Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Sylosis to tour with Lamb of God

UK based modern thrash heroes SYLOSIS will tour the United States with LAMB OF GOD, on their first tour since Randy Blythe’s release from Czech prison, this October - December. Joining them are Swedish titans IN FLAMES and deathcore pioneers HATEBREED.

Commented SYLOSIS in an official statement:
"We're extremely honored to be heading out with LAMB OF GOD this Fall on their North American tour. The package is huge with IN FLAMES, HATEBREED and HELLYEAH so to be opening up the show each night is going to be awesome. This is only our 2nd tour in America and we sincerely couldn't ask for better. This will also be the first tour in support of our coming album Monolith so we're looking forward to playing new tracks on this mammoth tour!"

LAMB OF GOD, IN FLAMES, HATEBREED, SYLOSIS
10/30/12  Comerica Theater - Phoenix, AZ
10/31/12  Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA
11/01/12  House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
11/03/12  Lonestar Pavilion - Lubbock, TX
11/04/12  Sunken Garden - San Antonio, TX
11/05/12  Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
11/07/12  Pageant - St. Louis, MO
11/08/12  Egyptian Room - Indianapolis, IN
11/09/12  Eagles Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
11/10/12  Myth - St. Paul, MN
11/12/12  Expo Five - Louisville, KY
11/14/12  Sherman Theater - Stroudsburg, PA
11/15/12  TBA
11/16/12  Roseland - New York, NY
11/17/12  Fillmore - Silver Spring, MD
11/19/12  House of Blues - Orlando, FL

LAMB OF GOD, IN FLAMES, HELLYEAH, SYLOSIS
11/20/12  Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
11/21/12  Fillmore - Charlotte, NC
11/23/12  Oakdale Theater - Wallingford, CT
11/24/12  Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
11/25/12  House of Blues - Boston, MA
11/26/12  Rapids Theater - Niagara Falls, NY
11/27/12  Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA
11/28/12  The National - Richmond, VA
11/30/12  Congress Ballroom - Chicago, IL
12/01/12  State Theater - Detroit, MI
12/02/12  LC Pavilion - Columbus, OH ç NO HELLYEAH
12/03/12  Orbit Room - Grand Rapids, MI
12/04/12  Val Air Ballroom - Des Moines, IA
12/06/12  Bayou Music Center - Houston, TX
12/07/12  Palladium Ballroom - Dallas, TX
12/08/12  Uptown Theater - Kansas City, MO
12/10/12  Fillmore - Denver, CO
12/11/12  McGhee Park - Farmington, NM
12/13/12  Warfield - San Francisco, CA
12/14/12  Medford Armory - Medford, OR
12/15/12  Knitting Factory - Spokane, WA
12/16/12  Showbox SODO - Seattle, WA

Monolith was recorded with Romesh Dodangoda in Wales at Monnow Valley Studio and mastered by Jens Bogren (SOILWORK, AMON AMARTH, BLOODBATH) at Fascination Street Studios. The artwork was created this time around by Dan Goldsworthy (ACCEPT, HELL).

Monolith will be unleashed on October 5th (Europe) and October 9th via Nuclear Blast Records.

Part 1 of their in-studio documentary chronicling the making of Monolith can be viewed here

Monolith Track List:
1. Out From Below
2. Fear The World
3. What Dwells Within
4. Behind The Sun
5. The River
6. Monolith
7. Paradox
8. A Dying Vine
9. All Is Not Well
10. 
Born Anew
11. Enshrined

Guitarist/vocalist Josh Middleton previously commented about the album:
"Monolith is the best representation of us as a band in terms of our diverse influences, and stylistically it's what we've always been aiming for. A mixture of thrash, big doomy riffs and dark atmospherics and ambience.” 

“The idea for the concept was very loosely inspired by the Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice,” continued Middleton. “It's quite far-fetched but it's about this guy who loses his wife and tries to bring her back from underworld. This giant monolith starts to grow out of her tomb. The most prevalent theme beneath it all is sort of accepting that you might not be as nice a person as you once thought. It sounds really cheesy but everyone has a darker side to their personality in terms of being selfish, manipulative or dishonest.”

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