The mighty Saxon announced a North American tour a short while ago on their facebook page. Here’s what they had to say: “We’re really glad to anounce a new tour of North America and Canada with the Sacrifice world tour! The album has done fantastic around the world! We can’t wait hit your shores with the Saxon invasion with very special guest Fozzy. It should be a fantastic tour for all metal heads.”
Following a successful spring run supporting Clutch and an upcoming tour of Europe and the U.K, The Sword announce today a 25 date U.S. and Canadian tour July 25th to August 23rd. The tour will be the first to visit Canada in support of the band’s fourth album Apocryphon. Support acts for all dates will be Castle and American Sharks. Dates for the tour are: Continue reading “The Sword Announces Summer Tour, Launches Iron Swan Beer”
Poland’s blackened death metal outfit BEHEMOTH have been forced to cancel their upcoming appearance on theRockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival due to their drummer Inferno taking ill and requiring surgery. Continue reading “Behemoth Forced To Cancel Mayhem Fest Appearance”
Maryland rockers clutch are off to Europe this week for a five week tour that includes festival dates and club shows. CLUTCH have announced the next North American legs of the “Earth Rocker” World Tour. The tour starts in Edmonton Alberta for the Alberta’s Own Festival. The US run of dates kicks off September 14th in Baltimore, MD with an appearance at “The Shindig Festival”. Support on the headline tour in September will come from The Sword and Crobot. Support on the October and November shows will be provided by The Sword and American Sharks. Tickets for fan club members go on sale Wednesday June 5th and for the general public on Friday June 7th and Saturday June 8th. Go to pro-rock.com for fan club early ticketing. Continue reading “Clutch Announces New North American Tour Dates”
After several sold-out shows last year on their inaugural North American co-headlining tour with ELUVEITIE, Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN will return to North American shores once again for a headlining tour this August/September. Joining them are Italian symphonic death metal champions FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, melodic tech-death kings ARSIS and up-and-comers STARKILL. Continue reading “Wintersun: North American Headline Tour Announced”
Ohio’s most-loved metal group SKELETONWITCH have revealed that their upcoming album, recorded this spring at GodCity Studio with Kurt Ballou (Converge, Kvelertak, High on Fire), will be titled “Serpents Unleashed.” The follow-up to their Billboard-charting 2011 release “Forever Abomination,” which earned them a cover feature in Decibel Magazine and recognition on several of the year’s “best of” lists, “Serpents Unleashed” is will be released by Prosthetic Records this fall. More information about the album will be revealed in the coming weeks. Continue reading “Skeletonwitch Announce New Album Title”