WATAIN taps WITHERED, BOOK OF BLACK EARTH for Black Metal Magic Tour this fall

July 23, 2008 by Scott

Prosthetic Records press Release:

WATAIN taps WITHERED, BOOK OF BLACK EARTH for Black Metal Magic Tour this fall

Prosthetic Records labelmates WITHERED and BOOK OF BLACK EARTH are proud to announce their involvement in the upcoming Black Metal Magic Tour later this fall supporting Swedish black metal titans Watain. The tour, sponsored by Metal Maniacs and BeyondTheDarkHorizon.com, will begin in Northeastern Canada in early October, head to the West Coast, then wrap up in early November in Pennsylvania.

WITHERED will be supporting the band’s recently second album, ‘Folie Circulaire,’ which has yielded critical acclaim since its June release. Recorded with Kylesa’s Phillip Cope and featuring artwork from Paul Romano (Mastodon, The Red Chord, Trivium), the album is the band’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to 2005’s ‘Memento Mori.’ WITHERED will be playing a free Los Angeles show sponsored by SCION and Vice magazine along with Today Is The Day in August as part of Scion’s Metal Show series. The show is free but reservations are required and early attendance is recommended. Fans can RSVP online here (http://www.scion.com/metalshow).

Meanwhile, BOOK OF BLACK EARTH will be touring in support of the Oct. 14 release ‘Horoskopus,’ the band’s second full-length and debut for new home Prosthetic Records. “‘Horoskopus’ is a concept album about the hidden astrological elements of the Christian church,” vocalist / guitarist T.J. Cowgill adds. “From its origins as a state sponsored religion in the fourth century to the present day, it has been guided by astrological concepts conceived centuries before Jesus Christ was mythologized as the ‘Sun’ of God.”

Black Metal Magic Tour with Watain, Withered, Book of Black Earth

10/03 Toronto, ON – The Opera House
10/04 Montreal, QC – Katacombes
10/07 Boston, MA – The Middle East
10/08 New York, NY – Knitting Factory
10/09 Pittsburgh, PA – 31st St Pub
10/10 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s
10/11 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s Rock Club
10/12 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
10/13 Denver, CO – Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
10/14 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
10/15 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
10/16 Portland, OR – Rotture
10/17 Oakland, CA – The Metro
10/18 Hollywood, CA – Knitting Factory
10/19 San Marcos, CA – Jumping Turtle
10/20 Tempe, AZ – The Sets
10/21 Farmington, NM – Gator’s
10/23 Dallas, TX – Reno’s Chop Shop
10/24 Victoria, TX – Mario’s Ballroom (with Ritual Killer)
10/25 Austin, TX – Red 7 (with Ritual Killer)
10/26 New Orleans, LA – Red Dragon (with Ritual Killer)
10/28 Tampa, FL – Brass Mug
10/29 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
10/31 Springfield, VA – Jaxx
11/01 Allentown, PA – Sterling Hotel

BOOK OF BLACK EARTH on tour

7/26 Seattle, WA – Downtown (Capitol Hill Block Party King on the Cobra Stage)
8/16 Seattle, WA – El Corazon (with Himsa, more)

WITHERED on tour

8/01 Spartanburg, SC – Ground Zero
8/01 Greenville,SC – Earshot Records (free in-store show, 5pm)
8/02 Asheville, NC – Static Age
8/04 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo (Vice Magazine Party with Today Is The Day – Free show)
8/09 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (with Weedeater, Black Cobra)
8/17 Marietta, GA – Swayze’s (with Legions of Astaroth, Obscurum)
9/27 Atlanta, GA – Lenny’s (Forward To The Apocalypse Fest)

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