Detroit deathgaze duo VAZUM will cross the Atlantic this summer for a UK tour while Zach Pliska and Emily Sturm put the final touches on their next full-length album. Since the release of 2024’s Western Violence, the band has further retreated into the borderlands between goth rock, shoegaze, deathrock, and serrated post-punk pressure.
Built around Pliska and Sturm’s shared vision, VAZUM operate from their own Light Echo Studio with the self-reliance of a band that has learned to make limitation feel like voltage. Their music comes hard and grand, with blown-out guitars, cold vocal interplay, martial drums, and a taste for grandeur that never sands off the threat at the edges. They call it deathgaze, and the name fits: heavy-lidded, severe, beautiful in the way broken glass can be beautiful when the light catches it at the wrong angle.
VAZUM have been moving steadily through the US and Europe, building their reputation through rousing live performances rather than the machinery of a larger industry apparatus. The band remain rooted in a DIY ethos, working outside the usual channels while carrying their songs into rooms where volume, atmosphere, and physical presence still mean something.
The upcoming UK run begins June 24 in Edinburgh and continues through Newcastle upon Tyne, Leicester, London, Oxford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, and Salford. Tickets and show information are available through the band’s official channels.
Tickets and show info can be found here.
UK Tour Dates:
- June 24th – The Banshee Labyrinth – Edinburgh
- June 25th – Little Buildings – Newcastle upon Tyne
- June 26th – Darker Days Festival at The International – Leicester
- June 28th – The Camden Club – London
- July 1st – The Jericho – Oxford
- July 2nd – Exchange – Bristol
- July 3rd – Necroscope at The Arches Venue – Coventry
- July 4th – Boom – Leeds
- July 5th – The Eagle Inn – Salford
Follow VAZUM:
Or via: