This spring, Death Metal fans will be treated to an epic night of music on the ‘Cancel Culture Over North America 2024’ tour. Death metal paragons Decapitated and Symphonic death metallers Septicflesh are heading on a 30-day co-billing trek with melodic death metal syndicate and labelmates, Kataklysm as direct support. The tour will commence on April 16th in Santa Ana and will make stops in Atlanta, Toronto, and Minneapolis before concluding in Los Angeles on May 19th. Joining the bands as openers are technical melodic death metal band Allegaeon. General admission tickets for the tour will go on sale on Monday, January, 29th at 7 AM PST | 10 AM EST at the links below.
Confirmed dates for Decapitated and Septicflesh co-billing ‘Cancer Culture Over North America 2024’ tour with direct support Kataklysm as well as Allegaeon are:
04/16 U.S. Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
04/17 U.S. Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater
04/18 U.S. Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
04/19 U.S. Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
04/20 U.S. Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
04/21 U.S. Austin, TX – Come and Take it Live
04/23 U.S. Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
04/24 U.S. Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Hell)
04/25 U.S. Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
04/26 U.S. Wilmington, DE – The Queen
04/27 U.S. Hartford, CT – The Webster
04/28 U.S. Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
04/29 U.S. Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
05/01 CAN Quebec City, QC – Imperial Bell
05/02 CAN Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theater
05/03 CAN Toronto, ON – The Phoenix
05/04 U.S. Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground
05/05 U.S. Fort Wayne, IN – Piere’s Entertainment Center
05/06 U.S. Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
05/07 U.S. Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
05/08 U.S. Joliet, IL – The Forge
05/10 U.S. Minneapolis, MN – Green Room
05/11 CAN Winnipeg, MB – Park Theater
05/12 CAN Saskatoon, SK – Louis (USSU)
05/13 CAN Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room
05/14 CAN Calgary, AB – The Back Alley
05/16 CAN Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
05/17 U.S. Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
05/18 CAN San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
05/19 U.S. Los Angeles, CA – 1720
About Decapitated:
Across eight studio albums, Decapitated grew from the adolescent dream of teenagers from a small Central European town to one of the leaders of the metal genre. Each successive album further expands the band’s sound with genre-bending authenticity and integrity. As Metal Injection rightfully observed, “any self-respecting death metalhead knows the name well.” Like a rose in the devil’s garden, the Decapitated story builds triumph from tragedy. The gleeful grotesquery of extreme metal imagery and riff-tastic bludgeoning beckons listeners to uncover broader truths.
Their latest studio album Cancer Culture was released in 2022, with instantly recognisable devastation and deceptively sinister hooks abound. Newly minted Decapitated anthems like ‘Last Supper’, ‘Hello Death’, ‘Just A Cigarette’, ‘No Cure’, ‘Iconoclast’, and ‘Cancer Culture’ shimmer with sonically sharp production and unrelenting bombast. There’s also a newly increased emphasis on melody, even venturing into darkly romantic territory. Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka (guitar), Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski (vocals), Paweł Pasek (bass), and James Stewart (drums) are at the top of their game, delivering the goods at peak performance. Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk and Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn make impressive guest appearances. Flynn contributes a hauntingly beautiful vocal to the Cancer Culture track ‘Iconoclast’, with Shmayluk, a formidable screamer, going the clean vocal route on track ‘Hello Death.
Decapitated are:
Waclaw ‘Vogg’ Kieltyka – guitars
Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski – vocals
James Stewart – drums
Paweł Pasek – bass (live)
More information:
www.decapitatedband.net
www.facebook.com/decapitated
www.instagram.com/decapitatedband
www.twitter.com/decapitated
About Septicflesh:
Septicflesh was formed as ‘Septic Flesh’ in Greece in the early ’90s by Spyridon Antoniou (a.k.a. Seth Siro Anton): vocals/bass, Christos Antoniou: guitar and Sotirios Vagenas (a.k.a. Sotiris Anunnaki V.): guitar/ clean vocals. A debut EP was released in 1991, entitled Temple of The Lost Race. Their first full-length album Mystic Places of Dawn was released in 1994, followed by EΣΟΠΤΡΟΝ that was released in 1995. With the release of Ophidian Wheel in 1997, a female soprano vocalist (Natalie Rassoulis) was introduced, as the band moved towards a more symphonic style. A Fallen Temple (1998) continued in the same musical direction. In 1999, Revolution DNA was released, followed by Sumerian Daemons in 2003, both albums produced by Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Opeth, In Flames). Although the band’s popularity was growing, the band members decided to disband, in order to focus on other personal projects and goals. But that was not the end of the story… After a reunion, the band returned with the album Communion in 2008, again with Fredrik Nordström at the helm of production. From that point onwards, the symphonic element (composed by Christos Antoniou, who has a Master’s Degree in Concert Music) was fully implemented in the structure of the songs, with the collaboration of Filmharmonic Orchestra of Prague. The Great Mass (2011) followed with Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) producing, Titan (2014) with Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head) as producer and Codex Omega (2017) which started the group’s collaboration with Jens Bogren that continues to the very day. In 2020, the recording of the epic and fully orchestrated Live in Mexico entitled Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX was released on CD/LP/DVD/Blu-Ray.
Septicflesh is:
Seth Siro Anton | Vocals, Bass
Christos Antoniou | Guitar, Orchestra
Sotiris Anunnaki V | Clean Vocals, Guitar, 12 String Guitar
Psychon | Guitar
Kerim ‘Krimh’ Lechner | Drums
More information:
https://www.septicflesh.com/
https://www.facebook.com/septicfleshband
https://www.instagram.com/septicflesh_band/
https://twitter.com/septicfleshband
About Kataklysm
For almost three decades, Kataklysm has delivered unapologetic waves of powerful sound across the entire globe.
The band’s fifteenth full-length studio album, Goliath, was released last August. The record was recorded at JFD Studios in Dallas, TX and Studio City, CA as well as The Cabin in Orlando, FL by J-F Dagenais, who also produced and engineered the album. For the mixing and mastering, the band returned to Chris Clancy with assistance from Colin Richardson. The cover artwork required an image that captured the iconic battle of David versus Goliath theme that is echoed throughout the album while matching the power of the music. The band enlisted renowned Berlin metal illustrator Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE) to create the artwork which took the Kataklysm look and gave it a macabre filter that compliments the brooding sense of uneasiness that was felt during the writing and recording of the album.
Kataklysm is:
Maurizio Iacono | Vocals
Jean-François Dagenais | Guitar
Stephane Barbe | Bass
James Payne | Drums
More information:
www.facebook.com/kataklysm
twitter.com/kataklysmband
www.instagram.com/kataklysmband
www.youtube.com/kataklysm
www.kataklysm.ca