The group’s 2022 UK appearances will include three consecutive shows at London’s Electric Ballroom in Camden, as well as shows in Coventry and Manchester.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor released their seventh full-length album last year, entitled G_d’s Pee at State’s End!. The record is their first since 2017’s Luciferian Towers. The group makes a very welcome return to familiar sonic territory; they are not quite exploring previously untapped musical avenues, however this is no issue at all, as the riveting record sees them perfecting an already well-loved sound.

The record received plenty of acclaim from fans and critics alike, with Wall Street Journal saying: A ferocious, thrilling blast of energy… impossibly dramatic music with a symphonic sense of scale. Though Godspeed works with specific structural parameters – long compositions, gradual builds and titanic, cathartic climaxes – it finds untapped expressive possibilities. This excellent record from this one-of-a-kind project might require time for its lengthy pieces to sink in, but the stirring and emotionally resonant music more than rewards the effort.”

Meanwhile, Kerrang! went on to say: “The last twelve months have felt very Godspeed You! Black Emperor. As does this record… For all the existential dread contained therein, G_d’s Pee… also includes moments of elegiac beauty, as on shorter tracks “Fire At Static Valley” and the exquisite “OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.)”. Resisting social media and releasing just two grainy press shots in a quarter of a century, Godspeed remain wary of the mainstream. But as the world spins inexorably towards tipping point, they’ve never sounded as central to their times.”

You can listen to the stunning album closer “OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.)” down below, and you can purchase the record here.

See below for the band’s 2022 UK tour dates.

17/092022 – HMV Empire- Coventry
18/09/2022 – The Barrowland- Glasgow
19/09/2022 – Marble Factory- Bristol
20/09/2022 – Electric Ballroom- London
21/09/2022 – Electric Ballroom- London
22/09/2022 – Electric Ballroom- London
23/09/2022 – Manchester Academy- Manchester

The tour will kick off in Rome on October 13, and will the take band all over Europe, including four dates in the UK at the end of the month, you can see the full list of UK dates below.

The dates in Rome will be a collaborative performance with  fellow Canadians, and dance company Holy Body Tattoo, in a reunion of the band and Holy Body Tattoo’s ‘Monumental’ piece, which has previously been performed the world over, and Premiered at Vancouver’s PuSh Performing Arts Festival in January 2016.

The band will split from Holy Body Tattoo and continue on their own in Fribourg, Switzerland after the dates in Rome, and the tour as a whole will conclude in Paris, at the Elysee Montmatre in the first week of November.

The band haven’t released new music since 2015’s Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, but the tour is still a marked improvement from the indefinite hiatus taken by the band and it’s billions of members between 2003 and 2010.

23/10/2017- Brighton Dome- Brighton

27/10- ABC- Glasgow

30/10- Motion- Bristol

31/10- Troxy- London