The band’s first appearances in the UK in support of 2022 album, Eclipse of the Dual Moons
High Command announce a run of co-headline UK and EU dates with Inhuman Nature in support of their 2022 album Eclipse of the Dual Moons. This is the band’s first time in the UK, and they will be kicking things off with Damnation Festival in Manchester in November.
High Command EU/UK tour dates:
04/11/2023: Damnation Festival, Manchester, UK
05/11/2023: The Black Heart, London, UK
06/11/2023: Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
07/11/2023: Trefpunt, Ghent, BE
09/11/2023: Rosenkeller, Jena, DE
10/11/2023: Club Novitas, Dresden, DE
11/11/2023: Kabinet Muz, Brno, CZ
12/11/2023: Escape, Vienna, AT
13/11/2023: Dürer Kert, Budapest, HU
14/11/2023: Rockhouse, Salzburg, AT
16/11/2023: Die Trompete, Bochum, DE
17/11/2023: La Zone, Liege, BE
18/11/2023: Mukkes, Leeuwarden, NL
19/11/2023: The Jack, Eindhoven, NL
20/11/2023: Urban Spree, Berlin, DE
21/11/2023: BETA, Copenhagen, DK
22/11/2023: Plan B, Malmo, SE
23/11/2023: Abyss, Gothenburg, SE
24/11/2023: Hus7, Stockholm, SE
Swords and metal go hand in hand. That’s what crossover thrash band High Command say, having turned heads with their debut album Beyond The Wall of Desolation (2019), and most recently with their blistering follow up Eclipse of the Dual Moons (2022).
With this second album, the band take their love of storytelling a step further, deepening and widening the world of Secartha, the realm of High Command’s songs. The band place themselves as omniscient narrators of the world they have created, and say that they are inseparable from Secartha and its people.
“It’s one thing to make a good metal record, but it’s another to put on top of it a sort of overarching story that makes sense to listeners. The whole High Command project is enriched by lyrics articulating characters, a world, and trials faced within it. We want our records to be immersive and leave listeners with a feeling they’ve experienced something bigger than the music.”
It’s not just a question of widening the world, which the band first started exploring on The Secartha Demos (2016); Eclipse of the Dual Moons sees High Command honing their process to a fine art “it’s like we started with chiseling a rock… this record is the moment the rock in question begins to look like an actual sculpture.”