Heathen Fest bands and dates 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 KIVIMETSÄN DRUIDI, and Norwegian black n' rollers VREID.

ELUVEITIE (www.eluveitie.ch & www.myspace.com/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 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."

11/03/09 The Palladium – Worcester, MA
11/04/09 The Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA
11/05/09 Le National – Montreal, QC – CANADA
11/06/09 Gramercy Theater – New York, NY
11/07/09 Peabody's – Cleveland, OH
11/08/09 Blondie's – Detroit, MI
11/09/09 Station 4 – St. Paul, MN
11/10/09 Jaguar Club – Lemont, IL
11/12/09 Jaxx – Springfield, VA
11/13/09 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
11/14/09 TBA – Orlando, FL
11/16/09 Warehouse Music Venue – San Antonio, TX
11/17/09 Ridglea Theater – Ft. Worth, TX
11/18/09 Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
11/19/09 The Sets – Tempe, AZ
11/20/09 The Roxy – Hollywood, CA
11/21/09 The Jumping Turtle – San Marcos, CA
11/22/09 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA
11/23/09 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
11/24/09 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
11/25/09 Red Room – Vancouver, BC – CANADA


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Tags:  Heathen Fest, Alestorm, Belphegor, KIVIMETSÄN DRUIDI, Vreid

jason    August 25, 2009