Very special guest CARCASS on all dates!Swedish melodic death metal outfit AMON AMARTH has announced that they will be embarking on a headline tour of Europe this November and December in support of their newly released studio album “Deceiver of The Gods.” Very special guest on all dates will be the legendary CARCASS with additional support from HELL.
Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg: “Get ready Europe ’cause we are going on our first head-line tour in about two years, supporting our new album ‘Deceiver of the Gods’! We’re extremely proud to announce Death Metal legends CARCASS as main support, and Britain’s most splendid madmen in HELL as opening act! It’s time to burn, pillage and plunder across Europe with the most crushing tour package ever!”CARCASS’s Jeff Walker comments, “CARCASS is extremely flattered & honoured having been press ganged by invitation into thralldom supporting everyone’s favourite Nordic Musical Corsairs AMON AMARTH. Lock up your daughters, your mothers, your grandmothers and in the case of CARCASS your dead grandmothers – this tour is coming to rape & pillage your hearing. …and leave you in the morning having made you breakfast in bed.”AMON AMARTH+ CARCASS
+ HELL
+ BLEED FROM WITHIN (UK only)
07/11/13 DE – Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle
08/11/13 NL – Tilburg – 013
09/11/13 DE – Osnabrück – Hyde Park
10/11/13 BE – Brussels – AB
12/11/13 UK – Birmingham – Academy *
13/11/13 UK – Manchester – Academy *
14/11/13 UK – Glasgow – Barrowland *
15/11/13 UK – Bristol – Academy *
17/11/13 UK – London – Forum *
18/11/13 FR – Paris – Olympia
19/11/13 DE – Ludwigsburg – Arena
20/11/13 DE – Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
22/11/13 CH – Zürich – Komplex
23/11/13 DE – München – Kesselhaus
24/11/13 IT – Milan – Live Club
25/11/13 AT – Wien – Gasometer
27/11/13 DE – Berlin – Columbiahalle
28/11/13 DE – Leipzig – Haus Auensee
29/11/13 DE – Hamburg – Docks
01/12/13 NO – Oslo – Rockefeller
03/12/13 SE – Gothenburg – Tradgar’n
04/12/13 DK – Copenhagen – Store Vega
06/12/13 SE – Malmö – KB
07/12/13 SE – Stockholm – Arenan
09/12/13 FI – Helsinki – Cable Factory
The release of Deceiver of the Gods, the latest studio album from Swedish melodic death metal titans, AMON AMARTH, has broken the band’s previous sales records around the world. The album landed at #19 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and #19 on the Top Current Albums Chart. The band’s last album, Surtur Rising, entered the Top 200 Chart at #34 making Deceiver of the Gods the band’s highest charting record to date.
In Germany, Deceiver of the Gods entered the Top 100 Chart at #3 and the official Media Market/Saturn Chart at #3!
Deceiver of the Gods came in at #9 on Canada’s Top 200 Chart, #2 on the Hard Music Charts and #21 on the Digital Music Chart. Additionally, the record came in at #2 on the iTunes Metal Chart, #2 on the iTunes Rock Chart and #7 on the iTunes Top 200.
In the UK, the record entered the official Album Charts at #67, the Rock/Metal Chart at #4 and the Independent Chart at #14 marking the highest UK chart placements for the band yet.
Elsewhere, Deceiver of the Gods came in at #9 on the Top 100 Album Chart in Switzerland, #7 on the Austrian Top 100, #9 in Sweden, # 12 in Finland, #15 in Hungary, #27 in Denmark, #51 in France, #34 in Czech Republic, # 50 in Belgien and # 37 in Norway.
CARCASS will release their first new studio album in seventeen years titled Surgical Steel on September 16.
Source : Metal Blade Records
