Merge Records is delighted to announce the signing of Welsh janglepop raconteurs The Tubs! The quartet — Owen Williams, Dan Lucas, Max Warren, and Taylor Stewart — are hitting the ground running, too, sharing word of new UK and EU tour dates as well as a cover of Metallica’s “Fade to Black” that transforms the seminal power ballad into the pastoral, jangle-laden epic it was always meant to be. Listen to “Fade to Black” wherever you stream music!
Owen Williams on “Fade to Black”:
Signing to Merge is a dream come true for The Tubs…we’ve been huge fans since we were teens. They’ve put out some of our fave records of all time and we could tell you them all here but we don’t have the space. Call Taylor on +** **** ****** if you’d like the full list.
I’ve always been a big fan of a Metallica ballad. Obviously I like the riffs too but I think there’s a weirdly beautiful and singular quality to their ballads, even though the lyrics are basically always trash. We thought it’d be fun to jangle up Fade To Black and give it a sort of folk rock reinvented outro to announce the signing.