US / THEM: Russian Circles announce North American and Australian/New Zealand headlining tour dates

"Empros is one of the most viscerally exciting and completely entertaining albums I've heard in a long time. There is perfection in the air and the battle for album of the year just heated up again." 10/10 rating -- Iann Robinson, Crave Online

"It's not a stretch to say it's the band's best album yet." -- Rock-A-Rolla

Chicago trio Russian Circles announce North American and Australian/New Zealand headlining dates beginning this month and running well into Fall. The band will be supported by a plethora of Sargent House family bands along the way, including And So I Watch You From Afar, Chelsea Wolfe, Marriages, Indian Handcrafts, Deafheaven and Crypts. Please see complete dates below.

This continues Russian Circles' already lengthy treks in support of their critically praised new album Empros. SPIN Magazine recently featured a full album stream of Empros. The band also recently premiered an MP3 from the album via RollingStone.com. The song, "Mladek" is available to listen/download HERE.

Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date -- but also with Empros they're poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of genre. Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009's Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles' Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection. Or, like a lone surviving wooly beast emerging from a brutal winter's frost, Empros is the sound of a band shaking the ages from its shoulders with all the brutal force of a behemoth awakened.

Empros is Russian Circles' first full-length to be released worldwide exclusively via Sargent House, the band's longtime management company and record label that had previously released only the vinyl editions of its three prior albums. It was released worldwide on LP, CD and Download on October 25th, 2011.

RUSSIAN CIRCLES / AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR

06/18 Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre w/ Indian Handcrafts

06/19 Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos Cantina w/ Indian Handcrafts

06/20 Calgary, AB @ Sled Island Festival w/ Indian Handcrafts & a secret guest

06/22 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret

06/24 Seattle, WA @ Neumos w/ Sandrider

06/25 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge w/ Crypts

06/27 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's w/ Deafheaven

06/28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall w/ Deafheaven

06/29 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre w/ Chelsea Wolfe & Deafheaven

07/02 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater

07/03 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room

RUSSIAN CIRCLES / CHELSEA WOLFE / MARRIAGES

07/06 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

07/07 St Louis, MO @ The Firebird

08/08 Louisville, KY @ Vernon Club

08/09 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree

08/10 Tallahassee, FL @ Retrofit Records

08/11 Orlando, FL @ Wills Pub

08/12 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theater

08/13 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits

08/14 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl

08/15 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle

08/16 Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel

08/17 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

08/18 New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom

08/19 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (Downstairs)

08/20 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore

08/21 Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace

08/22 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme

08/23 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall

08/24 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club

RUSSIAN CIRCLES / EAGLE TWIN / NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIAN TOUR

09/26 Newton, AUC, NZ @ Kings Arms Tavern

09/27 Wellington, NZ @ San Francisco Bathhouse

09/28 Melbourne, VIC @ Corner Hotel

09/29 Adelaide, SA @ Fowler's Live

09/30 Perth, WA @ The Bakery w/ Drowning Horse

10/04 Canberra, ACT @ ANU Bar

10/05 Brisbane, AU @ The Zoo

10/06 Sydney, AU @ The Hi Fi