Coming off Kerry King’s opening slot on this summer’s Ashes of Leviathan tour with Lamb of God and Mastodon, the veteran thrasher and his new solo band have now announced their first North American headline run. Turns out they’ll be rising from hell to play your town in early 2025.
The trek was announced this morning (October 1st), with a 28-date run around Canada and the U.S. beginning January 15th at San Francisco, California’s Regency Ballroom. The trip boomerangs out to the East Coast and back, wrapping February 22nd at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre. The whole tour also features opening sets from Virginian crossover beasts Municipal Waste and New Zealand’s Alien Weaponry.
Pre-sales go live tomorrow (October 2nd), while general ticket sales are up by Friday (October 4th). You’ll find the full route below.
King and his new band — drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), bassist Kyle Sanders (HELLYEAH), guitarist Phil Demmel (Machine Head), and vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel) — played around Europe and the U.K. earlier in the year, ahead of their summer tour with Lamb of God and Mastodon. King has acknowledged in a statement that, following a five-year sabbatical from the stage, “getting back on the road…wasn’t exactly like riding a bike,” but it sounds like he’s stoked to be repping his recent From Hell I Rise solo LP onstages.
“I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band — in the U.K. and Europe, and then in America with Lamb of God and Mastodon — were all total blasts,” he said, adding, “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.”
To celebrate the new tour announcement, King has also unleashed a tour montage-style music video for From Hell I Rise’s “Where I Reign,” which you can see up above.
As previously reported, Slayer likewise played their first show in five years last week at Chicago, Illinois’ Riot Fest. You can see photos from their triumphant return over here.
Kerry King, Municipal Waste and Alien Weaponry 2024 tour dates:
1/15 San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom
1/17 Spokane, WA – Spokane Live Casino
1/18 Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
1/19 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
1/20 Vancouver, BC -Commodore Ballroom
1/22 Calgary, AB – The Palace Theatre
1/23 Edmonton, AB – Midway Music Hall
1/25 Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
1/26 Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
1/28 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
1/30 Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theater
1/31 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
2/1 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
2/2 Montreal, QC – L’Olympia
2/4 Boston, MA -Royale
2/5 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts
2/7 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
2/8 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
2/10 Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
2/11 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live
2/13 Houston, TX – House of Blues
2/14 Austin, TX – Emo’s
2/15 Dallas, TX – The Studio at the Factory
2/17 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
2/18 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
2/19 Phoenix, AZ – The Nile Theater
2/21 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
2/22 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre
