Hurt 'Goodbye to the Machine' album

With the first single “Wars” from their forthcoming new album, already racing up the Active Rock charts, Hurt announced their first tour dates in support of the new album this morning.

Beginning on May 1st in Hattiesburg, MS, Hurt will have upcoming stops in Chicago, Houston, St. Louis and will also perform at this year’s Rock On The Range Festival and Edgefest. Dates are scheduled through the end of May right now, and more are expected to be added shortly.

“This band’s all about touring,” commented lead singer J. Loren. “We like to stay in touch with fans and be out there. Just do more of what we do, and hopefully make it to Europe and places abroad with the entire band this time – the only chances we got to go over there have been acoustic shows.”

Hurt’s latest single “Wars” (currently #24 on the active rock charts) is the band’s fifth straight hit at rock radio and has already become one of the band’s fastest rising singles of their career.” Some people could misunderstand some of the songs,” says J., “But I assure people, that I’m not going to tell them what to think. With ‘Wars,’ I’m already getting what I expected – people are used to artists doing the whole peacenik thing. But the fact is I worked as an aircraft consultant, and I made jets to blow the shit out of people. It’s not like I’m a complete pacifist, I’m saying, it’s a damn shame that people have to do this.”

The band’s brand new album, Goodbye To The Machine, is the follow up to Vol. II, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart upon its week of release. It’s the band’s fifth release overall and the first release via their new label, Amusement Recordings.

“We had this idea of doing a record ‘the old school method,’ as opposed to the previous two records, that had been recorded to Protools – as almost all records are done nowadays,” explains Rek. “What we wanted to do was go back to our roots, and show a different side of the band – not so much hide behind layers and layers of production. We wanted to write songs that stood more on their own and to record them to analog tape, using analog gear.”

The results of this new approach for the band has certainly paid off, as evidenced by such standout tracks as “Pills,” “Dreams Away,” “Fighting Tao,” and “World Ain’t Right,” the latter of which features Shaun Morgan of Seether.

Their previous albums - 2000’s self-titled debut, 2003’s ‘The Consumation,’ 2006’s ‘Vol. 1,’ and 2007’s ‘Vol. 2’ – helped the band build a substantial following throughout the world, while they have also scored several popular rock radio anthems (“Rapture,” “Falls Apart,” “Ten Ton Brick,” etc.), and have toured alongside some of rock’s biggest names (Staind, Three Days Grace, Alice in Chains, Seether, Breaking Benjamin, etc.).

Based in Los Angeles, California (by way of Virginia), the group – which is comprised of members of J. Loren (vocals), Paul Spatola (guitar), Rek Mohr (bass), and new member Louie Sciancalepore (drums).

HURT tour dates
May 1st Hattiesburg, MS The Bottling Company
May 2nd Jackson, MS Mississippi Fairgrounds
May 3rd Houston, TX Scout Bar
May 4th Belton, TX Bell County Expo Center*
May 5th Midland, TX Midland Horseshoe Arena*
May 6th Corpus Christi, TX Concrete St. Amphitheater*
May 8th Shreveport, LA Riverside Warehouse
May 9th Little Rock, AR KDJE Edgefest
May 12th Lexington, KY The Dame
May 13th Johnson City, TN Capone's
May 14th Columbia, SC Headliners
May 15th Greenville, SC Crawfish Boil
May 16th Columbus, OH Rock on the Range
May 19th Chicago, IL Double Door
May 20th Flint, MI The Machine Shop
May 21st Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theatre
May 22nd Madison, WI Annex
May 23rdSt. Louis, MO Pointfest

* - Opening For KORN

Hurt biography
Hurt formed in 2000 in Virginia, and now located in Los Angeles has put out two major label albums. The group consists of lead singer J. Loren Wince, guitarist Paul Spatola, and drummer Evan Johns. Bassist Josh Ansley left the band in April 2008 and was replaced by Rek Mohr (former bassist for the band Leo) in May 2008.

The band first released the independent albums Hurt in 2000 and The Consumation in 2003. Many of the songs from these albums found their way onto their first two major label releases, and The Consumation was re-mastered as The Re-Consumation in 2008.

The band received critical (though not commercial) success with their major label debut album, Vol. 1, released on March, 2006. However, their singles "Rapture" and "Falls Apart" did gain minor radio airplay. Their second album was the critically-acclaimed Vol. II, released on September, 2007 and they gained their largest radio hit yet with "Ten Ton Brick."

Their current forthcoming album is titled "Goodbye to the Machine" and is to be released on the "Amusement" record label on April 7th. The single 'Wars' impacts Alternative on February 3rd.

Brett Hickman of Static Multimedia states that "There's a feeling that anything can happen in Hurt's music, that this is a band intent on turning people's expectations on their collective ear and making them do what they command. J. Loren and company are making strides towards something truly special in the future. The mere fact that they elevate the rather tired and cliched hard rock genre as much as they do here would indicate that great things are in store for the band as well as for their fans."

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