DZ DEATHRAYS MARK TEN YEARS OF BLACK RAT LP NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY TOUR THIS JUNE – JULY + VINYL RE-RELEASE

Feature Album
triple j

“The band’s musicality has taken a colossal advancing lunge; Parsons’ vocal range has developed to incorporate throat lacerating howls and sweet coos, whilst the spewing riffs from his guitar have been supersized for LP2. Ridley’s drumming is more adventurous, taking on wild patterns and the kind of tub-thumping associated with Dave Grohl or a rock music obsessed octopus.”
Northern Transmissions (9.0/10)

“The Aussie hellraisers find new ways to party on the follow-up to ‘Bloodstreams’”
NME (★★★★)

“Near 40 minutes of slow and sweaty seduction executed exquisitely by weeping guitar”
DIY Magazine (★★★★)

“Another house-party-in-an-album reeking of sweat-drenched, hormone-soaked abandon… The thrash-pop duo have an instinctive sense of balance though: mostly hinging on their ability to follow a vicious kick to the teeth with a devilishly catchy pop hook”
Sydney Morning Herald (★★★★)

“The sound of a confident band torn between its populist, party-friendly beginnings and a new-found ability to embrace glimpses of beauty amid the sonic destruction.”
The Australian  (★★★ ½)

“Their gloriously off-kilter approach is compelling and then some”
Kerrang!

“it builds on their first album in all the right ways: more earworms, less clutter, everything polished with just a little blood in the spit”
CLASH

“With brutal riffs cribbed from metal, vocals that’d fit right in on a Fugazi classic, and ecstatically warped melodies that recall Hot Hot Heat, these two plant a firm flag for their summer album,
Black Rat”
SPIN

“Two years of touring has allowed DZ Deathrays to realize their capabilities as songwriters and with Black Rat, it’s clear they’ve got their sights set on bigger and stranger things”
Exclaim!

From their inception, DZ Deathrays remain one of the most recognisable acts in the contemporary Australian rock canon, most notably with the success of their debut album Bloodstreams which made DZ synonymous with thunderous. Quickly followed by their second album Black Rat signifying a maturer sound, they expanded beyond their garage roots into an award-winning machine, touring the world countless times over, supporting The Foo Fighters stadium tours, Ratatat, Biffy Clyro, Grinspoon and more, headline slots across The Tivoli, The Enmore and The Forum and more.

Amongst DZ‘s enduring fanbase they remain festival favourites with performance tallies across multiple years at Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival, St. Jerome’s Laneway alongside international appearances at SXSW, Reading and Leeds Festival, and multiple entries in triple j‘s Hottest 100. Coupled with their more recent LPs Bloody Lovely and their critically-acclaimed twin concept albums, Positive Rising: Part 1 and Part 2, the project of Shane Parsons, Simon Ridley and Lachlan Ewbank has long cemented DZ Deathrays‘ staple status – it’s not every day that a band gets stronger and more popular with time.