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The Gauntlet: Opeth Metal News |
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Opeth Announces Headlining Tour
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Opeth, the Swedish metal titans who've been labeled as a "genre of one," will make their way back to American shores this fall for their first headline trek in support of the recently released Watershed. The tour will commence on September 16 in Buffalo and run for six weeks, with High on Fire serving as main support. Nachtmystium will open the first half of the tour, with Baroness taking over that slot on October 6. The tour makes for an evening of metal tailored for headbangers and tastemakers alike!
Opeth enjoyed the main support slot on the first ever Progressive Nation Tour last spring, opening for labelmates Dream Theater. The band spent the summer on the European tour circuit but is thrilled to be bring its always unique blend of death/folk/prog metal back to American audiences this fall. Meanwhile, Watershed has been lauded as one of the prolific and revered band's best efforts to date, celebrated in the pages of Billboard ("one of the most unique bands straddling the line between progressive music and metal"), The New York Times ("typically engrossing"), Blender ("more spacious and majestic than ever"), Metal Maniacs ("definitively Opeth'ian"), PopMatters ("a major turning point for the band"), and Pitchfork ("Watershed has friction and friction brings heat"), to name a select few.
Opeth are a metal institution, continuing to surprise and enthrall listeners and diehard fans with the musical breadth and dynamic scope of each album they release. Watershed is the band's ninth studio release and it finds them never compromising and boldly going where they've never gone before.
The tour dates are as follows:
Sept. 16 Town Ballroom Buffalo, NY
Sept. 17 The Trocadero Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 18 Nokia Theatre New York, NY
Sept. 19 The Palladium Worcester, MA
Sept. 20 Imperial Quebec City, QUE Canada
Sept. 21 Centennial Hall London, ONT Canada
Sept. 23 House of Blues Cleveland, OH
Sept. 24 House of Blues Chicago, IL
Sept. 25 The Orbit Room Grand Rapids, MI
Sept. 26 The Rave Milwaukee, WI
Sept. 27 Myth Maplewood, MN
Sept. 29 Garrick Center Winnipeg, MB Canada
Sept. 30 The Odeon Saskatoon, SAS Canada
Oct. 1 Edmonton Events Centre Edmonton, ALB Canada
Oct. 3 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC Canada
Oct. 4 Showbox Seattle, WA
Oct. 6 Regency Center @ The Grand Ballroom San Francisco, CA
Oct. 7 Wiltern Theatre Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 8 House of Blues Las Vegas, NV
Oct. 9 Marquee Theatre Tempe, AZ
Oct. 10 Sunshine Theatre Albuquerque, NM
Oct. 11 Odgen Theatre Denver, CO
Oct. 13 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
Oct. 14 The Beaumont Kansas City, MO
Oct. 15 House of Blues Dallas, TX
Oct. 16 The Monarch Austin, TX
Oct. 17 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
Oct. 18 House of Blues New Orleans, LA
Oct. 20 Revolution Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Oct. 21 House of Blues Lake Buena Vista, FL
Oct. 22 Center Stage Atlanta, GA
Oct. 23 Bogarts Cincinnati, OH
Oct. 24 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
Oct. 25 NorVa Norfolk, VA
Oct. 26 Rams Head Live Baltimore, MD
Date: Aug 07, 2008
As Reported by: jason
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bee - 2008-08-08 13:44:28
LIARS!! they said they would be comin back to sc. nc doesn't count!!!
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steiner666 - 2008-08-07 11:08:17
the band as a whole deserves all of the press dick-suckery that they have been receiving, Watershed isn't their best IMO, but it's got some kickass tracks
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Tony the tiger - 2008-08-07 09:55:56
Already got my tickets, I fucking love opeth, gonna be an awesome show
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