SUMMER IS COMING UPON YOU

Hello friends and foes... we have quite a summer ahead of us and much in the works.



TEXAS INVASION
5/28/10 AUSTIN, TX CHAOS IN TEJAS / RED 7 W/ TOXIC HOLOCAUST, GEHENNA, ASHDAUTAS, IRON AGE, THE ROLLER, ACEPHALIX
5/31/10 FORT WORTH, TX THE ALAMO W/ BLOOD OF THE SUN, THE ROLLER
6/01/10 DENTON, TX RUBBER GLOVES W/ BLOOD OF THE SUN, THE ROLLER
6/02/10 DALLAS,TX DOUBLEWIDE W/ BLOOD OF THE SUN, THE ROLLER
6/03/10 BATON ROUGE, LA SCHOOL OF COMICS W/ BLOOD OF THE SUN, THE ROLLER
6/04/10 NEW ORLEANS, LA ONE EYED JACKS W/ BLOOD OF THE SUN, THOU, THE ROLLER
6/05/10 HOUSTON, TX FREE PRESS MUSIC FEST W/ FLAMING LIPS, CRO MAGS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, ETC…


CONQUEST OF EUROPE
6/12/10 ANTWERPEN, BELGIUM TRIX W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/13/10 BIELEFELD, GERMANY AJZ W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/14/10 PLYMOUTH, UK WHITE RABBIT W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/15/10 LEEDS, UK THE WELL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/16/10 LIVERPOOL,UK MASQUE W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/17/10 LONDON, UK UNDERWORLD W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/18/10 STEENWIJK, NETHERLANDS TRASHFEST W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/19/10 SLIEDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ELEKTRA TUINFEST W/ MONDO GENERATOR, VALIENT THORR, ETC...
6/20/10 CLISSON, FRANCE HELLFEST W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA, SLAYER, BLOODBATH, DOOM, EXODUS, ETC…
6/21/10 POITIERS, FRANCE SECRET PLACE W/ DYSRHYTHMIA, WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/22/10 LYON, FRANCE GROUND ZERO W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/23/10 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND LE ROMANDIE W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/24/10 BRESCIA, ITALY OLDEN LIVE CLUB W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/25/10 GIAVERA, ITALY DEL MONTELLO (TV) SANTI ANGELI W/ ELECTRIC WIZARD, WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/26/10 DELEMONT, SWITZERLAND SAS MUSIC CLUB W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/27/10 LARZ, GERMANY FUSION FESTIVAL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/28/10 WIEN, AUSTRIA ARENA W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/29/10 TBA W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/30/10 CHEMNITZ, GERMANY AJZ W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/01/10 GDANSK, POLAND PUB DOKI W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/02/10 VANA VIGALA, ESTONIA HARD ROCK LAAGER W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/03/10 RIGA, LATVIA METALSHOW LV FESTIVAL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/04/10 WARSAW, POLAND NEO CLUB W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/05/10 BERLIN, GERMANY CASSIOPEIA W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/06/10 MÜNCHEN, GERMANY FEIERWERK W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/07/10 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC MATRIX W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/08/10 HAMBURG, GERMANY HAFENKLANG W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/09/10 KOLN,GERMANY UNDERGROUND W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/10/10 ERFURT-STOTTERNHEIM, GERMANY STONED FROM THE UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA

OZZFEST INSANITY
8/14/10 SAN BERNADINO, CA OZZFEST / SAN MANUEL AMPHITHEATER
8/17/10 CHICAGO, IL OZZFEST / FIRST MIDWEST BANK AMPHITHEATER
8/19/10 PITTSBURGH, PA OZZFEST / FIRST NIAGARA PAVILION
8/21/10 HARTFORD, CT OZZFEST / COMCAST THEATER
8/22/10 CAMDEN, NJ OZZFEST / SUSQUEHANNA BANK CENTER
8/24/10 BOSTON, MA OZZFEST / COMCAST CENTER

UK TOUR NOW / OZZFEST

Just a quick one... we are in London, about to start our UK tour. See you there fuckers!

5/02/10 KINGSTON, UK FIGHTING COCKS
5/03/10 NEWCASTLE, UK TRILLIANS
5/04/10 SHEFFIELD, UK CORPORATION
5/05/10 LONDON, UK SOUTH OF THE BORDER
5/06/10 NOTTINGHAM, UK ROCK CITY

Also, we have confirmed for Ozzfest 2010! All available info can be found here.

SAVIOURS SPRING 2010 STATE OF THINGS, NEW TOUR DATES, ETC...

It's been a bit since the last update.... we're stoked on sunny California weather and a bunch of upcoming stuff. The past few months have been pretty cool too. The California shows with SAINT VITUS were super killer. It was fucking awesome to share the stage with those guys again and really inspiring to see a legendary band rise from the dead and be totally down to earth and devastatingly good live. If you have the chance to see them...do it!

The Japan tour was amazing... we did five shows and had four days off to check out Tokyo, which was super fucking cool. All of the bands that played were awesome and again really inspiring to see guys who have been their bands for 15-20 years still playing the music they love and doing their thing with no motivation of money or cool points or whatever...if you have long hair and/or tattoos in Japan, you are a total dirt and in most cases you'll have a hard time finding a job, spouse or even an apartment. It was really amazing to see all these bands, whether they were hardcore, thrash or 70's psych, just totally destroy and for all the right reasons. Fucking lifers. Phil from Red Cobalt did a great job with setting up the tour and we can't thank him and Reika (#1 driver in Japan!!!) enough. The Japanese version of Into Abaddon is available now...new artwork by Derrick Snodgrass, LP, CD, and two posters all in one package, limited to 500. Pick one up HERE.

We entered Sharkbite Studios in Oakland with master of heaviness Billy Anderson to record a BLUE OYSTER CULT cover with Scott "Wino" Weinrich (SAINT VITUS, SHRINEBUILDER, THE OBSESSED) on vocals and guitar. It came out awesome and its still pretty surreal to us that it even exists. We were geeking out with Wino last fall on the Vitus east coast dates about BOC and we drunkenly talked about collaborating on a cover of "Hot Rails to Hell". It was one of those things we never really expected to materialize but somehow when the awesome SHRINEBUILDER came through the Bay Area it all came together. It will be on a future EP...more details on that later. Anyone in Columbus,OH for Scion Rock Fest on March 13 got to see us play it live with Wino too Pretty fucking killer and not sure when that might happen again, if ever!

Even though we told ourselves we were gonna chill out a bit on touring in 2010, here are a bunch of dates. Hope to see old and new friends out. We'll have records, new shirts, blacklight posters and other weird shit available for sale or trade as always.

4/30/10 BARROSELAS, PORTUGAL SWR BARROSELAS FESTIVAL W/ IMMOLATION,
TRIPTYKON, ARCHGOAT, SOURVEIN AND MORE

UK tour with North Carolina miscreants SOURVEIN ...a few more UK dates coming soon on this one
5/02/10 KINGSTON, UK FIGHTING COCKS W/ SOURVEIN
5/03/10 NEWCASTLE, UK TRILLIANS W/ SOURVEIN
5/04/10 SHEFFIELD, UK CORPORATION W/ SOURVEIN
5/05/10 LONDON, UK SOUTH OF THE BORDER W/ SOURVEIN
5/06/10 NOTTINGHAM,UK ROCK CITY W/ SOURVEIN

5/22/10 OAKLAND, CA BAD SKULLS W/ TALK IS POISON, WALLS

We'll be hitting Texas for Timmy's unreal CHAOS IN TEJAS festival in Austin and the FREE PRESS MUSIC FEST in Houston. 6/1-6/4 there will be some headline dates with BLOOD OF THE SUN and THE ROLLER as support and THOU will be on a few of the dates too...details coming really soon on those shows

5/28/10 AUSTIN, TX RED 7 W/ TOXIC HOLOCAUST, GEHENNA, ASHDAUTAS, IRON
AGE, THE ROLLER, ACEPHALIX (CHAOS IN TEJAS)

6/5/10 HOUSTON, TX FREE PRESS MUSIC FEST W/ FLAMING LIPS, CRO MAGS
MUNICIPAL WASTE, ETC…

Right after the trip down south we head back to Europe with WEEDEATER and BLACK COBRA...still a few dates to come on this one too. Lots of festivals, some places we've been before and some new spots too. Should be a rager!

6/12/10 ANTWERPEN, BELGIUM TRIX W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/14/10 PLYMOUTH, UK WHITE RABBIT W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/15/10 LEEDS, UK THE WELL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/16/10 LIVERPOOL,UK KOROVA W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/17/10 LONDON, UK UNDERWORLD W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/18/10 STEENWIJK, NETHERLANDS TRASHFEST W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/19/10 SLIEDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ELEKTRA TUINFEST (SAVIOURS ONLY)
6/20/10 CLISSON, FRANCE HELLFEST W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA, SLAYER,
BLOODBATH, DOOM, MOTORHEAD, ETC…
6/23/10 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND LE ROMANDIE W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/24/10 MILANO, ITALY MAGNOLIA W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/25/10 GIAVERA, ITALY DEL MONTELLO (TV) SANTI ANGELI W/ WEEDEATER,
BLACK COBRA
6/26/10 DELEMONT, SWITZERLAND SAS MUSIC CLUB W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
6/28/10 WIEN, AUSTRIA ARENA W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/02/10 VANA VIGALA, ESTONIA HARD ROCK LAAGER W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/03/10 RIGA, LATVIA METALSHOW LV FESTIVAL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/06/10 MÜNCHEN, GERMANY FEIERWERK W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/07/10 HAMBURG, GERMANY HAFENKLANG W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA
7/10/10 ERFURT-STOTTERNHEIM, GERMANY STONED FROM THE UNDERGROUND
FESTIVAL W/ WEEDEATER, BLACK COBRA

FGT ASAP

JAPAN!!! VITUS!!! SCION!!! EUROPE!!! SHIRTS!!! ACCELERATED LIVING!!!

LONG TIME NO UPDATES...
WE ARE ALL ALIVE AND WELL, JAMMING SOME NEW RIFFS ALREADY AND DOING WHATEVER IT IS WE DO. LOTS OF SHIT COMING UP. CHRIS GRANDE IS PLAYING BASS WITH US FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS SO BUY HIM WHISKEY SHOTS BECAUSE HE'S RAD. YOU CAN BUY US SHOTS TOO IF YOU LIKE

THE JAPANESE VERSION OF INTO ABADDON WITH NEW ART WILL BE OUT ON JANUARY 26TH....CHECK OUT RED COBALT INDUSTRIES FOR DETAILS ON THAT.
HERE'S THE DETAILS ON THE JAPAN SHOWS:
Saturday February 6th TOKYO @ EARTHDOM w/ Electric Eel Shock + Barebones + Fastkill + Earth Blow

Thursday 11th February TOKYO @ EARTHDOM w/ Eternal Elysium + Church Of Misery + Coffins + King Goblin

Friday 12th February YOKKAICHI @ CLUB CHAOS w/ Eternal Elysium + Acrostix + Sickhead

Saturday 13th February OSAKA @ HOKAGE w/ Palm + Terror Squad + Masterpeace + Doburoku Kyoudai

Sunday 14th February NAGOYA @ CLUB ZION w/ Eternal Elysium + Palm + Hydrophobia + Revolt + Little Bastards + Stone Banquet + Vomit Monster

BAD SKULLS HAS PUT UP NEW SHIRTS AND HOODIES... GO BUY THEM

SOME MORE SHOWS WITH THE LEGENDARY SAINT VITUS NEXT WEEK. TO MISS THESE SHOWS WOULD BE FOOLISH.

1/28/10 LOS ANGELES, CA ULTRA VIOLET
SAINT VITUS / SAVIOURS / ANCESTORS / TOTIMOSHI /CROWNED BY FIRE

1/29/10 SAN FRANCISCO, CA DNA LOUNGE
SAINT VITUS / SAVIOURS / LAUDANUM / DUSTED ANGEL

CHECK OUT SCION ROCK FEST IN COLUMBUS OHIO ON MARCH 13. WE'RE PLAYING AND ITS FREE!!!

PLOTTING TO COME BACK TO THE UK SOON AND EUROPE IN THE SUMMER!!! HELLFEST IS CONFIRMED, MUCH MORE TO COME...

ALSO, OUR NEW LP/CD ACCELERATED LIVING IS STILL OUT NOW. GO GET IT FROM KEMADO!!! IT WILL KICK YOUR ASS!

SOME OTHER TRICKS UP OUR SLEEVES TOO...WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN ITS TIME.

FINALLY, THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT, ESPECIALLY TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TO THE SHOWS OR BOUGHT RECORDS OR WHATEVER IN 2009! IT MEANS A TON TO US... FGT

ACCELERATED LIVING

Our new album, Accelerated Living, is out now. We have CD's and vinyl with us on tour or you can get it from Kemado Records.
A new tour starts today in Spokane , WA with 3 Inches of Blood and Holy Grail. We've been out since late September. All the new dates are posted to the right in red. The Canadian dates with 3 Inches as well as the US dates with Kylesa, Red Fang and Saint Vitus and the Fall into Darkness and Fog Rising weekends were all awesome and we really appreciate everyone coming out to the shows and raging with us.

Cyrus has left the band...the Fog Rising show in San Francisco was his last. We love him and wish him the best in whatever project he applies his rad touch to next. Chris Grande from Annihilation Time and Lecherous Gaze is playing bass with us for this US tour. We'll make another announcement about this later.

Japan dates will announced soon...we have seen some of the show lineups and its looking insane. Many thanks to Red Cobalt for putting this together.

We have confirmed Hellfest in Clisson, France for the weekend of June 18-20 2010. Check out the lineup so far and chances for discounted Hellfest weekend passes here.
Immortal, Sepultura, Bloodbath, Black Cobra, Rwake...ridiculous. We will be touring Europe around that time and possibly sooner. More details on that soon. Booking inquiries for the EU and UK should be directed to nanouk@avocado-booking.com

We won a Goldie. There was an awards ceremony this past Monday that was pretty fun. Thanks to the San Francisco Bay Guardian for that.

There is a lot of press right now for Accelerated Living. Check out new issues of Decibel, Revolver, Terrorizer, Rock Sound, Kerrang, Metal Hammer and more. Thanks to everyone involved in making all of that happen.

More to come...

RECORD RELEASE SHOW

We are stoked to take part in this.

"FOG RISING"

Sentimental stories continue to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in the mainstream media. But the year was a turning point for rock 'n' roll -- when music fragmented into so many styles and scenes. Prog-rock. Metal. Experimental psych. Kraut-rock. Stoner-rock. Which is why Tee Pee Records, Secret Serpents present "FOG RISING" -- a celebration of the twisted offspring of that fragmentation.

San Francisco is the home of the club festival concept, not to mention psychedelia and poster art. It all started here -- long before the masses passed out and latched onto Woodstock.

Artwork will be displayed by famed poster artists, Alan Forbes, David D’Andrea, Alan Hynes and Marq Spusta.

Among the bands performing are Witch featuring Mario Rubalcaba of Earthless on drums, this will be Witch's only west coast performance of 2009. Saviours, who release their brand new album "Accelerated Living" on October 26th, Ancestors, who have a highly anticipated release of their own coming out October 6th titled "Of Sound Mind", Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound and many more.

2PM, November 7
Broadway Studios - 435 Broadway
San Francisco, CA

Advance Tickets will go on sale Monday, September 27th, via the Secret Serpents Website.

Bands:
Witch
Saviours
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
Night Horse
Ancestors
Black Math Horseman
Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast
Lecherous Gaze
Citadelle

Artists:
Alan Forbes
David D’Andrea
Alan Hynes
Marq Spusta

Here's some tour dates, more to come...

3 INCHES OF BLOOD / SAVIOURS
9/9/09 LOS ANGELES, CA KNITTING FACTORY

SAVIOURS / RED FANG
9/18 SEATTLE, WA COMET TAVERN
9/19 PORTLAND, OR ASH STREET

KYLESA / SAVIOURS
9/30 LOS ANGELES, CA KNITTING FACTORY
10/1 SAN FRANCISCO, CA DNA LOUNGE
10/2 SAN JOSE, CA VOODOO LOUNGE
10/6 MISSOULA, MT THE PALACE
10/8 LAYTON, UT V2
10/9 DENVER, CO MARQUIS THEATRE
10/10 LAWRENCE, KS GRANADA
10/11 MINNEAPOLIS, MN TRIPLE ROCK
10/12 CHICAGO, IL REGGIE'S
10/13 PONTIAC, MI PIKE ROOM AT CROFOOT
10/14 CLEVELAND, OH GROG SHOP

SAINT VITUS / SAVIOURS
10/16 BROOKLYN, NY EUROPA
10/17 WORCESTER, MA PALLADIUM W/ THE MISFITS, TYPE O NEGATIVE
10/18 BALTIMORE, MD SONAR

3 INCHES OF BLOOD / SAVIOURS
10/20 LONDON, ON CALL THE OFFICE
10/21 ST. CATHARINE'S, ON MIKADO
10/22 TORONTO, ON MOD CLUB
10/24 THUNDER BAY, ON BLACK PIRATE PUB
10/25 WINNIPEG, MB ROYAL ALBERT
10/26 REGINA, SK DISTRICT
10/27 EDMONTON, AB STARLITE
10/29 REVELSTOKE, BC REGENT INN