EPICA – North America Headliner Dates

With the overwhelming success of their last trek through North America earlier this year, Holland’s symphonic metal band EPICA will be returning to the U.S. and Canada for 24 headlining shows with label mates Scar Symmetry, Mutiny Within, and Blackguard. The tour is set to launch on November 16th in West Springfield, Virginia and wrap-up in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 18th.

This will be EPICA’s second trek to North America in support of their Billboard-charting release (Heatseekers chart – #12; Top Hard Music Albums chart – #47) Design Your Universe featuring new guitarist Isaac Delahaye (ex-God Dethroned).

Confirmed tour dates are:

11/16/10 Jaxx – W. Springfield, VA

11/17/10 The Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA

11/19/10 The Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY

11/20/10 The Palladium – Worcester, MA

11/21/10 Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA

11/23/10 Music Hall – London, ON – CANADA

11/24/10 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH

11/26/10 Blondie’s – Detroit, MI

11/27/10 Headliner’s Music Hall – Louisville, KY

11/28/10 The Rave – Milwaukee, WI

11/30/10 Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO

12/02/10 El Corazon – Seattle, WA

12/03/10 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC – CANADA

12/04/10 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR

12/05/10 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, CA

12/07/10 The Key Club – Hollywood, CA

12/08/10 Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA

12/09/10 Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ

12/11/10 Trees – Dallas, TX

12/12/10 Emo’s – Austin, TX

12/14/10 The Club at Firestone – Orlando, FL

12/15/10 Culture Room – Ft. Lauderdale, FL

12/17/10 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

12/18/10 Volume 11 – Raleigh, NC

Exclusive pre-sale tickets for the tour are on sale now at www.EnterTheVault.com through June 3rd. Tickets go on sale through all normal ticketing outlets on June 4th.

View the video for the track “Unleashed” on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel here. View video blogs by EPICA singer Simone Simons about the band’s recent South American tour here and here.

Visit EPICA online at http://www.EPICA.nl & http://www.myspace.com/EPICA