Cleric Tours With Secret Chiefs 3 And Brings “Resumption”

Cleric Announces North American Dates w/ Secret Chiefs 3
+ New “Resumption” Single, Upcoming 2015 LP and July 2015 “Masada” Residency at The Stone in New York

“At another was Cleric, a Philadelphia math-metal quartet, whose hammering, screeching rendition of “Imma” sounded like every extreme band Mr. Zorn championed during the 1980s, all at once.” – The NY Times

“The music this Philadelphia four-piece plays is a kind of metal the way Lost Highway is a kind of movie. It’s an elastic tissue of creepy electronic noise and barely human screaming, impregnated with patches of riff-salad grind and hypercube mathcore. Imagine a billboard-size smear of Silly Putty pressed onto the incomprehensible infinite grid of a sinister Sunday crossword, then stretched, folded, and twisted till there isn’t a single straight line left.” – The Chicago Reader

“Ultimate annihilation, the end times, post-apocalyptic Earth — these are worn-out visual clichés, but ones that apply to the devastating music of Cleric. For its full-length debut, this Philadelphia quartet specializes in demolishing tech-metal eruptions, savage math breakdowns, and grindcore blasts that give way to doom dirges, sinister atmospherics, nightmarish vocal distortions, and even the stray melody and piano line.” – Alarm Press

Cleric has always been somewhere on the edge of the metal scene from which they drew much of their early influence. Equal parts brutal and confusing, the band spent many years straddling the line between extreme and avant-garde – a dichotomy that continues to propel them further and further from their roots.

At the kickoff of their national tour last November, the group fulfilled a long-held musical dream by performing for legendary saxophonist, composer and avant-garde pioneer, John Zorn. Things spiraled upward from there: in addition to an offer to curate a week-long residency at Zorn’s club (The Stone), Cleric was invited as one of twenty bands to interpret from the newest chapter of the composer’s Masada saga for an epic concert at Town Hall in March. By the end of the night, the guys were in talks with Zorn for a whole album of Masada material.

Momentum has taken over as Cleric steps from their metal footprint into a cross-section of unclassifiable and uncompromising musical peers. This October they’ll join label-mates and experimental extraordinaries, Secret Chiefs 3, for a three-week tour through Canada and the U.S. In February they’ll enter the studio (again with engineer Colin Marston) to start tracking their follow-up to 2010’s Regressions. In July 2015 they’ll have the honor of spending six nights on stage at The Stone.

Cleric will be bringing with them on the road close to a half an album’s worth of new material, as well as a new Mimicry Records release, a special limited 7-inch of the song “Resumption.” Cleric’s upcoming 2015 residency at The Stone in New York will include two sets per night and encompass all of the band’s recorded albums, EPs upcoming Masada material, as well as nights of improvisation, collaboration and more (full details coming soon).

Cleric Live w/ Secret Chiefs 3:
Oct 02, 2014 Saits The Gateway Calgary, AB
Oct 03, 2014 The Starlite Room Edmonton, AB
Oct 04, 2014 Vangelis Tavern Saskatoon, SK
Oct 05, 2014 West End Cultural Centre Winnipeg, MB
Oct 07, 2014 Turf Club Saint Paul, MN
Oct 08, 2014 Cactus Club Milwaukee, WI
Oct 09, 2014 Double Door Chicago, IL
Oct 10, 2014 The Loving Touch Ferndale, MI
Oct 11, 2014 Lee’s Palace Toronto, ON
Oct 16, 2014 Black Sheep Inn Wakefield, QC
Oct 17, 2014 Café Chasse-Galerie Lavaltrie, QC
Oct 18, 2014 Le Cercle Quebec, QC
Oct 19, 2014 Brighton Music Hall Boston, MA
Oct 21, 2014 LPR – Le Poisson Rouge New York, NY
July 16 – 21, 2015 The Stone New York, NY *

* Special guests and additional details coming soon

For more information, visit:
iamcleric.bandcamp.com
Facebook.com/iamcleric
www.webofmimicry.com