Cleveland, Ohio-based masked steel masters MUSHROOMHEAD will embark on a fall 2025 U.S. tour with help from PSYCHOSTICK, BLACK SATELLITE and MIND INCISION as help.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 7.
Tour dates:
Oct. 10 – Wally’s – Hampton Seaside, NH
Oct. 11 – Empire Dwell – Albany, NY
Oct. 12 – Palladium Upstairs – Worcester, MA
Oct. 14 – The Underground – Hartford, CT
Oct. 15 – Anthology – Rochester, NY
Oct. 17 – Home of Independents – Asbury Park, NJ
Oct. 18 – Reverb – Studying, PA
Oct. 19 – Tally Ho – Leesburg, VA
Oct. 21 – Preserving Underground – Pittsburgh, PA
Oct. 22 – Bogart’s – Cincinnati, OH
Oct. 24 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
Oct. 25 – Epic Occasions Middle – Inexperienced Bay, WI
Oct. 26 – The Forge – Joliet, IL
Oct. 28 – The Vixen – McHenry, IL
Oct. 29 – Elevation @ The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI
Oct. 31 – The King of Golf equipment – Columbus, OH
MUSHROOMHEAD‘s ninth album, “Name The Satan”, got here out final August through Napalm Information.
Returning after a 12-year hiatus, longtime guitarist Dave “Gravy” Felton — who carried out on a number of of the band’s greatest albums and is credited as a major songwriter on traditional anthems like “Alongside The Manner”, “Solar Does not Rise” and “The Dream Is Over” — contributes his trademark abilities to 2 “Name The Satan” album tracks. The album as soon as once more options manufacturing by band mastermind/drummer Steve “Skinny” Felton, in addition to the return of Matt Wallace (FAITH NO MORE, 3 DOORS DOWN) on mixing, additionally acknowledged for his work on MUSHROOMHEAD‘s iconic album “XIII”. The album can also be the band’s first to function mastering from Jacob Hansen (VOLBEAT, EPICA, ARCH ENEMY).
In a 2024 interview with Belgian Jasper, Steve “Skinny” Felton spoke concerning the numerous lineup modifications MUSHROOMHEAD has gone by since its formation greater than three a long time in the past. Requested whether it is troublesome discovering members who’re the precise match musically in addition to on a creative degree, he responded: “I feel whenever you’re with the precise artistic folks and there is a very comparable mindset, and being very collaborative and open to critiquing and simply listening to different folks’s concepts by, there is a little bit of a balancing act, for certain; it is not all the time simple. However there’s additionally an pleasure. New blood brings new character to the desk in lots of respects, and typically you do not know what you are going to get. So I feel that could be a little intriguing to me personally, particularly within the artist realm. It is virtually like stepping out of your consolation zone into the unknown. And you find yourself with one thing that you simply by no means thought you’ll or by no means actually imagined earlier than. So, it is a yin-yang kind of factor, man… It is troublesome, and when you have the persistence and you’ve got the like mindset with the folks you are collaborating with, man, you may provide you with some issues that you simply by no means dreamed of.”
Felton additionally addressed MUSHROOMHEAD‘s musical evolution and the way it has been affected by the fixed modifications in personnel over time. He stated: “Properly, I positively suppose it positively retains it stunning as a result of we do not even know what’s gonna occur typically. There may be the concern of that in all probability with many artists, that you simply get stale working with the identical folks, being, like I stated, in your consolation zone. Getting out of your consolation zone to the purpose of you do not even know if it is gonna be wherever close to what you had earlier than, typically that is scary for artists So, once more, it’s a troublesome steadiness, for certain.”
Referencing “Name The Satan”, he stated: “That is album quantity 9. And if folks have like a great grasp on what we have accomplished, and should you even are form of new to it, should you checked out it virtually extra of like artwork and cinema than a conventional band and consider, like, say, Quentin Tarantino and all his motion pictures, you understand what sort of world you are stepping into. And lots of occasions it is the identical actors and lots of occasions it is the identical model of flicks, so far as there’s gonna be comedy, there’s gonna be drama, there’s gonna be violence. You understand what sort of world you are stepping into, even when you do not know the precise characters. And he brings again lots of the identical folks in numerous roles and identical crew folks, identical cinematographers. So should you suppose in that form of regard, that is form of like a unique means to take a look at what MUSHROOMHEAD does.”
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