Following his recent tour with LAMB OF GOD and MASTODON and his first European headline tour earlier this year, Kerry King and his new band – drummer Paul Bostaph (SLAYER), bassist Kyle Sanders (HELLYEAH), guitarist Phil Demmel (ex-MACHINE HEAD, ex-VIO-LENCE), and vocalist Mark Osegueda (DEATH ANGEL) – will hit the road for the twenty-eight date “North American Headline Tour 2025.”
The tour is in support of King’s debut solo album, From Hell I Rise (RPM), which, according to the UK’s Kerrang!, ”The phrase ‘metal as f*ck’ may never be better applied.” With MUNICIPAL WASTE as special guest and ALIEN WEAPONRY supporting, the tour is set to launch in San Francisco on January 15, 2025, and wrap at House of Blues in Las Vegas on February 22. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 4 at 10AM local time and.
Also announced today is the release of King’s brand new music video for the album track, “Where I Reign.” Shot in black and white, the “Where I Reign” video was directed by Jim Louvau who also directed King’s videos for the album cuts “Residue” and “Toxic.”
“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King acknowledged. “I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band – in the UK and Europe, and then in America with LAMB OF GOD and MASTODON – were all total blasts. We’ll be headlining on this next tour, so we’re playing a longer set than we did with LAMB OF GOD and MASTODON. We’ve got a little bit of a learning curve, so will start rehearsing the first week of November. And we might put an extra SLAYER song into the set and learn a cover song or two.”
The complete itinerary for Kerry King‘s North American headline tour 2025 is as follows:
Jan. 15 -The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
Jan. 17 – Spokane Live Casino, Spokane, WA
Jan. 18 – Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
Jan. 19 – Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
Jan. 20 – Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC CANADA
Jan. 22 – The Palace Theatre, Calgary, AB CANADA
Jan. 23 – Midway Music Hall, Edmonton, AB CANADA
Jan. 25 – Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB CANADA
Jan. 26 – The Fillmore, Minneapolis, MN
Jan. 28 – The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
Jan. 30 – The Majestic Theater, Detroit, MI
Jan. 31 – House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
Feb. 01 – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON CANADA
Feb. 02 – L’Olympia, Montreal, QC CANADA
Feb. 04 – Royale, Boston, MA
Feb. 05 – Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Feb. 07 – Irving Plaza, New York, NY
Feb. 08 – Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD
Feb. 10 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
Feb. 11 – Jannus Live, St. Petersburg, FL
Feb. 13 – House of Blues, Houston, TX
Feb. 14 – Emo’s, Austin, TX
Feb. 15 – The Studio at the Factory, Dallas, TX
Feb. 17 – Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
Feb. 18 – Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM
Feb. 19 – The Nile Theater, Phoenix, AZ
Feb. 21 – House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
Feb. 22 – The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
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