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Friday, April 11th 2008
Adult Swim Presents Headlining Summer Tour for Metalocalypse’s Dethklok
This summer, Dethklok, the animated band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse,
hits the road on a 28-city headlining tour kicking off June 2 in Portland,
along with two of metal’s top acts, Chimaira and Soilent Green. Tickets to
the five-week Adult Swim Presents tour will go on sale to the general public
starting Friday, April 18 through Ticketmaster, but a special pre-sale offer
will be made available one week earlier to the most brutal Adult Swim fans.
On Sunday, April 13, Adult Swim fans tuning in to Metalocalypse during the
12:00 a.m. (ET/PT) showing will be given a pre-sale password allowing them
access to a customized Dethklok page on Ticketmaster’s website
(http://www.ticketmaster.com/dethklok). Immediately after receiving the
password, fans can purchase tickets, which range in price from $20 – $25.
The password will also be made available to fans on AdultSwim.com
(http://www.adultswim.com ) beginning Monday,
April 14.
This major tour starring the five band members from Adult Swim’s
Metalocalypse – Nathan Explosion, William Murderface, Skwisgaar Swigelf,
Toki Wartooth and Pickles – comes on the heels of an incredibly successful
fall for the band. In its first time touring, Dethklok opened for And You
Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead in a 12-city college tour that did not
disappoint. Released in conjunction with the tour was the band’s first
album, Dethklok: The Dethalbum¸ which debuted at #21 on the Billboard Top
200 during its first week of release, making it the highest charting death
metal album ever. More than 195,000 copies of Dethklok: The Dethalbum have
been sold to date, and more than 120,000 copies of the Metalocalypse: Season
1 DVD from Warner Home Video have been sold since its release in October
2007.
Touring with Dethklok this summer are two of metal’s most illustrious bands.
Chimaira is one of metal’s most hard working artists today. Hailing from
Cleveland, Ohio, the band has been demonstrating their ferocity onstage for
nearly 10 years. Revolver Magazine has stated that “Chimaira are part of an
endangered species – a real metal band who aren’t who playing the genre
because it’s trendy but because it’s what all the members have been doing in
one incantation or another for over half their lives.” Chimaira’s fourth LP,
Resurrection, is now available via Ferret Music. An infamous deathgrind and
sludge metal band from New Orleans, Soilent Green has seen its fair share of
adversity during its two-decade-old history. Touted as “one of the ten most
important hard and heavy bands” by Rolling Stone Magazine, the band’s latest
album, Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction will be released in
North America on April 15 by its new label, Metal Blade Records.
“I predict that this show will be, without a doubt, the best animated Death
Metal tour in recorded history,” said Brendon Small, creator and most metal
member of Dethklok.
Schedule for Adult Swim Presents Metalocalypse’s Dethklok with Chimaira and
Soilent Green is as follows:
Date
Venue
City, State
6/2/08
Roseland Theatre
Portland, OR
6/3/08
Showbox SODO
Seattle, WA
6/5/08
The Fillmore
San Francisco, CA
6/6/08
Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
6/7/08
House of Blues – Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
6/8/08
House of Blues – San Diego
San Diego, CA
6/10/08
Marquee Theatre
Tempe, AZ
6/11/08
Sunshine Theater
Albuquerque, NM
6/12/08
Gothic Theatre
Englewood, CO
6/14/08
First Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
6/15/08
Liberty Hall
Lawrence, KS
6/16/08
House of Blues – Chicago
Chicago, IL
6/17/08
Clutch Cargos
Pontiac, MI
6/19/08
House of Blues – Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
6/20/08
Kool Haus
Toronto, ONT
6/22/08
Town Ballroom
Buffalo, NY
6/24/08
The Palladium
Worcester, MA
6/25/08
Nokia Theater Times Square
New York, NY
6/26/08
Ram’s Head Live
Baltimore, MD
6/27/08
Theater of Living Arts
Philadelphia, PA
6/29/08
House of Blues – South Carolina
N. Myrtle Beach, SC
6/30/08
Hard Rock Live
Orlando, FL
7/1/08
Jannus Landing
St. Petersburg, FL
7/2/08
Tabernacle
Atlanta, GA
7/4/08
Meridian
Houston, TX
7/5/08
House of Blues – Texas
Dallas, TX
7/6/08
La Zona Rosa
Austin, TX
*Schedule is subject to change.Created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse
follows the on and off-stage adventures of Dethklok, the undisputed greatest
animated metal band in the galaxy with a true talent for creating the most
death-defying music ever. Unfortunately for Nathan Explosion, William
Murderface, Skwisgaar Swigelf, Toki Wartooth and Pickles, that’s about all
they can do, period. Put them in front of a sold-out crowd of dedicated
fans, and they’ll play so hard that the audience pukes their guts out, but
give them a carton of milk and they’ll wash their long, lovely locks with
it. New episodes from Metalocalypse’s second season will launch on Adult
Swim in May.
About Ticketmaster
As the world’s leading live entertainment ticketing and marketing company,
Ticketmaster connects the world to live entertainment. Ticketmaster operates
in 20 global markets, providing ticket sales, ticket resale services,
marketing and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, one of the largest
e-commerce sites on the Internet; approximately 6,700 retail outlets; and 24
worldwide call centers. Established in 1976, Ticketmaster serves more than
9,000 clients worldwide across multiple event categories, providing
exclusive ticketing services for leading arenas, stadiums, professional
sports franchises and leagues, college sports teams, performing arts venues,
museums, and theaters. In 2007, the company sold more than 142 million
tickets valued at over $8.3 billion on behalf of its clients. Ticketmaster
is headquartered in West Hollywood, California and is an operating business
of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).
About Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is Turner Broadcasting System,
Inc.’s network offering original and acquired animated comedy and action
series for young adults. Airing overnight 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through
Saturday and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday (ET, PT), Adult Swim shares channel
space with Cartoon Network, home to the best in original, classic and
acquired programming for children and families, and is seen in 91 million
U.S. homes.