MASSIVE WAGONS roll through the UK this May!

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What's better than big wagons? MASSIVE WAGONS! And the chief rock squad are rolling across the UK this May for four select dates through England and Wales with support from alternative metallers InMe.

Riding high from a fruitful, successful and busy 2024, the hard-working rockers are fresh back from living it up on the USA's Monsters of Rock Cruise, and celebrating a massive #1 album in the UK Rock Album Charts and a stellar #4 placement in the Official UK Top 40 Album Charts for their new release Earth To Grace. Out now via Earache Records, the five party animals from Lancaster will not only be promoting the 11-track LP on Part 2 of their UK headline run, but with a slew of headline European dates in April and as main support to Myles Kennedy's EU shows in June to boot.

And if all that tasty musical achievement info wasn't enough for you, through funding via charity organisation Metal For Good, vocalist Barry "Baz" Mills and guitarist Adam Thistlethwaite won funding to continue to go into schools up and down the country in support of their anti-bullying campaign and subsequently became ambassadors for the organisation. Kick-started by the 2022 track 'Fuck The Haters' from their TRIGGERED! album, the campaign aims to raise awareness of the negative impact of hurtful and hateful comments online.

MASSIVE WAGON's are no strangers to charities and mental health organisations, having just taken the men's suicide prevention charity, Andy's Man Club, on the road with them for their previous UK headline tour back in November 2024. The charity had stalls in the foyer of each venue with facilitators from local clubs handing out wristbands and sharing details of their local club meetings for more support. There were on stage talks during band changeovers and an interactive installation posing the five questions each meeting is structured around, for gig goers to answer. You can watch a video here of the band honestly considering the five questions themselves in their own impromptu meeting.

Continuing in the vein of doing God's Work, their hit track 'In It Together' from 2020's House Of Noise LP was donated to Lancaster University's Psychology department to be included in one of their incredible and vital Infant and Child studies. Their essential research includes what a baby can hear in the womb at different stages of development, and what it's like for hearing-impaired people to listen to music with and without a cochlear implant, of which the track has been included for both experiences.

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New album Earth To Grace brings the anthemic muscle and punked-up gusto that Massive Wagons have made their name with, while adding a pinch of stardust that shoots the band into the stratosphere as master songcrafters. Earth To Grace found diverse inspiration in the sad passing of Sinéad O'Connor, the unsettling movie Sound Of Freedom, the “brutal” TikTok algorithm, and themes to '80s TV shows like Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and Cities Of Gold.

Earth To Grace smacks the bullseye every time when it comes to Wagons' ability to create memorable anthems. From the gleaming slow dancer “Night Skies”, to the match-striking dynamism of “The Good Die Young” (featuring Hundred Reasons' vocalist Colin Doran) and the landsliding force of Adam 'Bowzer' Bouskill's bass and Alex Thistlethwaite's drumming on album opener “Sleep Forever”, every track is a head-turner in its own right. The album also sees the welcome return of the direct sincerity of Mills' lyricism, as well as Adam Thistlethwaite and Stevie Holl's twin guitars, which, entwine to create a hulking double helix of guitar brawn.

Order the album now on coloured vinyl, black vinyl, signed bonus edition CD and more at earache.com/massivewagons