March 4, 2015, Philadelphia – Torche, who kick off their North American tour this evening in the band’s Miami hometown, celebrate their highest charting album to date with Restarter landing in the Top 10 on a variety of Billboard charts including #2 on Heatseekers. The album sold slightly over 5,000 copies its first week of release.

The full Billboard chart positions for the band’s Relapse Records’ debut include #133 on the Top 200, #61 on Top Albums, #56 on Current Albums, #12 on Independent Current Albums, #10 on Hard Music Albums and #8 on Current Hard Music Albums.

“We’re all beyond stoked the record is doing so well,” said the band.  “Can’t thank everyone enough who has supported the band over the years. It means everything to us.”

Entertainment Weekly recently wrote of the new offering: “…gloriously fuzzy, sludgy, hard-hitting fourth album from four of loud rock’s most adroit genre-benders” while Pitchfork said “Torche have made their most compelling record since Meanderthal.”  The Chicago Tribune commented: “Torche's music connects muscle, songcraft and drive in a way that few bands of recent vintage can match” and the Washington Post added “the heaviness is almost otherworldly on Torche’s fourth album.”

Torche on tour:

March 4     Miami, FL     Churchill’s Pub #

March 5     Orlando, FL     Backbooth #

March 6     Atlanta, GA     The Masquerade

March 7     Birmingham, AL     The Bottletree

March 8     Baton Rouge, LA     Spanish Moon

March 9     Houston, TX     Fitzgerald’s Downstairs

March 10     Austin, TX     Red 7

March 11     Dallas, TX      Club Dada #

March 12     Memphis, TN     The Hi-Tone

March 13     St. Louis, MO     The Firebird

March 14     Chicago, IL     Empty Bottle

March 15     Milwaukee, WI     The Cactus Club

March 16     Columbus, OH     Skully’s Music Diner

March 17     Cleveland, OH    The Grog Shop

March 18     Grand Rapids, MI     The Pyramid Scheme

March 20     Detroit, MI     The Pike Room

March 21     Toronto, ON     Lee’s Palace

March 22     Montreal, QC     Bar Le Ritz

March 23     Buffalo, NY     Mohawk Place

March 24     Boston, MA     Great Scott #

March 25     Boston, MA     Great Scott

March 26     Brooklyn, NY     St. Vitus

March 27     Philadelphia, PA     Underground Arts

March 28     Richmond, VA     Strange Matters #

March 29     Washington, DC     DC 9 #

​May 2     Leipzig, DE     Taubchental

May 3     Wroclaw, PL     Asymmetry Festival

May 4     Prague, CZ     007

May 5     Munich, DE     Ampere

May 6     Milan, IT     Lo Fi Club

May 8     Barcelona, SP     Rocksound

May 9     Madrid, SP     Boute Live!

May 10     Lisbon, PT     Musicbox

May 11     Bilbao, SP     Kafe Antzokia

May 13     Zurich, SZ     Dynamo

May 14     Wiesbaden, DE     Schlachthoff

May 15     Cologne, DE     Underground

May 16     Berlin, DE     Hafenklang

May 18     Nijmegen, NL     Merelyn

May 19     Haarlem, NL     Patronaat

May 20     Paris, FR     Glazart

May 21     Antwerp, BE     Kavka

May 22     London, UK     Underworld *

May 23     Leeds, UK     Belgrave Social Club *

May 24     Galway, IR     Roisin Dubh

May 25     Cork, IR     Craine Lane

May 26     Dublin, IR     Grand Social

May 27     Belfast, IR     The Limelight

May 28     Glasgow, UK     CCA **

May 29     Manchester, UK     Sound Control **

May 30     Bristol, UK     Temples Festival

May 31     Nimes, FR     This is Not a Love Song

June 1     Nantes, FR     Le Ferrailleur

All U.S. dates w/Wrong; Nothing appears on all dates except when noted with a #

Fans of the band can try their skills at Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair (www.torchevsrobots.com), a single-player game featuring each of the Torche band members as characters trying to save the city of Miami from destruction bend robots.

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