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Platinum-selling, Scranton, PA powerhouse MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, who will release their new album DECADES on July 17 via Roadrunner Records, are pleased to announce the second leg of The Sweat and Blood Tour. Dayseeker will serve as direct support. The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Divine will also appear. This leg fittingly kicks off the night before Halloween in Worcester and runs through November 20 in Pittsburgh. Tickets will be available starting with an Artist and Citi presale (details below) beginning on Tuesday, June 2 at 12pm ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning on Friday, June 5 at 10 am local time here.

PRESALE: Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, June 2 at 12pm ET until Thursday, June 4 at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details, visit here.

All tickets are available here.

The previously announced first leg of the tour kicks off on July 14. Lorna Shore, Fit For A King, and Static Dress will serve as support. The North American tour is the band’s first American headlining tour in nearly three years, with stops in Charlotte, Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, and more before wrapping up on August 15 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. It also includes a stop at Red Rocks, the band’s first time headlining the venue.

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE ON TOUR:
WITH LORNA SHORE, FIT FOR A KING, + STATIC DRESS:
SUMMER 2026:
7/14 — Bridgeport, CT — Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
7/16 — Gilford, NH — BankNH Pavilion
7/18 — Bristow, VA — Jiffy Lube Live
7/19 — Mansfield, OH — Inkcarceration*
7/21 — Charlotte, NC — Truliant Amphitheater
7/22 — Alpharetta, GA — Ameris Bank Amphitheater
7/24 — Irving, TX — The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
7/25 — Houston, TX — The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
7/26 — Austin, TX — Germania Insurance Amphitheater
7/28 — Albuquerque, NM — First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater
7/29 — Phoenix, AZ — Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
7/31 — Los Angeles, CA — The Kia Forum
8/1 — Wheatland, CA — Toyota Amphitheatre
8/4 — Portland, OR — Theater of the Clouds
8/5 — Auburn, WA — White River Amphitheatre
8/7 — Sandy, UT — Beddy’s Plaza at America First Field
8/9 — Morrison, CO — Red Rocks Amphitheatre
8/11 — Oklahoma City, OK — Zoo Amphitheatre
8/12 — Rogers, AR — Walmart AMP
8/14 — Indianapolis, IN — Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
8/15 — Sterling Heights, MI — Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
*Festival

WITH DAYSEEKER, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, + DARK DIVINE:
FALL 2026:
10/30 — Worcester, MA — DCU Center
10/31 — Philadelphia, PA — Xfinity Mobile Arena
11/3 — Raleigh, NC — Lenovo Center
11/4 — Savannah, GA — VyStar Pavilion
11/5 — Orlando, FL — Kia Center
11/7 — Nashville, TN — The Truth
11/8 — Peoria, IL — Peoria Civic Center Arena
11/10 — Minneapolis, MN — Target Center
11/11 — Omaha, NE — CHI Health Center
11/13 — Milwaukee, WI — Fiserv Forum
11/15 — Albany, NY — MVP Arena
11/18 — Portland, ME — Cross Insurance Arena
11/19 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center
11/20 — Pittsburgh, PA — PPG Paints Arena

Motionless In White are at home in the dark. For over 20 years, the quintet — Chris Motionless [vocals], Ricky Olson [guitar], Ryan Sitkowski [guitar], Vinny Mauro [drums], and Justin Morrow [bass] — have resided in their own shadowy corner of alternative music and culture. The group’s uncanny alchemy of metal, hardcore, goth, industrial, and electronic has magnetically attracted an ardent audience, fueling a quiet rise out of the Rust Belt and into arenas as a headlining force of nature.  Their D.I.Y. work ethic drives the evolution of an immersive world where stunning visuals match the scope of the sound. The collective comes full circle on their seventh full-length offering Decades. For as much as it conjures their signature style, the LP sees them continue to confidently cut a path through uncharted territory, spreading a little darkness in their wake.

Decades features several high-profile and eclectic guest appearances. In addition to Taylor, Sklyar Grey, and Dark Divine‘s Anthony Martinez also feature on the album. The band recorded Decades in Upstate New York and Los Angeles with co-producers Drew Fulk and Justin “JD” deBlieck and ultimately incorporated their past, present, and future sounds into one cohesive sound. This is Motionless at their very best.

“We were never afraid to take risks,” observes Chris. “This band has not only lasted two decades, but we’ve also outlasted all of the obstacles we’ve faced. We’re still grinding. No matter how far we expand the universe that is Motionless In White, we’re going to preserve the heart, soul, and roots of where we came from. We are never going to abandon heartfelt, emotional, and heavy songs. We are never going to abandon what mattered to us the most when we started. We’re finding new ways to emphasize those stories with exciting sounds and looks, but the vision is the same. It’s always been this grand, dramatic, and theatrical entity. I’m proud we haven’t gotten comfortable.”

He finishes, “Decades is definitely heavier than some of our past albums. Our current world bred more aggressive energy, anger, and resistance.”

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If you want to be counted
If you want to be seen
Then you can never be free
Not me

Black Marble, the long-running solo project of synth musician Chris Stewart, will return this summer with Life in Small Spaces, his first full-length album since 2021’s Fast Idol. The record is due on August 21, 2026, via Sacred Bones, and its announcement comes with a new single, “Jim Carol New Year,” alongside a 16mm video directed by Clayton Hunt.

The title carries a sly double meaning, nodding to author, poet, and musician Jim Carroll while brushing against the sing-song formality of holiday carols. The song itself is less festive than the name suggests, though it moves with a dry, almost buoyant touch. Stewart sets a rhythmic synth figure against a clipped, cool vocal delivery, letting the track drift between deadpan humour and a serious suspicion of authority, belief, approval, and all the social traps dressed up as advice.

Jim Carol New Year casts a skeptical eye on the voices that claim authority over modern life: teachers, preachers, critics, experts, and anyone else selling certainty as salvation. Stewart turns the repeated phrase “I forgot my money” into a dry punchline and a philosophical dodge, as if the speaker has wandered into the marketplace of bad advice and left his wallet at home on purpose. The song treats public approval, easy belief, and social belonging as traps dressed up as rewards, while its brighter melodic movement gives the critique a sly lift. Beneath the humour sits a more personal bruise, with failed intimacy and self-recognition slipping into the frame, deepening the song’s argument about freedom, compromise, and the cost of being seen.

“If you want to be free,” Stewart says, “you have to watch out for some of life’s classic pitfalls.”

Black Marble has a gift for making private unease feel oddly aerodynamic, and Stewart applies that instinct to a song about doubt as self-preservation. The arrangement glides with a melody that carries the critique in clean lines instead of forcing the point. Its charm works as camouflage for a tougher thought: the desire to be recognized can become its own quiet trap.

“Chris had an idea of a house in the distance with two travelers being drawn toward it,” director Clayton Hunt shares regarding the video. “We wanted each traveler to represent a different version of the journey. One traveler struggled unprotected against the landscape, the other was cautious, outfitted in an orange hazmat – type suit. I decided to shoot 16mm and capture everything against the green landscape, creating a vibrant contrast. That imagery helped guide the production and inform the story.”

Hunt’s video gives the single a spare, strange visual frame. Rather than crowding the song with plot, the clip follows two travelers drawn toward a distant house. One moves exposed through the open landscape, while the other proceeds with caution in an orange hazmat-type suit. The image is simple enough to read in several directions: risk and protection, instinct and fear, faith and armor, two ways of moving toward the same uncertain promise. The 16mm format suits Black Marble’s current turn toward a more physical band-room feel.

Watch the video for Jim Carol New Year below:

Black Marble’s Life in Small Spaces finds Stewart trading some of his usual synth density for staccato guitar lines inspired by early American left-of-the-dial college radio, with reference points including Pylon, The Necessaries, and R. Stevie Moore. Live drum samples, informed by Wire’s clean metronomic economy, help shift the project toward a leaner, more tactile sound. Stewart describes the album as a record about the music industry, authenticity, and the question of how independent artists survive without surrendering the private logic that made the work worth making in the first place.

“I always knew a lot of people in music struggled to make ends meet, but it surprised me to learn that the people you thought would be doing well often weren’t. For me, seeing the business from the inside like that changed how I looked at things. When I looked up to see a new artist on a billboard, I started to wonder, will I one day have to pretend to be something I’m not, in order to succeed? The life of an artist goes on after your moment ends, you know? So who do you want to be in the end and how do you want to be seen by the people that know you? I made Life In Small Spaces while thinking about that, and for me, it serves as my own ideal for living an artistic life. I’m doing it as a vocation, not some last ditch effort to escape to some other world. I made this record not only as a way of saying that, but as a way of saying it’s ok to feel that way. It’s ok for people to sacrifice some degree of creature comfort in order to live a life you believe in. And it doesn’t have to be an endless search for something just out of reach, it can be a permanent way of being and something that sustains you.”

In that sense, Jim Carol New Year makes for a pointed first dispatch. Its melody may turn lightly, but its message keeps its composure: beware the expert, distrust the sales pitch, and save your freedom for something worth more than being seen.

Pre-Order/Save Life in Small Spaces out August 21st on Sacred Bones HERE

Black Marble – TOUR DATES

• Saturday, August 22 — Santa Ana, CA — Constellation Room at the Observatory
• Sunday, August 23 — Los Angeles, CA — 1720
• Tuesday, August 25 — San Francisco, CA — Rickshaw Stop
• Wednesday, August 26 — Sacramento, CA — Harlow’s
• Friday, August 28 — Seattle, WA — The Crocodile
• Saturday, August 29 — Portland, OR — Wonder Ballroom
• Sunday, August 30 — Boise, ID — Shrine Social Club
• Monday, August 31 — Salt Lake City, UT — Urban Lounge
• Tuesday, September 1 — Denver, CO — The Federal Theatre
• Thursday, September 3 — Omaha, NE — Slowdown
• Friday, September 4 — Minneapolis, MN — Fine Line
• Saturday, September 5 — Chicago, IL — Thalia Hall
• Sunday, September 6 — Detroit, MI — El Club
• Monday, September 7 — Toronto, ON — Lee’s Palace
• Tuesday, September 8 — Montreal, QC — La Sala Rosa
• Thursday, September 10 — New York City, NY — Webster Hall
• Friday, September 11 — Philadelphia, PA — Union Transfer
• Saturday, September 12 — Baltimore, MD — Ottobar
• Monday, September 14 — Raleigh, NC — Kings
• Tuesday, September 15 — Atlanta, GA — The Earl
• Thursday, September 17 — Houston, TX — White Oak Music Hall Upstairs
• Friday, September 18 — Dallas, TX — Club Dada
• Saturday, September 19 — Austin, TX — 29th Street Ballroom

* w/ The Serfs. # w/ Public Circuit. (and Jimmy Cicero for select shows)

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