Next week, Canadian post-rock superheroes Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release their new album Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, the follow-up to 2012’s beautiful, overwhelming Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! We’ve posted an excerpt from the massive, crashing opener “Peasantry Or Light! Inside Of Light...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release their fifth album next month, they've announced. Titled Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, it's launched on March 31

The band will also tour the UK and Ireland in April

Back in 2012, the shadowy, majestic Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor released Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, their first album after a decade-plus hiatus, and it was just as thundering and grand and powerful as everything else they’ve ever done. The band won Canada’s Polaris Music Prize for...

Last September, shadowy post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor unexpectedly won Canada’s prestigious Polaris Music Prize for their great 2012 double album Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! They didn’t show up to accept the award, and shortly after winning, they issued a band statement thanking the Canadian mu...