This spring, death metal fans will be treated to an epic night of music on the “Cancer Culture Over North America 2024” tour featuring DECAPITATED and SEPTICFLESH
Death metal luminaries DECAPITATED and symphonic death metal act SEPTICFLESH are heading on a 30-day co-billing trek with melodic death metal group KATAKLYSM as direct support. The tour will commence on April 16 in Santa Ana and will make stops in Atlanta, Toronto, and Minneapolis before concluding in Los Angeles on May 19. Joining the bands as openers are technical melodic death metal band ALLEGAEON.
General admission tickets for the tour will go on sale on Monday, January 29 at 7 a.m. PST / 10 a.m. EST.
Announced shows for DECAPITATED and SEPTICFLESH‘s “Cancer Culture Over North America 2024” tour with support from KATAKLYSM and ALLEGAEON can be found below.
April 16 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
April 17 – Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater
April 18 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
April 19 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
April 20 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
April 21 – Austin, TX – Come and Take it Live
April 23 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
April 24 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Hell)
April 25 – Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
April 26 – Wilmington, DE – The Queen
April 27 – Hartford, CT – The Webster
April 28 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
April 29 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
May 01 – Quebec City, QC – Imperial Bell
May 02 – Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theater
May 03 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix
May 04 – Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground
May 05 – Fort Wayne, IN – Piere’s Entertainment Center
May 06 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
May 07 – Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
May 08 – Joliet, IL – The Forge
May 10 – Minneapolis, MN – Green Room
May 11 – Winnipeg, MB – Park Theater
May 12 – Saskatoon, SK – Louis (USSU)
May 13 – Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room
May 14 – Calgary, AB – The Back Alley
May 16 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
May 17 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
May 18 – San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
May 19 – Los Angeles, CA – 1720
DECAPITATED‘s evolution spans eight studio albums, transforming from the youthful aspirations of teens in a small Central European town to becoming stalwarts of the metal genre. With each successive release, the band’s sonic landscape expands, embracing genre-bending authenticity and unwavering integrity. The tale of DECAPITATED is akin to a rose flourishing in the devil’s garden—triumph emerging from tragedy. Their brand of extreme metal, adorned with gleeful grotesquery and relentless riff mastery, invites listeners to unearth profound truths.
The 2022 release, “Cancer Culture,” stands as their latest testament, resonating with instantly recognizable devastation and deviously sinister hooks. Anthems like “Last Supper,” “Hello Death,” “Just A Cigarette,” “No Cure,” “Iconoclast,” and the title track “Cancer Culture” shimmer with razor-sharp production and unyielding bombast.
Notably, a newfound emphasis on melody, occasionally venturing into darkly romantic realms, adds layers to their sonic arsenal. Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka (guitar), Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski (vocals), Paweł Pasek (bass), and James Stewart (drums) deliver peak performances, with notable guest appearances by JINJER vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk and MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn. Flynn‘s hauntingly beautiful vocals grace the track “Iconoclast,” while Shmayluk, known for her formidable screams, takes a cleaner vocal approach on “Hello Death.”
In a parallel narrative, SEPTICFLESH (originally SEPTIC FLESH) emerged in the early ’90s in Greece, founded by Spyridon Antoniou (Seth Siro Anton) on vocals/bass, Christos Antoniou on guitar, and Sotirios Vagenas (Sotiris Anunnaki V.) on guitar/clean vocals.
Their debut EP, “Temple Of The Lost Race” (1991), paved the way for full-length albums like “Mystic Places Of Dawn” (1994) and “Esoptron” (1995). The addition of female soprano vocalist Natalie Rassoulis in “Ophidian Wheel” (1997) marked a shift toward a more symphonic style, continuing with “A Fallen Temple” (1998). Despite a temporary disbandment, SEPTICFLESH reunited and evolved their sound with “Communion” (2008), incorporating symphonic elements fully in collaboration with the Filmharmonic Orchestra of Prague.
The journey continued with notable releases like “The Great Mass” (2011), produced by Peter Tägtgren, “Titan” (2014) with Logan Mader, and “Codex Omega” (2017), initiating a long-standing collaboration with Jens Bogren. In 2020, they unleashed the epic and fully orchestrated “Live in Mexico” titled “Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX” on CD, LP, DVD, and Blu-ray, showcasing the symphonic grandeur that defines their unique musical identity.
