The Black Queen (band)

History

In January 2013, Greg Puciato disclosed plans for a new project with Joshua Eustis in an interview with Revolver Magazine. A teaser video appeared on the band's official homepage under the name The Black Queen in 2015. The music video for "The Still Point of My Turning World", directed by Mitch Massie, was released in April 2015. On June 14, 2015, the band debuted the single "The End Where We Start" on BBC Radio 1 Rock Show; two days later, its music video, also directed by Mitch Massie, premiered on the Rolling Stone website.

The band then randomly selected fans who had entered a contest via their homepage, providing a shipping address and subscribing to the mailing list, and distributed 33 limited edition copies of a tape labeled Fever Daydream Cassette MMXV free of charge. This cassette contained one song on each side, each running 33 minutes long. On July 9, 2015, 233 limited edition copies of The End Where We Start were made available for purchase on 12" vinyl, sold only from the band's official website; the band did not promote this on social media, notifying only mailing list subscribers.

The music video for "Ice to Never (12" Extended Dance Mix)" was released on August 18, 2015, directed by Rob Sheridan. The following month, 233 limited edition 12" vinyl copies of "Ice to Never" were made available on the band's homepage, containing the album version, a shorter single version, and the extended version. The music video for "Ice to Never" was released in September 2015, again directed by Rob Sheridan, premiering on Noisey; it was shot on location in Los Angeles, largely in the skid row area near where the band resided during the album's creation.

The music video for "Maybe We Should" was released December 1, 2015, set around a club called Das Bunker in Los Angeles and filmed by Los Angeles-based fine artist Jesse Draxler and the band. Through their mailing list, the band announced concerts on January 29, 2016 in Los Angeles and February 5, 2016 in London.