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VADER is in the States and brings fresh news from the frontier of their tour over the New Continent. For the upcoming weeks we’re gonna publish their tour blog from Back to the Black US tour 2013. Stay tuned! \m/

09.09.2013 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

We started with a short visit at a local Guitar Center first. Nice choice of equipment…. and great prices indeed. In USA only 😉 Just after that we are at the club and things started to flow according to an old pattern: load out, soundcheck then lunch. We got buy-out money today so I took a walk alone and found a nice Japanese restaurant round a corner. I met Toni and Aaron from Vital Remains over there. I spent my meal in a nice company. Toni was talking about how he met Peter for the first time on tour in USA in 1993. Ages ago! Then I came back to the El Corazon club to check out Sacrificial Slaughter and Vital on stage. No mercy there! Time for us. Our show went pretty smooth. We played “God id Dead” for encore – like the day before. Then we packed our stuff and went to a local supermarket, 7eleven. Together with Gator we decided to buy a galon of whisky…so we did. The whisky tasting with all guys from bands and crew started quite late… but full steam ahead! It’s a day-off tomorrow so we can chill out a bit 😉

The journey to Seattle was pretty short – 5 hours or something, which left us some time to make a much needed trip to a music store to replace the drum skins and guitar strings and so on. Some of the old drum skins will be signed by us and others will be signed by Vital Remains and will be available on the merch stands from the Denver show onwards so get them before they’re gone! We spent a long time in the venue putting on the new drum skins and tuning everything and then finally we were ready to soundcheck, again with Ray behind the desk who again did a great job. All that was left was to grab a bite to eat and start the show! The crowd was pretty small, as it was late on a Monday night but they were really energetic so the atmosphere in the venue was awesome anyway! Sadly, the show in Caldwell had to be cancelled due to the venue closing down so after the show, we packed down and piled onto the bus to start our long journey to Denver.

Read also the tour blog from Santa Ana and Oakland, HERE.

Read also the tour blog from Portland, HERE.

Sound check in Portland

Vital Remain on stage

It will be a nice evening…. 🙂

Done so far:

09/06/13 Yost Theatre – Santa Ana, CA
09/07/13 Oakland Metro – Oakland, CA
09/08/13 Alhambra Theatre – Portland, OR
09/09/13 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
09/10/13 The Venue – Caldwell, ID (cancelled due to the venue-closure)

Check out the remaining shows here below:

“Back To The Black 2013” U.S. tour dates are:

09/12/13 Marquis Theatre – Denver, CO
09/13/13 Aftershock – Kansas City, MO
09/14/13 Fubar – St. Louis, MO
09/15/13 Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
09/16/13 The Detroit Pub – Detroit, MI
09/17/13 The Paper Box – Brooklyn, NY
09/18/13 Mojo 13 – Wilmington, DE
09/19/13 Kings – Raleigh, NC
09/20/13 Oasis – Charleston, SC
09/21/13 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL
09/22/13 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
09/24/13 Chameleon Room – Oklahoma City, OK
09/25/13 Korova – – San Antonio, TX
09/26/13 The Boiler Room – Dallas, TX
09/27/13 Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
09/28/13 The Rock – Tucson, AZ
09/29/13 Whisky A Go Go – Hollywood, CA