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Americana Singer-Songwriter Danny Golden Releases Deeply Personal New Single “War Fever”

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Danny Golden has released “War Fever,” the second single from his upcoming album ‘The Big Blue,’ due June 24, 2026. The Austin-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist wrote the track as a meditation on addiction, recovery and the aftermath of living in survival mode, taking its title from an opening line in a foundational recovery text. “Early in my sobriety, I sat in a meeting where those four words were the topic of discussion,” Golden says. “Hearing the different images and memories they stirred, and how people saw them as metaphors for their lives in addiction, was a profound moment for me.” The song took shape over months, unlocked finally by a chance encounter with a Special Forces veteran who shared his journey with PTSD and his road to healing. “War Fever is as much their song as it is mine,” Golden says.

The single follows “Hungry Ghost,” which earned placement on Spotify’s Indigo and Tidal’s Wildflowers playlists, and builds on a rising profile that has included national touring alongside Shakey Graves, David Ramirez, Rob Baird and Matthew Logan Vasquez of Delta Spirit, along with coverage from Billboard, NPR Austin, NBC Austin and Under the Radar. Golden’s music sits at the intersection of Americana, indie rock and confessional storytelling, and “War Fever” is among his most direct and emotionally grounded work yet. ‘The Big Blue’ arrives June 24.

Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues Expand “The Greatest” 20th Anniversary Tour With New North American Dates

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Cat Power has expanded “The Greatest 20th Anniversary Tour,” adding a new run of North American headline dates beginning July 16 in Miami and continuing through mid-August. The tour, named among the “Most Anticipated Tours of 2026” by both Pitchfork and Consequence, sees Chan Marshall and her all-star backing band Dirty Delta Blues performing 2006’s ‘The Greatest’ in its entirety. Ticket pre-sales begin Wednesday, February 25 at 10 a.m. local time, with general on-sale this Friday, February 27 at 10 a.m. local time. Shows have already sold out in multiple markets, including New York City’s Webster Hall on March 7 and Paris’s Salle Pleyel on October 31, with tickets extremely limited elsewhere.

The tour coincides with the release of ‘Redux,’ a new three-song EP available now digitally and on 10-inch vinyl via Domino Recording Company, recorded at Austin’s Church House Studios by Grammy Award-winning engineer Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn, The White Stripes). The EP opens with a stunning rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” recorded as a tribute to the late Teenie Hodges, the legendary guitarist and member of The Memphis Rhythm Band who backed Cat Power on ‘The Greatest’ and with whom Marshall formed a close bond before his passing in 2014. Also included is a newly completed recording of James Brown’s “Try Me,” first attempted during the original ‘The Greatest’ sessions but never finished, and a re-imagined version of Marshall’s own “Could We,” performed in the live arrangement developed with Dirty Delta Blues on the original tour.

The response to ‘Redux’ has been immediate and enthusiastic. SPIN raved that Marshall “does what she has always done best, crafted inspired music that both soulful youngsters and their grandparents could dance to.” DIY awarded it four and a half stars and declared the tour “unmissable,” while FLOOD wrote that Marshall “doesn’t just rehash the past, she excavates it with a weary, newfound wisdom,” calling her “a singular, spectral force in American indie rock.” For a record celebrating its twentieth year, ‘The Greatest’ is generating some of the most alive critical writing of 2026.

Dirty Delta Blues, the supergroup assembled for the world tour that followed ‘The Greatest,’ brings serious pedigree to the stage. Guitarist Judah Bauer comes from The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, keyboardist Gregg Foreman from The Delta 72 and Jesse Malin, bassist Erik Paparozzi from Lizard Music, and drummer Jim White from Dirty Three and Hard Quartet. Together they are the engine behind one of the most celebrated live runs of the year, and the newly announced dates give North American audiences a second wave of opportunities to experience it.

The full tour schedule is as follows.

February 26 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | First Avenue

February 27 | Chicago, Illinois | Riviera Theatre

February 28 | Detroit, Michigan | Saint Andrew’s Hall

March 1 | Toronto, Ontario | History

March 3 | Kingston, New York | Ulster Performing Arts Center

March 4 | Boston, Massachusetts | Roadrunner

March 6 | Brooklyn, New York | Brooklyn Steel (SOLD OUT)

March 7 | New York, New York | Webster Hall (SOLD OUT)

March 8 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Union Transfer

March 10 | Washington, D.C. | 9:30 Club

March 12 | Atlanta, Georgia | The Eastern

March 13 | Asheville, North Carolina | The Orange Peel (SOLD OUT)

March 14 | Nashville, Tennessee | Brooklyn Bowl Nashville

July 16 | Miami, Florida | ZeyZey Miami

July 17 | Tampa, Florida | The Ritz Ybor

July 18 | Orlando, Florida | The Beacham

July 19 | Charleston, South Carolina | Charleston Music Hall

July 21 | Saxapahaw, North Carolina | Haw River Ballroom

July 22 | Richmond, Virginia | The Broadberry

July 24 | Norwalk, Connecticut | District Music Hall

July 26 | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | The Music Hall

July 27 | Montreal, Quebec | Théâtre Beanfield

July 29 | Geneva, New York | Smith Opera House

July 30 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Mr. Smalls Theatre

July 31 | Louisville, Kentucky | Headliners Music Hall

August 1 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Deluxe at Old National Centre

August 3 | Boulder, Colorado | Chautauqua Auditorium

August 4 | Steamboat Springs, Colorado | Strings Music Pavilion

August 6 | Bozeman, Montana | The Elm

August 7 | Calgary, Alberta | The Palace Theatre

August 10 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Commodore Ballroom

August 11 | Victoria, British Columbia | Capital Ballroom

August 13 | Forest Grove, Oregon | McMenamins Grand Lodge

August 14 | Boise, Idaho | Knitting Factory Concert House

August 17 | Menlo Park, California | The Guild Theatre

August 18 | Ojai, California | Libbey Bowl

October 7 | Helsinki, Finland | House of Culture

October 9 | Johanneshov, Sweden | Fållan

October 10 | Oslo, Norway | Sentrum Scene

October 11 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Vega

October 12 | Hamburg, Germany | Docks

October 14 | Warsaw, Poland | Stodola

October 15 | Berlin, Germany | Huxleys Neue Welt

October 17 | Cologne, Germany | Live Music Hall

October 19 | Vienna, Austria | Wiener Konzerthaus

October 20 | Munich, Germany | Muffathalle

October 21 | Strasbourg, France | La Laiterie

October 23 | Lausanne, Switzerland | Les Docks

October 24 | Lyon, France | Le Radiant

October 25 | Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France | Le Bikini

October 26 | Rennes, France | Le MeM

October 28 | Antwerp, Belgium | De Roma

October 29 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Paradiso

October 30 | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Philharmonie Luxembourg (SOLD OUT)

October 31 | Paris, France | Salle Pleyel (SOLD OUT)

November 2 | Bristol, United Kingdom | Bristol Beacon

November 3 | London, United Kingdom | Roundhouse

November 4 | Manchester, United Kingdom | Albert Hall

November 5 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Barrowland

November 7 | Dublin, Ireland | Vicar Street

November 9 | Paris, France | Salle Pleyel

November 10 | Rouen, France | Le 106

November 11 | Brest, France | La Carene

Alternative Rock Band Moletrap Release Politically Charged New Single “Chicken”

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Moletrap are back with “Chicken,” the latest single from their forthcoming EP ‘Mid Welsh Pt. 2,’ and it arrives as one of their most charged and rooted releases yet. The Mid Wales and Bristol-based alternative rock trio wrote the track as a direct response to the commodification of their home region, weaving nostalgia for teenage years fishing in local reservoirs with sloganeering, protest imagery and local folklore of the lakes as portals of the Tylwyth Teg, the fairy folk of Welsh tradition, to untouched paradise gardens. “We’re rallying against the creeping capitalist takeover of Mid Wales that we all increasingly feel,” the band says, invoking the tradition of iconic Welsh red murals honouring lost communities and hinting that a new one may yet be needed: “Cofiwch Canol Cymru.”

The single follows ‘Mid Welsh Pt. 1,’ a five-song EP rooted in what it means to be Mid-Walian, and a string of singles that earned the band support from BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Introducing (who called their music “un-ignorably great, a thousand mosh-pits await”), BBC Horizons/Gorwelion, Clash Magazine and more. Singing in both Welsh and English, Moletrap have built their sound around the history, folklore, people and wild landscape of the Cambrian Mountains, aiming, as they put it, to sound like those mountains rumbling and crashing. “Chicken” is out now on all streaming platforms, with ‘Mid Welsh Pt. 2’ to follow.

Psych-Funk Trio BALTHVS Transform Their World Tour Into New Album ‘Transmutations’ Out March 20

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BALTHVS are releasing ‘Transmutations’ on March 20 via their own Cubensis Records imprint, and it is unlike anything in their catalog. Captured live during their late 2025 European concerts and the Flesh and Soul tour by Zev Russ, then brought back into studios in San Diego and Bogotá for additional recording and production by bandleader Balthazar Aguirre, the album sits in genuinely rare territory: not a live record, not a conventional studio release, but a document of transformation. “We ‘transmuted’ the live concert into a studio album,” the band says. “We re-recorded multiple elements to ensure pristine studio quality while preserving the energy of the live experience, and ‘alchemized’ the songs.” The result is the Colombian psych-funk trio at their most fully realized, shaped by a world tour that took them across Europe, the United States and Latin America, with dates opening for My Morning Jacket and appearances at major festivals, delivering a unique setlist at every single show.

The album is also a human document. It marks a bittersweet farewell to fill-in bassist Vanessa Muñoz, whose ferocious energy redefined these songs in concert, and a joyful homecoming for returning member Johanna Mercuriana. Both appear on the record, because the band refused to erase either chapter. Longtime listeners will find the band’s signature warmth in “Johanna’s Dream” and their reverence for improvisation in “Inner Heights.” “All is One” gave birth to a full offspring in “Outer Reaches,” a tribal drum-driven journey anchored by the percussive work of Santiago. “Ojos Verdes” similarly spawned “LSD in Bahia,” a hypnotic fusion of Brazilian and Hungarian rhythms filtered through the BALTHVS lens. Newer listeners will find an immediate entry point in “Mood Swing,” born from a remix by collaborator Sinego, and “Shakedown Street,” the band’s love letter to the Grateful Dead, a group they call foundational to their entire musical pursuit.

‘Transmutations’ also marks BALTHVS’s first fully independent release, a milestone that reflects five years of growth as artists who now have complete command of both their creative and business lives. The full track listing: “Ojos Verdes (Alchemized),” “LSD in Bahia,” “Mood Swing (Alchemized),” “Flesh and Soul (Alchemized),” “All is One (Alchemized),” “Outer Reaches,” “Shakedown Street,” “Inner Heights,” and “Johanna’s Dream (Alchemized).” This is a record that could only exist now, shaped by the people who came and went and by the audiences who helped the band discover what their music could become. ‘Transmutations’ is out March 20 on Cubensis Records.

Florida’s Suwannee Spring Reunion Returns March 19-22 With Larkin Poe, Steep Canyon Rangers and More

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The 8th Annual Suwannee Spring Reunion returns to the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, March 19 through 22, spread across 800 acres of Spanish moss-draped oak and cypress trees along the Suwannee River. Rooted in Americana, newgrass, bluegrass, folk and blues, the four-day family-friendly festival includes camping, hands-on music workshops, kids’ activities, daily yoga with Rhonda Bell, and a vending village across multiple stages including Big Cosmo’s Amphitheater, The Dance Tent, the Music Hall and the Music Farmers Stage at The Back Porch. Tickets are on sale now at suwanneespringreunion.com, with children 12 and under free when accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Thursday opens at 3 p.m. with Big Cosmo’s Band, leading into Jim Lauderdale (a two-time Grammy winner, 2025 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award recipient) performing with his band The Game Changers in his only set of the weekend, followed by SCYTHIAN headlining with their blend of Appalachian, Celtic and Ukrainian Carpathian traditions, and Donna the Buffalo closing the night in the first of their four festival appearances. Friday brings acoustic improvisation ensemble Sam Grisman Project, Steep Canyon Rangers (touring behind upcoming album ‘Next Act’), and Keller & The Keels headlining with their Appalachian psychedelic bluegrass sound celebrating 20 years of ‘Grass,’ now on vinyl, with the Jon Stickley Trio closing out the night. Saturday’s headline slot belongs to Grammy-nominated sister duo Larkin Poe, preceded by Peter Rowan with Sam Grisman Project performing music from ‘Old & In The Way’ and more.

Sunday is affectionately known as Vassar Sunday, a day of remembrance and celebration honoring those who shaped the park’s musical legacy, including Vassar Clements, Sue Cunningham, Guy Clark and Col. Bruce Hampton. Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas, the Mosier Brothers Band, Shawn Camp and Verlon Thompson all perform, with Donna the Buffalo closing the festival in a special collaborative set featuring many of the remaining artists. Throughout the weekend, fiddler and multi-instrumentalist John Mailander serves as Artist-at-Large, sitting in across the grounds with Sam Grisman Project, the Mosier Brothers Band and others. The Music Farmers Stage, sponsored by the nonprofit Live Oak Music and Arts Foundation, hosts workshops and performances Friday and Saturday, with a raffle benefiting music and arts programs in North Florida schools.

Hardcore Institution Terror Announce Tenth Album ‘Still Suffer’ Out April 24

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Terror are back with their tenth full-length record, ‘Still Suffer,’ due April 24 via Flatspot Records. Produced by Todd Jones, the band’s former guitarist and a producer who knows exactly what Terror sounds like at its sharpest, the album delivers ten fast, aggressive, in-your-face hardcore tracks that double down on everything that made the Los Angeles band an institution over their 24-year run. The title track and lead single is out today, a two-and-a-half-minute statement of purpose with a video directed by Derek Rathbun, capturing the chaos of Terror’s January 2026 Latin America tour dates.

The album’s supporting cast is formidable. Jay Peta of Mindforce guests on “Beauty in the Losses,” Brody King of God’s Hate and Dan Seely of King Nine appear on “Deconstruct IT,” and Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan delivers on “Fear the Panic,” a track co-produced by New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert. Engineering and additional production came from Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio (with drum engineering at Studio 606 alongside Oliver Roman), mixing by Jon Markson, mastering by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, and additional vocal engineering by Jay Zubricky at GCR Audio. The full track listing: “Erase You From My World,” “Still Suffer,” “Promised Only Lies,” “Destruction of My Soul,” “Fear the Panic” (featuring Chuck Ragan), “Death of Hope,” “Beauty in the Losses” (featuring Jay Peta), “A Deeper Struggle,” “To Hurt the Most,” and “Deconstruct It” (featuring Brody King and Dan Seely).

Terror hit the road today, February 26, with a U.S. run that includes a headline slot at LDB Fest in Louisville, Kentucky on February 28, with Mongrel, Combust and Collateral joining on select dates. The full tour dates are as follows.

February 26 | Toledo, Ohio | Frankie’s

February 27 | Erie, Pennsylvania | The Bunker

February 28 | Louisville, Kentucky | LDB Fest

March 1 | Birmingham, Alabama | WorkPlay Theatre

March 3 | Pensacola, Florida | Handlebar

March 4 | Jacksonville, Florida | The Albatross

March 5 | Orlando, Florida | Conduit

March 6 | Miami, Florida | Churchill’s Pub

March 7 | Tampa, Florida | S.P.O.T.

March 8 | Augusta, Georgia | Grantski

March 9 | Greenville, South Carolina | Radio Room

March 10 | Virginia Beach, Virginia | Peabody’s

March 11 | Lakewood, New Jersey | Maggie’s

March 12 | Hartford, Connecticut | Webster Underground

March 13 | Reading, Pennsylvania | Reverb

March 14 | Massapequa, New York | Massapequa VFW

March 15 | Providence, Rhode Island | Alchemy

Portland Blues-Rock Singer and Guitarist Kathryn Grimm Releases Confident New Single “Treat Me Like Gold”

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Kathryn Grimm has a new single out and it arrives with the swagger the title demands. “Treat Me Like Gold” is a blues-rock track from the Portland-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, produced by Dennis Moody (Diana Ross, Missy Elliott), and it does exactly what Grimm describes: “a playful song about someone who knows their worth advising a less than appreciative partner to hurry up and realize what they’ve got.” The accompanying visualizer is out now, and the track sits comfortably alongside the scorching guitar work that has defined her catalog across albums including ‘No Cash Blues,’ ‘Blues Tools’ and the globally reviewed ‘Grimm Again.’

Grimm’s biography reads like a who’s who of rock and blues royalty. Jeff Buckley backed her up in her original band Group Therapy. She jammed with Bo Diddley between takes on the film set of Rockula. Al Hendrix personally contacted her to give his blessing after hearing her version of “Spanish Castle Magic.” She is the featured guitarist in Michael Bolton’s video for “Dance With Me.” Billy Hulting, who has worked with Natalie Cole and Lou Rawls, summed her up simply: “Voice of an angel, plays guitar like the devil.” The Los Angeles Times put it another way, writing that she “pummels crowds into a blissful heap.”

Beyond recording, Grimm keeps an active presence across multiple projects including The Kathryn Grimm Band, The Jazz Rockets, Hippie Love Slave and Babes in Portland, hosts a quarterly Blues and Jazz Jam, and has had several songs featured in playwright Alan Alexander III’s award-winning “Homeless, The Musical.” She holds degrees from The Guitar Institute in Hollywood and Cal State Los Angeles in Jazz Studies and Commercial Music.

Transatlantic Jazz-Fusion Collective Space Cartel Release Stunning 13-Piece Live Performance Video “Something Often”

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Space Cartel are back with “Something Often,” a live performance video filmed at Conway Sound in Denver, Colorado, and it captures exactly what makes this collective so compelling. The Denver-and-London-bridging 13-piece ensemble, filmed by Geoff Velando and engineered by Ryan Conway alongside Stephen “Eski” Edwards of Thievery Corporation, recorded the session live in a single-room setting with no safety net. Anchored by Johnny Bosbyshell’s driving piano motif (the one his roommate once asked why he played “so often,” giving the track its name), the performance expands outward into layered guitars, brass accents, saxophone lines and textured strings in real time. It follows the band’s breakout debut “Giant Jack,” which drew more than 50,000 YouTube subscribers within months of its release.

The session features Space Cartel’s core members, Bosbyshell, Justin Neely, Ted Kleist, Matt McElwain, Karl Summers and Joe Lilly, alongside newly permanent members London violinists Jenny Clare of Slate Quartet and Eliza Burkitt of Brixton Chamber Orchestra, whose addition deepens the ensemble’s transatlantic chamber identity. Rounding out the 13-piece lineup are percussionist Ian Maxwell, trumpeter Phil Ortiz-Gonzales, trombonist Jai Patel, violist Jess Kus and cellist Helen Erickson of the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. The collective’s first live show in this fully expanded configuration takes place April 18 at ZOLA in Spokane, Washington, marking the ensemble’s onstage debut as it currently stands.

Beyond the music, Space Cartel continues to invest in the communities that sustain it. Trumpeter Phil Ortiz-Gonzales recently launched a community music school initiative in partnership with Grupo Folklórico del Pueblo in Pueblo, Colorado, offering small-group instruction and instrument rentals for $55 per month in direct response to the ongoing reduction of arts education in public schools. For a band whose stated values are compassion, innovation and musicality, the initiative is not a footnote, it is the point. “Something Often” is out now.

Rap Rising Star Fresco Trey Delivers Uplifting New Single “Hope”

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Fresco Trey opens 2026 with “Hope,” a melodic, introspective new single that does exactly what the title promises. Built around the kind of lived-in storytelling that has defined his catalog since ‘Heartbreak Diaries,’ the track carries a direct message from an artist who has earned the right to deliver it. “Hope is a reminder that your story isn’t over,” Trey says. “No matter what you’ve faced, you still have the pen in your hand, and you get to decide how it ends.” It follows last year’s ‘Meraki (Deluxe)’ and arrives as his sharpest, most emotionally grounded single yet, with listeners already pointing to it as the most resonant thing he has put out.

The Memphis rapper has been building steadily since shadowing Post Malone on tour in 2019, signing to Warner Music Group in 2021, and releasing a string of projects and collaborations with NLE Choppa, K CAMP, Lil Tjay and Vory. He has since moved forward as an independent artist, most recently completing a supporting run on K CAMP’s ‘KISS 6 Tour.’ The momentum is real and it is only moving in one direction. “Hope” is out now.

Swedish Fuzz Rock Legends Truckfighters Return After a Decade With New Single and Album ‘Masterflow’

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Truckfighters are back. The Swedish fuzz rock band have released “The Bliss,” their first new single in ten years and the opening statement from their upcoming album ‘Masterflow.’ “The Bliss symbolizes everything the new album is about, fuzz groove and melody,” the band says. “We can’t believe it’s the first track we release in 10 years.” Built on the band’s signature desert rock foundation while pushing into broader, more expansive sonic territory, ‘Masterflow’ arrives as a full-band reckoning with what the duo of Niklas “Dango” Källgren and Oskar “Ozo” Cedermalm have been building since they first plugged in together in Örebro, Sweden back in 2001.

The album title says it all. ‘Masterflow’ is about balance between discipline and freedom, shifting between crushing heaviness and psychedelic passages, earth-shaking low-end and soaring melodic builds, raw power and nuance. This is a record built for packed clubs, endless highways and speakers pushed to their limits. Truckfighters have spent more than two decades becoming a foundational force in stoner rock and metal, and the return of new material after this long a stretch has the rock world paying close attention. Josh Homme famously called them “the best band that ever existed” in the 2011 documentary “Fuzzomentary,” and nothing about ‘Masterflow’ suggests that assessment needs revisiting.

A major European tour kicks off in April and runs through the festival summer, including appearances at Desertfest Berlin, Desertfest London at The Roundhouse in Camden on May 17, Hellfest in Clisson and Mystic Festival in Gdansk. The full tour dates are as follows.

April 11 | Cologne, Germany | Sol Sonic Ride

April 15 | Oslo, Norway | Parkteatret

April 16 | Bergen, Norway | Hulen

April 17 | Stavanger, Norway | Folken

April 18 | Porsgrunn, Norway | R.I.P.

April 28 | Hamburg, Germany | Grünspan

April 29 | Groningen, Netherlands | Vera

April 30 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Melkweg

May 1 | Dordrecht, Netherlands | Bibelot

May 2 | Izegem, Belgium | Headbanger’s Ball Fest

May 8 | Copenhagen, Denmark | A Colossal Weekend

May 11 | Vienna, Austria | Arena

May 14 | Berlin, Germany | Desertfest

May 17 | London, United Kingdom | Desertfest (The Roundhouse, Camden)

May 25 | Neunkirchen, Germany | Stummsche Reithalle

May 26 | Stuttgart, Germany | Im Wizesmann

May 27 | Winterthur, Switzerland | Gaswerk

May 28 | Luzern, Switzerland | Sedel

May 29 | München, Germany | Backstage (Halle)

May 30 | Dresden, Germany | Beatpol

June 4 | Gdansk, Poland | Mystic Festival

June 18 | Clisson, France | Hellfest

June 27 | Wiesbaden, Germany | Sonic Ride IV

July 26 | Milan, Italy | Magnolia Stone Fest

August 14 | Taarstedt, Germany | Angeliter Open Air