Dive Presents Thursday, I Am The Avalanche & Blood Vulture

Groundbreaking post-hardcore band Thursday have announced three warm up headline shows including Lark Hall in the heart of Albany NY before opening for My Chemical Romance and Death Cab For Cutie at Met Life Stadium.

The New Jersey quintet who released six records since their formation in 1997, and enjoyed cumulative worldwide sales of nearly four million units before disbanding in 2011, originally reformed (in typical Thursday manner at two days notice) in 2016 to play the Sound on Sound Festival in Atlanta.
Rising from New Brunswick, NJ, in the midst of a DIY basement culture revival, Thursday has always been in a constant state of transition that seemed out of step with the traditional hardcore of their peers.
Favoring jagged post-punk rhythms over metallic breakdowns and quoting from Neil Young and post-modern poet, Michael Palmer, instead of Henry Rollins and Noam Chomsky, the band seemed at odds with the awkwardly applied label of "post-hardcore pioneers". Their singer Geoff Rickly after all produced the first My Chemical Romance record and the band shocked an entire scene by touring with The Cure in 2004.
As equally renowned for having their fingers on the pulse of creativity, Thursday has a long history of touring with ground breaking acts in tow. Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Poison The Well, AFI, Portugal The Man, M**der By Death, Touche Amore, Bring Me The Horizon, Circa Survive and The Gaslight Anthem have all been invited to share stages with them in the past.

In 2024, the band broke their audio silence with the release of Application For Release From The Dream, their first new music in 13 years. This was followed up by the surprise drop of White Bikes (recorded at Hansa studio’s in Berlin – where Bowie wrote and recorded Hero’s) on January 1st 2025.

Joining Thursday on this mini tour in August is Long Island royalty I Am The Avalanche and Blood Vulture, the new band featuring Two Minutes to Late Night, the world’s only heavy metal talk show.

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