Black Lungs Announce Shows

Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil's Black Lungs side project will play shows with Ceremonial Snips in Peterborough, Hamilton, London and Toronto later this month.

MacNeil "will be bringing along a crew of friends to join him on stage" at the shows, according to a Jan. 2 MySpace blog entry. More Black Lungs lineup information will be available shortly, and you can buy tickets now.

MacNeil has been hard at work with Alexisonfire, who are working on their fourth album. It's tentatively titled Young Cardinals and should be out sometime this year. Alexisonfire will begin recording the disc in February.

Vocalist George Pettit recently told View Magazine that the album is "a lot more guitar driven" than anything the band have done to date. The title was influenced by nature.

"I was writing and watching the news while America had its flooding, massive wildfires and it was just a terrible moment on the television," Pettit told the magazine. "I ended up on my balcony where there is this big cherry tree in the yard with all these cardinals in it. It just kind of summed up a day that was filled with turmoil because nature is still completely oblivious to all of our hardships.

"The sentiment of it was that life is as equally terrifying and horrible as it is beautiful and wondrous."

You can see Black Lungs with Ceremonial Snips here:

Jan. 21 Peterborough, ON @ The Montreal House
Jan. 22 Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
Jan. 23 London, ON @ London Music Hall
Jan. 24 Toronto, ON @ Kathedral