We had the pleasure of sitting down with the amazing lads ar Revenant the other day to chat about their brand new EP and their upcoming tour with Preacher Stone! Check it out below!
‘Black Dogs & Sad Men’ came out a few weeks ago, it seems to have gone down well!
Thank you, yeah people have really taken to it, we’ve had lots of messages that some of the subject matter has resonated with people and the songs have slotted into our live set nicely!
It’s your second EP this year after ‘Best Medicine’ in April, what led to such a fast turnover of releases?
To peek behind the curtain of what we’ve been sat on for a while. People who have been watching us for the last year-ish will recognise most of those songs as we’ve had them in our set for a good minute or two. We recorded both EPs pretty close to each other so after the release of Best Medicine it was just a case of incubating the Black Dogs and Sad Men.
It’s your third EP in the last couple of years. Is the plan to stay with the same format, or is a studio album on the horizon?
Being the men of mystery we are, we don’t want to say too much. That being said, we’re always creating and pushing new ideas in the fold, and we’re always looking at the best way to let those ideas flourish.
What do you think the state of releasing new music is like these days? It seems pretty hard to predict what to put out sometimes!
Put out whatever you want really, obviously some things will be more commercially successful than others but if you’ve got a message, and a good following of people willing to hear and share, then stay true to yourself and it will all fall together.
I saw you’re all prepared for your Christmas gig at Arlington Arts Newbury. How hard was it to get actual Santa to fill in for Sugarman Sam pretty last minute?
Big boots to fill for sure, even for the mighty Saint Nic! Sam didn’t take kindly to being paraded in a costume for our amusements and so we had to think of something. We all wrote our letters to the big man and asked him to help us out and he actually had that evening free so it’s all worked out after all!
You’re out on the road with Preacher Stone in the new year, what can we expect from the shows?
You know, that is going to be our first proper tour and we’re stoked to get going, we’ve chatted with the Preacher Stone fellas a few times, super cool dudes. We’ll be playing a heap of new venues and cities to us, there’ll be a measured amount of chaos, a healthy amount of action, and an unbridled stallion of powerful tunes!
Have you got quite a busy 2026 booked in already, anything you can tell us?
We’ll be headlining a cool biker/veterans Care After Combat charity festival Backwoods Barn Jam, Market Rasen in July and we’ve got a few irons in the fire but nothing we’re ready to pull the trigger on to let people know just yet. Writing is a big focus for us at the moment so we want to put as much dedicated time into that as we can.
Do you have any milestones you want to hit in the next 5 years?
There should always be things to shoot for, getting a single onto mainstream national radio is always a good aim but maybe to play more festivals like a Planet Rock one, even Download and take our first steps into Europe, or maybe even the States.
Do you have a dream tour lineup you’d want to be a part of?
Anything involving Chris Stapleton, Zakk Wylde, or someone like Alter Bridge would be nothing short of incredible, hit us up guys as we’re always ready!