Alkaline Trio Announces New Album 'Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs', New Tour Dates

Alkaline Trio has announced that they will be releasing their new album Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs on January 26th via Rise Records. This will be the band’s tenth studio album (following the release of 2018’s Is This Thing Cursed?), and their last with longtime drummer Derek Grant.

Blood, Hair and Eyeballs was recorded at Studio 606 with producer Cameron Webb, and it is the follow up to their 2018 album Is This Thing Cursed?

The band has offered up the eponymous title track as the first single, along with a zombie-filled music video directed by Ravi Dhar. In support of the new album, the band will hit the road on a North American next February, kicking off on February 22nd in Anaheim, CA before concluding on March 30th in Las Vegas, NV. A Bay Area date is scheduled for March 27th at The Masonic. Drug Church will support on all dates, and the band will be joined by drummer Atom Willard.

In a press releasing announcing the album, vocalist/guitarist Matt Skiba stated the following:

“My mom worked for years as an emergency room nurse. She and her co-workers referred to exceptionally busy nights as ‘blood, hair, and eyeballs’. Well, we’ve been busy making an exceptional record we refer to as Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, too. We approached this new record in completely new ways. We built the songs together, from the ground up, in the same room which hasn’t happened since the band started. Usually we start with an idea somebody’s already written. This time, we had the unique opportunity to build the songs onto drums recorded at Studio 606 on to two-inch tape using one of the most beautiful-sounding and legendary consoles in rock. It has almost everything to do with how our new record sounds.”

Bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano continued:

“Sometimes the full circle nature of life is enough to just completely blow my mind… this is one of those times. Skateboarding was my first love, is my favorite sport, and a community through which I was first introduced to punk rock. So when Matt and I read Ravi’s idea to combine our music with an homage to the Bones Brigade’s ‘The Search For Animal Chin’ and throw some spooky zombies in there… we both dug it right away. The work Ravi and the entire production crew put in was insane and it shows… So to kick off the release of our 10th album with this super fun video featuring Steve Caballero, Chris Cole, Ace, Corey and Shea is so much more than a dream come true, it’s true love. This is not a phase.”

You can check out the music video for “Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs” below, and you can click here to pre-order the album. For more information on purchasing tickets for the band’s upcoming tour, click here. You can view the full tour routing below.

Main Photo Credit: Jonathan Weiner

Blood, Hair and Eyeballs
Hot For Preacher
Meet Me
Versions of You
Bad Time
Scars
Break
Shake With Me
Blood, Hair and Eyeballs
Hinterlude
Broken Down In a Time Machine
Teenage Heart

February 22nd: Anaheim, CA - House of Blues Anaheim
February 23rd: San Diego, CA - SOMA
February 24th: Phoenix, AZ - Van Buren
February 26th: Dallas, TX - House of Blues Dallas
February 27th: Austin, TX - Stubbs
February 28th: Houston, TX - House of Blues Houston
March 1st: Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
March 2nd: Orlando, FL - House of Blues Orlando
March 3rd: Charlotte, NC - Fillmore
March 5th: Washington, DC - Fillmore Silver Spring
March 6th: Philadelphia, PA - Fillmore Philadelphia
March 9th: Queens, NY - Knockdown Center
March 10th: Boston, MA - House of Blues Boston
March 12th: Toronto, ON - History
March 13th: Montreal, QC - Beanfield
March 15th: Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
March 16th: Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
March 17th: St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
March 18th: Minneapolis, MN - Fillmore Minneapolis
March 20th: Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
March 21st: Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
March 23rd: Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
March 24th: Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
March 25th: Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
March 27th: San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
March 29th: Los Angeles, CA - Novo
March 30th: Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas