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Metalliance 2011 Tour Announced, Featuring Helmet, Saint Vitus, and Crowbar

posted Jan 10, 2011 at 1:01 PM by deathbringer.  (4 Comments)

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The 2011 Metalliance Tour has officially been announced, featuring HELMET, SAINT VITUS and CROWBAR for its inaugural line up. The festival tour will run through the U.S. from March 17th through April 5th.

HELMET will perform their 1992 platinum-selling release of "Meantime" in its entirety. The
Interscope Records release gave the band mainstream attention with songs like "Unsung" and "In The Meantime."

One of the most highly influential Doom Metal bands in America, SAINT VITUS are regarded as one of the first bands of the genre starting out as early as the 1970's. The band featuring Scott "Wino" Weinrich, bassist Mark Adams, guitarist Dave Chandler and drummer Armando Acosta has influenced so many bands in doom and metal. "Saint Vitus is more than ready to infect The Metalliance Tour! We've been wanting to do something like this for some time now...so prepare for destruction!!" says lead guitarist Dave Chandler. The band has done a handful of shows and some European Festivals but this will be their first full US tour in over a decade.

CROWBAR front man Kirk Windstein concludes, "Wow! This tour is gonna rule! I've loved Helmet since the beginning and loved St. Vitus even longer. With the new Crowbar record having hit the streets by then, look out! This bill will bring just what we need to crush each city with an avalanche of stylistic thunder!"

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4 Comments on "Helmet, Saint Vitus, and Crowbar To Tour Together"

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1. Zontar The Munificent writes:

WOW!!! That' very cool.

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2. utoad9 writes:

Meantime in its entirity! Nice!!!

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3. hellrat writes:

fvck ya...if this thing comes anywhere near me i'm going if my fvcking stupid schedule allows

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4. deathfreak writes:

hell yea i want to go saint vitus put on a good show and im sure the other two do also

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