Merge Records is delighted to announce the signing of Welsh janglepop raconteurs The Tubs! The quartet — Owen Williams, Dan Lucas, Max Warren, and Taylor Stewart — are hitting the ground running, too, sharing word of new UK and EU tour dates as well as a cover of Metallica’s “Fade to Black” that transforms the seminal power ballad into the pastoral, jangle-laden epic it was always meant to be. Listen to “Fade to Black” wherever you stream music!

Owen Williams on “Fade to Black”:

Signing to Merge is a dream come true for The Tubs…we’ve been huge fans since we were teens. They’ve put out some of our fave records of all time and we could tell you them all here but we don’t have the space. Call Taylor on +** **** ****** if you’d like the full list. 

I’ve always been a big fan of a Metallica ballad. Obviously I like the riffs too but I think there’s a weirdly beautiful and singular quality to their ballads, even though the lyrics are basically always trash. We thought it’d be fun to jangle up Fade To Black and give it a sort of folk rock reinvented outro to announce the signing. 

The Tubs will resume their conquest of the hearts and ears of concertgoers the world over beginning this fall with a run of new tour dates in the UK and EU. Tickets for all newly announced dates go on sale Friday, April 24 at 10am local time.

The Tubs on tour:
May 16 Sheffield, UK – Get Together Festival
Aug 07 Brighton, UK – At the Edge of the Sea @ Concorde 2 (Supporting The Wedding Present)
Aug 20-23 Crickhowell, UK – Green Man Festival
Aug 29 Loxwood, Nr Billingshurst, UK – The Wake
Sep 21 Bristol, UK – Exchange
Sep 22 Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
Sep 24 Liverpool, UK – District
Sep 25 Glasgow, UK – Stereo
Sep 26 Manchester, UK – The Deaf Institute
Sep 27 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Sep 29 Nottingham, UK – The Bodega
Sep 30 London, UK – Scala
Oct 01 Brighton, UK – Chalk
Oct 02 Southampton, UK – The Joiners
Oct 03 Norwich, UK – Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom
Dec 04 Paris, FR – Le Chinois
Dec 06 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso (Small Hall)
Dec 07 Bruges, BE – Cactus
Dec 08 Nijmegen, NL – Merleyn
Dec 09 Rotterdam, NL – V11
Dec 11 Cologne, DE – Artheater
Dec 12 Hamburg, DE – Nochtwache
Dec 13 Frankfurt, DE – Nachtleben
Dec 14 Munich, DE – Kranhalle
Dec 16 Berlin, DE – Kantine am Berghain