Tagged: tourdeforce

An extremely welcome surprise in 2011 was Reports From The Threshold Of Death, a throbbing, gauzy dream-rock record from Boston's Junius (read here). One shitty major magazine described Reports as the intersection of Neurosis and The Smiths, but a sharper listen reveals Deftones-sized hooks and melancholic majesty more akin to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and [...]

metallica on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free This past weekend Metallica got all sneaky and sent out a "Save the Date" for a big announcement happening today at 2pm EST / 11am PST. And here's the news, via their LiveStream (which started about 15 minutes late, featured a quick trailer announcing the fest, then cut to the [...]

Prepare to get stangry: we are about to announce the dates of a really sweet tour, and unless you live in or near a major city the chances are pretty high that it's not coming to your town! If the members of Cannibal Corpse, Exhumed, Abysmal Dawn and Arkaik could speak to you, I'm sure [...]

Last summer Poison toured with Mötley Crüe, and that seemed like pretty much the best glam metal nostalgia tour imaginable; now Rikki Rockett has announced via Facebook that this summer Poison will be touring with Def Leppard, which is, somehow, an even more sugary confection than the Crüe tour. Whether or not it will be as [...]

The Faceless have been confirmed for Summer Slaughter 2012. That's not shocking news, seeing as the band - like the fest's previously announced co-headliners, Cannibal Corpse and Between the Buried and Me - have been rumored to be participating in the tour for three weeks now. But it is still good news! Anyone who complains [...]

Converge are in the studio right now, and have just announced a two-week tour that will kick off on April 1. And in case you're retarded, that obviously means they're going to have completed their new album sometime in March. (Unless they're doing some Metallica-esque "Escape from the Studio" deal, but I find that unlikely.) [...]

The rumors are true: Cannibal Corpse and Between the Buried and Me will co-headline this year's edition of the Summer Slaughter festour. BTBAM and The Corpse obviously play very, very different forms of death metal, but they're both great. It's hard to imagine any metal fan who isn't a total fun-hating grump not being excited [...]

(click to view hi-res version) The Internet's been a-churnin' with buzz about the forthcoming U.S. tour featuring the prog-tastic lineup of Protest the Hero, Periphery, Jeff Loomis and The Safety Fire, but MetalSucks has been mum until now. Why? Because we were waiting on the all-important tour poster featuring our very own logo! Ain't it [...]

Obey the Brave, the new project featuring former Despised Icon vocalist Alex Erian and ex-Blind Witness guitarist Jon Campbell, have released their first music video, for a song called "Live and Learn," and I find that kinda silly, since we haven't even been able to stream one single entire song by the band anywhere yet. Maybe OtB [...]

Meshuggah recently revealed during an online chat that they'd be embarking on a North American tour with Baroness and Decapitated starting in May, and it turns out they were lying - the tour actually starts at the end of April. GOSH, MESHUGGAH, GET IT TOGETHER! I'm kidding, of course. This tour is gonna be awesome. [...]

Ulcerate's The Destroyers of All was one of the most deliciously heavy and crushingly beautiful releases of all of 2011, landing a spot in four different MS staffers' Best of 2011 lists plus a whole slew of mentions in the lists published by Ulcerate's contemporaries in other metal bands. Now we'll finally have a chance to [...]

At this point, is there really anything we need to tell you about the Mastodon/Opeth/Ghost tour other than "It's happening?" We know you're gonna go; you know you're gonna go; you're going. Dates are after the jump. You're welcome. (M) Indicates Mastodon closes the show (O) Indicates Opeth closes the show 04/04 - Portland, ME [...]

Have you had enough summer tour-related excitement for one day yet? No? Well, hot on the heels of this afternoon's official announcement that Slipknot, Slayer, Motorhead, Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, Whitechapel and two other bands no MS readers will care about will all be playing the 2012 Rockstar Mayhem Festival, Slipknot just posted some [...]

All Shall Perish have announced their next headlining tour, and my snarky headline aside, the line-up is actually not at all terrible. I'm not a huge fan of The Contortionist or Conducting from the Grave, but I certainly don't hate those bands, and it was nice of Carnifex to be volunteer to provide an intermission [...]

The rumor was that this year's edition of Mayhem Fest would feature Slipknot, Slayer, M otorhead, Anthrax, The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying and Whitechapel; yesterday, we got confirmation that Slipknot are indeed headlining the outing, and now all the other bands have been confirmed, too. In fact, the only band on the bill that WASN'T rumored to be in the line-up [...]

Kinda-but-not-really black metal band Alcest and yeah-pretty-much black metal band Deafheaven are teaming up for a tour, and I've thought about it for five seconds and decided that, yes, you should all go. Alcest are really fantastic live, and while I have yet to see Deafheaven in the flesh, but I did really enjoy last [...]

UPDATE, 4:29 p.m.: MSN/Terrorizer/Decibel scribe Adrien Begrand tells us via Twitter, "I can confirm the Meshuggah tour, I talked to Tomas [Haake, Meshuggah drummer] last night. It's happening in May." HOLY SHIT! Major props to Adrien for the info. Follow him on Twitter to thank him, okay? Briefly - Meshuggah just completed a live Q&A video session, [...]

Those mighty scum sucking space dogs in GWAR recently announced not only that they were doing a massive tribute concert for their fallen guitarist, Cory Smoot, but that they'd soon be embarking on a tour with Municipal Waste and Ghoul. Which is, like, the perfect line-up for a GWAR tour. 'Cause if you split GWAR's [...]

High fives all around, dudes and lady-dudes: the itinerary for The Decibel Magazine Tour, the ridiculously awesome trek that features Behemoth in their first U.S. appearances since Nergal laid leukemia to waste + the unfuckwithable support line-up of Watain, The Devil's Blood, and In Solitude, has been announced, and tickets are available now. These include special premium [...]

So remember last week, when King Diamond announced that he'd hired some new booking agents, and we were like, "Oh, that must mean he's gonna tour again soon?" Well, hey, guess what? That's EXACTLY what it meant! The King has announced two European festival dates - June 9 at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden, [...]