Lightning Bolt Announce New EP Oblivion Hunter For September 2012 Release and Debut New Song “King Candy”

Lightning Bolt is releasing Oblivion Hunter, an eclectic compilation of the band’s recordings from over the years.

The record represents the band’s 20-year career and conviction. The Rhode Island-based noise rock is composed of Brian Chippendale (drums and vocals) and Brian Gibson (bass guitar). The band formed in 1994 while the Chippendale and Gibson were still attending the Rhode Island School of Design. The duo, notorious for their energetic, guerrilla-style live performances, normally plays on the ground instead of being confined to performing on the stage.

Lightning Bolt’s Oblivion Hunter EP will drop on September 25, 2012.

Oblivion Hunter Tracklisting:
1. King Candy
2. Baron Wasteland
3. Oblivion Balloon
4. Fly Fucker Fly
5. The Soft Spoken Spectre
6. Salamander
7. World Wobbly Wide

To promote the album, Lightening Bolt are set to tour the US with bands like Purity Ring, Fucked Up and Ceremony from August to the middle of September.

Tour Dates:
08/21 Washington DC – Rock ‘n Roll Hotel
08/22 Richmond, VA – Gallery 5
08/23 Raleigh, NC – Kings Barcade
08/24 Atlanta, GA – The Goat Farm
08/25 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree $
08/26 New Orleans, LA – Big Top Three Ring Circus
08/27 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
08/28 Dallas, TX – Sons of Hermann Hall ^
08/29 Austin, TX – Emo’s East
08/30 Santa Fe, NM – Sol Santa Fe *
08/31 Phoenix, AZ – Trunk Space
09/02 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
09/03 Oakland, CA – The New Parish
09/04 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
09/06 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater / MFNW #
09/07 Vancouver, BC – Fortune Sound Club
09/08 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market %
09/09 Boise, ID – The Shredder
09/10 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
09/12 Denver, CO – Rhinoceropolis
09/13 Omaha, NE – Waiting Room
09/14 Grinnell, IA – Grinnell College
09/15 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
09/16 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
09/17 Pittsburgh, PA – Lawrenceville Moose
09/18 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
09/19 Baltimore, MD – Floristree
09/20 Brooklyn, NY – 285 Kent
09/21 Asbury Park, NJ – Paramount Theatre
09/23 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club

• = w/ Purity Ring
• # = w/ Quasi, White Fang
• 
% = w/ Fucked Up, Ceremony
• ^ = w/ Wiccans, Drug Mountain
• $ = w/ Droves

Check out the song “King Candy”

Lightning Bolt – King Candy by Load Records