{"id":10025,"date":"2009-09-16T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2009-09-16T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:19:45","slug":"epicurean-begin-north-america-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10025","title":{"rendered":"EPICUREAN &#8211; Begin North America Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/2348168266_567a52e28f.jpg\" alt=\"epicurean\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMinneapolis, Minnesota (USA) epic metal powerhouse EPICUREAN have begun a trek across North America with LUNA MORTIS and the mighty EDGUY! If you haven&#8217;t seen this tour yet, it&#8217;s one not to miss, and tickets can be purchases in advance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterthevault.com\">enterthevault.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVocalist John Laramy updates us from the road: &#8220;So as we were pulled into the immigration office at the Canadian border which immediately took on the appearance of the typical &#8220;band-ass-raping&#8221; that in sues every time an American band attempts to cross the border to the land of our northern neighbors; I couldn&#8217;t help but think to myself that this is just yet another issue to add to the shit-heap of problems we&#8217;ve dealt with in pre-production for this tour&#8230; Visas cancelled for our lead guitarist, bus broken down, and a million other annoyances that have accumulated over the past few weeks leading up to this moment locked in the immigration office.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHowever, a few hours and a few hundred dollars, American dollars I may add, we were on our way to Toronto&#8230; a little battered, considerably more broke, but in the grand scheme of this not too much worse for the wear&#8230; Two traffic stops later (under completely bogus pretenses I might add) we FINALLY arrived in Toronto.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI will say this about Toronto: Very cool city, the women are amazing and the food is great, and in typical &#8220;Canadian-metalhead&#8221; fashion, the crowd at the Opera House more than exceeded everyone&#8217;s expectations by leaps and bounds. Incredible show! I think even Bigfoot made a brief appearance, decked out in full hockey gear and banged his head like one of the trailer park boys on a 5 day coke bender.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe next day, off to Montreal, where once again the crowd blew all of us away, and despite the French accent, &#8220;fuck yeah&#8221; means the same thing no matter how you say it.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this tour is already shaping up to be an amazing time! We&#8217;ll keep everyone updated! And for those of you in the cities we are playing next, we&#8217;d better see you here banging your heads! Keep it metal everyone!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Laramy<\/p>\n<p>Epicurean&#8217;s Metal Blade Records debut, A Consequence Of Design, is available everywhere now and can be purchased on metalbladestore.com. Fans can check out live photos from the Logan Square Auditorium show in Chicago, IL on metalbuzz.net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Epicurean describes itself as a progressive\/death metal band on its MySpace page, but the two words barely encompass the incredibly complex sound of the group&#8217;s Metal Blade debut, A Consequence Of Design.&#8221; Metal Maniacs<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this amount of power, beauty, skill, and intensity wrapped up into a single, tuneful package, A Consequence of Design makes an impressive introduction.&#8221; Outburn Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is majestic progressive metal music. It makes me want to dance around with a sword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Randy &#8220;Rocket&#8221; Cody<br \/>\nThe Metal Den.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Epicurean&#8217;s sound veers from Mercenary-like grandeur to Hypocrisy-style bludgeon, with plenty of Bodom bite and Amott widdle&#8230;&#8221; Terrorizer Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, mash up Dimmu Borgir, Dream Theater, and Mercenary, and the sum, as it happens, turns out to be completely seamless and integrated.&#8221; metalreview.com<\/p>\n<p>EPICUREAN<br \/>\nTour w\/ Edguy, Luna Mortis<br \/>\n09\/16 Winnipeg, MB Royal Albert Arms<br \/>\n09\/17 Regina, SK The Riddell<br \/>\n09\/19 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room<br \/>\n09\/20 Calgary, AB Warehouse<br \/>\n09\/21 Vancouver, BC Plaza Club<br \/>\n09\/23 Victoria, BC Sugar<br \/>\n09\/24 Seattle, WA El Corazon<br \/>\n09\/25 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre<br \/>\n09\/26 Reno, NV Tonic Lounge<br \/>\n09\/27 San Francisco, CA Slims<br \/>\n09\/28 San Marcos, CA Jumping Turtle<br \/>\n09\/29 Los Angeles, CA Key Club<br \/>\n09\/30 Mesa, AZ UB&#8217;s Bar<br \/>\n10\/01 Las Vegas, NV Four Aces<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/epicurean\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/epicurean<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) epic metal powerhouse EPICUREAN have begun a trek across North America with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}