IMMOLATION have confirmed their participation in MAYHEM's "Death Over Europe Tour" alongside the Norwegian black metal legends and Swedish extreme metallers MARDUK, assembling one of the most fearsome triple bills in extreme metal touring history. The trek will see three veteran acts -- each with more than three decades of uncompromising heaviness behind them -- deliver some of the most intense live music on the continent.
IMMOLATION are touring in support of their forthcoming twelfth studio album "Descent," due April 10 via Nuclear Blast Records. The album's lead single "Adversary" has already showcased the New York death metal institution at their most crushing, with Ross Dolan's cavernous growls anchoring a maelstrom of dissonant riffing and precision blast beats. Guitarist Bob Vigna, whose unconventional approach to death metal guitar work has long set IMMOLATION apart from their peers, directed the accompanying music video himself.
The "Death Over Europe" tour serves as an ideal precursor to IMMOLATION's even more massive North American run as part of BEHEMOTH's "Godless IV" tour, which also features DEICIDE and ROTTING CHRIST beginning in April. Frontman Ross Dolan expressed excitement about playing the new material live for European audiences first, noting that the European extreme metal fanbase has always been among the band's most passionate and knowledgeable.
The pairing with MAYHEM -- whose "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" remains one of black metal's defining documents -- and MARDUK, whose relentless discography spans over 30 years of uncompromising Scandinavian extremity, creates a touring package that spans the full spectrum of extreme metal darkness. For fans of underground heavy music, this tour represents a rare opportunity to witness three pillars of the genre's most unforgiving corners sharing a single stage night after night.