NECROPHAGIA have announced European headlining dates that will take place in the final days of this year. The American cult death metal pioneers will embark on their hellish road-trip at the Turock in Essen, Germany on December 2nd and continue to celebrate their horror shows throughout seven countries before a final curtain in London, UK at the Underworld on the 18th of December.
Killjoy comments: “It has been thirteen long years since we have done a tour on the other side of the pond. It is therefore long overdue for us to haunt abroad. We are excited for our European fiends to once again feel the darkness flowing from our veins. We are looking forward to spreading our plague of horror and gore. We are going to bring a lot of body bags.”
02/12/2016 Essen (DE) Turock 03/12/2016 Vosselaar (BE) Biebob 04/12/2016 Berlin (DE) Bi Nuu 05/12/2016 Kassel (DE) Fiasco 06/12/2016 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla 08/12/2016 Ludwigsburg (DE) Rockfabrik 09/12/2016 München (DE) Feierwerk 10/12/2016 Brescia (IT) Circulo Colony 11/12/2016 Wien (AT) Viper Room 13/12/2016 Luynes (FR) Korigan 14/12/2016 Paris (FR) Backstage 15/12/2016 Eindhoven (NL) Effenaar – Eindhoven Metal Meeting 16/12/2016 Brighton (UK) The Haunt 17/12/2016 Norrköping (SE) Black Christmas 18/12/2016 London (UK) Underworld
NECROPHAGIA will be touring in support of their latest masterpiece ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’, which is fully streaming at the link below.
Artwork and tracklist of ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’ can be viewed below:
1. Reborn through Black Mass 2. Вий 3. Angel Blake 4. Warlock Messiah 5. Fear the Priest 6. Elder Things 7. Coffins 8. Hexen Nacht 9. Rat Witch 10. March of the Deathcorps(e) 11. Silentium vel Mortis 12. The Dead Among Us 13. WhiteWorm Cathedral
Muahaha! NECROPHAGIA are back to haunt you! The masters of death metal horror invite you to bang to the Sabbath on a coffin night, when the evil priest and the rat witch raise the dead among us! Once again Killjoy DeSade has taken his time to compose and record ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’, but the result was well worth the wait. NECROPHAGIA have generally taken another step back to a more straightforward approach. Although their latest full-length ‘Deathtrip 69’ (2011) was generally met with roaring applause, there has been some criticism levelled at the album. Killjoy DeSade seems to have drawn the same conclusions and reduced the atmospheric samples to the necessary, while focusing on songwriting and catchiness. Now NECROPHAGIA deliver more old school death metal with a blasphemous groove and killing hooks. The band was formed in late 1983 by the Godfather of Gore Metal, Killjoy and their debut recording ‘Season of the Dead’ was unleashed in February 1987. In the same year the Americans split despite their tremendous impact in the underground death metal scene, which they helped founding. In the middle of the 1990’s horror fan Philip Anselmo (DOWN, ex-PANTERA) convinced Killjoy to resurrect NECROPHAGIA and joined for the next three releases including their second album ‘Holocausto de la Morte’ (1998). The band released two more albums including ‘The Divine Art of Torture’ (2003) and several EPs despite undergoing continued line-up changes. NECROPHAGIA‘s fourth full length ‘Harvest Ritual Vol. 1’ (2005) saw some experimentation, while their next eerie incarnation ‘Deathtrip 69’ featured more evil movie samples adding to the beloved vintage horror feeling. Yet the time has come to light those black candles, chant the incantations and watch the ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’ rise! Amen, Brother Killjoy!
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