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Friday, June 05, 2009
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INAUGURAL “PEDAL TO THE METAL TOUR” FEATURING MUDVAYNE AND BLACK LABEL SOCIETY TO LAUNCH THIS SUMMER
LOS ANGELES — This summer just got a whole lot hotter, harder, faster and louder.
THE
PEDAL TO THE METAL TOUR 2009, featuring MUDVAYNE and BLACK LABEL
SOCIETY, will kick off July 24 in Portland, ME, and conclude September
9, in Oklahoma City, OK (see complete itinerary below). Joining the two
metal juggernauts on the road will be STATIC-X, SUICIDE SILENCE, DOPE,
BURY YOUR DEAD, and the extremely twisted HELLZAPOPPIN sideshow review,
performing during set changes throughout the evening. Pre-sale tickets
are available to all of the bands’ fan club members beginning
Wednesday, June 10, at 12pm local time at www.pedaltothemetaltour.com (website will go live June 10), with general public on sale beginning Friday, June 12, at 10am local time.
“The
tour started as a summer tour with us and Black Label Society, but as
we started fleshing out ideas, it transformed into this really cool
concept,” says Mudvayne frontman Chad Gray. The final result is the
inaugural run of THE PEDAL TO THE METAL TOUR, a road ready and
battle-proven assemblage of hard rock and heavy metal bands guaranteed
to raise temperatures and melt asphalt over the summer months. “We’re
really excited, because this package is a merging of great bands, good
people and fucking amazing fans. It’ll be great to bring them all
together.”
“I was looking forward to a full throttle assault
with just Mudvayne this summer, but when Chad said ‘Let’s do more,’ I
was all-in.” declares Zakk Wylde, the iconic and self professed General
Patton of Black Label Society. Adding, “On behalf of JD, Craig, Nick,
the Doom Crew Inc. and myself, we can’t wait to see our Black Label
family and the entire Black Label nation once again, rollin’ through
hell and destroying everything in our path! Fire up the barbecues, fire
up the tunes, and get ready for the rest of your Pedal To The Metal
family to fire it up and let the engines roll… Game m-f-’n on!”
Says
Static-X frontman Wayne Static of the tour: “I’m very picky about who
we tour with. I think Static-X slaughter most bands live, and I pride
myself in our show – I refuse to open for a band that I don’t think is
worthy, so that says a lot about Mudvayne, Zakk Wylde, and this entire
package.”
THE PEDAL TO THE METAL TOUR is being booked
exclusively by TKO [The Kirby Organization], the agents for Mudvayne,
and is being promoted nationally by Frank Productions and Knitting
Factory Presents. The package will travel more than 12,000 miles of
highway across America this summer, stopping in nearly three dozen
cities over seven weeks.
PEDAL TO THE METAL TOUR 2009 ITINERARY:
JULY
24 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center June 12 on sale
25
Lowell, MA Tsongas Arena June 12 on sale
28 Reading, PA Sovereign
Center June 12 on sale
29 Youngstown, OH Chevrolet Center June 12 on sale
31 Big Flatts, NY Tags Summer Stage June 12 on sale
AUGUST
1
Albany, NY Altamont Fairgrounds TBA *Radio Show*
4 Fort Wayne, IN War Memorial Coliseum June 13 on sale
5
Battle Creek, MI Kellogg Arena June 12 on sale
7 Moline, IL I
Wireless Center June 13 on sale
8 Rockford, IL Rockford Metro Center June 12 on sale
9
Madison, WI Willow Island on sale now *Radio Show*
11 Topeka, KS
Landon Arena June 13 on sale
12 Mankato, MN Alltel Arena June 13 on
sale
14 Omaha, NE Westfair Amphitheater June 12 on sale *Radio Show*
15
Little Rock, AR NS River Water Park June 19 on sale *Radio Show*
16
Wichita, KS KS Coliseum Lot June 19 on sale *Radio Show*
18 Boise, ID Idaho Center Amphitheater June 12 on sale
19
Missoula, MT Ryan Creek Amphitheater June 12 on sale
21 Spokane, WA
Spokane Arena June 6 on sale *Radio Show*
22 Seattle, WA White River
Amphitheater TBA *Radio Show*
23 Portland, OR Washington County
Fairgrounds June 19 on sale *Radio Show*
25 Eugene, OR Cubhert Amphitheater June 19 on sale
26
Reno, NV Events Center June 13 on sale
28 San Jose, CA San Jose Civic Auditorium June 13 on sale
29
Bakersfield, CA Rabo Bank Arena June 13 on sale
SEPTEMBER
1 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena TBA
2
Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheater June 13 on sale
4 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheater June 12 on sale
5 San Antonio, TX Sunken Gardens June 12 on sale
6 Lubbock, TX Lonestar Amphitheater June 12 on sale
8
Dallas, TX TBA TBA
9 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheater June 13 on sale
*Radio shows may not include entire Pedal To The Metal lineup*
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
MUDVAYNE
Mudvayne
are one of the most creative and distinctive bands in the aggressive
music world, and one of the only acts in heavy music to hold the
distinction of seeing every one of their five studio albums attain at
least gold certification by the RIAA. Not bad for a band that never
cared about following trends or playing to the masses. Latest release
The New Game was released in November ’08, and is a lesson in
controlled chaos that tempers hard rock, heavy metal, prog rock and
sadistic splatters of pop into an onslaught of metallic highs and
emotional lows. Mudvayne have sold more than five million units
worldwide, and performed for more than one million fans on every
continent. They were nominated for “Best Metal Performance” at the 2005
Grammys, and also shared headlining status on that year’s Ozzfest,
performing immediately before Iron Maiden. The Pedal To The Metal Tour
marks the next step in Mudvayne’s live evolution.
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
In
the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a
New Jersey gas station to become his new guitarist, Zakk Wylde has
established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over.
He spawned his now legendary Black Label Society in 1994, and in the
fifteen years since has turned the outfit into a heavy metal
institution true to his vision of uncompromising, unfiltered and
unrestrained rock and roll. Inspired by guitarists including Frank
Marino, Robin Trower and Al DiMeola, as well as the vocal stylings of
Elton John, Gregg Allman and late Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie
VanZant, Wylde has won every guitar award imaginable and is a major
influence to the new wave of heavy metal guitarists. Wherever Zakk
Wylde’s Black Label Society travels, one thing is for certain:
brewtality is sure to follow.
STATIC-X
Since the release of
their Wisconsin Death Trip debut a decade ago, Static-X have sold more
than three million records worldwide. Their latest opus, Cult of
Static, was released in March and debuted in the Billboard Top 20,
marking their most impressive first-week showing since 2001. Known for
their high intensity fusion of metal mayhem and industrial fervor,
Static-X have one of the most allegiant fan bases in heavy music. “I
jokingly call it a cult, but our fans have that kind of loyalty,” says
frontman Wayne Static. “We’re one of the biggest underground bands
ever.”
SUICIDE SILENCE
The winners of the Best New Talent
award at the Revolver Golden God Awards in April, Suicide Silence have
emerged at the forefront of the new wave of American heavy metal, and
have sold more than 70,000 copies of their 2008 debut, The Cleansing.
Hailed as one of the “100 bands you need to know about” by Alternative
Press, their sophomore release No Time To Bleed will hit stores June
29, just in time for Pedal To The Metal 2009.
DOPE
Dope
aren’t the heaviest band on this summer’s Pedal To The Metal tour, but
they can stake a claim at being the most brutal: Their track “Die
Mother Fucker Die” was on a short list of songs used by the United
States government to aid in the interrogation of enemy combatants in
the war against Iraq. They’ve sold more than one million albums in
their decade-plus career, their latest release being last year’s No
Regrets.
BURY YOUR DEAD
Written and recorded in the wake of
an accident last September that flipped and rolled the Bury Your Dead
tour van, there was no shortage of inspiration for the bone-crunching
and chest-pounding canons that mark new release It’s Nothing Personal.
Armed with grinding music, spitfire lyrics and melodic interludes, the
album packs everything fans have come to expect from the New England
metal-core veterans – and, as always, a little bit more…
HELLZAPOPPIN
Hellzapoppin
bill themselves as “The Greatest Show In Hell,” delivering a burlesque
and macabre flavored take on Barnum’s more family-friendly
sideshow attractions. Featuring a penguin boy, fire eating, sword
swallowing and a self-professed torture king amongst their off-center
oddities, the Hellzapoppin sideshow review promises to keep fans eerily
entertained and darkly amused between sets on the Pedal To The Metal
Tour 2009.
TKO (The Kirby Organization)
With offices in Los
Angeles, New York and London, and a roster of more than 150 artists –
including Mudvayne, Buckcherry, The Cult, Motorhead, Hellyeah, Hank
III, Papa Roach, Drowning Pool and Anthrax – TKO is one of the
entertainment industry’s premier music booking agencies.
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