Organizers of next year’s sold out Wacken Open Air Festival – which will take place August 1st – 3rd in Wacken, Germany – have launched their annual X-Mas Calendar 2012 which will announce one new band daily until December 24th. Today’s (December 2nd) band is DEVILDRIVER.
Wacken Open Air Festival 2013 band confirmations: AMORPHIS, ANTHRAX, ARCH ENEMY, ASP, CANDLEMASS, DEEP PURPLE, DEVILDRIVER, DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER, DIE KASSIERER, DORO, ESKIMO CALLBOY, HAGGARD, HATE SQUAD, SCOTT IAN, IHSAHN, LEPROUS, LINGUA MORTIS Featuring RAGE, NIGHTWISH, RAMMSTEIN, SABATON, SOILWORK, SONATA ARCTICA, SUBWAY TO SALLY, BOB WAYNE.
DEVILDRIVER and COAL CHAMBER frontman Dez Fafara has recorded a benefit song for his sister Kerri, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Entitled “Dark Meadowlark”, the track was produced by Greg Weiss (DEVILDRIVER) and is currently being mixed by Logan Mader (SOULFLY, GOJIRA, DEVILDRIVER). “[It] sounds badass,” says Dez.
Even with insurance, Kerri‘s family can’t cover the costs of her surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for the upcoming year. “We have two daughters still at home, we’ve relocated from Boise to Irvine (really close to UCLA/UCI treatment center — what good fortune!), but the cost of two years of what’s called ‘out of pocket maximum costs’ are definitely a burden,” she says.
To help Kerri with the costs associated with her breast cancer treatment and follow-up care, you can make a donation via the online fundraising web site Microgiving at this location.
Just back home from a 5-week European tour in support of their new album Torture and on the jump again for another five weeks of touring through North America, CANNIBAL CORPSE have now confirmed their return to Europe for February 2013!
CANNIBAL CORPSE will be co-headlining with DEVILDRIVER with CANNIBAL CORPSE finishing all mainland European shows while DEVILDRIVER will finish the UK dates. Support acts will be announced shortly.
CANNIBAL CORPSE + DEVILDRIVER + t.b.a.
09/02/13 ˆ FI ˆ Oulu ˆ Teatrie Oulu
10/02/13 ˆ FI ˆ Tampere ˆ Pakkahuone
11/02/13 ˆ FI ˆ Helsinki ˆ Nosturi
13/02/13 ˆ SE ˆ Stockholm ˆ Göta Källare
14/02/13 ˆ SE ˆ Gothenburg ˆ Brewhouse
15/02/13 ˆ DK ˆ Copenhagen ˆ Amager bio
16/02/13 ˆ DK ˆ Aarhus ˆ Train
17/02/13 ˆ DE ˆ Hamburg ˆ Grünspan
19/02/13 ˆ NL ˆ Tilburg ˆ 013
20/02/13 ˆ DE ˆ Köln ˆ Essigfabrik
21/02/13 ˆ DE ˆ Karlsruhe ˆ Substage
22/02/13 ˆ DE ˆ Geiselwind ˆ Music Hall
23/02/13 ˆ BE ˆ Antwerp ˆ Trix
24/02/13 ˆ FR ˆ Paris ˆ Le Bataclan
26/02/13 ˆ IT ˆ Milan ˆ Alcatraz
27/02/13 ˆ CH ˆ Lausanne ˆ Les Docks
28/02/13 ˆ CH ˆ Zurich ˆ Komplex 457
01/03/13 ˆ DE ˆ Chemnitz – Südbahnhof
02/03/13 ˆ CZ ˆ Ostrava ˆ Garage Club
03/03/13 ˆ DE ˆ Berlin ˆ Columbia Club
05/03/13 ˆ DE ˆ München ˆ Backstage
06/03/13 ˆ DE ˆ Saarbrücken ˆ Garage
07/03/13 ˆ UK ˆ London ˆ The Forum
08/03/13 ˆ UK ˆ Nottingham ˆ Rock City
09/03/13 ˆ UK ˆ Manchester ˆ HMV Ritz
10/03/13 ˆ UK ˆ Glasgow – ABC
The latest studio album from American death metal icons, CANNIBAL CORPSE sold approximately 9,594 copies in the United States in its first week landing the band at #38 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, making it the highest debut inCANNIBAL CORPSE history! Torture landed at #7 on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart, #4 on the Billboard Top Hard Music Albums chart and #32 Billboard Top Current Albums Chart.
In Canada, Torture ranked in at #29 on the Top 200 Current chart, #2 on the Hard Music chart and #90 on the Digital Album chart.
The record also slayed all in its path overseas, entering the German and Austrian Top 100 charts at #40, the German MSH charts (Media Markt and Saturn stores) at #33, Switzerland’s Top 100 chart at #72, Sweden’s Top 100 chart at #37, and Denmark’s Top 100 chart at #84. The album also entered the national album charts in Finland at # 35 and the independent record store charts at # 7.
Torture sold 1,215 units in its first week in the UK and ranked an astounding #5 on the UK Metal chart, #18 on the UK Indie chart and #126 on the UK Top 200 chart. Torture pummeled Benelux and France as well entering their Top 200 charts at #157 and #129 respectively.
Produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan, Torture continues to reap critical accolades from critics and fans around the globe and is yet another testament to CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s permanent allegiance to shrewdly arranged, pile-driving death metal madness.
CANNIBAL CORPSE:
Alex Webster – Bass
Paul Mazurkiewicz – Drums
Rob Barrett – Guitar
Patrick O’Brien – Guitar
George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher ˆ Vocals
CANNIBAL CORPSE, are pleased to unveil the official new video for Encased In Concrete. The video was directed by David Brodsky of MyGoodEye (Black Dahlia Murder, Goatwhore, Municipal Waste, Suffocation etc.) and is available below.
DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara has announced plans to record a benefit song for his sister Kerri, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. He writes on Twitter, “[I’m] not gonna sit and do nothing while my sister faces down cancer… [I’m going to] record a song and put it on iTunes to help her kids.” He later added in another tweet, “Within three hours, I’ve got a pro producer, a pro mixer and a handful of musicians willing to contribute to my sister’s song!”
As previously reported, DEVILDRIVER bassist Aaron “Bubble” Patrick has been sitting out the band’s recent tour dates after being diagnosed with Streptococcus pneumonia, an inflammation and swelling of the lung, caused by an infection with the bacteria. Filling in for Patrick has been his former BURY YOUR DEAD bandmate Chris Towning.
The Finns are in for an extra-special metal treat as CANNIBAL CORPSE and DEVILDRIVER team up for 3 shows in Finland. The tour starts at Teatria in Oulu on February 9th, rolling to Pakkahuone at Tampere the next day, before terminating at Nosturi in Helsinki on the 11th.
CANNIBAL CORPSE, DEVILDRIVER + SPECIAL GUESTS -SHOWS:
Sat 9.2.2013, Teatria, Oulu
Tickets: 29 e / 35 e, K-15/18
Advance: http://www.lippupalvelu.fi
In co-operation with: Finnish Metal Events Oy, King Foo Entertaintment, Teatria, Sauna Open Air, Elmu, Hellsinki Rock Shop, Inferno ja Metal Hammer.
See below all the confirmed European dates, so far:
Feb. 09 – Teatrie Oulu – Oulu, Finland
Feb. 10 – Pakkahuone – Tampere, Finland
Feb. 11 – Nosturi – Helsinki, Finland
Feb. 13 – Göta Källare – Stockholm, Sweden
Feb. 14 – Bewhouse – Gothenburg, Sweden
Feb. 15 – Amager Bio – Copenhagen, Denmark
Feb. 16 – Train – Århus C, Denmark
Feb. 17 – Gruenspan – Hamburg, Germany
Feb. 19 – 013 – Tilburg, Netherlands
Feb. 20 – Essifabrik – Cologne, Germany
Feb. 21 – Substage – Karlsruhe, Germany
Feb. 22 – Musichall – Geiselwind, Germany
Feb. 23 – Trix – Antwerpen, Belgium
Feb. 24 – Le Bataclan – Paris, France
Feb. 26 – Alcatraz – Milan, Italy
Feb. 27 – Les Docks – Lausanne, Switzerland
Feb. 28 – Komplex 457 – Zurich, Switzerland
Mar. 01 – Sudbahnhof – Chemnitz, Germany
Mar. 02 – Garage Club – Ostrava, Czech Republic
Mar. 03 – Columbia Club – Berlin, Germany
Mar. 05 – Backstage – Munich, Germany
Mar. 06 – Garage – Bous, Germany
Mar. 07 – Forum – London, United Kingdom
Mar. 08 – Rock City – Nottingham, United Kingdom
Mar. 09 – HMV Ritz – Manchester, United Kingdom
Mar. 10 – ABC – Glasgow, United Kingdom
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