CO-HEADLINING
“HERITAGE HUNTER TOUR” TO BEGIN IN APRIL AND RUN THROUGH MAY WITH GHOST TO
SUPPORT
New
York, NY: This
is one tour that rock fans will be talking about for years to
come and if you miss it, you'll be terribly sorry. Opeth and Mastodon
will be embarking on a co-headline tour this spring, which kicks off April 4 in
Portland, Maine and runs through May 12 in Atlanta, Georgia. It's the first
time these two titans of progressive and forward-thinking hard rock have hit
the road together and it's going to be one for the ages. Ghost will serve as
the opener of the tour, which has been christened the "Heritage
Hunter."
About the
tour, Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, in his trademark deadpan wit, stated, "We're touring
North America together with Mastodon soon. Nice! One of the very few metal
bands of today that I genuinely like. Good people too! Ghost are coming
with us as well, and they are one of the hottest new bands to come out of
Sweden in recent years, and I dig them too. I sound like an old fart, don't I?
Well, I am.”
He
continued, "Yet, am I right in thinking that this tour, this line up, is
pretty decent? Would you all agree? Not complete s---, is it? Hope to see y'all
out there! What are we playing? Not sure yet, but considering the company,
maybe we'll have to pull out the big guns from time to time. In order to keep
up, I mean."
Opeth
released Heritage in September 2011, garnering critical acclaim
from Rolling Stone ("a career record that reimagines prog
as actual rock 'n' roll"), Pitchfork ("a pretty, well thought out
collection"), AV Club ("wholly absorbing"), Decibel (which
featured the band on the cover, in somewhat of a tradition for the band
and the magazine), PopMatters ("Opeth still continues to make especially
phenomenal music") and more.
Dates for
this momentous trek are as follows. Pre-sale ticketing begins on February 1,
with public on sales to follow on February 3. Go here to
purchase tickets.
April 4 –
State Theater – Portland, ME
April 5 –
Orpheum Theater – Boston, MA *
April 6 –
Metropolis – Montreal, QC *
April 7 –
Sony Centre – Toronto, ON *
April 9 –
Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
April 10 –
The Dome – Wallingford, CT
April 11 –
Roseland – New York, NY
April 13 –
Riviera Theater – Chicago
April 14 –
Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
April 15 –
Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA
April 16 –
TN Theater – Knoxville, TN *
April 18 –
Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
April 19
–Palladium – Dallas, TX *
April 20 –
Backstage Live – San Antonio, TX *
April 21 –
Concrete Street – Corpus Christi, TX *
April 23 –
Fillmore – Denver, CO *
April 25 –
House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
April 26 –
Gibson – Hollywood, CA *
April 27 –
Fox Theatre – Oakland, CA *
April 28 – Grand Sierra Resort – Reno, NV
April 28 – Grand Sierra Resort – Reno, NV
April 30 –
Paramount Theater – Seattle, WA *
May 1 –
Orpheum – Vancouver, BC *
May 3 –
Edmonton Events Centre – Edmonton,AB *
May 4 –
MacEwan Hall – Calgary, AB
May 5 – The
Odeon – Saskatoon, SK
May 6 –
Burton Cummings – Winnipeg, MB *
May 9 – The
Fillmore – Washington, DC *
May 10 –
The Fillmore – Charlotte, NC
May 11 –
House of Blues – Myrtle Beach, SC *
May 12 –
Masquerade Music Park – Atlanta, GA
*Denotes
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