Spear Of Destiny Announce UK Tour In Support Of New Album “JANUS”

Having spent the tail end of 2024 revisiting classic 80s works on tour with The Skids; for their next act Spear of Destiny will be offering something both familiar, but entirely new, with JANUS. The follow-up to 2022’s Ghost Population, JANUS is the forthcoming new album from Spear of Destiny. Two years in the making, it will feature re-recorded and rejuvenated versions of 1987’s Outland and 1988’s The Price You Pay. Partnered for the first time, as two very distinct halves in a double album these freshly revamped cuts will be available on vinyl, CD, and digital formats. JANUS owes its name to the ancient Roman god of beginnings and endings, of transitions and time, passages and dualities. And aptly for this project, is usually depicted as having two faces. Spear Of Destiny will be heading out on tour in the UK throughout the Spring in support of JANUS, you can view Spear Of Destiny‘s tour dates and purchase tickets here.

“Janus, as I’m sure you all know, is the Roman god who looked in two directions. At the time of making, ‘The Price You Pay’ often in its lyrics, had a backwards looking take on my previous life experiences, several being very personal. Whereas ‘Outland’ with its dystopian lyrics, looked forward. Being done on what was at the time state-of-the-art programming, Fairlight 3. Lyrically it faced the ever increasing out of phase reality we are now firmly in. Some may say why re-record, and in a definite sense that is a good question, the reason is that I wanted them to sound as close to what I originally thought they should have sounded like. Which is way different from what both albums did in fact end up sounding like. In particular ‘Outland’ which was principally recorded on a Fairlight 3 program. In fact some of the ‘Outland’ songs like “Land of Shame” were originally scheduled to have been in contention for the earlier ‘World Service’ album but never made it to the selection. Criminal in reality. Record companies shy away from controversial lyrics.” (frontman Kirk Brandon)