Metal icons SOULFLY and Egyptian themed technical death metal champions and label mates NILE are proud to announce their 2018 From The Amazon To The Nile co-headlining U.S. tour! The 35-date trek kicks off at Diamond Pub and Billiards in Louisville on April 26th and will make stops in Atlanta, Cleveland, and West Hollywood before ending on May 24th in Houston, Texas.
SOULFLY guitarist/vocalist Max Cavalera states, “From the Amazon to the Nile, it’s gonna rage!”
“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring NILE fans in the States a last round of touring supporting the “What Should Not be Unearthed album”, comments NILE founding member KARL SANDERS. “Teaming up with SOULFLY is going to make for a killer package sure to please Metal Fans. 2018 coincidentally also happens to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka release, so we are likely going to playing some not-heard-in-years material from that classic recording as well as fan favorites from our entire catalog ,and of course tracks from our latest release, What Should Not be Unearthed. Metal will Take Place!”
SOULFLY‘s latest album, Archangel features a slew of guests including Todd Jones (NAILS), Matt Young (KING PARROT), Richie Cavalera (INCITE), Igor Cavalera (LO DY KONG), and Anahid (M.O.P.). Watch the lyric video for “Soomites” on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel.
NILE is touring in support of their latest release What Should Not Be Unearthed. Watch the official lyric video for “Call To Destruction” on the Nuclear Blast Youtube Channel.
Tickets for the tour are now on sale at Enterthevault.com. All other outlets will have the tickets available for purchase on Friday, November 17 at 10 a.m. local time.
04/17/2018 Diamond Pub and Billiards – Louisville, KY
04/18/2018 Rams Head Live – Baltimore, MD
04/19/2018 The Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY
04/21/2018 The Chance- Poughkeepsie, NY
04/22/2018 Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA
04/24/2018 The Firmament – Greenville, SC
04/25/2018 Orpheum – Tampa, FL
04/26/2018 Kelsey Theater -West Palm Beach, FL
04/27/2018 The Masquerade -Atlanta, GA
04/28/2018 The International – Knoxville, TN
04/29/2018 The Muse – Wilmington, NC
05/01/2018 Diesel Nightclub – Pittsburgh, PA
05/02/2018 Montage Music Hall – Rochester, NY
05/03/2018 Token Lounge – Westland, MI
05/04/2018 Agora Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
05/05/2018 Oddbody’s – Dayton – OH
05/06/2018 The Forge – Joliet, IL
05/07/2018 Turner Hall – Milwaukee, WI
05/08/2018 The Cabooze – Minneapolis, MN
05/09/2018 Riot Room – Kansas City, MO
05/10/2018 Hermans Hideaway – Denver CO
05/11/2018 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
05/12/2018 Diamondz Event Center – Jerome, ID
05/13/2018 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
05/14/2018 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland. OR
05/16/2018 The UC Theatre – Berkeley, CA
05/17/2018 Whiskey a Go Go – West Hollywood, CA
05/18/2018 City National Grove – Anaheim, CA
05/19/2018 Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
05/20/2018 El Rey Theater – Albuquerque, NM
05/22/2018 Trees – Dallas, TX
05/23/2018 Rock Box – San Antonio, TX
05/24/2018 White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
The unquenchable fire of inspiration consuming Max Cavalera has blessed the world with arguably the most prolific lifelong achievements in urgent, primal, gut-wrenching, and unapologetically transcendental extreme metal. To commune with the dark muse of heavy music’s shamanistic tribal leader is to envelop oneself inside some sort of post-modern sweat lodge. Brutal riffs, trippy esoteric summoning, unrelenting percussiveness, and diverse world music: whatever Max Cavalera hammers out on his four-string signature ESP, it always sets souls free.
Cavalera is an eternal innovator and also heavy metal’s most efficient sponge, soaking up all of the genre’s historical strengths and cutting edge modern interpretations and reshaping them to deliver something unmistakably, singularly his own. Archangel invokes Old Testament fire-and-brimstone and New Testament crucifixion/resurrection with an equal devotion, study and musical pilgrimage into the rich history of the magic-obsessed and supernaturally instinctual meditations of pre-civilized people. This is all woven together into a tapestry brimming with death metal as punishingly pulverizing as BEHEMOTH and BELPHEGOR and fierce as vintage SLAYER.
Between his work with SOULFLY, KILLER BE KILLED, NAILBOMB, and SEPULTURA, Cavalera has worked with nearly every A-list rock producer on the planet and Archangel is no exception: Matt Hyde (SLAYER, CHILDREN OF BODOM) helped craft SOULFLY’s most daring, exciting, and creative record yet. Fittingly for such a monumental band’s tenth full-length release, Archangel is adorned with a brilliant cover image from Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH, SODOM), a neo-classical/post-modern mishmash of Biblical triumph and talismans of SOULFLY’s past, present, and future.
Like all innovative heroes from any musical genre, SOULFLY crafts anthems for the people. SOULFLY’s tenth studio album is both a celebration of Max Cavalera’s continuing legacy and a brand new masterwork to champion in clubs, theaters, and festival stages across the globe. SOULFLY songs like “Back To The Primitive,” “Prophecy,” and “Eye For An Eye” have become every bit as important to the metal community as “Refuse/Resist” or “Territory.”
Bursting forth with the perspective, hunger, energy, and determination that can only be forged by three decades as a heavy metal community organizer and champion, Archangel is yet another brutal, vibrant, extreme, uplifting, and unashamedly spiritual entry into the SOULFLY canon.
