Oct. 17 — Alkaline Trio will open the new year with a new album.
The band announced Tuesday, it is scheduled to release its new album, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Jan. 26 through Rise Records. Album pre-orders are available through alkalinetrio.com and alkalinetrio.store.
Front man/guitarist Matt Skiba talked about the new album’s creation in a prepared statement.
“My mom worked for years as an emergency room nurse,” Skiba said. “She and her co-workers referred to exceptionally busy nights as ‘blood, hair, and eyeballs’. Well, we’ve been busy making an exceptional record we refer to as Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, too. We approached this new record in completely new ways. We built the songs together, from the ground up, in the same room which hasn’t happened since the band started. Usually we start with an idea somebody’s already written. This time, we had the unique opportunity to build the songs onto drums recorded at Studio 606 on to two-inch tape using one of the most beautiful-sounding and legendary consoles in rock. It has almost everything to do with how our new record sounds.”
In anticipation of the album’s release the band debuted the video for the album’s lead single/title track Tuesday. The video finds the trio performing its new single in a drained pool that is being used at the same time by a group of skaters. Those skaters and a bunch of others turn into a bunch of zombies as the video progresses, all of whom are trying to get at the band. The video has a surprise ending that will be left for audiences to discover for themselves.
The musical arrangement featured in the new single will appeal easily to any pop punk fan as well as to Alkaline Trio’s established audiences. No information was provided about the song’s lyrical theme in the news release announcing the debut of the new video and the new album’s pending release. The lyrics provided with the video hints at the song perhaps being a story of a friendship or some sort of personal relationship of some sort that has soured.
Bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano talked about the song’s video in his own comments.
“Sometimes the full circle nature of life is enough to just completely blow my mind… this is one of those times,” Adnriano said. “Skateboarding was my first love, is my favorite sport, and a community through which I was first introduced to punk rock. So when Matt and I read Ravi’s idea to combine our music with an homage to the Bones Brigade’s ‘The Search For Animal Chin’ and throw some spooky zombies in there… we both dug it right away. The work Ravi and the entire production crew put in was insane and it shows… So to kick off the release of our 10th album with this super fun video featuring Steve Caballero, Chris Cole, Ace, Corey and Shea is so much more than a dream come true, it’s true love. This is not a phase.”
In other news, Alkaline Trio announced a series of new live dates to open 2024 in support of its new album. The tour is scheduled to launch Feb. 24 in Anaheim, CA and to run through March 30 in Las Vegas, NV. The nearly monthlong tour also includes performances in cities nationwide, such as Charlotte, NC; Cleveland, OH and Phoenix, AZ.
The tour’s scheduled is noted below. Tickets are on sale now.
North American Tour 2024
(DRUG CHURCH supports on all dates)
Thu — Feb 22, 2024 — Anaheim, CA — HOB Anaheim
Fri — Feb 23, 2024 — San Diego, CA — SOMA
Sat — Feb 24, 2024 — Phoenix, AZ — Van Buren
Mon — Feb 26, 2024 — Dallas, TX — HOB Dallas
Tue — Feb 27, 2024 — Austin, TX — Stubbs
Wed — Feb 28, 2024 — Houston, TX — HOB Houston
Fri — Mar 1, 2024 — Atlanta, GA — Tabernacle
Sat — Mar 2, 2024 — Orlando, FL — HOB Orlando
Sun — Mar 3, 2024 — Charlotte, NC — Fillmore
Tue — Mar 5, 2024 — Washington D.C. — Fillmore Silver Spring
Wed — Mar 6, 2024 — Philadelphia, PA — Fillmore Philadelphia
Fri — Mar 8, 2024 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theater and Ballroom
Sat — Mar 9, 2024 — Queens, NY — Knockdown Center
Sun — Mar 10, 2024 — Boston, MA — HOB Boston
Tue — Mar 12, 2024 — Toronto, ON — History
Wed — Mar 13, 2024 — Montreal, QC — Beanfield
Fri — Mar 15, 2024 — Royal Oak, MI — Royal Oak Music Theatre
Sat — Mar 16, 2024 — Chicago, IL — Aragon Ballroom
Sun — Mar 17, 2024 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant
Mon — Mar 18, 2024 — Minneapolis, MN — Fillmore Minneapolis
Wed — Mar 20, 2024 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium
Thu — Mar 21, 2024 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex
Sat — Mar 23, 2024 — Seattle, WA — Showbox SoDo
Sun — Mar 24, 2024 — Vancouver, BC — Vogue Theatre
Mon — Mar 25, 2024 — Portland, OR — Crystal Ballroom
Wed — Mar 27, 2024 — San Francisco, CA — The Masonic
Fri — Mar 29, 2024 — Los Angeles, CA — Novo
Sat — Mar 30, 2024 — Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
The track listing for Alkaline Trio’s new album is noted below:
ALKALINE TRIO
Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
Tracklist:
Hot For Preacher
Meet Me
Versions Of You
Bad Time
Scars
Break
Shake With Me
Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
Hinterlude
Broken Down In A Time Machine
Teenage Heart
More information on Alkaline Trio’s new album, tour, single, and video is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Website: https://alkalinetrio.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alkalinetrio
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alkaline_Trio
