Turisas Announce U.K. Headlining Tour

Finnish bashers TURISAS, fresh off a European tour with ICED EARTH and ANNIHILATOR, have issued the following update:

2007 has been an amazing year for Turisas with the release of their epic new album The Varangian Way, playing the main stage at the Download Festival, Metal Hammer's Get In The Ring and Kerrang Magazine's Day Of Rock shows in London, a sold out UK tour, Wacken, Tuska and Graspop Festivals, and touring Europe with Iced Earth and Annihilator .. and finishing off with the year in style with a show stealing performance at last weekend's inaugural Hard Rock Hell Festival in Minehead. So what better way to start 2008 than bringing everyone's favourite Viking warriors back to the UK to play some more shows.

Warlord Nygard comments on the forthcoming tour: "We just got back home from Hard Rock Hell festival in Minehead, which surely was a great and rather interesting experience … we are still trying to cure our hangovers! We did our first UK tour this September, and the response was overwhelming – with sold out dates and crazy crowds everywhere! In March we will return to tour cities and towns we didn't play in September and we're expecting you guys to prove us right in not only touring the main 4-5 cities, but trying to play as much of the country as we can and meet as many of you battle metallers as possible"

Turisas' UK tour schedule is as follows. The support act will be announced soon:

March
1 - Northampton - Soundhaus
2 - Sheffield - Corporation
3 - Aberdeen - Moshulu
4 - Edinburgh - Studio 24
5 - Liverpool - Academy 2
6 - Norwich - Waterfront
7 - Peterborough - Park
8 - Leeds - Cocpit
10 - Exeter - Cavern
11 - Cardiff - Clwb Ifor Bach
12 - Southampton - The Brook
13 - London - Electric Ballroom
14 - Brighton - Concorde 2

Source: BW&BK