Tera Melos Release New Track, Announce Deluxe Edition of Pantagonian Rats

Sacramento genre-busters (genre smashers is more like it) Tera Melos have released a new track from their six-song Zoo Weather EP, currently available on cassette (cassette, really?) as well as digital download. The new song, "Manar The Magic," filled to the brim with rollicking electronic effects, overdubbed vocals and a spoken-word cameo from Mike Watt, seems to pick up where the band's last release Pantagonian Rats left off.  Zoo Weather contains three new tracks and three remixes, including one by Japanese noise legends Melt Banana.

Two more tracks and a deluxe digital edition of Pantagonian Rats will be available soon. Tera Melos is currently on a co-headlining tour with guitar goddess Marnie Stern, set to end in on March 19th. Listen to "Manar The Magic" and view the remaining tour dates below:



03-06 Cambridge, MA - The Middle East *
03-07 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore *
03-08 Toronto, Ontario - Wrongbar *
03-09 Kalamazoo, MI - The Strutt *
03-10 Chicago, IL - Subterranean *
03-11 Omaha, NE - Slowdown Jr *
03-12 Denver, CO - Moes *
03-13 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court *
03-15 Seattle, WA - The Vera Project *
03-16 Portland, OR - Branx *
03-18 San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill *
03-19 Sacramento, CA - Sol Collective *

Album Review: Tera Melos Pantagonian Rats

It's hard to pin down the sound of Tera Melos' full-length debut Pantagonian Rats. The songs--with titles like "The Skin Surf," "Aped," and "Trident Trail"--include everything from crashing guitars drowned in distortion to eerie background vocals and a jazz combo. And perhaps that's the point. But what is clear is that Tera Melos know a good musical hook when they hear it, and Pantagonian Rats is full of them.