Legendary Misfits Guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein will be launching the As We Die World Abomination Tour 2018 this Spring. Beginning February 21st in Clifton, NJ, the tour winds through North America before crossing to the UK March 26th in Birmingham, England, and will later move through Russia before finishing up April 9th in St. Petersburg, Russia; KILLUS and DeadXll will be joining on the UK and Russia run. Upon his stateside return, Doyle will also be performing at the 20th annual New England Metal & Hardcore Fest on April 21st at The Palladium in Worcester, MA. Full tour dates can be seen below.
Lodi, a small borough of Bergen County, New Jersey, is just over two square miles. There’s not much to suggest that the small village would be the birthplace of a world famous, blood-soaked form of music known as horror punk. Legendary acts The Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig all have their origins in Lodi, and something monstrous indeed lurks there. The poster child and originator of the genre, himself, has once again unleashed an evil noise on an unsuspecting world: Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein’s first release, Abominator, by his eponymous band, Doyle.
Released on Doyle’s own label, Monsterman Records, Abominator is a sonically thick and lyrically evil slab of metal that finds Doyle expanding in a logical progression upon the genre of music he helped create. Doyle’s first band, the infamous Glenn Danzig-fronted Misfits, helped create the genre of speed/thrash metal with their last album, 1983’s Earth AD/Wolf’s Blood– in fact the record has been revered as one of the blueprints for the genre by many of its most respected players, as evidenced by countless groups covering the album’s songs, not the least of which being Metallica. Abominator is not the sound of some punk guitarist gone metal- it’s the roaring return of one of extreme metal’s original architects to his blood-splattered drawing board.
So how did this Jersey devil and crew wind up with a Dixie-bred howler? “After I had written all this music, I realized I had to get someone to sing this stuff- once I’m done recording guitars, all I can see is myself just playing that riff, ya know? That’s my thing, not lyrics and singing,” Doyle says, with typically blunt candor. “I’ve known Alex for a while, so I called him up, then sent him a bunch of the tunes. Two days later he sent me back ‘Mark of the Beast’, just like it is on the record. I said ‘That’s exactly what I want!’, and the rest is history. I only wrote the word ‘abominator’- all the rest of that stuff is Alex. He’s just crazy, man”.
It’s a match made in hell. But no metal band would be complete without a complete animal behind the drum kit. Brandon “The Crusher” Pertzborn (of Black Flag) delivers all the aggression and insanity necessary (and then some) with his exquisite musicality and showmanship.
So what can fans expect at a Doyle show?
“To get fucking pummeled, man. And then go home and ask themselves ‘What the fuck just happened to me?!?’, hahaha…” he replies with a laugh that this time, no joke about it, actually sounds evil. Loud, aggressive, and technically proficient, Doyle and crew are set to show the world how true horror metal sounds today.
So crank up Abominator until your speakers blow, check out Doyle on tour, and let the beatings begin!
written by: Randy Blythe (Lamb of God)
As We Die World Abomination Tour 2018 US Dates:
02/21 @ Dingbatz – Clifton, NJ
02/22 @ Diesel – Pittsburgh, PA
02/23 @ Buffalo Iron Works
02/24 @ The Lost Horizon – Syracuse, NY
02/25 @ Blackthorn 51 – Elmhurst, NY
02/26 @ Voltage Lounge – Pkiladelphia, PA
02/28 @ Shaka’s – Virginia Beach, VA
03/01 @ The Calico Room – Wilmington, NC
03/02 @ Drunk Horse – Fayettevill, NC
03/03 @ High Drive – Gainseville, FL
03/04 @ Side Tracks Music Hall – Huntsville, AL
03/05 @ Firebird – St. Louis, MO
03/06 @ The Shrine – Tulsa, OK
03/07 @ Backstage – Lubbock, TX
03/09 @ The Rock – Tucson, AZ
03/10 @ The Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
03/11 @ The Whisky A Go Go – West Hollywood, CA
03/12 @ Holy Diver – Sacramento, CA
03/13 @ Hawthorne Theatre Lounge – Portland, OR
03/14 @ El Corazon – Seattle, WA
03/15 @ Diamondz Event Center – Jerome, ID
03/16 @ Mesa Theater – Grand Junction, CO
03/17 @ Herman’s Hideaway – Denver, CO
03/18 @ Aftershock – Merriam, KS
03/20 @ Frankies-Inner City – Toledo, OH
As We Die World Abomination Tour 2018 UK / Russia Spring With KILLUS and DeadXlll Dates:
03/26 @ Asylum 2 – Birmingham, ENG
03/27 @ Redrum – Stafford, ENG
03/28 @ Factory – Manchester, ENG
03/30 @ Church – Dundee, ENG
03/31 @ Corporation – Sheffield, ENG
04/04 @ Hobo’s – Huddersfield, ENG
04/05 @ The Hub – Plymouth, ENG
04/06 @ Cobblestones – Bridgewater, ENG
04/07 @ The Lounge – London, ENG
04/08 @ Moskva – Moscow, RU
04/09 @ MOD – Saint Petersburg, RU
