Heathen sects from across Europe will be converging on North America for the first annual Heathenfest tour! Switzerland's Eluveitie, the worlds heaviest Celtic tinged folk-metal band in existence, will be headlining the event with direct support coming from label mates Belphegor, Austria's most feared S&M loving blasphemers. Support will come from Scotland's own Pirate metal sensations Alestorm, Finland's female fronted folk-metal troupe Kivimetsän Druidi, and Norwegian black n' rollers Vreid.

Eluveitie mastermind Chrigel Glanzmann commented: "After our last planned US tour appearance was cancelled we were just as disappointed as our fans were. We promised to immediately start looking for a worthy replacement tour and so here it is! To us, it already seems far too long since we toured the US and Canada. We definitely haven't forgotten the warm welcome we received there! So we're more than happy and enthused to 'set sail' westwards once again!

All the more we have some excellent bands joining us, which we've had the pleasure to share the stage with before in Europe! And not at least we're eager as hell to cudgel the American metalheads with some brand new songs! I'm sure this tour will kick ass, devastate and definitely be a flagrantly HEATHEN feast!

We will of course play songs from our latest acoustic release "Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion" but we'll also play some songs from our upcoming album which is fully metal again. This tour will be the first time ever that we'll play those brand new songs live! Next week we'll enter the studio to start recording the new album, which should come out in early 2010."

Belphegor comments: "Ave! Yes it's the first time, after five amazing North American, tours that Belphegor gets to come to the States and play a full set and not have three drumsets on stage (laughs). So be prepared and expect more machine gun hellfire and aggressive stage action! We look forward to seeing all you death - legions again as we promote the release of our new album "Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn". Hail Chaos - Hail Sathan!"

Alestorm exclaims: "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"

Kivimetsän Druidi adds: "We are really looking forward playing killer gigs on Heathenfest tour - our very first time in North America - with these awesome bands. We know there will be lots of our fans, but also people to whom we are still practically unknown. The response at our two European tours has been great and we have really enjoyed playing there. Last year we had just released our debut album Shadowheart when we toured with our friends Korpiklaani, Battlelore, and Falchion on Finnish Fire Tour through European metropolis and the audience made us feel very welcome. Now, we are prepared to give our fans some serious party time, extreme folk metal songs and joyful shows. So come to see us alive on Heathenfest tour and join the party!"

Vreid comments: "After a great first half of 2009 with 2 European tours and loads of summer festivals, such as the massive Wacken open air, we are now setting sails and are heading west. Our last album "Milorg" has gotten a fantastic response in Europe, and we are therefore very excited to spread our album to new territories this autumn. On October the 26th "Milorg" will receive a North America release through Indie Recordings / The End Records. The release will immediatly be supported by our first full North American tour. We will do a 4 week tour with the bands Eluveitie, Belphegor, Alestorm, & Kivimetsän Druidi. This tour is arranged by Rock the Nation and is entitled Heathenfest. Heathenfest will take Vreid to most of big cities in US & Canada and we can't wait to enter your shores. See ya all soon!"


Nov. 03 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
Nov. 04 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House
Nov. 05 - Montreal, QC - Le National
Nov. 06 - New York, NY - The Gramercy Theater
Nov. 07 - Cleveland, OH - Peabodys
Nov. 08 - Detroit, MI - Blondie's
Nov. 09 - St. Paul, MN - Station 4
Nov. 10 - Chicago, IL - Jaguar Club
Nov. 12 - Springfield, VA - Jaxx
Nov. 13 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
Nov. 14 - Orlando, FL - TBA
Nov. 16 - San Antonio, TX - Warehouse Music Venue
Nov. 17 - Ft Worth, TX - Ridglea Theater
Nov. 18 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
Nov. 19 - Tempe, AZ - The Sets
Nov. 20 - Hollywood, CA - The Roxy Theater
Nov. 21 - San Marcos, CA - The Jumping Turtle
Nov. 22 - San Francisco, CA - DNA Lounge
Nov. 23 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
Nov. 24 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
Nov. 25 - Vancouver, BC - Red Room

Source:	nuclearblastusa.com
Band profile:	Eluveitie
Event:	Heathenfest N. American Tour