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UNDERØATH ANNOUNCE SEPTEMBER CANADIAN HEADLINING TOUR
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As UNDERØATH cross the country on the Vans Warped Tour main stage, the storm of critical acclaim for the band continues to grow. After debuting at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart, sales of the band's explosive new album DEFINE THE GREAT LINE--on Seattle indie Tooth & Nail/Solid State--have surpassed 155,000 copies in just three weeks. The genre-defying UNDERØATH--who've delivered "'an insanely ambitious record full of shifts in tempo, groove and even time signature'" (Metal Edge, August 2006)--will launch a Canadian tour September 14 with Silverstein, and special guests Moneen and He Is Legend. Tickets will first be available via the tour's Internet pre-sale beginning July 18 via the following link: http://www.underoath.tickets.musictoday.com/Underoath/calendar.aspx. Stay tuned for more dates to be announced.
The fall trek will follow the band's successful run on the main stage of this summer's Vans Warped Tour. In her Los Angeles Times live show review, Lina Lecaro praised the band, noting:
"Underoath, which headlined the northern main stage in late afternoon, incited the most moshing and crowd-surfing, so much so that a phalanx of security guards stood just below the stage to carry sweaty and tattered daredevils safely backstage. Underoath has been pigeonholed as a Christian band for their between-song Jesus banter, but its religious views seemed irrelevant once the band's growling screamo-style tunes got revved up. The group showed the melodic chops to transcend both themes of the pulpit and the mayhem of the pit" (7/14/06).
In his three-out-of-four star CD review for USA Today, Brian Mansfield hailed, "'Spencer Chamberlain howls against jagged riffs and rhythms that shift so suddenly he sounds like he's walking an active fault line. In a genre where the screams and discordant guitars too often signify unfocused rage and despair, Underoath at least glimpses hope, its spirit broken but not destroyed, desolate but not doomed (July 11, 2006)." Meanwhile the Aquarian Weekly lauded UNDERØATH as "'the most dynamic musical force to come out of Florida in the past decade' (June 21, 2006)." Elsewhere, writer Paul Rogers remarked in his current Metal Edge feature, "'DEFINE THE GREAT LINE has a carefully chosen song-sequence and is designed to be listened to as a whole, rather than as a few singles and some filler or a grab bag of disconnected tunes (August 2006)."
A mind-blowing and cohesive album, DEFINE THE GREAT LINE--crafted with the help of Atlanta-based producer/drummer Matt Goldman and Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz--marks an artistically dark turn for the band, while remaining undeniably accessible.
UNDERØATH's surrealistic video for their first single "Writing On The Walls" is now a fan favorite airing on Fuse as well as MTV2.
Catch UNDERØATH--lead vocalist SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN, guitarist TIM MCTAGUE, bassist GRANT BRANDELL, drummer AARON GILLESPIE, keyboardist CHRISTOPHER DUDLEY and guitarist JAMES SMITH--on the road.
Date City Venue
Vans Warped Tour 2006
Tue 7/18 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium
Thu 7/20 Calgary, ALB Race City Speedway
Sat 7/22 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds
Sun 7/23 Denver, CO Invesco Field
Tue 7/25 St. Louis, MO UMB Bank Pavilion
Wed 7/26 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Thu 7/27 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion
Fri 7/28 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Sat 7/29 Detroit, MI Comerica Park
Sun 7/30 Chicago, IL Tweeter Center
Tue 8/1 Buffalo, NY Darien Lakes Fields
Wed 8/2 Fitchburg, MA Fitchburg Airport
Thu 8/3 Camden, NJ Tweeter Center @ the Waterfront
Fri 8/4 Scranton, PA Montage Mountain
Sat 8/5 New York, NY Nassau Coliseum
Sun 8/6 Old Bridge, NJ Englishtown Raceway
Tue 8/8 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Wed 8/9 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Lot
Thu 8/10 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion Lot
Fri 8/11 Cleveland, OH Tower City
Sat 8/12 Toronto, ONT Park Place
Sun 8/13 Montreal, QUE Park Jean Drapeau
Canadian headlining tour (more dates to be announced)
Thu 9/14 Vancouver, B.C. Croatian Cultural Center
Sat 9/16 Edmonton, Alberta Reds Entertainment Complex
Sun 9/17 Calgary, Alberta MacEwen Hall
Mon 9/18 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Prairieland Exhibition Trade
Tue 9/19 Winnipeg, Manitoba Ramada Theatre
Mon 9/25 London, Ontario Centennial Hall
Tue 9/26 Ottawa, Ontario Civic Center
Thu 9/28 Quebec City, Quebec L'Imperial Theater
Date: Jul 18, 2006
As Reported by: jason
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