METALSUCKS & MERCH CONNECTION PROUDLY PRESENT THE ROAD TO METALFEST TOUR WITH THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD AND IMPENDING DOOM FEATURING ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS, THE TONY DANZA TAP DANCE EXTRAVAGANZA, AND CHELSEA GRIN

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 4:00pm by

BBBBBRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOTTTTAAAAAAALLLLL!!!

That’s really the only way to describe the Road to Metalfest tour, which will be co-headlined by Impending Doom and Through the Eyes of the Dead, with support coming from Arsonists Get All the Girls, The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, and Chelsea Grin. This are five bands that don’t know the meaning of the words “tread lightly.” They might as well have called this the “FUCK MELODY RIGHT IN THE EAR” tour. You know who won’t be going to this tour? Pussies. You’re not a pussy… are you?

We’re really stoked to be a part of this one. Get dates after the jump!

4/9 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
4/10 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
4/11 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
4/12 Milwaukee, WI @ Miramar Theatre
4/13 DeKalb, IL @ House Cafe
4/14 Fort Wayne, IN @ Sunset Hall
4/15 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s Downunder*
4/16 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick*
4/17 Windsor, ON @ The Blind Dog
4/18 Toronto, ON @ Wreck Room
4/20 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
4/21 Montreal, QC @ Underworld
4/24 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
4/25 Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft – The Chance
4/26 Allentown, PA @ Cafe Under – Crocodile Rock
4/27 Vineland, NJ @ Hangar 84*
4/29 Richmond, VA @ Canal Club
4/30 Raleigh, NC @ The Brewery*
5/1 Augusta, GA @ Sector 7G
5/2 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit*
5/3 Orlando, FL @ H2O Live!*
5/4 West Palm, FL @ Ground Control
5/5 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum*
5/6 Douglasville, GA @ The 7 Venue*
5/7 Columbus, MS @ Princess Theater
5/8 Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre*

*No Through the Eyes of the Dead

-AR

  • Spanky

    Impending Doom…eww
    Chelsea Grin…eww
    AGATG…alright

  • Kye

    Impending Doom is quite literally one of the worst excuses for music to ever exist.

    Arsonists and TTEOTD are…alright.

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.wordpress.com/ groverXIII

    Arsonists Get All The Girls is the only remotely decent band on this tour. You guys should’ve called it ‘The Road To Shitty Deathcore’ tour.

  • http://music.msn.com/superfans/heavy-metal/blog pdf

    I sort of like Chelsea Grin’s album. But every other band on this tour is pretty much the musical equivalent of flesh-eating virus.

  • Elpants

    Holy shit this tour is terrible.

    Probably the 2nd worst tour MS has ever sponsored.

    Drop off all the bands, and replace them with some actual metal bands and we’ll call it a tour.

    • Brian \m/(-_-)\m/

      genuinely curious: what was the worst?

      • Elpants

        I did some searching. I actually found 2, I guess the one may have slipped my mind.

        But I think it’s a tie between these tours for the worst “metal” tours of all time…just so happens MS sponsored both.
        Protest the Hero (which I love), Misery Signals, Scale the Summit and The Number 12 Looks Like You.
        Or
        The Human Abstract (seen twice, I kinda enjoy), Oh, Sleeper, Iwresteledabearonce and Vanna.

        Both those tours at one band I have enjoyed live, but the supporting acts are so inexcusably horrible the whole tour was fucked the second MetalSucks penned their names as a sponsor.

        • Connor

          Protest the Hero, Misery Signals, Scale the Summit, T#12LLY? Tie for the worst metal tour of all time? That’s just retarded. There have been FAR worse tours.

          • Elpants

            Please, find one that MS has sponsored.

            I mean, unless a tour with the likes of God Forbid, Periphery and Mutiny Within happens (My brain is slowly shutting down at the thought), you are not going to find a tour thats much worse than these shit-piles.

          • Alex_P

            Yeah, that’s actually really good. I love both PTH and STS, and I don’t mind the Number 12. I don’t care who’s opening, I wish I’d seen that one for sure.

  • smear

    you guys are proud of this shit show?

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46e389eb8b79606050d3d447431ff6ac?s=80 Nate

    I dug Skepsis by Through The Eyes of The Dead, and Arsonists is awesome, but Impending Doom and Chelsea Grin are utter trash. Especially Impending Doom.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

      whats about danza?

    • http://thenumberoftheblog.wordpress.com/ groverXIII

      You liked Skepsis? I admittedly only gave it one listen, but I found it to be utterly unmemorable deathcore.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

    impending doom and chelsea grin blow
    all the other bands are cool
    too bad they arent coming to Maryland
    i was really looking forward to seeing arsonists
    since i have missed the past 2 times they came to Maryland

    • Kuranes

      I like how you leave
      your comments in verse
      you really might try
      writing in prose sometime.

  • Nigel McCloud

    It looks like everyone has one or two bands they find alright or enjoy on this tour, while hating the rest. I am following this trend!

    Arsonists and Tony Danza are the ones I would like to see, screw the rest

  • Matt

    ONLY GOOD BAND IS DANZA, SHIT YEAH.

    No one is mentioning Danza, people must not know them yet hahaha.

    • Matt

      but man, whoever made this flier couldnt have done worse getting danza’s logo on there, jeez

  • iolanach

    That’s pretty awful.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Bishop/571220161 Mike Bishop

    danza and TTEOTD and arsonists only worth seeing….

  • M.

    who’s playing triangle for Chelsea Grin on tour?

  • ten thousand mexicans on a spaceship

    HOLY SHIT WHAT A TERRIBLE LINE-UP

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bryan-Keith-Blain/100000618260825 Bryan Keith Blain

    sucks that it is not coming anywhere remotely close too me

  • Bicro

    AGATG are fucking awesome, always a great show.

  • SonOF

    Horrible tour. There are going to be horrible “scene” crowds at all the shows. TTEOTD are decent, but have been jumping on some godawful tours lately. I can’t blame MS too much for sponsoring this one because it probably will draw well (so many people are digging this sound unfortunately), but DAMN. However, I have never heard AGATG, so I’m not judging them.

  • RandomGuitarist

    Ottawa show, here I come!

  • Ryan

    Oh no…

  • Ziltoid

    You guys just love sponsoring shitty tours, don’t you?

    • SonOF

      The money is in the “shitty” I think. Deathcore and the like = $$$ these days.

      • http://www.metalsucks.net Vince Neilstein

        We don’t earn any money of these tours, you ree-ree!

        • carrotghost

          wait wait wait…so you’re sponsoring shitty tours and NOT getting money?

          • stu1

            Are you THAT retarded that you think sponsoring a tour gets the sponsor money????

          • SonOF

            makes it even more odd…

        • SonOF

          Sorry, I just assumed, now I’m even more baffled.

          But I guess the same logic applies, tons of people like this music and will attend the show, thus probably see that Metalsucks is doing it and frequent the site. That is the point I presume? Or do you just badly feel the need to spread the word about Impending Doom and Chelsea Grin?

          I wasn’t trying to make the site seem like they do things solely for the money, but we all gotta eat and pay the rent. It would have been understandable if it WAS for the money.

          • Ziltoid

            Sponsorship = name on poster = publicity

            Publicity = good.

  • FuckYourGayEmoHaircut

    Aw geez, I don’t WANT to go to this tour…but if I don’t I’ll be a pussy.
    I DON’T WANNA BE A PUSSY!!!!

  • Marc

    “BR00TAL FOOKIN LINE UP!” – 2006

  • Sambo

    Impending Doom is not a waste of music and not utter trash. I think that since this blog has been posted, everyone stopped bad-mouthing Attack Attack! and went straight to bad-mouthing Impending Doom. Personally I don’t see what’s wrong Impending Doom, considering there are bands like Breathe Carolina and Jeffree Star ruining music in general. I would LOVE to see this tour thank you very much, and if you flame me, it won’t bother me at all. That’s an advantage of being open-minded about music. Too bad there are no shows in the west coast.

    • Kye

      I’d much rather listen to Jeffree Star than Impending Doom.

      And it isn’t because I’m not “open minded” about music, it’s because I think Impending Doom isn’t a good band.

      • Bicro

        High-five bro!

  • Romaould the Loquacious

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! No one ever comes through Idaho. I may as well just eat a cyanide and hash sandwich now. :/

  • diego

    all the bands on this tour fucking sick ! fuck all you little emo pussies on here talking shit about impending doom . they are good guys and play brutal fucking music !

  • Scourge441

    “You know who won’t be going to this tour?”

    People who like good music, that’s who. This tour sucks.

  • fro

    fuck all you little bitches talking shit on this tour . what is it to brutal for you little scene kids ? props to metalsucks for putting this tour together . IMPENDING DOOM is fucking going to crush all you little scene queers !

  • lisa

    im definitely seeing this . all good bands especially TTEOTD IMPENDING DOOM AND DANZA .

  • Facebook User

    Ugh.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/Ssjgokuxx dick johnson

    Attack Attack! would be a good edition to this tour. Hell, MS might as well sponsor Warped Tour ’10 since they basically got every band of the floor-punching variety this year.

    • Facebook User

      ^^^ fucking idiot

    • dakotahowe

      fucking champion. i lol’d hard.

  • Kngdeuce

    Why couldn’t you guys have this tour go through nashville

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Justin-Scarberry/1494980710 Brandon Justin Scarberry

      Don’t fret, it’s going through Memphis if you don’t mind driving. BUT , TTEOTD will not be playing AND it’s the New Daisy Theatre which is not a good venue to see any heavy band in on account of crappy acoustics and bloody railings running throughout the whole venue. Am I the only one who finds the new vocalist for TTEOTD strikingly similar to Phil of Whitechapel acclaim? Don’t get me wrong, this Danny guy is good but I just couldn’t help but find the resemblance. Oh well, Deathcore is going to consume itself eventually in the end. I do enjoy some bands in the genre, sadly. It just sucks to see the exact same sound duplicated all across the country. I know how the Bay Area metalheads felt when thrash was where it was at yet all the bands playing it were virtually the same minus a few minute details. Its all about what the majority like, I suppose, that guide’s the publicity of these tours.

  • Fozzy Rorschach

    Will be at the Springs date fo sho.

  • Adam

    I dont see what the BIG deal is.

    I like impending doom, i think they just came out a little late in the scene and are pretty easy to compare other bands to, but overall they do good at what they do.

    TTEOTD is AWESOME….i consider them a straight up death metal band in my opinion.

  • selkies626

    wow so much hate going around. I personally like impending doom. I don’t care much for arsonists since they put me to sleep. TTEOTD and Danza are just amazing. I think people on here are just way too critical. So far best tour of this year BTBAM Cynic Devin and Scale the Summit. Lets see what can top that. (Btbam, Nevermore, Faceless, meshuggah tour make it happen)

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Justin-Scarberry/1494980710 Brandon Justin Scarberry

      I’ll have to agree on the BTBAM,Cynic,DTP, and STS tour……….it moved gravity a bit. And Danza is highly underrated as a band although i’m not quite sure how they’ll do after losing their drummer and bassist in 2009. I haven’t seen the new guy’s yet.

  • Avoid The Light

    Ugh… and Philly and NYC get skipped again… damn.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Harrington-Neil-Sauer/677600672 Harrington Neil Sauer

    I will think of this tour as I throw up in disguist

  • Primateforever

    Arsonists Get All The Girls are great. Haven’t heard a note from the others. Send me to a show for free and I’ll provide a write-up:)

    It should be noted that I live in California and will have to be flown to Colorado for this assignment. Therefore I will need copious amounts of cocaine and must be afforded the right to drink at least my own body-weight of Crown Royal to offset the cocaine. If these terms are agreeable, I can be reached at my personal e-mail, already on file at the Mansion:)

  • Facebook User

    THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!! THEY’RE COMING TO OTTAWA!!!

    GET READY FOR SOME POUTINE PIZZA, BOYS

  • Facebook User

    OOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG

    THEY’RE GOING TO BE IN OTTAWA IN 420! 420!?!?!?!?!? WHAT IN THE FUCK!?!?!??!

    THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST SHOW EVER@!!!!!

  • Oink

    Fuck this shitty tour.

  • Piggybanksaysno

    Replace Impending Doom with Knifes Exchanging Hands, Replace Tony Danza with The Red Shore, and Replace Chelsea Grin with See You Next Tuesday and we may actually have a deal.

    • JD

      sorry dude but knives exchanging hands broke up

      • selkies626

        See you next tuesday is on heavy hiatus since there last tour