Awolnation have announced the release of their new studio album titled Run on March 17, the highly anticipated follow-up to their chart-topping debut Megalithic Symphony. AWOLNATION recently completed an official music video for “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” that can now be viewed online at http://youtu.be/i2PsXT88UeU. An extensive U.S. summer tour will be announced shortly, including a stop at this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and the band will soon begin performing at select Stateside festival shows after a brief European tour this spring. A current itinerary is listed below. Following a whirlwind two-year world tour in support of Megalithic Symphony, 2014 saw AWOLNATION withdraw into the depths of the California coastline to construct the sophomore effort. A culmination of the years following the release of the debut album, the 14-track Run was written, performed and produced entirely by musical architect Aaron Bruno.
The end
result is a finely tuned musical masterwork that is at times, and all at once,
sprawling, atmospheric, exuberant, earnest and refined with moments of a
signature aggressive unease. “There is not one second on the record that hasn’t
been thoughtfully placed,” said Bruno. “Every single element serves a purpose.”
Standout songs alongside the first single “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” include the
cinematic “Jailbreak,” the soaring anthem “I Am,” the title track “Run,” the
euphoric “Windows,” the painfully vulnerable “Headrest for My Soul,” and the
atomic rebellion of “KOOKSEVERYWHERE!!!!” Released in 2011, the band’s
gold-certified debut album Megalithic Symphony was an alternative music
revelation that became an astonishing success resonating with fans around the
world. The album holds a number of long-running Billboard chart positions
including 146 weeks on the Independent Albums chart, 111 weeks on the Billboard
Top 200, 105 weeks on the Top Rock Albums chart and has topped the Heatseekers
Albums chart 8 separate times. Their hit single “Sail,” a redefining global
anthem, is certified 6x platinum in the U.S. and is the second longest charting
song in the Billboard Hot 100's 55-year history. It has amassed hundreds of
millions of video views and streaming plays online, topping Billboard’s Rock
Streaming Songs chart in 2014 and charting around the world: it is certified
10x platinum in Norway, 6x platinum in Canada, 3x platinum in Sweden, 2x
platinum in Australia and New Zealand, platinum in Switzerland, gold in
Austria, Germany and the UK. Following the success of “Sail,” the band would go
on to chart two more alternative singles, “Not Your Fault” and “Kill Your
Heroes,” having sold over a million downloads combined. In 2014 AWOLNATION
remained prominent on numerous Billboard Year End charts closing out the year
on Rock Streaming Songs Artists #4, Rock Digital Songs Artists #10, Hot Rock
Songs Artists #14, Top Rock Artists #17, Independent Albums #40, and several
more. Since the release of their debut album, AWOLNATION has performed
countless shows to millions of fans across the globe, including Coachella,
Voodoo Festival, Austin City Limits, Osheaga, Brazil’s Mix FM Fest and
Austria’s Frequency Festival.
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