News
G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! Out Now via Constellation
Jun 01, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced a new set of tour dates in support of their most recent album, G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! More
G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! Out Now via Constellation
Apr 08, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a new album, G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!, last week via Constellation. Now the band have announced some tour dates. They don’t go down until 2022, but we’re excited to (and still getting used to) report on tour dates again. More
G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Due Out April 2 via Constellation
Mar 04, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced a new album titled G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!, and it will be out on April 2 via Constellation. The band has shared a 60-second teaser for the album, dubbed “4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz,” which most likely features a snippet of a song from the album. More
"Luciferian Towers" Out Now via Constellation
Nov 07, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a new album, “Luciferian Towers”, back in September via Constellation. Now they have announced some new 2018 tour dates for both America and Australia. Check them all out below, followed by the album’s first single and opening track, the over 7-minute long “Undoing a Luciferian Towers.” More
"Luciferian Towers" Due Out September 22 via Constellation
Aug 30, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Godspeed You! Black Emperor are releasing a new album, “Luciferian Towers”, on September 22 via Constellation. Now they have shared the album’s first single and opening track, the over 7-minute long “Undoing a Luciferian Towers.” More
"Luciferian Towers" Due Out September 22 via Constellation
Aug 02, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced a new album, “Luciferian Towers”, and some tour dates. “Luciferian Towers” is due out September 22 via Constellation. The album will be released on 180g vinyl and CD, both with 100% recycled paperboard gatefold jackets. More
Include Tegan and Sara, Metric, and Purity Ring
Jul 16, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Earlier today in Toronto the short list of nominees for the 2013 Polaris Prize was announced, featuring the likes of Tegan and Sara, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Metric, Purity Ring, and Young Galaxy. More
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Out Oct. 16
Oct 02, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
A full decade since the release of Yangui U.X.O Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced that they will release a new album titled Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! More
Also: Soundtrack a Cartoon
Sep 16, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
Get ready, North American fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The long-inactive post-rock mavens just announced the dates for their tour, which will go down in February and March of 2011. More
Interviews
"It was great music to write to. It was great music to just smoke weed to. It was great music to do fucking everything."
Feb 03, 2020
By Mike Hilleary (As Told To)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor‘s Yanqui U.X.O is just the soundtrack to a fucking mental odyssey. I grew up in Montréal and if you were a kid in Montréal in the ‘90s you obviously knew who the fuck Godspeed were. More
Reviews
Sep 26, 2017
By Aug Stone
When this record takes off, as it does on the third parts of “Bosses Hang” and later “Anthem For No State,” it really takes off, sending you through hyperspace on enormous blissed-out cosmic waves. Much of the new album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor however is, as the band puts it, “a quiet muttering amplified heavenward.” More
Aug 04, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Walking through the field on the second day of OFF Festival, I was faced with a large group of teenagers, sprinting towards me and singing a chipper refrain from Zbigniew Wodecki’s triumphant performance the previous evening. It was a heartwarming moment. After all, isn’t that the point of heading to a festival in another country? More
Dec 12, 2012
By Hays Davis
With thoughtfully crafted compositions so carefully rendered, Godspeed You! Black Emperor plays like a massed force that could show its mighty strength at any time, and can be equally compelling and unnerving when it does. More
