Chapel Hill-based Fin Fang Foom will celebrate the release of its first new LP in six years at Local 506 along side Maple Stave and Ben Davis & The Jetts.
Monomyth is set to be released Nov. 24 through Lovitt Records with the album release show planned for Nov. 14.
“Magnetic North” by Fin Fang Foom
“Monomyth sums up all the travails the band has weathered to this point — not literally, but emotionally,” a press release explains. “It’s a brooding yet hopeful work that finds Fin Fang Foom humbled but unbowed.”
The album comes after the death of drummer Peter Enriquez and the near-death of guitarist Michael Triplet following a bout with spinal meningitis in 2004. It was through these two experiences the band overcame the odds of breaking up, and instead crafted a record that pays homage to the human condition.
“That, to me, is a hero’s journey,” frontman Eddie Sanchez explains of Triplet’s fight against the often-fatal disease. “From life to death and back.”
In addition to Fin Fang Foom’s Nov. 14 show at Local 506, the band will perform at The Pinhook in Durham on Dec. 18 with Gray Young and Free Electric State.
Similar Posts:
Valient Thorr shows are becoming very scarce, so it should please local Thorriors to know that the band will perform at Lincoln Theatre on April 17
Tift Merritt will return to her hometown with a performance at the Museum of Art, marking the five-year anniversary of “Home is Loud”
Cat’s Cradle is showing some love to the hometown bands with a handful shows at the Carroboro venue announced for the spring
In support of her latest album, acclaimed vocalist/pianist Norah Jones will swing through the Durham Performing Arts Center Aug. 8
Merge Records’ latest signee, Let’s Wrestle, will join the previously announced Quasi at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro on April 26
