This fall, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will embark on a North American tour in support of its upcoming album, "Nightbringers", due out October 6 via Metal Blade. The trek will run from October 6 through November 11 with a stop at this year's edition of Ozzfest Meets Knotfest on November 5. Support will be provided by SUFFOCATION, DECREPIT BIRTH, NECROT, WORMWITCH and EXHUMED on select dates. The journey follows THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER's co-headlining jaunt on "The Summer Slaughter Tour" with DYING FETUS, currently underway. "Summer Slaughter" sees THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER performing "Nocturnal" in its entirety in honor of the album's tenth anniversary. THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER tour dates with SUFFOCATION, EXHUMED, DECREPIT BIRTH, NECROT, WORMWITCH: Oct. 06 - Montage Music Hall - Rochester, NY Oct. 07 - Revolution - Lowell, MA Oct. 08 - Chance Theater - Poughkeepsie, NY Oct. 10 - Highline Ballroom - New York, NY Oct. 11 - Debonair Music Hall - Teaneck, NJ Oct. 12 - Ram's Head Live- Baltimore, MD Oct. 13 - One Center Square - Easton, PA Oct. 14 - The Chameleon - Lancaster, PA Oct. 16 - Les Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC Oct. 17 - Bronson Center - Ottawa, ON Oct. 18 - Opera House - Toronto, ON Oct. 20 - The Forge - Joliet, IL Oct. 21 - Piere's - Ft Wayne, IN Oct. 22 - Delmar Hall - St Louis, MO Oct. 23 - The Slowdown - Omaha, NE Oct. 25 - Q & Z Expo Center - Ringle, WI Oct. 26 - Pyramid Cabaret - Winnipeg, MB Oct. 27 - The Exchange - Regina, SK Oct. 28 - Starlite - Edmonton, AB Oct. 29 - Marquee - Calgary, AB Oct. 31 - Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC Nov. 01 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA w/ Exhumed Nov. 02 - HIFI Music Hall - Eugene, OR w/ Exhumed Nov. 03 - Vinyl at Hard Rock - Lake Tahoe, NV w/ EXHUMED Nov. 04 - Phoenix Theater - Petaluma, CA w/ EXHUMED # Nov. 05 - KnotFest - San Bernardino, CA w/ EXHUMED # ** Nov. 06 - Club Red - Mesa, AZ w/ EXHUMED Nov. 07 - Hard Rock Cafe - Las Vegas, NV Nov. 09 - Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK Nov. 10 - Zydeco - Birmingham, AL Nov. 11 - Diamond Pub Concert Hall - Louisville, KY # No SUFFOCATION * No NECROT, WORMWITCH Rather than meticulously plan things out or stick rigidly to any kind of template, when it comes to writing, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER prefer to let things happen organically. In the hands of guitarist Brian Eschbach — who co-founded the band with frontman Trevor Strnad in 2001 — and new recruit Brandon Ellis (ARSIS, ex-CANNABIS CORPSE), "Nightbringers" is rich with dynamic riffs that are at once fresh and classic THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, resulting in a collection that shifts through many moods and effortlessly incorporates various elements of extreme metal. While Strnad explores a variety of themes and ideas with his lyrics, they are united by the album's title, which embraces a tenet that has been central to THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER's output since the very beginning. "Death metal and nighttime are synonymous to me," Strnad explains. "We are the rulers of the darkened hours that the Christian good fears. A lot of archaic ideas that are still upheld — such as marriage and monogamy — came from Christianity, whether people want to acknowledge it or not, and to me, death metal has always been bucking that. It's 'being-the-villain music', because we're the enemy of Christianity, the enemy of all that is good and traditional. Death metal is for free thinkers, it's for showing people the path to inner strength and operating on your own will, instead of being told what to do and living in fear, and songs like the title track and 'Kings Of The Nightworld' are about leading a legion of awakened minds into battle."
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