Eluveitie to headline Heathenfest USA
After the unfortunate cancellation of our slot on the last run of Paganfest USA we told you we'd be back to make up for it, so here you go - starting in Worcester, MA on the 3rd of November we will headline the "Heathenfest America" Tour, presenting both metal and acoustic songs on 21 shows in North America & Canada.
Check out the dates below and visit & add www.myspace.com/heathenfestusa where you will also be given the opportunity to pre-order your tickets within the next few days. Other bands on the billing are Belphegor, Alestorm, Vreid & Kivimetsän Druidi.
Check out the dates below & we hope to see you at (at least) one of the shows!
HEATHENFEST US & CANADIAN DATES:
Nov 3 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Nov 4 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Nov 5 Montreal, QC @ Le National
Nov 6 New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theater
Nov 7 Cleveland, OH @ Peabodys
Nov 8 Detroit, MI @ Blondie's
Nov 9 St Paul, MN @ Station 4
Nov 10 Chicago, IL @ Jaguar Club
Nov 12 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Nov 13 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Nov 14 Orlando, FL @ TBA
Nov 16 San Antonio, TX @ Warehouse Music Venue
Nov 17 Ft Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater
Nov 18 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Nov 19 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
Nov 20 Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theater
Nov 21 San Marcos, CA @ The Jumping Turtle
Nov 22 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
Nov 23 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
Nov 24 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
Nov 25 Vancouver, BC @ Red Room
More infos & updates will follow on a regular basis from now on, so stay tuned.
HEATHENFEST: TOUR DATES AND LINEUP ANNOUNCED!
Heathen sects from across Europe will be converging on North
America for the first annual Heathenfest tour! Switzerland's ELUVEITIE, the worlds heaviest Celtic
tinged folk-metal band in existence, will be headlining the event with direct
support coming from label mates BELPHEGOR, Austria's most feared
S&M loving blasphemers. Support will come from Scotland’s own Pirate metal
sensations ALESTORM, Finland’s female fronted folk-metal troupe KIVIMETSAN
DRUIDI, and Norwegian black n’ rollers VREID.
ELUVEITIE mastermind Chrigel Glanzmann
commented:
"After our last planned US tour appearance was
cancelled we were just as disappointed as our fans were. We promised to
immediately start looking for a worthy replacement tour and so here it is! To
us, it already seems far too long since we toured the US and Canada. We
definitely haven't forgotten the warm welcome we received there! So we're more
than happy and enthused to ‘set sail’ westwards once again!
All the more
we have some excellent bands joining us, which we've had the pleasure to share
the stage with before in Europe! And not at least we're eager as hell to cudgel
the American metalheads with some brand new songs! I'm sure this tour will kick
ass, devastate and definitely be a flagrantly HEATHEN feast!
We will of
course play songs from our latest acoustic release Evocation I - The
Arcane Dominion but we'll also play some songs from our upcoming
album which is fully metal again. This tour will be the first time ever that
we'll play those brand new songs live! Next week we'll enter the studio to start
recording the new album, which should come out in early 2010."
BELPHEGOR comments:
"Ave! Yes it's the first time, after five amazing
North American, tours that BELPHEGOR gets to come to the States
and play a full set and not have three drumsets on stage (laughs). So be
prepared and expect more machine gun hellfire and aggressive stage action! We
look forward to seeing all you death - legions again as we promote the release
of our new album Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn.
Hail
Chaos - Hail Sathan!”
ALESTORM exclaims:
"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
KIVIMETSAN DRUIDI adds:
"We are really looking forward playing
killer gigs on Heathenfest tour - our very first time in North America - with
these awesome bands. We know there will be lots of our fans, but also people to
whom we are still practically unknown. The response at our two European tours
has been great and we have really enjoyed playing there. Last year we had just
released our debut album Shadowheart when we toured with our friends
KORPIKLAANI, BATTLELORE, and FALCHION on Finnish Fire Tour through European
metropolis and the audience made us feel very welcome. Now, we are prepared to
give our fans some serious party time, extreme folk metal songs and joyful
shows. So come to see us alive on Heathenfest tour and join the
party!"
VREID comments:
"After a great first half of 2009 with 2 European
tours and loads of summer festivals, such as the massive Wacken open air, we are
now setting sails and are heading west. Our last album Milorg has gotten a
fantastic response in Europe, and we are therefore very excited to spread our
album to new territories this autumn. On October the 26th Milorg will receive a
North America release through Indie Recordings / The End Records. The release
will immediatly be supported by our first full North American tour. We will do
a 4 week tour with the bands ELUVEITIE, BELPHEGOR, ALESTORM, & KIVIMETSÄN
DRUIDI. This tour is arranged by Rock the Nation and is entitled Heathenfest.
Heathenfest will take VREID to most of big cities in US & Canada and we
can’t wait to enter your shores. See ya all soon!"
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