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Heathen Apostles – Gothic Western Tour Update

Another Gothic Western tour update: the dates for the Heathen Apostles’ May/June 2022 European tour are filling up, here’s an update so any cities and venues can book an open date while they are still available. Contact Kurt DeBont at Rootstown bookings by clicking HERE.

The COVID 19 crisis has kept the current tour dates in central Europe, but the band and their booking agency are looking to expand into surrounding countries. Here are the Heathen Apostles’ Gothic Western tour dates:

26/05/2022 Thursday – De Cactus, Henglo, NL
27/05/2022 Friday – De Pit, Terneuzen, NL
28/05/2022 Saturday – Paradox, Tilburg, NL
29/05/2022 Sunday – De Klinker Club, Aarschot, BE
30/05/2022 Monday – De Floeren Aap, Mechelen, BE
31/05/2022 Tuesday – available
01/06/2022 Wednesday – Franzis, Wetzlar, DE
02/06/2022 Thursday – Unordnungsamt, Kalbe, DE
03/06/2022 Friday – Extra Blues Bar, Bielefeld, DE
04/06/2022 Saturday – Alte Schlosserei, Wuppertal, DE
05/06/2022 Sunday – Wild at Heart, Berlin, DE
06/06/2022 Monday – Buchholz Saloon, Altlandsberg, DE
07/06/2022 Tuesday day off
08/06/2022 Wednesday – Oberstübchen, Regen, DE
09/06/2022 Thursday – City club, Augsburg, DE
10/06/2022 Friday – Alter, Mannheim, DE
11/06/2022 Saturday – Muziekcentrum Dranouter, Dranouter, BE
12/06/2022 Sunday – Deux Ours, Modave, BE
13/06/2022 Monday day off
14/06/2022 Tuesday – Missy Sippy, Ghent, BE
15/06/2022 Wednesday – Die Heile Welt, Munster, DE
16/06/2022 Thursday – Monkeys, Hamburg, DE
17/06/2022 Friday – Schule 2, Bremen, DE
18/06/2022 Saturday – Kufa Löseke, Hildesheim, DE
19/06/2022 Sunday – Lokaal 42, Helmond, NL
20/06/2022 Monday day off
21/06/2022 Tuesday – Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam, NL
22/06/2022 Wednesday – Pferdestall, Bremerhaven, DE
23/06/2022 Thursday – Mout – The Netherlands – Nijmegen, NL
24/06/2022 Friday – Rakete, Stuttgardt, DE
25/06/2022 Saturday – mySkylounge / 13th floor Kulturetage, Kempten, DE
26/06/2022 Sunday – Hafen 2, Offenbach A.M., DE

Heathen Apostles - Gothic Western Tour

Heathen Apostles Southern Gothic Album Cover Released

The Heathen Apostles are proud to release the cover art for their upcoming 11 song southern gothic album Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4 (on Ratchet Blade Records). The artwork was done by their good friend Stephanie Inagaki, who also did the cover art for the previous Bloodgrass Vol. 1 & 2 album and EPs.

The online release date for the album is Friday the 13th of May, and the international street date for brick and mortar is Friday June 3rd. The album will also be available from the band on their upcoming European tour, which starts May 26th in Henglo, The Netherlands.

Heathen Apostles - Southern Gothic album

From the Heathen Apostles’ Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4 press release:
2020 was a year of loss, reflection, and reevaluation. Trying as the times were to have a trio of tour cancellations both stateside and abroad as the live music industry seemingly evaporated overnight, the Heathen Apostles did not let the unexpected gift of time go to waste. To the contrary, the band channeled the turbulent year’s events and its complex emotions into their music, and the result- BLOODGRASS VOL. 3&4- is a southern gothic album of a collection of songs at once timely as they are timeless.

Heathen Apostles - Southern Gothic album

Track listing:

1. Bad Patch
2. Careful What You Pray For
3. Black Hawk
4. Demi Monde
5. Tall Rider
6. Roots Run Deep
7. Into the Wild
8. No Peace
9. Solitary
10. Shadow of the Crows
11. Gravedigger’s Song

Heathen Apostles’ Original Gothic Roots Music Video

Heathen Apostles - gothic roots music On this day in 2013 the Heathen Apostles released their original gothic roots music video “The Reckoning”. It was directed by the band, and features Edward Colver as the Demonic Preacher. The Reckoning was the first single from their first album Boot Hill Hymnal, out in 2013 on Ratchet Blade Records. 

Heathen Apostles gothic roots music

From the Heathen Apostles’ social media: We released “The Reckoning”, our first music video, on this day in 2013. We had yet to play a show (the band was just @matherlouth , Chopper and Thomas) but we wanted to come out swinging so we went ahead and directed it ourselves. Our good friend @edwardcolver played the Demon Preacher, thanks to all involved in the filming and to Mike Livingston for playing on the song.


From the Boot Hill Hymnal 1 sheet:
“No one sings as purely as those who are in the deepest hell. Theirs is the
song which is confused with that of the angels.” Franz Kafka
Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the
dark roots music of the HEATHEN APOSTLES harkens back to a
bygone chapter of American history while firmly keeping one foot
planted in the present-day city of Los Angeles.
One Indian summer evening, femme fatale bellower Mather Louth
(Radio Noir) and punk rock veteran Chopper Franklin (The Cramps,
Charley Horse), quickly uncovered a mutual appreciation for murder
balladry, gothic roots music, and memento mori. Soon, the HEATHEN
APOSTLES surfaced. The landscape was further tilled with the
addition of Thomas Lorioux (The Kings of Nuthin’) on the upright bass.
The Heathen’s debut release, Boot Hill Hymnal, seeks to answer a
question posed long ago by Blind Willie Johnson- just what is the soul of
a man? (…Or, as the case may be here, a woman with a thousand-yard
stare.) The resulting collection of songs is complex, catchy, and wholly
cohesive to the Apostles’ ghost town.

Goth Artist Stephanie Inagaki Doing Bloodgrass 3 & 4 Cover Art

The Heathen Apostles are again collaborating with goth artist Stephanie Inagaki, she will do the cover art on the band’s upcoming album Bloodgrass Vol. 3 & 4 (out Friday the 13th of May on Ratchet Blade Records). Stephanie previously did the cover art for the first Heathen Apostles album in the series, Bloodgrass Vol. 1 & 2, as well as appear in a music video from that release Death Came a Ridin’ (directed by Ashley Von Helsing).

Heathen Apostles - Goth Artist

Ver Mar, Stephanie Inagaki, Jonathan Cripple

Stephanie also makes fine art images and wearable art objects: portals to a realm of macabre fineries, Old World glamour, breathtaking mastery, rich symbolism, and deep wisdom. Meticulously crafted from sensuous and elemental mediums, each piece is made with love and tells a story of power and grace in the face of crisis, loss, and transformation. She is also the proprietress of Miyu Decay, meticulously and lovingly hand carves each design out of wax before going through the lost wax casting process.

Heathen Apostles - Goth ArtistStephanie Inagaki‘s imagery is startling in its complex dualities. It manages to simultaneously contrast eroticism and violence, beauty and decay, life and death, all the while maintaining a harmonious and even sensuous balance of these themes. She brilliantly explores themes which are deeply personal to her by employing motifs that carry along the rich cultural traditions of her heritage and imbues them with her own meaning. Equally surrealistic and expressive, she mines her emotions and uses her body in order to create, in her own words, a “landscape where double self examinations occur through portraiture and self ruminations of the negative and positive…“

Deeply influenced by her continual studies in Middle Eastern dancing, Miyu Decay combines aesthetic elements from the Middle East, Africa, India, Europe, along with traditional Japanese designs.

“Death’s Head” Video – Still a Gothic Outlaw Favorite

Heathen Apostles - Gothic Outlaw FavoriteToday is the 7 year anniversary of the Heathen ApostlesDeath’s Head video, the first from their second album Fire to the Fuse. The cast and crew wasn’t quite as large as their previous video (2014’s Dark Was The Night), but everyone did a great job, it’s definitely everyone’s gothic outlaw favorite. Here are the credits from the video’s original posting:

“Death’s Head” is the new single by the Heathen Apostles, Mather Louth (Radio Noir), Chopper Franklin (The Cramps, Nick Curran & the Lowlifes), Thomas Lorioux (Kings of Nuthin), Stevyn Grey (Christian Death) and Luis Mascaro, w/ Timbo Gruse (Speedbuggy). Support the band and their art by purchasing the single at iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dea… or at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Deaths-Head-Hea… You can visit their website here: http://heathenapostles.com

Directed by The Heathen Apostles and Lawrence Drayton.
Director of Photography, Still Photography: Lawrence Drayton (Raven’s Laughter)

Makeup: Alexia Petre
Wardrobe: Cheri Wilson Chagollan, Mather Louth
Snake Handler: Peggy Rivera 

Death’s Head written by Louth/Franklin
Produced, mixed & mastered by Chopper Franklin at the Devil’s Doghouse, Echo Park, Ca.
© 2015 Ratchet Blade Records

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