Canadian blackgaze project UNREQVITED has been announced as opening act for the highly anticipated "Autumn Asylum" US-tour of HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY and GHOST BATH this October and November. Please see below for a list of all confirmed dates.

鬼 comments: "I am absolutely ecstatic to be joining forces with two of my favorite bands in the genre, Ghost Bath, and Harakiri for the Sky, for the Autumn Asylum tour", the band's mastermind enthuses. "Unreqvited has been a wonderful personal outlet for me over the years to express myself freely and honestly by doing everything on my own within the confines of my bedroom. I never planned on taking it out on the road (or even outside of my bedroom), but I think that the time is finally right for me to do so. I can hardly wait to meet and perform for all of the wonderful fans that have been consuming the art that I've been creating these past 6 years."

UNREQVITED live line-up:

Victor Forest ' guitar
Robin Parsons ' bass
Alec Curren ' drums
鬼 ' vocals, guitar

Regarding his live-up, 鬼 adds: "Victor, Robin and I have toured together in previous bands and we are to this day still very close friends", he writes. "Robin and I also have a music project called 'Write Home', and we have lived together for over half a decade. It was a no-brainer that they would both come along with me for this tour, since they're both fantastic musicians. Alec has played in multiple local bands around Ottawa, and has also been a good friend of ours throughout the years. We've played together in the past, although it was very briefly. He's a fantastic drummer, so naturally he was my first choice for the Unreqvited live band!"

UNREQVITED US Tour 2022 with HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY & GHOST BATH:

27 OCT 2022 Philadelphia, PA (US) Warehouse On Watts
28 OCT 2022 Brooklyn, NY (US) The Meadows
29 OCT 2022 Baltimore, MD (US) Metro Gallery
30 OCT 2022 Atlanta, GA (US) Boggs Social
01 NOV 2022 Nashville, TN (US) The End
02 NOV 2022 Little Rock, AR (US) Vino's
03 NOV 2022 Houston, TX (US) Acadia
05 NOV 2022 Dallas, TX (US) Reno's
06 NOV 2022 Austin, TX (US) Come and Take It Live
07 NOV 2022 El Paso, TX (US) Rockhouse
09 NOV 2022 Tucson, AZ (US) 191 Toole
10 NOV 2022 Phoenix, AZ (US) Nile Underground
11 NOV 2022 San Diego, CA (US) Brick By Brick
12 NOV 2022 Los Angeles, CA (US) Jewels
13 NOV 2022 Cupertino, CA (US) X Bar
14 NOV 2022 Portland, OR (US) High Water Mark
15 NOV 2022 Seattle, WA (US) Funhouse
16 NOV 2022 Boise, ID (US) Shredder
17 NOV 2022 Salt Lake City, UT (US) Metro Music Hall
18 NOV 2022 Denver, CO Roxy (US) Theater
19 NOV 2022 Kansas City, MO (US) Vivo
20 NOV 2022 Chicago, IL (US) Reggies
21 NOV 2022 Detroit, MI (US) Sanctuary
22 NOV 2022 Pittsburgh, PA (US) Preserving Underground
23 NOV 2022 Rochester, NY (US) Montage Music Hall
24 NOV 2022 Toronto, ON (CA) Hardluck
25 NOV 2022 Ottawa, ON (CA) House of Targ
26 NOV 2022 Montreal, QC (CA) Theatre Paradox
27 NOV 2022 Quebec City, QC (CA) L'Anti

UNREQVITED will be touring in support of their current multi-faceted album "Beautiful Ghosts", which was release a year ago on August 13, 2021. Cover art, tracklist, and further details of the new full-length can be viewed below.

"Beautiful Ghosts" is streaming in full via the link below:

https://lnk.spkr.media/unreqvited-beautiful-ghosts

Press voices:

"...has incredible much to tell to the black metal scene..." Legacy (DE) 14/15
"....a rich palette of musical landscapes..." Avenoctum.com (UK) 8/10
"...this addition to the musician's very rich discography has to be listened without question..." Acta Infernalis (FR) 95/100

Tracklist:

1. All Is Lost (5:17)
2. Autumn & Everley (7:07)
3. Reverie (5:17)
4. Funeral Pyre (7:33)
5. Cherish (2:26)
6. Beautiful Ghosts (9:26)
7. All Is Found (5:20)

Pop music basically has one universal topic: love. Although the theme is presented in many variants about love being desired, lost love, the act of loving and so on, pop is generally all about love. This constitutes probably the main reason why metal bands generally shy away from that subject ' as their musical genre defines itself partly as the very antithesis to all things pop. This rule of thumb applies the more, the darker a particular subgenre presents itself.

With his sixth UNREQVITED album, "Beautiful Ghosts" driving force and sole member 鬼 has set out to fearlessly explore this for metal-heads rather "scary" emotion. "Inspired by a muse, there are strong themes of love, passion, and devotion on this record", explains the multi-instrumentalist. "My overall vision was to capture and document my experience with the unique feeling of infatuation and attachment."

As a result of journeying into his mind and collecting a wide range of emotions, 鬼 has included many lighter and more uplifting passages than previously on "Beautiful Ghosts". Yet the listener will also find the expected dark twists as the composer is balancing his score by occasionally pitting lonely cynicism against romantic naivety. New elements include a significant use of clean vocals throughout the album and there are even playfully progressive rhythms as in the opening track 'All Is Lost'. The core elements that have shaped UNREQVITED in the past remain active as well. Thus the massive anthemic refrains from "Mosaic I: L'amour Et L'ardeur" (2018) are equally present as the simple melancholic melodies from the 2016 debut album "Disquiet" and the orchestral grandeur of "Empathica" (2020).

Ever since 鬼 conceived UNREQVITED as a special musical vehicle for his multi-faceted creative output and brought it to light in 2016, his project has been a constantly shape-shifting and stylistically wide roaming creature. With "Beautiful Ghosts", the Canadian is at the same time gathering the strands of his previous works and taking an innovative step forward that makes it even harder to pin just one label onto his sound. "Beautiful Ghosts" applies a rich palette of musical colours, hues, and shades that are passionately blended together by the theme of "love".

Release date: August 13, 2021

Line-up:

鬼 ' all instruments, vocals, music

Style: Blackgaze, Post-rock

Engineered & mixed by 鬼
Mastered by Nekkomix

Artwork by Delta Options
Layout by Łukasz Jaszak

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/unreqvited
https://www.instagram.com/unrqvtd