{"id":1527,"date":"2012-01-03T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2012-05-04T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T05:32:29","slug":"onslaught-first-ever-north-american-tour-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2012\/01\/03\/onslaught-first-ever-north-american-tour-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"ONSLAUGHT: First Ever North American Tour Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/earsplitpr\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"onslaught2012tour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earsplitcompound.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/onslaught2012tour-e1325616929824.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After three decades of waiting, British thrash masters\u00a0<strong>ONSLAUGHT<\/strong>\u00a0will cross the Atlantic for their first ever tour of the continent in March and April.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 20-date trek gets underway in Seattle on March 19th and tramples its way across the continent ending in Brooklyn on April 7th. The band\u2019s exclusive set for the tour spans their full back catalog, including\u00a0<em>Power from Hell, The Force, In Search of Sanity, Killing Peace\u00a0<\/em>and their lauded 2011 release\u00a0<em>Sounds of Violence.<\/em>\u00a0<strong>ONSLAUGHT\u00a0<\/strong>will have direct support from all ex-Venom supergroup M-pire Of Evil for the entire tour, as well as Evil Dead on a slew of the West Coast dates.<\/p>\n<p>Stated founding\u00a0<strong>ONSLAUGHT<\/strong>\u00a0guitarist Nige Rockett on the upcoming invasion: \u201cGood Morning America\u2026 Here we are at very long last!\u00a0<strong>ONSLAUGHT<\/strong>\u00a0are super fucking stoked to announce our d\u00e9but tour of the mighty USofA and Canada. It\u2019s been one hell of a long time coming, but we are now finally bringing the Scream For Violence tour to North America for 20 shows in March and April 2012.Just as we did in Europe, the UK and South America, we\u2019ll be thrashing it up with a brutal 90-minute set featuring tracks off all five\u00a0<strong>ONSLAUGHT\u00a0<\/strong>studio albums. We can\u2019t fucking wait\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONSLAUGHT Scream For Violence North American Tour 2012:<\/strong><br \/>\n3\/19\/2012 Studio 7 \u2013 Seattle, WA<br \/>\n3\/20\/2012 Hawthorne Theatre \u2013 Portland, OR<br \/>\n3\/21\/2012 The Pound \u2013 Oakland, CA<br \/>\n3\/22\/2012 Echoplex \u2013 Los Angeles, CA<br \/>\n3\/23\/2012 Jumping Turtle \u2013 San Diego, CA<br \/>\n3\/24\/2012 910 Live \u2013 Tempe, AZ<br \/>\n3\/26\/2012 The Korova \u2013 San Antonio, TX<br \/>\n3\/27\/2012 *TBA \u2013 Laredo, TX<br \/>\n3\/29\/2012 Fubar \u2013 St. Louis, MO<br \/>\n3\/30\/2012 Reggie\u2019s \u2013 Chicago, IL<br \/>\n3\/31\/2012 House of Rock \u2013 Dayton, OH<br \/>\n4\/01\/2012 Blondies \u2013 Detroit, MI<br \/>\n4\/03\/2012 Wreck Room \u2013 Toronto, ON<br \/>\n4\/04\/2012 The Katacombs \u2013 Montreal, QC<br \/>\n4\/06\/2012 Montage Music Hall \u2013 Rochester, NY<br \/>\n4\/07\/2012 Saint Vitus Bar \u2013 Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONSLAUGHT<\/strong>\u2019s critically-acclaimed fifth studio album\u00a0<em>Sounds Of Violence<\/em>\u00a0was released in North America in February 2011 via AFM Records. Recorded and produced in the renowned Hansen-Studios (Destruction, Heathen, Mercenary), the blazing record boasts ten brand new original tracks, as well as a cover of Mot\u00f6rhead\u2019s classic \u201cBomber,\u201d featuring guest appearances by Phil Campbell (Mot\u00f6rhead) and Tom Angelripper (Sodom).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three decades of waiting, British thrash masters\u00a0ONSLAUGHT\u00a0will cross the Atlantic for their first ever tour of the continent in March and April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}