UPCOMING DATES
No dates are currently announced.
When dates are announced, they will appear here. The band is currently "in a productive phase," which has not historically meant touring. Whether the current productive phase will result in touring is a separate question from whether it will result in music. Whether the music will result in touring is a further separate question.
If you would like to be notified of dates, the band does not have a mailing list. This is intentional. VORX has described mailing lists as "a false relationship between an announcement and a body." You may check this page.
A NOTE ON ATTENDING AN ÜNDÜSTRÏÄL SLÖP PERFORMANCE
ÜNDÜSTRÏÄL SLÖP performances are not concerts in the traditional sense. They are, in VORX's description, "the sound occurring in a space that contains you." This is not metaphorical.
What to expect:
- The show will begin when the band decides it has begun. This may not be when the announced start time suggests. DRECK has described start times as "approximate intentions."
- There will be fog. There will be more fog than you expect. SLAG has noted that The Monument's sub-bass frequencies interact with the fog in ways that are "not entirely understood." This is considered acceptable.
- MAUX may stop playing at any point during a song. This is not a technical problem. You will know when it is a technical problem because MAUX will indicate this by continuing to play.
- ÄSH's projections will show a stopped clock, a parking lot, and concrete. These are always the same images. VORX says they "accrue." First-time attendees are advised to return.
- VORX may not speak between songs. This is not hostility. It is "the integrity of the space." Applause is welcomed, by which we mean it is tolerated, by which we mean VORX will acknowledge it by very slightly turning his head.
- The show will end when it ends. This is typically between 90 minutes and 3 hours. The 2019 Cleveland show was 47 minutes. VORX described it afterward as "complete." He meant this.
TOUR HISTORY
THE WOUND ARCHITECTURE TOUR 1993
The first tour. Van broke down outside Toledo, which the band considers the spiritual center of the tour. The sound equipment failure at the Dayton show is described in the Corroded Signals liner notes as "the most accurate performance of 'Wound.'" The cancellation for "creative disagreement with the venue's concept of sound" was in Columbus. The venue had a working PA. This was the disagreement.
DRECK considers this "the most financially pure tour we've done." This is because financial purity, in DRECK's framework, has nothing to do with revenue.
THE SLÖP² MIDWEST CIRCUIT 1994
SLAG said this tour "clarified things." This statement has appeared in six press pieces. No journalist has followed up on which things. SLAG has not been asked. The tour produced an average of 19.5 attendees per show. DRECK considers 19.5 people "enough."
THE FAILED ENGINE WORLD TOUR 1995–1996
The band's most ambitious touring period. The 8 dates "cancelled in transit" are not elaborated upon in any official material. The touring party reached the general geography of three of these shows. They did not play at them. The reasons are "multiple."
GERMANY
Three sold-out shows in venues SLAG describes as "appropriately brutal." The Hamburg show is considered the peak of the tour. A recording exists and is "not for release." VORX has said this since 1996.
JAPAN
Two shows. The first was a disaster — PA failure, MAUX's oil drum was held in customs, the opening set was performed with MAUX playing a borrowed snare drum and the side of a flight case. The band considers this "the worst show." The second show VORX describes as "perfect — they understood." A recording of the Tokyo show exists. It will not be released. Please stop asking.
NOTABLE: THE GRATE ROOM, AKRON — NOVEMBER 14, 1995
31 attendees. PA functionally inadequate. Show performed anyway. Attendees experienced primarily drums and fog. VORX: "The most honest performance of our career." Recording officially released in 2019 with mandatory subtitle "(The Bad One)."
SILENCE 1997–2002
THE NOT-A-COMEBACK TOUR 2003–2004
Supporting We Were Not Gone. The band was adamant this was not a comeback. All promotional materials included the phrase "NOT A RETURN." Ticket buyers were confused about whether this was a legal disclaimer or band philosophy. It was band philosophy. The confusion was noted without comment.
Dirk Something, interim drummer, played all dates without being introduced at a single show. He left after the final date without a statement. The band has noted the absence of a statement.
THE CORRODED SIGNALS RETROSPECTIVE TOUR 2019–2020
Subtitled "Not A Comeback" on all materials. This is distinct from 2003's "NOT A RETURN." The distinction is the band's. VORX: "We never left. A retrospective is not a comeback. A comeback implies an absence. We have not been absent. We have been in the absence." This appeared in a press release. It was published unchanged.
NOTABLE: ISOLATIONIST NOISE FEST, DETROIT — AUGUST 2019
Festival slot, 2:30pm. VORX described this as "hostile to the work." The band performed in full darkness — all stage lights off — in full afternoon sun. Audience accommodated this. The set was 73 minutes. The headliner was 45 minutes. Nobody commented on this publicly until VORX commented on it first, in a statement, on the band's website.
COVID ended the final 8 dates in March 2020. VORX issued a statement calling this "consistent with the arc of things." The statement was three sentences long. The second sentence was "We have been here before, in different forms." The third sentence was "The machinery continues."