An official announcement and more dates for MACHINE HEAD, CHILDREN OF BODOM, EPICA, BATTLE CROSS NORTH AMERICAN tour TBA.
MACHINE HEAD unleashed "KILLER AND KINGS" (SINGLE) 4/19/2014 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
CHILDREN OF BODOM unleashed "Halo Of Blood", 6/11/2013 (NORTH AMERICA), 6/6/2013 (EUROPE) via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
EPICA unleashed "The Quantum Enigma" 5/2/2014 (EUROPE), 5/5/2014 (UK) and 5/6/2014 (NORTH AMERICA) via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
BATTLE CROSS unleashed "War Of Will" 7/8/2013 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.
MACHINE HEAD ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN FALL TOUR:
FROM CHILDREN OF BODOM:
California!! Big News! We'll be playing Fox Theater - Oakland on Halloween this year! We'll be there with Machine Head, Epica & Battlecross. Tickets on sale at 10AM PST today! The rest of you be on the lookout for more tour news soon!
10/04 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
10/06 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
10/07 Houston, TX – House Of Blues
10/09 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
10/10 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
10/11 Silver Spring, MD – Fillmore
10/12 Philadelphia, PA – The Electric Factory
10/14 Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
10/15 Montreal, QC – Metropolis
10/16 New York, NY – Terminal5
10/17 Worcester, MA – Palladium
10/18 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
10/20 Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall
10/21 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
10/22 Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theater
10/24 Saskatoon, SK – O’Brian’s Event Centre
10/26 Edmonton, AB – Shaw Conference Centre
10/28 Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
10/29 Seattle, WA – Showbox Sodo
10/31 Oakland, CA – The Fox Theater
11/01 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
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Bay Area Metal Titans MACHINE HEAD continue their live domination of North America with the announcement of their 21-show U.S. and Canadian trek in support of their debut studio album for Nuclear Blast Entertainment, due out this fall.
With a devastating line up that features support from Finnish heavy metal powerhouse CHILDREN OF BODOM and Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA with American melodic death/thrash openers BATTLECROSS, the tour launches on October 4th in Denver, Colorado and includes five Canadian cities before closing out in Hollywood, California on November 1st.
MACHINE HEAD frontman & guitarist Robb Flynn checks in about the touring line-up and the upcoming shows:
Machine Head raised the bar with concert production for 2012 ‘s “Locust” tour, and now we plan to raise the bar again with our biggest US show yet, and the strongest line-up out there for 2014, PERIOD!! This is a MUST SEE event for any heavy metal fan in America! I am stoked that we were able to join up with our friends in Children Of Bodom, one of the premier power metal bands of our time, and our friends in Battlecross, who we toured with on Mayhem last year, and are going to bring the old-school thrash vibe. Epica’s symphonic metal will add a touch of much needed class to the drunken shenanigans that will surely take place on this raucous tour. Come out and be a part of history ladies and gentlemen!!
CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman & guitarist Alexi Laiho adds: “We’ve rolled with Machine Head quite a few times in the past. My best memories are kick azz shows, parties, camaraderie and vocal coaching from Robb Flynn way back in 2008, so I think we’ll have a good time tearing it up all over North America! Not a bad way to end the long and non stop tour cycle for “ Halo Of Blood ! “
“With this killer line-up, this tour is bound to be a great success,” states EPICA vocalist Simone Simons. “We will bring EPICA to a whole new level and I can't wait to play the new songs along with the old material overseas.” EPICA guitarist, songwriter, and founding member Mark Jansen shares: “MACHINE HEAD and CHILDREN OF BODOM are bands I listened to as teenager, so it's really amazing to be on this tour with EPICA."
BATTLECROSS guitarist Tony Asta contributes the following: “What an honor to be asked to join a tour in support of MACHINE HEAD's first album release on their new label! We’re really excited to reunite with Robb and the guys, as well as CHILDREN OF BODOM - both legendary bands and friends from last summer’s Mayhem Fest. And we’ll get to see what EPICA is all about. This is a tour with something for every metal head. We can’t wait to bring it brutal throughout the USA & Canada, banging heads and melting faces from coast-to-coast. See you in the pit!”
All tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 AM EST.
After their work at Jingletown Recording Studios in Oakland California, MACHINE HEAD are completing work on their eighth full-length studio album at Trident Studios in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Catch up on MACHINE HEAD’s time in the studio via the video blogs hosted on the band’s official YouTube channel:
MH Production Vlog #1 (demos): http://youtu.be/Hq74Yu-8fq0
MH Production Vlog #2 (drums): http://youtu.be/0SpQJRnOSOk
MH Production Vlog #3 (guitars): http://youtu.be/C3cSePmUAwA?list=UU5mX9jQdmMRzCLfOJmeyhsg
MH Production Vlog #4 (bass): http://youtu.be/Zql7AKMb6OI?list=UU5mX9jQdmMRzCLfOJmeyhsg http://youtu.be/oePrtEMmX9Y
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Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-