) ► Café Central
12th ► Oullins (FRANCE) ► Stone Rising Festival
13th ► Milan (ITALY) ► Lo-Fi
14th ► Verona (ITALY) ► White Rabbit
15th ► Salzburg (AUSTRIA) ► Shakespeare
16th ► Prague (CZ REPUBLIC) ► Klub 007
17th ► Dresden (GERMANY) ► Chemiefabrik
18th ► Liepzig (GERMANY) ► Zoro
19th ► Berlin (GERMANY) ► White Trash
20th ► Tilburg (HOLLAND) ► Roadburn Festival
21st ► Antwerp (BELGIUM) ► Trix
23rd ► Dudingen (SWITZERLAND) ► Badbonn
24th ► Toulouse (FRANCE) ► Le Saint des Seins
25th ► Bordeaux (FRANCE) ► Heretic
26th ► Paris (FRANCE) ► La Mécanique Ondulatoire
27th ► Portsmouth (ENGLAND) ► Southsea Social Club
28th ► Bristol (ENGLAND) ► The Croft
29th ► Middlesbrough (ENGLAND) ► The Legion
30th ► Edinburgh (SCOTLAND) ► Banshee Labyrinth


For more details on the tour, visit our tour facebook event page over [here].
 

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▲▲▲ New download-only drone/ambient album ▲▲▲

Artwork by our very own Lewis Cook!

Our second release of March twenty thirteen is a download-only album of 4 various droney/ambient experiments, entitled Orbiting Salvation. The Obelisk wrote some kind words about it over at their [website].

"Released concurrent to a new tape Live at the Note that finds the at home in their space rock improv element, Glasgow-based jam heads The Cosmic Dead have today unveiled Orbiting Salvation. A release of a much different kind — and digital only — it brings together four ambient pieces put together by the band based on synth and drones rather than the band’s usual psychedelic swirl. A different lineup is featured on each of the tracks, but with the ultra-subdued vibe each of the extended works presents, it’s easier than ever to lose yourself in the sounds. If you have headphones handy, I hope you also brought a snorkel. Orbiting Salvation has been made available at The Cosmic Dead Bandcamp page, where one can explore a host of releases. That the band would have two put together for release already only three months into 2013 speaks well of what might be a very good year to hit up deepest space (rock).
Far out and then some:"

▲▲▲ New live album - watch the trailer below ▲▲▲

We're pleased to announce the first of a few new releases we have lined up this month, a live album of our recent set at our spiritual home basement, the 13th Note. It's being released by local label Stabbed in The Back records, to a very limited edition run of 100 cassettes.

You can pre-order Live at The Note from our bandcamp page over [HERE], grab it quick before they all dissapear!

Here's a wee preview for it, enjoy! (best viewed at 720p definition)

▲▲▲ The Cosmic Dead reborn on Orange vinyl ▲▲▲

We are very pleased to announce that our debut self titled album is getting a relase on some lovely orange vinyl courtesy of the lovely folk over at Cardinal Fuzz.

Taken from the Sunrise Ocean Bender:

Available to pre-order from the 1st March via the Cardinal Fuzz website.

"The Cosmic Dead is another tasty slice in an already delicious run of limited edition releases from Cardinal Fuzz. If ever there was an opus deserving of a wax job, this is it. If you’re not familiar with The Cosmic Dead, or this monster of a record, here’s your chance. And you better grab it. As with other Cardinal releases, like the recent outstanding Gnod/Black Bombaim live leviathan, Black Gnod, the unhinged jamfest from Bristol’s The Heads, Inner Space Broadcasts Vol. 1, and the sweet pairing of Black Tempest and Dead Sea Apes, it’s sure to evaporate quickly. Cardinal Fuzz came out of the gate hard and fast and established an impeccable track record immediately that shows no signs of stopping. Access to the recent tour-only/RSD Mugstar epic, Centralia is in the works as well as a rare live outing from Sweden’s Hills. All good reasons to stand up and testify for the Cardinal."

Visit the Cardinal Fuzz website to pre-order your copy >>>here<<<
More exciting news to come very soon!

▲▲▲ Europehan Cozmik INVASION-UH ▲▲▲

So, we're extremely happy to announce that we'll be playing the saturday (20th) of next year's Roadburn Festival at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland! Also on the bill are Godflesh, Electric Wizard, Eternal Tapestry, Hills, Goat, High on Fire, Moss, The Pretty Things, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Cult of Luna, My Brother The Wind, Michael Rother, Mourning Beloveth and a whole bunch of other amazing stuff. A big huge massive special thanks goes out to Walter for asking us to play, it really is an honour! Another big shout out to the super talented Maarten Donders for kindly designing us an AWESOME poster (as seen on the right), go check out more of his work on his website over HERE.

We're also very pleased to inform you all that we are currently planning and booking an extensive European tour surrounding our date at Roadburn. So if you'd like us to play in your town/city and think you could manage to put us on, or if you know of a good promoter who could pay/feed/water us, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us via thecosmicdead@gmail.com!

▲▲▲ Cozmik Dead complete UK summer holiday tour - Manage to avoid death, disease, & body snatcher invasion... ▲▲▲

So, we finished our first ever UK tour with a very fun gig in Lancaster (complete with shroomed dancers) on Friday there. I think its safe to say we all had a cracking time, and can't wait to do it again. Big thanks to the promoters and bands who put us on and put us up for the night and fed us lovely food, including James Nash (Hello Bastards), Tony Erdelyi, Everyone at Supernormal fest & Ollie, Paul of Burial Chambers, Rich Dibble, Helouise & Olmo, Jason (Behind the Wall of Sleep) of Mugstar, The Left Hand, Verity & Emma (Fat Out Till You Pass Out), Vendela, Spacey Tanxman, Marian & Pauline Clark. You're all bloody wonderful and we wouldn't have be able to do it without you! Particular highlights include the entire Supernormal experience (make sure you go to the next one if you can, it truly is a fantastic and unique festival!), playing football in the suicide capital of the UK, seeing Mick Jones perusing the VHS section of Oxfam, Klaus Wunderlich's Cornflakes, meeting the Mugstar chaps, and Ollie and Wes's freak out shapes at the Yorkie. There are definitely countless others, but those are just a few off the top of my head.

Supernormal - Photograph courtesy of Greg Neate ©

We also have a special treat for all you Glasgow heads, if you missed us playing the Note the other week, we're playing Bloc on Bath Street this Wednesday coming (22nd) alongside Vakunoht.
The gig is free, starts at 9, so c'mon down to tune into some fresh off of tour vibes!

And lastly, we've now made our newest release, the Exalted King, available for download over at our bandcamp site [here]. We do still have a few cassettes of it left too, but they will most likely dissapear at Bloc or at Doune The Rabbit Hole next weekend. If you would like to reserve one, please email us at thecosmicdead@gmail.com. We will also have merch (T-shirts and Tour posters) available for purchasin' on the bandcamp very shortly, stay tuned!

Lancaster - Photograph courtesy of Pauline Clark ©

▲▲▲ Another interview & other news ▲▲▲

Julian recently answered some questions from M3 on the pros and cons of free music, the reasons behind the traditional album length and without a hint of irony (okay then, maybe some) the band’s potential for psychic healing.
Read it [here]

In other news, we'll be ge going on our first UK tour in August, though we still need to finalise one last date, but there'll be more information about that on here once it's sorted. Before that however, We'll be playing the Wickerman festival in East Kirkcarswell, sharing an eclectic bill with the likes of Texas, the Scissor Sisters and The View. Can't wait, I think they'll all end up being our best pals. Though we won't be sticking around for long however as we'll be heading over to Newcastle the next day to play at an all day event called Narc Fest. We'll be playing on the Leave Me Here stage outside The Tyne Bar which is free. Also playing are the fantastisch Queer’d Science, Juffage, Cauls & John Duo jazz duo. Hope to see some of you north eastern folk there! [Facebook event page for that here.]

▲▲▲ Comforting Waves of Information ▲▲▲

We've been busy recently.

We've recorded what will most likely be our next album in the analogue Green Door Studios - you will be illuminated about this in due course.

More immediately, we have our debut album available for pre-order on CD(!) over [here] at Paradigm Records. It will be a limited edition run of 500, so grab your copy quick before they all dissapear!

We will also be embarking on a journey across the island we call home, performing rituals and spreading our message. Keep an eye out - dates to follow. In the mean time, heres a clip of a recent gig we played with our pals Divorce.