KING 810 Announces New Album 'La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God'

KING 810 is knocking at the door once again. The Flint, Michigan heavy music outliers will unleash their new full-length album, "La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God", on November 27. It not only serves as the band's fourth full-length offering of original new material in 18 months, but you also could call it the spiritual successor to their most-acclaimed and most-streamed 2016 second LP, "La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God". Rather than retread the same old ground, they celebrate 10 years since the latter with another violent evolution manifested in the form of the eight tracks on "La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God".

They signal the dawn of this chapter with the release of a new single titled "Love Kills" today. Watch the video below.

A dirty riff rumbles beneath entrancing musings from KING 810 frontman David K Gunn until distortion boosts his screams over a head-nodding groove. It culminates on a chantable chorus as he proclaims, "They're in the company of ghosts. Love kills." It rolls into the embrace of a final question once he wonders, "Do you love me? Yes I do."

KING 810 sink their teeth in — and never let go on this one.

About the track, Gunn commented: "This song is about the most dangerous game us animals play — love. 'Love Kills' reveals there is no ceremonial difference between weddings and funerals. There's a type of devotion that doesn't care whether the other person is alive to receive it. That's what this song is — love that outlives the need for consent from the ultimate authority: Death."

To bring this body of work to life, the musicians — Gunn (vocals, guitar, keys),Eugene Gill (bass),John Paul Vega (drums) and Bryce Ballinger (guitar) — once again joined forces with longtime producer and creative confidant Josh Schroeder (LORNA SHORE) in Flint. The result is a brilliant and bold blood-soaked epic steeped in the lore of a Midwest forgotten by the mainstream, dark magic, and sonic subversion of the highest order, copulating metal, alternative, electronic, hip-hop, and psychedelia into a catharsis of pain, pleasure, and poetry.

Recently, the group teased the record with "Hungry Gods" at the top of the summer. Beyond amassing hundreds of thousands of streams, it picked up plugs from Lambgoat, The PRP, Brave Words, Distorted Sound and BLUNT magazine who hailed it as "dark and atmospheric."

KING 810 is also fresh off an explosive run of the U.K. and other European festivals. This fall the band will embark on their "Autumnal Rites" headline tour, with special guests GUERRILLA WARFARE, culminating in a very special live presentation of "La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God" in its entirety for the first time ever on October 30 — Devil's Night — in Pontiac, Michigan.

"La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God" track listing:

01. Know You Heard Of Me
02. Hungry Gods
03. Love Kills
04. Decalcomania
05. Feast
06. Xoxo
07. Simulacra Simulating
08. The Thin Place
09. Black Milk
10. Divine Sparks
11. Enmeshment

KING 810 tour dates:

Sep. 17 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life
Sep. 19 - Austin, TX - Come & Take It
Sep. 20 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
Sep. 22 - Fort Worth, TX - Haltom Theater
Sep. 23 - Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street
Sep. 24 - Kansas City, MO - Westport Bowery
Sep. 25 - Lincoln, NE - 1867
Sep. 26 - Sioux Falls, SD - Club David
Sep. 27 - Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
Sep. 29 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club
Sep. 30 - Iowa City, IA - Wildwood
Oct. 01 - Madison, WI - The Annex
Oct. 02 - St. Louis, MO - Fubar Lounge
Oct. 03 - Cleveland, OH - Mercury Lounge
Oct. 30 - Pontiac, MI - The Crofoot Ballroom

All along, the most dangerous thing about KING 810 was how free they are. They don't play by the rules. They don't need to listen to a label or a manager. They create when they want, how they want, and where they want. If they want to release three albums in a calendar year, they will. If they want to build a giant oil rig on stage for an annual ceremony, they will. If they want to make an occult indie film to accompany an album, they will. If they want to jump from neck-snapping metal to street corner spoken word to séance-style seduction to gothic blues within the span of a song, you'd better believe they will. The quartet fought tooth and nail to be heard, taking Flint, Michigan around the world with them. They have gathered over 100 million streams, collaborated with everyone from Freddie Gibbs to Trick Trick, played sold-out shows on multiple continents, and incited the applause of Vice, Revolver and many more. A decaying world always calls for destructive art for rebirth, and they heed this call with 2026's "La Grande Mort Or Silence Of God". It's KING 810 at their finest — utterly fiery and uncompromisingly free.