Canada’s progressive death metal juggernauts AUGURY have teamed up with Black Dahlia Murder to tour North America for the third time in support of their Nuclear Blast debut, Fragmentary Evidence. Also on the bill are Denmark’s Hatesphere and Obscura from Germany.
The 25-show trek launches in Atlanta, Georgia on February 24th and closes out in Detroit, Michigan on March 24th. Complete tour dates are as follows:
American prog/metal giant SHADOW GALLERY has announced that they will be performing live in concert on the 2010 Triton Power Cruise. This will be the first live performance for SHADOW GALLERY. The band recently released their sixth studio album Digital Ghosts to wide critical acclaim.
“We have waited a long time to bring the music of SHADOW GALLERY to the stage,” said Gary Wehrkamp, “There are many talented bands performing on the Triton Power Cruise and we are honored to be a part of this exciting event.” Fellow band mate Brendt Allman also commented, “This will be a fun event, a long time in the making.” Beth Mays of Triton Power Cruise said, “It is my sincerest honor to have SHADOW GALLERY give their first performance onboard the Triton Power Cruise.”
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Germany ’s OBSCURA will issue an official guitar tablature book for their breakthrough release Cosmogenesis this January. The 145-page book contains the full tablature for all rhythm and lead guitar tracks on the album, expanded album artwork, track by track commentary and an introduction from the band, as well as a digital download of Cosmogenesis which includes isolated rhythm guitar and solo tracks, and more. The Cosmogenesis tab book is set for a January 5th release date and is available for pre-order here.
Additionally, OBSCURA have announced their return visit to the United States with a month-long tour alongside THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER starting in late February. This tour will also include AUGURY and HATESPHERE. A listing of confirmed tour dates and cities can below.
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Since their beginnings in Venice, CA in the early ‘80s, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES have led the charge in the skate punk/thrash metal movement, consequently influencing an entire generation of bands along the way.
Fontana Distribution is proud to announce Live At The Olympic Auditorium, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES’ first ever DVD release! The DVD will street January 26, 2010 via the band’s own imprint, Suicidal Records. The approximately 80-minute DVD features 16 tracks including ST classics “Institutionalized,” “War Inside My Head,” and “Possessed To Skate” and captures SUICIDAL in their most natural environment: Onstage, uncensored and ready to tear you to shreds.
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On Friday, January 8th @ 8p.m. at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles, thrash metal fans will have the unique opportunity to attend an exclusive, advanced screening of footage from the first EXODUS DVD, Shovel Headed Tour Machine: Live At Wacken & Other Assorted Atrocities, a three-disc package of 2 DVDs plus a live audio CD scheduled for North American release on January 12, 2010. Special guests for the evening are the members of EXODUS.
Brendon Small of Dethklok/Metalocalypse, the evening’s host, shares his thoughts on the upcoming event: “It will be an honor to sit with one of the best thrash bands of all time and bother them with half baked questions and vagaries. But seriously, between now and this event, I hope to write and choreograph a belabored and embarrassing dance routine with [EXODUS singer] Rob Dukes. I am looking forward to it!!!”
EXODUS are currently in the studio recording The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit B. View their in-studio web streams at: http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/EXODUS
