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For more than twenty years Edinburgh’s Dog Tired have been honing their craft, sharpening the cutting edges of their riffs and fine tuning their engine of destruction. In a perverse rejection of accepted patterns they have only become heavier with every release, their creative fires burning hotter and higher. And all the touring across the UK and Europe, all the festival appearances and four previous albums, they have all lead to this – to The Red Verse. This is the sound of Dog Tired becoming all they have promised and delivering an album of colossal weight and power, a set of songs with depth and stature that can trade blows with any name you care to mention. From the lead weight grind of ‘Fracture’ to the layered evolution of instrumental ‘The Pillars Of Phobos’, the vicious, irresistible drive of ‘Of Severed Gods’ to the grand, punishing finale of ‘The Red Verse’ itself, there is no chink in the armour of this album; no moment where the music is less than captivating, where the songs demand any less than every ounce of your goddamn attention.

Dark riffs with cavernous grooves, thunderous drums and fiercely melodic vocals – Dog Tired are armed to the teeth with an intimidating array of metal weaponry. The Red Verse is an album of brute force combined with engulfing atmosphere and thrilling storytelling delivered with consummate skill and musicianship.