Legendary Swedish death metal horde HYPOCRISY have enlisted the help of CHILDREN OF BODOM guitarist/frontman Alexi Laiho for their upcoming North American tour. Alexi has agreed to temporarily fill the currently vacant guitarist spot on their tour alongside ENSIFERUM, HYPOCRISY, EX DEO, BLACKGUARD, SWASHBUCKLE. HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren commented:

“We’re very happy to bring Alexi along on this tour and that he’s helping us out with filling the 2nd guitarist position. Funny, the first CHILDREN OF BODOM show was a support gig for HYPOCRISY on the Nuclear Blast festival in ‘98. Since then me and Alexi have become very good friends. I’ve helped him with producing and he´s helped me by contributing a guitar solo on one of my records with my other band PAIN. There will be no shortage of alcohol on this tour that’s for sure.”

NOTE: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND OR COVER ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SHOWS PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

ENSIFERUM, HYPOCRISY, EX DEO, BLACKGUARD, SWASHBUCKLE*
11/06/09 Jaxx – Springfield, VA*
11/07/09 Crocodile Rock Café – Allentown, PA*

11/08/09 Volume 11 – Raleigh, NC

11/09/09 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

11/10/09 Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL

11/11/09 AKA Lounge – Orlando, FL (AntiPop Music Festival)

11/12/09 DAY OFF

11/13/09 Meridian – Houston, TX

11/14/09 Emo’s – Austin, TX

11/15/09 Ridglea Theatre – Fort Worth (Dallas), TX

11/16/09 DAY OFF

11/17/09 The Galaxy Theatre – Santa Ana, CA

11/18/09 The Key Club – Hollywood, CA

11/19/09 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA

11/20/09 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR

11/21/09 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA

11/22/09 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC – CANADA

11/23/09 The Warehouse – Calgary, AB – CANADA

11/24/09 Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB – CANADA

11/25/09 The Exchange – Regina, SK – CANADA

11/27/09 The Zoo – Winnipeg, MB – CANADA

11/28/09 Station 4 – St. Paul, MN

11/29/09 House of Blues – Chicago, IL

11/30/09 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH

12/01/09 The Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA*

12/02/09 Imperial de Quebec – Quebec City, QC – CANADA*

12/03/09 Le Medley – Montreal, QC – CANADA*

12/04/09 The Palladium – Worcester, MA*

12/05/09 Irving Plaza – New York, NY*


HYPOCRISY will release their long awaited follow up to 2005’s Virus record on October 23rd (Europe) and November 3rd (N. America) via Nuclear Blast Records. The North American mail-order version of A Taste of Extreme Divinity will feature 3 exclusive bonus tracks, which can now be pre-ordered now at this location http://store.nuclearblastusa.com/Search/hypocrisy in various formats and bundle packages.


The track listing:
01. Valley Of The Damned
02. Hang Him High
03. Solar Empire
04. Weed Out The Weak
05. No Tomorrow
06. Global Domination
07. Taste The Extreme Divinity
08. Alive
09. The Quest
10. Tamed "Filled With Fear"
11. Sky Is Falling Down

Bonus Tracks:
12. The Sinner
13. Taste the Extreme Divinity (2008 Demo)
14. Valley of the Damned (2008 Demo)

The new track “Hang Him High” can now be streamed on the bands Myspace page (www.myspace.com/hypocrisy)

The second video trailer for HYPOCRISY’s A Taste of Extreme Divinity release was recently posted and can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i_pefnsqus&feature=player_embedded

For more info visit: www.hypocrisy.tv & www.mypace.com/hypocrisy

Fucking stupid pirate metal. Douchebag ahoy at this one.

Even if Hypocrisy's new album ends up being decent,I can't stand Children of bullshit,I don't wanna see this dude playing with Hypocrisy

Fight him or you are a pussy!

The first two COB albums are awesome.

It is decent.

i was pumped when i saw this. i love bodom, and this show already had a killer line-up. should be a good time

Everyone already knows I'm a pussy Ryan,However that dude wears nail polish so maybe I can take him

I'd pay to see it

Isn't dude like 5'3" or something? He's like a miniature collectible Finn from the Franklin Mint. I think you're probably ahead on the odds.

Lol @ metal midgets.

YOW-OW

He's about 5'6'' or so. if my memory serves correctly. everybody seems the same height to me sometimes

PERSPECTIVE LOL

HYPOCRISY has officially canceled their North American tour.

The legendary Swedish death metallers, HYPOCRISY, have issued the following statement in regards to their tour with ENSIFERUM and their current troubles with US immigration:

“We regretfully have to officially announce the cancelation of our tour in North America. We’ve tried everything so far and it seems like the process will take longer than expected for one of the members in the band. We will try to come back as soon as possible, as we want to show our US fans that we care for them and we are ready to play the new songs live!”

Previously HYPOCRISY had been in holding mode, fully expecting to join the tour that was already in progress at a later date. In an earlier statement the band explained their situation:

“Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are forced to stay home until U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services process and authorize our working visas. This is the first time the band has faced a situation like this and it’s extremely frustrating, as well as depressing, since the last thing we want to do is disappoint our loyal fans who have waited years to see us live in the US. We filed for our visas with plenty of time, but as some probably don’t know, the US government has changed its rules when it comes to visas issued to artists so it’s become tougher. Even if we have already toured the US numerous times.”

tonight.

btw: it's moved upstairs.

BTW: I should have re-read that hypocrisy wasnt playing. I figured that the alexi thing fixed the issue with visas, but I guess i was reading backwards in time again.

under lying truth just finished. i missed most of their set.
swashbuckle: 7:15
blackguard: 8
ex deo: 8:55
ensiferum: 10-11:40
is that a typo? I'm hoping the pit is thin enoughh for me to get through around 10:20 to retrive my other flash...

the swashbuckle set was weird cause they had a new drummer. it was madea little less weird cause they came out to "im on a boat" and im wearing my "im on a boat" shirt. i did not plan that.

blackguard had an amazing response from the crowd. i also was thinking it would be great to see them up stairs cause i could finally get shots of their drummer. I couldnt remember what was different about their drummer that would make me want to shoot, but then when they set up, i realized; female drummer. that is a rarity. at the end of their set, 2 guys from swashbuckle came out and hosed the crowd down with some suds. i guess the next round was litterally on everyone.

ex deo was pretty much the coolest thing I've seen in a looong time. roman metal. it doesnt get much better than that imho. the costumes, the stances, the rhetoric, everything was perfect. plus, between the songs, they had clips of historical things. excellent.

pictures

Ensiferum mustve been awesome with an almost 2hr set.

fukcing sick ass show. ex deo was awesome. great crowd reaction. I hope they come back soon. ensfirium was good too.

I've been listening to that Ex Deo record pretty much non-stop back-to-back with this:


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I forgot how much fun Ensiferum is live!
It's a shame the sound was so bad, it sounded like tin cans underwater.
Wish they'd have turned up the guitars.

I personally was unimpressed with all the opening bands, but that's just me.

I've never seen so many people that missed the "don't wear the band you're seeing's shirt" memo, but I can only assume it's because folk metal is so.....accessible?

I was glad they ended up playing both Iron and Battle Song for encores.

shirt? i have never seen a band with that much schwag... even the member of ensefirum were wearing their own gig.

Yeah, the sound was pretty crappy, but Ensiferum kicked ass.

BTW, did anyone else find it funny that Ex Deo's intro music was from the movie 300, which is about Spartans (who were Greek) and not Romans?

My friends were amused by the non-original music, but they said it was from Gladiator.

i like gladiator films...

Nope, definitely 300. Maybe they thought the music from Gladiator sounded too much like Pirates of the Caribbean, and that people would be confused...the Gladiator and PotC scores have very similar themes and were composed by the same person (Hans Zimmer).