San Francisco Bay Space metallers MACHINE HEAD have introduced leg one among their “Slaughter The Martour North America 2024” tour. Forgoing their “An Night With…” format for the primary time in a decade, MACHINE HEAD may have Los Angeles’s cyber-metal masters FEAR FACTORY, Sweden’s ORBIT CULTURE and Louisville, Kentucky’s GATES TO HELL in tow, guaranteeing your 2024 begins off as heavy as humanly doable.

“Slaughter The Martour North America 2024” will kick off with a “hometown” present for MACHINE HEAD, their first since 2020, in San Francisco on January 19. Then the tour heads north with reveals within the pacific northwest in addition to eight reveals in Canada. Different stops embody: Chicago, Orlando, and Houston earlier than concluding in Los Angeles on February 24 at The Bellwether.

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MACHINE HEAD founder Robb Flynn says: “Head Circumstances! This would be the best metallic tour on earth! So stoked to be getting again on the highway in America/Canada with 4 masters of soul-crushing heaviness and a fully earth-shattering invoice. FEAR FACTORY have lengthy been our brothers-in-arms, pioneers and innovators of a sound that had but to exist. ORBIT CULTURE are the fast-rising Swedish trendy metallic maniacs brining their distinctive spin to the world, and GATES TO HELL completely blew my thoughts at Milwaukee Metalfest with their sheer savage brutality.

“North America, we’re able to crush skulls, crush beers, and crush the whole lot in our path!”

FEAR FACTORY‘s Dino Cazares states: “We’re honored to be touring with the mighty MACHINE HEAD. We got here up within the metallic scene collectively and each bands have stamped their mark in trendy metallic, plus Robb has been a great pal of mine for near 30 years. We’re fucking excited for the metallic followers to see this wonderful bundle and we will not wait to get on the market. Let’s fucking rage!”

ORBIT CULTURE says: “It’s such an honor for us to be occurring tour with MACHINE HEAD and FEAR FACTORY throughout North America, we look ahead to convey you all our model of metallic. Watch out for the antlers North America!”

Says GATES TO HELL: “MACHINE HEAD was one of many bands that impressed GATES TO HELL to type. They are a private favourite to a number of of us. Out of all of the excursions we have had the chance to be part of over the previous 12 months, that is positively the one we have been most excited for. Very excited to share the stage with MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY and ORBIT CULTURE.”

This tour guarantees to be an unforgettable expertise for all metallic heads in North America. Put together for an onslaught of sonic depth as these 4 bands unite for what’s going to undoubtedly be one of the talked-about metallic excursions for years.

“Slaughter The Martour North America 2024” tour dates:

Jan. 19 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield (purchase tickets)
Jan. 21 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater (purchase tickets)
Jan. 22 – Seattle, WA – Showbox (purchase tickets)
Jan. 23 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Commodore (purchase tickets)
Jan. 25 – Edmonton, AB, Canada – Halfway Music Corridor (purchase tickets)
Jan. 26 – Calgary, AB, Canada – Gray Eagle On line casino (purchase tickets)
Jan. 27 – Saskatoon, SK, Canada – Coors Occasion Centre (purchase tickets)
Jan. 28 – Winnipeg, MB, Canada – Burton Cummings Theatre (purchase tickets)
Jan. 30 – Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theatre (purchase tickets)
Jan. 31 – Chicago, IL – Harmony Music Corridor (purchase tickets)
Feb. 01 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatre (purchase tickets)
Feb. 02 – Northfield, OH – MGM Northfield Park (purchase tickets)
Feb. 03 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews (purchase tickets)
Feb. 05 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – The Opera Home (purchase tickets)
Feb. 06 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – M Telus (purchase tickets)
Feb. 07 – Quebec Metropolis, Quebec, Canada – Theatre Capitole (purchase tickets)
Feb. 08 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Membership (purchase tickets)
Feb. 09 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Occasion Middle (purchase tickets)
Feb. 10 – New York, NY – Palladium Occasions Sq. (purchase tickets)
Feb. 12 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring (purchase tickets)
Feb. 14 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (purchase tickets)
Feb. 15 – Orlando, FL – Home Of Blues (purchase tickets)
Feb. 17 – Austin, TX – Emo’s (purchase tickets)
Feb. 18 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec (purchase tickets)
Feb. 19 – Houston, TX – Home Of Blues (purchase tickets)
Feb. 21 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre (purchase tickets)
Feb. 22 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater (purchase tickets)
Feb. 23 – Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater (purchase tickets)
Feb. 24 – Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether (purchase tickets)

This previous April, MACHINE HEAD canceled its beforehand introduced spring 2023 U.S. tour “on account of work visa points,” explaining that “half the band, in addition to a handful of key crew members, reside outdoors of the U.S.”

The 18-date “The Electrical Completely satisfied Hour (Dwell)” trek was scheduled to kick off on Could 15 in Ventura, California and make its solution to Des Moines, Fort Wayne, and Detroit earlier than ending in Los Angeles on June 9.

MACHINE HEAD has been touring in assist of its newest album, “Of Kingdom And Crown”, which got here out in August 2022. The follow-up to 2018’s “Catharsis” contains the three songs that have been featured on the 2021 “Arrows In Phrases From The Sky” single: “Grow to be The Firestorm”, “Rotten” and “Arrows In Phrases From The Sky”. A lot of the brand new MACHINE HEAD album was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California with engineer/producer Zack Ohren.

In November 2020, MACHINE HEAD launched a single, “My Arms Are Empty”, through Nuclear Blast. The track marked the primary musical collaboration between Flynn and unique “Burn My Eyes” guitarist Logan Mader in 24 years.

“My Arms Are Empty” was only one in a line of singles to be launched by MACHINE HEAD, which issued “Do Or Die” in October 2019, “Circle The Drain” in February 2020, and the two-song digital single “Civil Unrest”, consisting of “Cease The Bleeding” and “Bulletproof”, in June 2020. “Cease The Bleeding” featured visitor vocals from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach, and was written and recorded simply days after the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.

FEAR FACTORY‘s subsequent album, which is tentatively due in late 2024, would be the band’s first with singer Milo Silvestro, whose addition to FEAR FACTORY was formally introduced in late February.

The Italian-born Silvestro joined FEAR FACTORY because the substitute for the band’s unique singer Burton C. Bell.

FEAR FACTORY performed its first headlining live performance with Silvestro and touring drummer Pete Webber on Could 5 on the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California.

FEAR FACTORY‘s not too long ago accomplished “Rise Of The Machine” U.S. tour because the assist act for STATIC-X marked the Cazares-led outfit’s first run of reveals with Silvestro and Webber.

Webber has been filling in for FEAR FACTORY‘s longtime drummer Mike Heller who’s unable to play with the band on account of “scheduling conflicts.”

FEAR FACTORY performed a one-off present on September 17 on the Steel Injection Pageant the place the band carried out a really particular “Demanufacture” and “Out of date” set. FEAR FACTORY then launched a five-date headlining “DisrupTour” with particular friends LIONS AT THE GATE. This was adopted by the band heading out on the “October Daybreak 2023” tour with headliners LACUNA COIL and openers LIONS AT THE GATE. The ten-date trek started on October 13 in Atlanta and can make stops in Louisville, Oklahoma Metropolis, and Houston earlier than concluding in St. Petersburg on October 29.

FEAR FACTORY will embark on a European tour this fall. The 44-date trek will mark the band’s first European reveals since 2016. Becoming a member of them on this run are BUTCHER BABIES from the USA and IGNEA from Ukraine.