HEATHENFEST TOUR BEGINS NEXT WEEK
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 4:30pm by MetalSucks
Heathenfest America, the not-Paganfest-monikered tour which is otherwise basically Paganfest for all intents and purposes, gets underway next week! Break out those viking hats and beer steins and get on out there to catch Eluveite, Belphegor, Alestorm (the superior pirate metal band), Vreid and Kivimetsan Druidi at what’s sure to be the best / dorkiest / drunkest show of the Fall. Full list of dates for the MetalSucks-sponsored trek after the jump.
Nov 3 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Nov 4 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Nov 5 Montreal, QC @ Le National
Nov 6 New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theater
Nov 7 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
Nov 8 Detroit, MI @ Blondie’s
Nov 9 St Paul, MN @ Station 4
Nov 10 Chicago, IL @ Jaguar Club
Nov 12 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Nov 13 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Nov 14 Orlando, FL @ Central Station
Nov 16 San Antonio, TX @ Warehouse Music Venue
Nov 17 Ft Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater
Nov 18 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Nov 19 Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
Nov 20 Ramona, CA @ Ramona Mainstage
Nov 21 Los Angeles, CA @ Ultra Violet Night Club
Nov 22 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
Nov 23 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
Nov 24 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
Nov 25 Vancouver, BC @ Red Room
Eluveitie, Belphegor, and Alestorm, KD? Disgusting. Vreid is ok enough, though.
Vreid are pretty damn good. The others…i agree.
Vreid > Windir > Other Bands On This Bill
“Millom Hav Og Fjell” is one seriously badass song.
Eluveitie and Alestorm are the only bands on the bill I have any interest in, but that would be enough for me.
I can’t help but comment – Swashbuckle is by far the best pirate band. Ever.
That is like saying “Tobias Fünke is the greatest never-nude named Tobias in Television history.” While true, it still, um – - – DOESN’T MATTER.
PIRATE-THEMED METAL DOESN’T MATTER. I’ve been the lead guitarist of the world’s foremost Animal Husbandry-Themed metal band and we’re still pretty obscure. Oh, wait. It’s animal husbandry.
(PS: Would Goatwhore qualify as an animal husbandry-themed band [name]? Pig Destroyer?)
Running Wild>>>>>>>>>>Alestorm>Swashbuckle
Vried should be headlining. Their 2009 effort is even though it came out at the beginning of the year is still fighting for one of best albums of the year.
I’m surprised you haven’t mentioned the Korpiklaani tour you’re sponsoring.
eluveitie are fucking champs
18 + cant go : (
i live in Orlando and i have been waiting and waiting for them to announced finally where they would play [its been TBA for months now] and its fucking central station?!?! that is the smallest of all the shithole bars in all of Orlando, they will barely get a five piece drum set on the stage, let alone all the members. Its the bar where most of the teenage bands have their first show cause they have the shittiest sound, and they dont even mic the drums at all. the place can barely even fit a hundred people. *sigh* i still have to go though cause i wont miss the three headlining bands.
eleuvitie, the band and the metalsucks persona, both suck. I want to see Blackguard on this tour. NAO.
I preferred Black Guard when they were Profugis Mortis. They actually sounded unique. Now they sounds on the verge of generic and the vocalist isn’t good live :-/
I’m really mad this tour isn’t hitting PA or Maryland. I mean, WTF? We’ve gotten both Paganfests, Pagan Knights, etc. ?
sounds in-ter-esting
Kivimetsan Druidi are HISTORIC!!!!