Black Box Revelation return to the US for for headlining dates, announce release date for debut US LP, Bonnaroo and Letterman!

Black Box Revelation announce the release of their Alain Johnannes-produced LP, My Perception on June 12, the day after they make their American television debut on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Making a triumphant return to the States after bringing their scuzzy guitars, crashing drums, unabashed energy and depth of soul collision on tour with the Meat Puppets, Beady Eye, Girl in A Coma and Jane's Addiction in the last year, Black Box Revelation return this month for a run of headlining dates, dates with the Darkness and a set at Bonnaroo!

For a preview of what to expect from Black Box Revelation, check out the black & white video of shots from their European tour for track "High On A Wire" and get a peak behind the scenes of the recording of the title track on My Perception.

Combining Beatles-meets-Kinks British invasion pop with haunting melodies, pounding blues, thick ambience and driving beats, Black Box Revelation plot their foreign invasion and continue blazing across the US.

More info, music and tour dates below.

For a preview of their incidiary live performances, give a listen to live versions of tracks from their first US-released music on the Shiver of Joy EP, "High On A Wire," "Shiver of Joy" and "Sealed With Thorns" performed on MPR.

Black Box Revelation Tour Dates

May 17 - Mexicali Cafe - Teaneck, NJ
May 18 - Toads Place - New Haven, CT *
May 20 - Mercury Lounge, New York, NY
May 22 - Marathon Music Works - Nashville, TN *
May 23 - House of Blues - New Orleans, LA *
May 26 - Vinyl - Atlanta, GA
May 27 - The Basement - Columbus, OH

May 28 - Melody Inn - Indianapolis, IN
May 30 - Double Door - Chicago, IL
May 31 - Shelter - Detroit, MI
June 1 - Intersection Front Room - Grand Rapids, MI
June 3 - 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
June 10 - Bonnaroo / That Stage - Manchester, TN
June 11 - Letterman - NY

July 4 - Summerfest - Milwaukee, WI

w/ The Darkness *

 

Every so often they strip the music down to something slow and bluesy. But the Black Box Revelation isn’t purely retro. They are just as happy with a drum-machine beat and a heap of overdubbed percussion, as long as the music makes its happy, trashy crash.

New York Times

A sinister slice of buzzing guitar noise concealing a beautiful pop melody beneath.

Playboy

It’s a record that makes you want to throw on your leather vest and go boozin’ til the break of dawn. 

Six Degrees, 4 stars

Flemish sleaze from the heart.  Brussels may not be a city noted for its contribution to the world of high energy, no frills raunch’n’roll, but that is about to change.  This is un-ironic, un-pretentious, un-self-conscious party music for people in great leather jackets who are more worried about when they’re next getting laid than they are about global warming.  And if this demographic does not include you, then…well, you’re an idiot. 

Radar

There's scuzzy, full throttle blues romps sitting comfortably next to more quiet moments. My Perception is an album that sits just on the edge of chaos, providing a brilliant musical thrill ride, almost from start to finish. 

Contact Music

Foot-stomping, 60s garage rock sound eerily reminiscent of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club…these dudes are extremely talented…there’s still some innocence in these roots rockers and instrumentals that sounded like Man Man showed their playful rawness.  What really sets Black Box Revelation apart is neither their age, nor their light French accent, but the strong Blues influence present in most tracks.  Nothing is more essential to great rock n’ roll. 

CMJ

Belgium's Black Box Revelation is a two-piece that sounds more like a ten-piece rock band. With layered guitars and booming drums, BBR's garage rock explodes with riffs and hooks.

MPR

A rock party that seems unwilling to end.  Like the 60s garage bands they were influenced by, Black Box Revelation know that sometimes rock is most effective when it is simple.  With this philosophy in mind, the bad keeps their riffs repeating and their lyrics from being over analytical.  Black Box Revelation’s debut seem stragegically constructed while still retaining a reckless and raw sound. 

Plug in Music

Scuzzy guitars, crashing drums, unabashed energy and depth of soul 

Rocksound

Take a heathy pinch of Black Rebel, add a tinge of the Black Keys and a sprinkle of The White Stripes. Place in a dark, dank, smoky,  studio and nourished by endless gallons of aviation fuel  for  weeks upon end and you have yourself the perfect Molotov Cocktail... Black Box Revelation style.  

Komodorock

Opening on menacing drums, Belgian duo Black Box Revelation moves along like a panther stalking the city's sidewalks. Utilising jagged guitars and driven throughout by those pounding drums, periodically puncturing the fuzzy rock guitar with crystal clear blues licks that have the crowd cheering, before nose-diving back into that blistering, swaggering riff. 

Daily Music Guide, 4 stars

Love this EP, exciting, great Rock & Roll. Very excited about this band. Love it.  

Club NME

This is just fuckin' awesome, like the best trash rock n' roll bands of the last 40 years all in one fair hit.  

Loaded

I really love this... full on head rush rock n roll... addictive clever but instant and immediate at the same time.

EVOL

Like Black Rebel Motorcycle club in a good mood. The noise these two men make is as riotous as The Whit Stripe at their loudest.

Daily Music Guide

They might be from Belgium, but Black Box Revelation boasts more jangly, bluesy, American/British rock and roll swag than most US acts around today. This is that whiskey-drinking music.

Pigeons & Planes

Something about this just exudes a cool factor that’s tough to find these days. Could be a new front-runner for the city-walking soundtrack. 

The Chuckness

  

Meet Black Box Revelation

Brussels, Belgium may not be known for producing great rock and roll bands, but don’t tell that to 22-year-old Jan Paternoster nor his 20-year-old sidekick Dries Van Dijck, who have been playing together for a decade, already releasing two albums, 2007’s Set Your Head on Fire and 2010’s Silver Threats (recorded in London’s legendary Konk Studios) that established the duo as a serious force to be reckoned with. A cross between R&B-inflected garage-band rock that takes its cues from mid-’60s Stones and The Kinks to the most gut-bucket, electric delta blues evocative of Led Zeppelin by way of The White Stripes, The Black Keys and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Box Revelation is just that… a musical revelation that can’t be boxed into a single category.

Coming to America to record their stateside debut, My Perception, with producer Alain Johannes [Queens of the Stone Age, Chris Cornell, Them Crooked Vultures] in his L.A. home studio, Jan and Dries felt right at home in the country where so much of the music that inspired them had been made. The result is their most accomplished album to date, with sound and noise now coalescing into real songs like the title track and “Rattle My Heart,” which might have come straight from Out of Our Heads; the spooky acoustic strains of the Beatles-meets-Kinks British Invasion vibe of “Anger,” the haunting, stark acoustic “New Sun,” the pounding blues of “High On a Wire,” the thick ambience of “2 Young Boys,” the percussive beat of “Shadowman” and the psychedelic blues of “White Unicorns.”

While building up a fan base in Europe by touring with Eagles of Death Metal as well as their own headlining shows in France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Holland and Scandanavia, the band has played scattered shows in the States, including two years at SXSW, as well as shows in L.A., New York, Boston, San Diego and San Francisco.  Seeing them live, before a packed, sweaty audience of their crowd-surfing, head-banging fans, is yet another revelation…this one how two guys can create a sound that fills the room—and more.