The Body have announced a deluxe reissue of their seminal album All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood, out July 25th. The deluxe reissue features a new Side D for the 2xLP, including tracks originally only released on a handmade CDR around the album’s initial release. Digital versions of the deluxe reissue are exclusive to vinyl purchasers. Ahead of the album’s re-release, The Body will be touring throughout the East Coast and the South this Spring along with Sunrot.
Originally released in 2010, The Body’s All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood is a watershed album that changed the landscape of heavy music. Buoyed by the eclectic cast of musicians, from the undeniably potent collaboration with The Assembly of Light Choir as led by now longtime The Body collaborator Chrissy Wolpert, to guest contributors that include members of Dead Times, Fang Island, Lichens (aka Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), Human Beast, and many more. The album’s singularly bleak, yet beautiful atmosphere not only set the tone for The Body’s career in breaking the mold, but set a new standard for what extreme music could do.
All the Waters rightfully broke The Body, the duo of Lee Buford and Chip King, out from the underground and was met with acclaim from across a wide spectrum. Grayson Haver Currin said of the record for Pitchfork: “The rare album that feels truly dangerous. As it crushes and collides doom metal, harsh noise, industrial rock, and gospel singing into one mean mess, it seems to obey no rules but its own. The result is a singular, explosive masterpiece.” NPR’s Lars Gotrich put it in his 2010 Top 10 list, calling it “the most surreal doom-metal record of 2010” and The Quietus called it the year’s “best record on the fringes of metal.” Following the album’s release and subsequent tours, which sometimes included the entire Assembly of Light Choir, The Body established themselves as a permanent fixture of forward-thinking artists and a reliably overwhelming force, both on record and in live settings.
The limited mail order Silver 2xLPs contain two posters: a 12×24″ poster of the front cover and a 12×24″ poster of the inner gatefold. The poster of this iconic cover is only available on the mail order copies. The first pressing on all colors will contain the inner gatefold poster.
The Body tour dates w/ Sunrot
May 28 – Pawtucket, RI – Machines With Magnets
May 29 – Brooklyn, NY – Gold Sounds
May 30 – Philadelphia, PA – Foto Club
May 31 – Baltimore, MD – The Undercroft
Jun. 1 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
Jun. 2 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Jun. 3 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Jun. 4 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
Jun. 5 – Little Rock, AR – Mutants of the Monster Fest
