GODSTICKS ADD NEW DATES TO UK TOUR -
NEW ALBUM VOiD OUT NOW
Fresh from the release of their acclaimed new album VOiD, UK prog heavyweights Godsticks have announced additional dates for their upcoming UK tour.
Speaking on the news, the band shared - "We're so excited to share these new gig dates and extend the VOiD tour further into 2026. It was great to finally present the new material live and showcase the next evolution of Godsticks in our first five shows this past April, with every performance seeing the band get stronger and tighter. Now as well as adding another festival appearance at Cambridge Rock Festival, we can't wait to take our full headline set to new places across the U.K along with a few familiar haunts. We hope to see you on the road!"
“Godsticks turn intimate Swansea gig into something extraordinary…a phenomenally talented band who make complex look easy” Metaltalk.net
“If music were a relay race, these four would be passing the baton blindfolded and still winning gold…something special” - Pete's Rock News and Views
GODSTICKS 2026 UK TOUR (NEW DATES UNDERLINED)
June 27th - The Louisiana, Bristol (with Lesoir)
June 28th - The 1865, Southampton (with Hekz)
July 4th - SOS Festival, Oldham
August 2nd - Cambridge Rock Festival
September 3rd - The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh
September 4th - Hidden, Dundee
September 5th - The Globe, Glossop
November 20th - John Peel Centre, Stowmarket
November 21st - Ramsgate Music Hall
November 26th - Fuel, Cardiff
November 27th - The Vaults, Bath
November 28th - Bear Cave, Bournemouth
GODSTICKS NEW ALBUM 'VOiD' OUT NOW
WATCH THE NEW VIDEO FOR 'CAN'T WITHSTAND'
The new studio album from UK heavy rock proggers Godsticks is out now. Titled VOiD, the album is the band’s heaviest, darkest and most uncompromising to date. Alongside the album release, Godsticks have shared a new video for the single ‘Can’t Withstand’, produced by Gavin Bushell.
“Godsticks are clever, versatile bastards…hits harder and with greater intent than anything they have attempted before”
PROG MAGAZINE
“VOID is unwieldy, rhythmically extraordinarily complex, intricate”
CLASSIC ROCK DE
“Distinctive, unique, creative, clever, underrated, and passionate…44 minutes of music that works on every level”
METAL TALK UK
‘Can’t Withstand’ deals with learning to live with regret and the battles I have with myself to come to terms with decisions I’ve made that haven’t proved to be the right ones. Intellectually I don’t really believe in the concept of regret because it’s only possible to make choices or decisions based on the information you have at that specific time - you don’t know what the future holds and it’s difficult to predict. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop me from constantly analysing decisions that haven’t worked out and ensuring that they meet these criteria. All this in the name of ‘Peace of mind’ which proves elusive for me as a rule.
Musically, this was easily the most fun song to both write and record. We all quickly fell in love with the disjointed guitar riff and from that point onward the song came together really quickly - a phenomenon we don’t often experience! That said, this has turned out to be by far the most difficult track to rehearse for the new live set – the guitar and vocal lines are rhythmically at war with one another and getting both in sync is so far proving an immense challenge. Come see the results for yourself next month – I will succeed! – Darran Charles
- M.I.A. — 04:08
- Hold Back — 04:41
- Watch It Burn — 03:05
- Master of a Plan — 04:47
- Torn Again — 05:31
- Can't Withstand — 05:07
- Ruthless Coward — 04:28
- Talking Through Walls Pt. 1 — 03:28
- Talking Through Walls Pt. 2 — 04:30
- Hope Is Burning — 04:55
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE 'M.I.A.' PRODUCED BY Martin Holmes - holmesdigital@icloud.com
Godsticks long awaited seventh studio album titled VOiD, is their darkest, heaviest, and most uncompromising album to date. Both lyrically and musically, VOiD reflects a disillusionment with a world increasingly defined by division, ideological rigidity, and the loss of nuance. The album documents a conscious withdrawal from the noise - a retreat into a personal void.
VOiD is out now on pearl sunrise vinyl LP, classic black LP, CD and digitally.
PEARL SUNRISE VINYL LP
DIGIPACK CD EDITION WITH 12-PAGE PRINTED BOOKLET
GODSTICKS ANNOUNCE TOUR SUPPORTING FRENCH PROG-ROCKERS LIZZARD
Godsticks are thrilled to announce that they will be joining French rock outfit Lizzard on a highly anticipated European tour this December, with shows lined up in the Netherlands, UK, Germany and Italy. "We’re incredibly excited to be part of this tour," said the band. “It’s been a hot minute since we last embarked on a tour of this magnitude, so we cannot wait to hit the road with this great band!”
GODSTICKS SHOWS SUPPORTING LIZZARD:
5/12/24 NIJMEGEN, MERLEYN - NL
6/12/24 LONDON, 02 ACADEMY2 ISLINGTON - UK
8/12/24 MUNICH, BACKSTAGE CLUB - DE
9/12/24 BERLIN, BADEHAUS - DE
10/12/24 HAMBURG, HEADCRASH - DE
11/12/24 COLOGNE, HELIOS 37 - DE
13/12/24 MILAN, LEGEND CLUB - IT
14/12/24 ROME, TRAFFIC LIVE – IT
‘THIS IS WHAT A WINNER LOOKS LIKE’
Introducing the new era of the band is single ‘Mayhem’. Musically the track flits from pneumatic staccato style riffs to an earworm chorus before an inspired solo slingshots us home to the song’s abrupt end. The track comes as the first taster of what ‘This Is What A Winner Looks Like’, an album that capitalises on the band’s near limitless sense of creativity, expert musicianship and effortless song writing to deliver what is surely their finest release to date.
Characterised by a rhythmic groove, the song is a testament to the airtight playing of the band and their unorthodox song writing that has made them one of Kscope’s shining lights. A fantastic initial offering of what is to come from the next chapter in the story of Godsticks.
Revelling in the chaos of the track, Godsticks guitarist Darran Charles, had the following to say:
“I stumbled upon this really ugly dissonant chord that sounded great with distortion, and thought about ways of making it sound even nastier and more chaotic (hence the title). But I was also interested in causing Tom (drummer) physical harm so I devised a bass drum pattern so complex that it will likely cause him a repetitive strain injury in the very near future. This song promises to be immense live and the music video hopefully translates the energy we’re going to bring to the stage when we take this song out on the road.”
Accompanying the song comes a video, produced by Martin Holmes (@ohmzfilm on Instagram), which brings this musical dissonance to life and has its own story to tell as Charles illustrates below:
“For what is probably the heaviest and most rebellious track on the forthcoming album ‘This Is What A Winner Looks Like’ we chose a location that itself was the location of the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in Great Britain – The Westgate Hotel. Where on the 4 November 1839, local politician and activist John Frost led a protest march of 3,000 Chartists, some of them armed, into the centre of Newport, South Wales. Godsticks – as of yet – have no plans to form such a rebellion.”
Having released ‘Inescapable’ in February 2020, a mere month before the world plummeted into lockdown, the band had no means to perform the new songs to an audience. Living in this world of stasis, it wasn’t until September 2021 when the band were able to perform the tracks for a live audience that they began to think about their next album.
Godsticks – ‘This Is What A Winner Looks Like' - Tracklisting
- 'If I Don't Take It All'
- Eliminate and Repair
- This Is My New Normal
- Devotion Made To Offend
- Silent Saw
- Throne
- Don't Say A Word To Me
- Mayhem
- Lying
- Wake Up
The album will be available in the following formats:
- LP - Black vinyl
- CD - Digipack
- Digital
Pre-orders from the band’s store get a bonus 3 track CD titled ‘Crushed’ and pre-orders from Kscope store will also receive the bonus 3 track CD as well as a signed postcard.
The band will be appearing live for the following dates with more to be announced soon!
Godsticks live
- 22nd June – Cardiff – Fuel
- 23rd June – London – Camden Assembly
- 24th June – Newcastle, The Cluny 2
- 25th June – Edinburgh – Legends
Inescapable
Their mix of heavy rock, progressive and alternative metal with a dynamic range of angular riffs and emotional depth will leave listeners reeling. The band's sound has refined over their releases on Kscope, beginning with the technically astounding metal on Emergence to the more industrial and progressive-influenced Faced With Rage. Now, with Inescapable, the band have channelled their energy and technical ability into the melody, phrasing and vocal performance, allowing emotion to take centre stage.
The band found themselves wanting a definitive theme running through Inescapable, without turning it into a concept album, of being more open, more personal and ultimately one that shines an inquisitive light on Charles’s struggle with inner demons which gave the songs a new level of intimacy. “Lyrically, I’ve always shared personal thoughts, feelings and experiences but in a very ambiguous way. For Inescapable - in a conscious effort not to repeat ourselves – I thought I’d be a little more self-reflective and perhaps examine some of my inner demons. I have a strange relationship with music, and especially playing guitar. I would struggle to survive without either, but equally they have made my life mentally torturous because my own self-worth is completely wrapped up in them. I used to be very much a perfectionist in my early years, and whilst some people may wear that as a badge of honour, I eventually viewed it as huge heavy weight dragging down. It was a long time before I arrived at the realisation that perfection was impossible to achieve.” elaborates Darran Charles.
Perfectly highlighting the album’s leitmotif, the band reveal their first single “Denigrate”, “the writing of this song was a sort of analysis of my ongoing battle with perfectionism and the general feeling that nothing you do ever meets the impossibly high standards you set for yourself”. The song features additional vocals from TesseracT’s gifted vocalist Daniel Tompkins to record vocal harmonies, adding an extra layer of aggression and energy.
