CANDY announces headline North American tour + new album 'It's Inside You' out now via Relapse Records

CANDY ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR IT'S INSIDE YOU OUT NOW  VIA RELAPSE RECORDS

CANDY by Jason Nocito It's Inside You https://orcd.co/candy-itsinsideyou https://www.relapse.com/pages/candy-its-inside-you What the press is saying about It’s Inside You: “throat-shredding hardcore that’s more extreme than most” Alternative Press “creating a digitized rage akin to watching electricity pylons burn” The FADER “distinct blend of extreme rock music and deep-web electronic sounds” FLOOD Magazine “reaching unprecedented levels of energy and creativity” New Noise Magazine “brutally futuristic” Revolver “fuses their fire-eyed attack with electronic and industrial flourishes to hellacious effect” Stereogum (June 18, 2024) - On the heels of the release of their electrifying new album It’s Inside You, CANDY announces their North American headline tour. Kicking off in Long Island, New York on September 19h, the 20-date tour sees the band perform in Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Nashville and Charlotte before wrapping up in Richmond, Virginia on October 12th. CANDY will be supported by Jivebomb and Taraneh with additional support from Extinguish, Gumm and ZULU on select dates. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 21st at 10am local HERE.  Ahead of their tour this fall, CANDY will celebrate It’s Inside You with a show at Salty’s Beach Bar in Lake Como, New Jersey on July 6th with Everybody Gets Hurt, Division of Mind, Final Resting Place, Sector, and Last Man Out. Tickets are available HERE. This weekend, CANDY will perform two nights with The Dillinger Escape Plan at New York City’s Brooklyn Paramount on June 21st and June 23rd.  Across the 12 tracks of It’s Inside You produced by Quick along with Uniform’s Ben Greenberg and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios (NAILS, High on Fire, The Armed), CANDY created a manifesto of kinship and inner strength. It’s Inside You expands upon CANDY’s lauded brand of metal-warping, digitally-coated hardcore and includes the celebrated singles “Dreams Less Sweet,” “You Will Never Get Me” featuring Justice Tripp, “Love Like Snow” featuring MIRSY and mmph, and “eXistenZ.The album serpentines its way through the dark and bright corners of the human psyche. While nihilism and the pains of the modern world still exist on the album, It’s Inside You sees the band turn toward tenderness more than ever before. CANDY recently spoke with Larry Fitzmaurice for an installment of his newsletter Last Donut of the Night to speak about the current state of hardcore, inspirations for It’s Inside You, and more. Check out the piece HERE.  It’s Inside You creates an energizing and empowering atmosphere, in which seeking connections with oneself and with others is central. While constructing the album, CANDY opened up and invited collaborators  — like Aaron Melnick (Integrity), Justice Tripp (Angel Du$t, Trapped Under Ice), David Gagliardi (Trash Talk), MIRSY (Fleshwater’s Marisa Shriar) and mmph (Sae Heum Han) — who all helped enrich and further define the band’s already distinctive energy.  CANDY is principal songwriter and guitarist Michael Quick, vocalist and lyricist Zak Quiram, drummer Steve DiGenio, and bassist Drew Stark. It's Inside You follows CANDY's sophomore album Heaven Is Here, which arrived in 2022 and was described by The FADER as “hardcore that sounds like a nuclear meltdown” and includes the tracks "Human Condition Above Human Opinion," "Transcend To Wet" and "World of Shit.” In 2018, CANDY released their debut album Good To Feel, which includes the standout tracks "Good To Feel" and "Lust For Destruction." In 2019, the band released the stand-alone singles "Super-Stare" and "Win Free Love" and acted as the distinct bridge between Good To Feel and Heaven Is Here. Listen It's Inside You above and see upcoming live dates and full album details below.

Upcoming Live Dates * = supporting The Dillinger Escape Plan ^ = w/ support from Everybody Gets Hurt, Division of Mind, Final Resting Place, Sector, and Last Man Out + = w/ support from Extinguish # = w/ support from Gumm % = w/ support from ZULU 6/21 - New York City, NY @ The Brooklyn Paramount* [SOLD OUT] 6/23 - New York City, NY @ The Brooklyn Paramount* [SOLD OUT] 7/06 - Lake Como, NJ @ Salty’s Beach Bar^ 9/19 - Long Island, NY @ Amityville Music Hall 9/20 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground 9/21 - Columbus, OH @ Dirty Dungarees 9/22 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean 9/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Underground Music Cafe 9/25 - Kansas City, MO @ recordBar 9/26 - Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep% 9/27 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Stateside Scooters 9/28 - Las Vegas, NV @ American Legion Post 8+ 9/29 - San Fernando, CA @ Midnight Hour+ 10/1 - Pomona, CA @ The Haven+ 10/3 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar+ 10/4 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress+ 10/6 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger# 10/7 - Houston, TX @ The End# 10/8 - Memphis, TN @ Growlers# 10/9 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR# 10/10 - Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone# 10/11 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506# 10/12 - Richmond, VA @ The Warehouse#