If this afternoon’s post about Shrinebuilder and A Storm of Light wasn’t enough to get you doom lovers off, here’s another bit of news that might help you bust a nut tonight: the MetalSucks-sponsored North America is Doomed tour kicks off next Saturday, August 1st! The tour features Zoroaster (who our own Kip W. affectionately pronounces “Zo-Roaster”), The Gates of Slumber and Serpentcult, and kicks off August 1st in Chicago, snaking its way through Eastern Canada, the Northeast U.S. and Midwest, and wraps up August 14th in Indianapolis.

http://www.myspace.com/thezoroaster
http://www.myspace.com/thegatesofslumber
http://www.myspace.com/serpentcult

Full list of tour dates after the jump.

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What’s that? Yet another of the summer’s best tour lineups will be sponsored by MetalSucks? Yes, yes, ya’ll!

Avant-garde psych metal band ZOROASTER, Indianapolis, IN doom metal trio THE GATES OF
SLUMBER and Belgian “über doom” unit SERPENTCULT (read DBR’s clever official review) will team up for the “North America is Doomed” tour this summer. Presented by Action! PR, Decibel Magazine and MetalSucks.net, the 14 city trek will kick off on August 1 in Chicago, IL and will hit major markets including NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal.

On the topic of the tour, Zoroaster guitarist / vocalist Will Fiore states, “This tour is going to be so heavy, it’s scary! Each and every show is going to feature an amazing night of massive riffs, so come out and get lost. This is going to hurt…in all the right ways.”

Indeed, this tour promises to be even more metal than this guy. Tour dates and venues after the jump.

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There’s a flare of subsonic noise and distortion, mounting feedback and that queasy feeling you get when you’re about to be buried by a cascading avalanche. I braced myself for it, use my last inhalation on my lit cigarette. I knew this was gonna be Doom alright, Doom for me and Doom for everyone.

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