Away Team

Fresh off their triumphant run headlining the second stage of this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, ATREYU have announced that they’ll headline their own “Congregation of the Damned” tour, a speaker-shattering roadshow set to begin October 20 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. The tour, which is being sponsored in part by Monster Energy Drink, will see ATREYU topping a bill that features heavy hitters BLESSTHEFALL, CHIODOS, ARCHITECTS and ENDLESS HALLWAY.

ATREYU is touring in support of “Congregation of the Damned“, which came out in October 2009 and debuted at #18 on The Billboard 200 chart. It was recently announced that “Ravenous“, one of the album’s most electrifying tracks, will be featured in “Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock” and “Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock” mobile.

ATREYU “Congregation of the Damned” tour dates:
Oct. 20 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
Oct. 21 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency
Oct. 22 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
Oct. 23 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
Oct. 25 – Seattle, WA – Showbox
Oct. 26 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
Oct. 27 – Calgary, AB – MacEwan Hall
Oct. 28 – Edmonton, AB – EEC
Oct. 29 – Saskatoon, SK – The Odeon
Oct. 30 – Winnipeg, MB – The Garrick
Nov. 02 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix
Nov. 03 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis
Nov. 04 – Hartford, CT – Webster Theater
Nov. 05 – Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock
Nov. 06 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
Nov. 08 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva
Nov. 09 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls
Nov. 10 – Baltimore, MD – Sonar
Nov. 12 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues
Nov. 13 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
Nov. 14 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
Nov. 15 – Tampa, FL – Ritz Theatre
Nov. 17 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews
Nov. 18 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Nov. 19 – Minneapolis, MN – Cabooz
Nov. 20 – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
Nov. 21 – Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre
Nov. 23 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit
Nov. 24 – Dallas, TX – The Palladium
Nov. 26 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee
Nov. 27 – Los Angeles, CA – House of Blues

For more ATREYU click here.

Attention, COOL TOUR fans! Newbury Comics is giving YOU the chance to meet your favorite bands on COOL TOUR! Enter NOW to win a pair of passes to COOL TOUR featuring As I Lay Dying, Underoath, and Between the Buried and Me on July 20th at the House of Blues in Boston! Eight winners and their guests will not only get to see these heavy hitting bands perform, but they’ll also get the opportunity to meet them before the show that day! Visit the Newbury Comics COOL TOUR contest page to enter for your chance to win. Hurry, the contest ends on July 11th.

Newbury Comics is an independently owned retailer specializing in music, movies and pop culture. Not only do they have a great selection of CDs and DVDs, they also sell everything from t-shirts and posters, to action figures, toys and novelties, books, comics, and a whole lot more. They amuse, entertain, and challenge our customers’ perception of the world. Newbury Comics is “a wicked good time“!

The COOL TOUR Amazon page is up and running! Make your way to the COOL TOUR Amazon page to purchase the newest tunes by all of the COOL TOUR artists!

Don’t forget about the awesome goodies offered in the COOL TOUR Download Pack! The package is full of amazing merchandise, all of which are listed below! Make sure to head over to the COOL TOUR Facebook page to grab the free pack! The download pack includes:
• As I Lay Dying merch coupon for $3 off a purchase over $30 at asilaydyingstore.com
• Underoath merch coupon for 15% off a purchase over $20 at underoathmerch.com
• Cancer Bats MP3 “Sabotage”
• Invisible Children Video
• Atticus Coupon for 25% off anything in the Atticus Black Webstore
• Alt Press Coupon for a 1 year digital subscription for only $5
• The Acacia Strain: “Dr. Doom (live),” taken from their recently released 2DVD “The Most Known Unknown.”
• Architects MP3 “Early Grave”
• War Of Ages MP3 “Collapse”
• Ding! Coupon for 20% off anything at dinglife.com
• Facedown Records coupon for 10% off merch and music at facedownrecords.com
• Blessthefall MP3 “To Hell And Back”
• Fearless coupon for 10% off http://fearless.merchnow.com/
• 2010 Cool Tour New Artist Sampler (provided by Metal Blade Records & Good Fight Records).
• Tracklisting:
1 The Absence- “Enemy Unbound”
2 Aeon- “Kill Them All”
3 Allegaeon- “The God Particle”
4 Barn Burner- “Holy Smokes”
5 Bison b.c.- “Two-Day Booze”
6 Brain Drill- “Monumental Failure”
7 Charred Walls Of The Damned- “Ghost Town”
8 Dawn of Ashes- “Seething the Flesh in the River of Phlegethon”
9 Fatal Embrace- “Wake the Dead”
10 Fleshwrought- “Mental Illness”
11 Istapp- “Vinterrket”
12 Kings Of Asgaard- “Vamods Tale”
13 Lightning Swords Of Death- “Nihilistic Stench”
14 The Ocean- “Swallowed By The Earth”
15 Return To Earth- “Back Of My Hand”
16 Skyforger- “In The Underworld”
17 System Divide- “Vagaries of Perception”
18 Valkyrja- “Oceans to Dust”
19 Woe Of Tyrants- “Creatures of the Mire”
20 Cancer Bats- “Dead Wrong”
21 Son of Aurelius- “Mercy For Today”
22 I Am Abomination- “Since 1776″
23 This Or The Apocalypse- “Charmer”
24 Rosaline- “London Lost Its Fog”

2010 witnesses the inaugural year of COOL TOUR, in association with Metal Blade Records, Atticus Black by Atticus Clothing, and Musician’s Institute College of Contemporary Music, and features AS I LAY DYING, UNDEROATH, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, BLESSTHEFALL, THE ACACIA STRAIN, ARCHITECTS, CANCER BATS, and WAR OF AGES. COOL TOUR is brought to you by Ibanez, Ding, Alternative Press, altpress.com, Invisible Children, Facedown Records, Mesa Boogie, Ampeg, Live Nation, The Agency Group and Good Fight Entertainment.

COOL TOUR DATES:
July 12 – Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues (7 bands only; no Acacia Strain)
July 13 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
July 14 – N. Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues SC
July 15 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
July 16 – Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
July 17 – Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
July 18 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre**
July 20 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston
July 21 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
July 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
July 23 – Columbus, OH @ The LC Pavilion
July 24 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Complex
July 25 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
July 27 – Houston, TX @ Verizon Wireless Theater
July 28 – Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Ballroom
July 30 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater** (NEW VENUE!!)
July 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Aug 1 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

You can check out AS I LAY DYING‘s new video for the song “Parallels” here. New album, The Powerless Rise, in stores and online now!