COUGH & GRIME Announce Joint West Coast Tour

Announcing a plague over the West Coast...Virginia's COUGH (Relapse Records) and Italy's GRIME(Argento) are joining forces to wreak havoc this May. CA's Midnite Collective takes responsibility for bringing the Italian doom lords across the ocean for their first ever US shows - sure to be a hell of a run. Dates below:

Catch COUGH & GRIME Live:
5/11 - Los Angeles, CA - Union
5/12 - Phoenix, AZ - Club Red
5/13 - Las Vegas, NV - The Bunkhouse Saloon
5/14 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
5/15 - Oakland, CA - The Golden Bull
5/16 - Portland, OR - Tonic Lounge
5/17 - Seattle, WA - The Highline

Conceived in the fertile metal underground of Richmond, VA circa 2005, ?COUGH ?have sought to be the heaviest band ever since their inception. The band takes inspiration from the most savage aspects of extreme music, from crushing doom metal and grimy sludge to early black metal. After the independent 2007 release of their first EP, ?The Kingdom?, ?COUGH? quickly put out their first proper full-length, ?Sigillum Luciferi ?(Forcefield Records, 2008). Recorded with acclaimed producer Sanford Parker (?Minsk?, Rwake, Pelican, Nachtmystium), ?Sigillum Luciferi? was an ugly, agonizing display of misanthropy. Slight bits of psychedelia wormed into the massive riffs and wove their way throughout the band's inhuman screams, making the record one of the most impressive pieces of doom metal to emerge from North America in quite some time.
After a six year hiatus, ?COUGH ?return with ?Still They Pray?, a 65? ?minute acid-drenched nightmare set to music?.? Produced by ?Electric Wizard's ?Jus Oborn and recorded by Oborn and ?Windhand's? Garrett Morris, ?COUGH? pick up where ?Ritual Abuse ?left off, masterfully pushing their black cosmic psychedelia to the brink of despair. ?Still They Pray ?reached multiple Billboard charts including #11 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and #21 on the Billboard Hardmusic Chart.

Grime starts its mission in Trieste, Italy during summer 2010- their only goal is bringing destruction to a town near yours. Their sound is rooted in a rotten burial ground and their songs are the voice of a decaying swamp filled with trash. Marching to a slow and heavy groove as filthy and vicious as the guitar riffs are sharp and covered with rust. Drums and bass hit with the unstoppable power of a mud avalanche. As Metal Injection Magazine once said,"They sound like a train pushing through a tar pit."

In 2013, they released their first full length Deteriorate through Forcefield Records (US), concentrating on a more atonal, filthy and less groovy sound. Deteriorate was hailed by Decibel Magazine, Terrorizer, Metal Injection, Cvlt Nation, Invisible Oranges and The Obelisk among others as a force to be reckoned with.

Over the years the band toured relentlessly across Europe (with Converge, Cough, Fistula, Today is The Day and -(16)-, to name a few) and had the honor to play some of the greatest European festivals such as Roadburn, Heavy Days in Doomtown, Bloodshed Festival, Barroselas Metal Fest and Desertfest (London and Belgium). Grime is ready to release some new material in 2018 along multiple tours...stay tuned.