NOW There Will Be Blood: Watain Finally Join the Decibel Magazine Tour

After very regrettably missing the first four dates of the inaugural Decibel Magazine Tour due to visa delays, black metal miscreants Watain officially enter the fold at tonight's show in Lawrence, KS. We're all beyond thrilled to finally see the completion of this diabolical puzzlebox, and you should be too. Let's all go off to see the (black) wizards in Kansas and beyond.

Watain to Miss First Four Dates of the Decibel Magazine Tour Due To Visa Delays

 

Swedish black metal horde Watain have been forced to pull out of the first four shows of their previously announced Decibel Magazine Tour—scheduled to begin tomorrow (April 11) in Columbus, Ohio—due to delays in the visa process. They will join Behemoth, the Devil’s Blood and In Solitude as part of the tour on April 16 at Granada Theater in Lawrence, KS.

A message from Erik Danielsson of Watain:

“It’s not the first time the law stands in our way trying to prevent us from doing our work, and just like all the previous times it will lay broken and humiliated eventually. We are content we will be victorious, meanwhile we ask all our U.S. supporters to have patience and prepare themselves for the coming of Watain!”

The Decibel Magazine Tour in Columbus, OH moved to new location due to conflicting religious beliefs with venue owners

Agoura Hills, CA - April 3, 2012 - The highly anticipated inaugural Decibel Magazine tour kicks off in a mere eight days in Columbus, OH. It wasn't too late, however, for the venue owners to prohibit the bands from appearing at The Brewmaster's Gate. Behemoth, Watain, The Devil's Blood, and In Solitude are being forbidden from playing at the venue because of religious conflicts with the venue owners. These bands are no strangers to this type of treatment, and a new venue has already been confirmed. The Columbus, OH show will now be at Al Rosa. Tickets for this show are still available and can be purchased HERE.

Behemoth's front man, Nergal, comments further: "Wow, big motherfuckin' WOW! We are facing a legendary moment: Amerika, the land of the free, is banning Behemoth coz of religious beliefs. The madness starts in Ohio, but of korz we are playing anyway. Nothing can stop us now. God, please save me from this freedom…"

The inaugural Decibel Magazine Tour will feature not just the long-awaited stateside return of Polish blackened death metal overlords Behemoth, but support from Swedish black metal provocateurs Watain, Dutch prog mystics the Devil's Blood and Swedish old-school occultists In Solitude. The official tour video trailer can be seen on Metal Blade TV now HERE.

Beginning on April 11th and laying waste through a gargantuan 26-date run, the Decibel Magazine Tour (presented by Metal Blade Records, IndieMerchStore.com, FYE, ESP Guitars and Good Fight Entertainment) not only offers four diverse European artists hand-picked by the magazine, but doubles as Behemoth's first U.S. tour since vocalist/guitarist Adam "Nergal" Darski's well-documented battle with—and triumph over—leukemia.

Decibel Magazine Tour issue and
In Solitude Flexi Disc Available Now!

You knew this was coming. The Decibel Magazine Tour is among our proudest accomplishments in seven and a half years of publishing America's premier monthly metal magazine, so it was inevitable that we'd devote a cover to extolling the four diabolical participants: Behemoth, Watain, the Devil's Blood and In Solitude. Written by J. Bennett, whose Ides of Gemini are one of eight regional acts we hand-selected to open the nationwide black mass, the dB Tour story examines the sinews connecting the four European evildoers.  

If that's not enough tour fanfare, Chris Dick goes the extra mile to helpfully break down the regional openers, and subscribers will enjoy an exclusive In Solitude flexi, as the Swedes manhandle Samhain's classic "Mother of Mercy." Punch your one-way ticket to hell, then check out our overdue Hall of Fame on Megadeth's Rust in Peace, the latest on the new Baroness opus, and pieces on Meshuggah, Overkill, Corrosion of Conformity and 3 Inches of Blood, all in the May issue. Domestic subscribers can expect the issue in their mailboxes in the next two weeks. 

Horrendous added to open Charlotte date of the Decibel Magazine Tour

OK, Behemoth have the authoritative death-black hybrid thing perfected. Watain has done -- via literal death garb and all sorts of illicit/disgusting ingestion stuff -- for black metal what the Norwegians wanted to do. The Devil's Blood has the whole occult folk-rock-doom triangle on lock, which corresponds somewhat nicely to Watain's own occult aspirations/bloodlust. And In Solitude -- also with leanings into the occult, magic, and ritual masks -- have to be the purest heavy metal group to come out of Sweden since Silver Mountain shook a headful of brains back in '83.

So, we here at the dBHQ are (dis)pleased as rotten cheesesteaks that multi-state throwback death metal outfit Horrendous will open the Charlotte date of the Decibel Magazine Tour. Having lost our heads (quite like Helga) to Horrendous' debut album The Chills (Dark Descent), it made absolute sense to feature a no-nonsense, gore-prone death metal act like Horrendous as part--if only for one date--of the traveling metal bazaar that is the Decibel Magazine Tour.

"Traditional, classic death metal," states Horrendous guitarist/vocalist Damian Herring assertively. "Thrashing, ripping, yet melodic and churning with the weight of a thousand corpses. As a band, we're delighted to have the opportunity to unleash this hellish mayhem upon the crowd in Charlotte for one night of this Decibel tour. Despite Horrendous being pretty unknown in the grand scheme of the underground metal scene, Decibel recognizes the spirit and passion of our death metal, and we're grateful. None of the bands on the tour (including us) play the same style, so it should be an excellent, varied night of metal."

Horrendous will exclusively play with maggots and stinky coffin goo while jamming some seriously righteous old-school death at Amos Southend: May 4 - Charlotte, NC - BUY TICKETS  

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