Gorguts announced European tour

Critically-acclaimed death metal pioneers GORGUTS are bound for a headlining tour of Europe in March and April 2016!

The Canadians will be joined by the kindred musical spirits of PSYCOPTIC, DYSRHYTHMIA, and NERO DI MARTE as part of a multi-band package. The tour will start at the prestigious Inferno Festival in Oslo, Norway on the 23rd of March and continue on to stun audiences in 14 other countries until a final show at the Iduna in Drachten, The Netherlands on April 17th.

A full list of confirmed tour dates can be viewed below.
GORGUTS
+PSYCOPTIC +DYSRHYTHMIA +NERO DI MARTE
23 Mar 16 Oslo (NO) Inferno Festival
24 Mar 16 Stockholm (SE) Fryshuset Klubben
26 Mar 16 Tilburg (NL) 013
27 Mar 16 Bruxelles (BE) Magasin
28 Mar 16 Manchester (UK) Sound Control
29 Mar 16 Glasgow (UK) Ivory Blacks
30 Mar 16 London (UK) The Dome
31 Mar 16 Evreux (FR) Abordage
01 Apr 16 Nantes (FR) Metalorgie Fest
02 Apr 16 Madrid (ES) But
03 Apr 16 Barcelona (ES) Boveda
04 Apr 16 Toulouse (FR) Metronum
05 Apr 16 Aarau (CH) Kiff (Foyer)
06 Apr 16 Brescia (IT) Circolo Colony
07 Apr 16 Wiesbaden (DE) Schlachthof
08 Apr 16 Oberhausen (DE) Kulttempel
09 Apr 16 Aarhus (DK) Royal Metal Fest
10 Apr 16 Hamburg (DE) Headcrash
11 Apr 16 Warszawa (PL) Proxima
12 Apr 16 Bratislava (SK) Randal
13 Apr 16 Budapest (HU) Durer Kurt
14 Apr 16 München (DE) Backstage
15 Apr 16 Praha (CZ) Nova Chmelnice
16 Apr 16 Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
17 Apr 16 Drachten (NL) Iduna
GORGUTS will be touring in support of their critically highly acclaimed latest album ‘Colored Sands’, which is still available in various formats via the Season of Mist shop. The album is streaming in its entirety on their Bandcamp page.

Artwork and tracklist are as follows:
1. Le Toit du Monde
2. An Ocean of Wisdom
3. Forgotten Arrows
4. Colored Sands
5. The Battle of Chamdo
6. Enemies of Compassion
7. Ember’s Voice
8. Absconders
9. Reduced to Silence

GORGUTS, long-running Canadian craftsmen of technical death metal have returned! After more than a decade of silence, mastermind Luc Lemay unleashes “Colored Sands”, a new brand of pestilent fury featuring an all star line-up including John Longstreath (ORIGIN, SKINLESS), Colin Marston (BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS) and Kevin Hufnagel (DYSRHYTHMIA). Few extreme bands have the pedigree of GORGUTS. During their early days as part of death metal’s first wave, they created a legacy of legendary releases including their debut album “Considered Dead” (1991) and its follow-up “Erosion of Sanity” (1993). The latter witnessed the Canadians becoming more experimental and technical. After a hiatus of five years, Luc Lemay returned with a new line-up, which released the acclaimed third full-length “Obscura” (1998). By then GORGUTS had fully transformed into one of the most progressive and influential bands in extreme music, which remained impervious to trends, while expanding and redefining the language of death metal. With a new line-up that left Lemay as the sole original member, another milestone album was released. On “From Wisdom to Hate” (2001) the Quebecois successfully merged the brutal and more direct approach of their earlier albums with the complex arrangements of “Obscura”. Just as GORGUTS seemed on the verge of making the first decade of the new century their own, the band was hit by business and personal issues and went on hiatus. Their musical legacy continued to inspire and thrive as their native Quebec became a focus for technical death metal with acts such as CRYPTOPSY, NEURAXIS and BEYOND CREATION to name but a few following in their footsteps. With “Colored Sands” these technical masters finally returned to deliver the stunning masterpiece that the world had long been waiting for.

Current line-up
Luc Lemay: rhythm guitar, vocals
Kevin Hufnagel: lead guitar
Colin Marston: bass
Patrice Hamelin: drums

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