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Although fans are probably still digesting the mammoth ten-disc Cloud Box box set released in 2004, His Name Is Alive have yet another album ready for mass consumption. On January 24, HNIA/producer/multi-instrumentalist Warn Defever's label, Silver Mountain Media Group will release Detrola.

Recorded and mixed at Defever's own Brown Rice studio in Detroit, Detrola is, according to a press release, "louder, stranger, sexier, weirder, more complicated, more suggestive, and even more violent than could be expected from HNIA." Decide for yourself:

01 Introduction
02 After I Leave U
03 I Thought I Saw
04 In My Dream
05 *C*A*T*S*
06 Your Bones
07 You Need a Heart
08 You and Me
09 Get Your Curse
10 Seven Minutes
11 Send My Face

Come January, HNIA will embark on a, for the most part, major-city tour across North America with Low and Death Vessel. "Alive" and "Death" on one roster? We'll see how well that goes over.

Dates:

01-26 Milwaukee, WI - Miramar Theatre
01-27 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
01-28 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
01-30 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
01-31 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
02-01 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
02-02 Somerville, MA - Somerville Theater
02-03 Brooklyn, NY - Southpaw
02-04 Washington, DC - Black Cat
02-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
02-07 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
02-08 Millvale, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre

For those of you who aren't willing to fork over your babysitting earnings to pick up a record or concert ticket, HNIA is currently offering free Cloud Box and Detrola samples on their official website and MySpace page. Just like the miniature tasting spoons at the ice cream store!