The Canadian rock duo have recently released their third studio album Outrage is Now!, whilst their future tour-mates have also made a return this year, dropping the long-awaited in.ter.a.li.a, their first album for 17 years; 2000’s seminal Relationship of Command.

DFA’s drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger recently spoke to NME about the band’s long hiatus (somethign they and At The Drive In have in common), and the modification to their original name.

“We’ve realised that Death From Above is just us, plus a couple of pieces of gear[…] It’s not this separate third entity that is mythologised or whatever. We didn’t talk for five years but the band continued to exist and kept working in the background.

“When we started working on [previous record] The Physical World, we treated the band as this other thing that we had to respect. Now we don’t – we don’t respect it any more!”

“A couple of years ago we dropped it [the 1979] from our tour posters. No one noticed so we kept doing it.”

Sebastien added: “The final straw was when I was making the art for our single ‘Freeze Me’. I wanted to write the name out in ice, so I went on Amazon and ordered an ice cube tray in the alphabet. It came and there were no numbers. That was that.”

09/03/2017-  Brixton Academy- London
10/03- O2 Academy- Newcastle
12/03- Academy 2- Birmingham
13/03- O2 Apollo-Manchester
15/03 – O2 Academy-Glasgow