Volbeat Announce North American Tour With Anthrax

Yesterday (Oct 26), Volbeat wrapped up a massive U.S co-headlining tour with Five Finger Death Punch, along with Hellyeah and Nothing More.  and will conclude the year with a short run across the U.K in November with special guests Hatebreed.  The band will then take a bit of time off before their spring tour, and will also begin piecing together material for the follow-up to Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, which peaked in several countries at #1, and went platinum in Germany and their native Denmark.  The North American tour dates are posted below, and check out one of my favourite tracks from Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies entitled "Lonesome Rider" featuring guest vocals from Sarah Blackwood of Walk Off The Earth.  Great song.

Apr 24 - Denver, CO - 1STBANK Centre
Apr 25 - Rapid City, SD - Rushmore Plaza Civic Centre
Apr 27 - Spokane, WA - Spokane Arena
Apr 28 - Missoula, MT - Adams Centre
Apr 29 - Seattle, WA - WaMu Theatre
May 01 - Grand Prairie, AB - Revolution Place
May 02 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
May 03 - Calgary, AB - Stampede Corral
May 04 - Saskatoon, SK - SaskTel Centre
May 06 - Regina, SK - Brandt Centre
May 07 - Grand Forks, ND - Ralph Engelstad Arena
May 12 - Oshawa, ON - General Motors Centre
May 13 - Ottawa, ON - TD Place

Blog author:  Alex Stojanovic

The tour announcements for 2015 are still coming, and we got another great one to announce.  Volbeat have announced that they will return to North America in the spring of 2015 for a headline run.  Anthrax will serve as special guests, with Crobot serving as openers.  As we all know, current Volbeat guitarist Rob Caggiano was a member of Anthrax, so who knows if Rob will jam a song with Anthrax on stage.  We'll just have to wait and see.

When I first became aware of Volbeat, their music didn't fully grab me, but I saw them when they opened for Metallica in 2009, and I saw their appearance at Heavy T.O 2011, but over the last couple of years, Volbeat have been one of my favourite bands due to their versatility and diversity, and they're one of the most unapologetic rock bands on the planet, and they can pretty much tour with any rock or metal band.  I mean, what other hard rock band with metal influences will you hear incorporate elements of country, pop, mariachi and Western music into their music. That's amazing and unique.

May 14 - Quebec City, QC - Pepsi Colisee
May 15 - Montreal, QC - Cepsum
May 18 - Saginaw, MI - Dow Events Centre
May 19 - Evansville, IN - Ford Centre
May 20 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
May 22 - Sioux City, IA - Tyson Events Centre
May 27 - Dallas, TX - Verizon Theatre
May 28 - Houston, TX - Bayou Music Centre
May 31 - St. Louis, MO - Pops (Outdoors)
Jun 02 - New York City, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom

Additional dates to be announced