Fond of sardined stages, marquee-crowding lineups, and embellished emotionality? How’s this for excitement: O’Death and Rock Plaza Central, tired of respectively affixing that "gothic" tag right in front of country and folk from a distance, have gotten together to gloom up your early fall with a joint headlining tour through September.

The New York-based O’Death– still not following their own advice after the recent reissue of 2005’s Head Home– and the caterwauling Canadians of Rock Plaza Central– still regaling y’all with last year’s equine saga Are We Not Horses?– would like very much to leave you gutted. And so they shall.

Each band has a couple dates besides, including O’Death’s pop-in at Chicago’s noteworthy Hideout Block Party.

Rock Plaza Central/O’Death:

09-05 Washington, DC - Black Cat
09-06 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
09-07 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club Void Room
09-09 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
09-12 Seattle, WA - Neumos
09-13 Portland, OR - Dante’s
09-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Pat’s Pub
09-19 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
09-20 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
09-22 Claremont, CA - Pomona College
09-26 Austin, TX - The Mohawk

Rock Plaza Central:

08-30 Guelph, Ontario - E-Bar
09-08 Chicago, IL - Schubas

O’Death:

08-16 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs
08-29 New York, NY - Spiegeltent *
09-08 Chicago, IL - Hideout Block Party ^
09-08 Chicago, IL - Open End Gallery &

* with Death Vessel
^ with Bloc Party, Art Brut, Andrew Bird, the Frames
& with Dan Deacon