Volbeat To Tour With Nightwish

VOLBEAT unleashes their second U.S. album, "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood," March 17th on Mascot Records U.S.A. This new rock-a-billy metal masterpiece arrives on the tail end of their successful 2008 release "Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil." They will support this release with a month long tour with multi-platinum Finnish band Nightwish in May 2009. Tour dates are listed below.

The title "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood" refers to a story that connects seven of the thirteen (official) songs on the album: "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood," "Find That Soul," "Maybellene I Hofteholder," "Still Counting," "Back To Prom," "Light A Way and A Broken Man And The Dawn." It's a tale about a travelling band whose leader is a man that once got shot in the desert and left for dead. During the band's tour he went on a mission to find the mysterious killer that put seven bullets in his body. While travelling from city to city the band ends up in a small town called Ten House City performing for just a handful of people in the local bar. The songs offer observations of the people in the rundown venue, made by the bandleader. This storyline will continue to be a connecting theme and developed as VOLBEAT writes future albums.

Here are the latest Volbeat tour dates in support of Nightwish:

1-May - Webster Theater, Hartford, CT
2-May - Nokia Theater, NYC
3-May - Crocodile Rock Café, Allentown, PA
5-May - Sonar, Baltimore, MD
6-May - Club Oasis, Louisville, KY
8-May - Pop's, Sauget, IL
9-May - Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK
10-May - Scout Bar, San Antonio, TX
11-May - Pavillion @ Concrete Street, Corpus Christi, TX
12-May - Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
14-May - The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA