European death metal gods PESTILENCE join forces with death metal inventors POSSESSED in an epic North American East Coast tour: “Revelations of the Ancients”. The tour will include very special guests, The Black Moriah, and will run from March through April 2020.
Legendary, genre-defying and long-running progressive death metallers PESTILENCE, originally established in the Netherlands in 1986, have announced a worldwide record deal with Agonia Records (by the courtesy of Hadeon Records) in August of 2019. The band is currently working on their new album titled “Exitivm“.
From auspicious thrash metal beginnings, which earned them a deal with Roadrunner Records, to a spot-on death metal transformation, which turned them into a genre pioneering phenom, PESTILENCE is alive and kicking after decades since its fateful inception in 1986. Labeled on the same genre-defying scale as Death, Cynic and Atheist, but also Obituary and Deicide, with whom the band shared the same label-home throughout the 90s, PESTILENCE exists as an influential, innovative and distinctive player, despite a turbulent history featuring two breakups (in 1994 and 2014) and reunions (in 2008 and 2016, respectively). The band’s binding factor and leading creative force throughout all cycles has always been founder and guitarist Patrick Mameli. The latter had this to say about the signing:
“Pestilence and Hadeon Records [the band’s own imprint] are very excited to be joining forces with Agonia Records in an exclusive, worldwide agreement to explore new pathways in writing history together”.
Tour dates:
17.03.2020: Houston TX @ TX White Oak Music Hall
18.03.2020: Austin TX @ Come and Take it Live
19.03.2020: Dallas TX @ Gas Monkey
20.03.2020: Chicago IL @ Reggies
21.03.2020: Detroit MI @ Harpos Concert Theatre
22.03.2020: Toronto ON @ Velvet Underground
23.03.2020: Ottawa ON @ The Brass Monkey
24.03.2020: Quebec City QC @ Le D’Auteuil
25.03.2020: Montreal QC @ Cafe’ Campus
26.03.2020: Providence RI @ Alchemy
27.03.2020: Brooklyn NY @ Market Motel
28.03.2020: Amityville NY @ Amityville Music Hall
29.03.2020: Albany NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
31.03.2020: Manchester NH @ Jewell
01.04.2020: Richmond VA @ Broadberry Theatre
02.04.2020: Atlanta GA @ 529
03.04.2020: Tampa FL @ Brass Mug
