YAKUZA adds live dates with The Number 12 Looks Like You

By jason • May 18, 2006

Prog-minded metallers YAKUZA have added more dates to the band's touring schedule to support its new album, SAMSARA. This time, the band will hit the road with The Number 12 Looks Like You, HeavyHeavyLowLow, and The Jonbenet. Fresh off its recent appearance at the 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, YAKUZA is just a week out from again hitting road for the "Decibel Presents Dysrhythmia, and Behold'The Arctopus" tour, continuing the band's virtually non-stop touring campaign in support of the new record.

With praise from metal and indie press alike, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles has proclaimed that YAKUZA's "foaming at the mouth musical delivery is complemented by some of the raddest and most cohesively efficient song structures out there." Meanwhile, Kerrang has labeled SAMSARA "a stupefying collision of lumbering, fuzzed-up riffs, prog-jazz oddness and warped psychedelia, played with enough shamanistic force to make the sky collapse itself." Recorded with producer/engineer Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Isis) in the band's hometown of Chicago, SAMSARA features guest appearances from pianist Jim Baker, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sanford Parker, and Mastodon's Troy Sanders.

YAKUZA on tour

5/24 Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks

(Decibel Presents Dysrhythmia, Yakuza, and Behold'The Arctopus)

5/25 Philadelphia, PA - The Khyber

5/26 New York, NY - Knitting Factory

5/27 Boston, MA - O'Brien's

5/28 New Haven, CT - Bar

5/29 Fredericksburg, VA - The Bourbon Room

5/30 Charlotte, NC - The Milestone

5/31 Charleston, SC - Cumberland's

6/01 Myrtle Beach, SC - The Social

6/02 Athens, GA - Tasty World

6/03 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone

6/04 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack's

6/05 Beaumont, TX - Vortex

6/06 San Antonio, TX - The Sanctuary

6/07 Austin, TX - Emo's

6/08 Dallas, TX - Darkside Lounge

6/09 Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad

6/10 Phoenix, AZ - The Tribe House

6/11 Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory Alterknit Lounge

6/12 San Francisco, CA - Elbo Room

6/13 Portland, OR - Rock N Roll Pizza

6/14 Seattle, WA - El Corazon

6/15 Boise, ID - Grove Street

6/16 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Vegas

6/17 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge

6/18 Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge

6/19 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

6/20 Dubuque, IA - Busted Lift

6/21 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon

6/22 Milwaukee, WI - Vnuk's

6/23 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen

(with The Number 12 Looks Like You, HeavyHeavyLowLow, and The Jonbenet)

6/30 Buffalo, NY - The Buffalo Icon

7/01 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop

7/02 Detroit, MI - Alvin's

7/05 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl

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