Band Releases New Video “Devil”

Photo Credit: David Diaz

  Austin dark wave rock unit, Temple of Love, creates sultry, searing songs rife with the roar and weight of ritual and rebellion. The Texas quartet, which released its debut full-length LP, ‘Songs of Love and Despair‘ this past November via The Reptile House, has announced U.S. tour dates in support of the album. The ‘Love and Despair in the Southeast’ tour will launch on January 30 in Austin and hit 11 cities, before wrapping on February 14 in Houston, TX. The just-announced live dates are as follows:

Temple of Love tour dates:

   January 30 – Austin, TX @ The Lost Well
   February 5 – Lafayette, LA @ Freetown Boom Boom Room
   February 6 – Birmingham, AL @ The Firehouse
   February 7 – Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social Club
   February 8 – Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof
   February 9 – Orlando, FL @ Conduit
   February 10 – Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
   February 11 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Bark
   February 12 – Pensacola, FL @ The Handlebar
   February 13 – New Orleans, LA @ Santos Bar
   February 14 – Houston, TX @ 1810 Ojeman

In sync with the tour announcement, Temple of Love releases a music video for its new song, “Devil“, shot and edited with 
Marcos Morales of Austin’s Dirt City Studios ([adult swim], Inter Arma, Outer Heaven). View Temple of Love‘s “Devil” video at this location.

Recorded with GRAMMY-winning producer and recording engineer, Stuart Sullivan (Roky Erickson, Supersuckers), at Wire Recording Studio (Meat Puppets, The Sword), Temple of Love‘s ‘Songs of Love and Despair’ presents a 
spellbinding fusion of guitar-heavy rock and southern gothic atmospheres. The band’s sonic DNA draws from gothic rock’s golden era and injects it with the swagger of classic metal and the moody sensuality of darkwave. At times ethereal, at others intense, Temple of Love‘s songs slip between beauty and brutality, light and shadow. With ‘Songs of Love and Despair’
, Temple of Love proves that darkness isn’t just a mood — it’s a movement. Purchase/save ‘Songs of Love and Despair‘ at this location.

Fronted by commanding vocalist SuzyBravo (Witchcryer, Tits Out!), whose voice drips with both fury and enchantment, Temple of Love weaves tales of desire and transformation over a storm of razor-edged riffs and driving rhythms. Formed in 2018 as a recording project featuring Bravo and her husband, six-stringer Steve Colca of celebrated U.S. doom metal unit, Destroyer of Light, Temple of Love has transformed into a formidable four-piece forged in the fire of the Austin underground. A witchy and raw sonic ritual where dark romance and rock ‘n’ roll collide.

‘Songs of Love and Despair’ has met to A-list acclaim, being hailed as “Texas post-punk that rocks” by The Needle Drop, and “a willful callout to classic goth rock” by The Obelisk. The band’s beloved black cat, Fulci, was even spotlighted by The Bad Penny as part of its popular “Pet Sounds” series. 

‘Songs of Love and Despair‘ track listing:

   1.) Temple of Love
   2.) Carrion Queen (stream VIDEO)
   3.) You’ll Do for Tonight
   4.) If Sighs Could Kill (stream VIDEO) 
   5.) Paradise Lost
   6.) Devil (stream VIDEO)
   7.) Save Yourself
   8.) Joke’s on You (stream VIDEO)
   9.) If We Could Fly (stream VIDEO)

  Purchase/save ‘Songs of Love and Despair’ at this location.