Page 108 - Metal Hammer Issue 334 - UK (May 2020)
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LIVE EVIL
KNOTFEST SKINDRED
SLIPKNOT + MORE TBA NOV 21 LONDON Roundhouse
AUG 22 MILTON KEYNES Bowl
SKUNK ANANSIE
LAMB OF GOD JUN 17 NORWICH Nick Rayns LCR
KREATOR JUN 19 SHEFFIELD O2 Academy
POWERTRIP JUN 20 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
APR 21 BRISTOL O2 Academy OCT 26 GUILDFORD G Live
APR 22 MANCHESTER Academy OCT 27 LEICESTER O2 Academy
APR 23 GLASGOW O2 Academy OCT 28 FOLKSTONE Leas Cliff Hall
APR 24 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy NOV 28 LINCOLN Engine Shed
APR 25 LONDON O2 Academy NOV 29 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
DEC 1 GLASGOW O2 Academy
MACHINE HEAD DEC 2 NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
JUNE 5 LONDON O2 Brixton Academy DEC 3 LEEDS O2 Academy
Power Trip: sweatpants
just out of shot JUNE 6 BIRMINGHAM Academy DEC 5 CARDIFF University Great Hall
DEC 6 BRISTOL O2 Academy
ROAD TRIPPIN’ MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST DEC 7 MANCHESTER O2 Victoria Warehouse
DEC 9 BRIGHTON Dome
APR 16 WOLVERHAMPTON KK’s Steelmill
APR 17 NEWCASTLE City Hall
DEC 10 CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
POWER TRIP APR 18 LEEDS Academy SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL
APR 19 LONDON Shepherd’s Bush Empire
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE CODE ORANGE, WHILE SHE SLEEPS,
BURY TOMORROW, THE USED, ICE
The best thrash band of the modern era on JUNE 18-21 MILTON KEYNES MK Dons Stadium NINE KILLS, REFUSED + MORE
a bill with Lamb Of God and Kreator. Not bad! MAY 23 LEEDS Temple Newsam
NIGHTWISH MAY 24 HATFIELD Park
2019 was busy for you guys. How has 2020 been going? DEC 12 CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena
Riley Gale (vocals): “We’re pounding away on the next record DEC 18 LONDON SSE Arena Wembley THUNDER
but we’re having trouble working out how to approach it. UGLY KID JOE
We’re contemplating putting it out independently because OZZY OSBOURNE NOV 19 CARDIFF Arena
we’d rather own our music. 2019 was a year of educating JUDAS PRIEST NOV 20 BIRMINGHAM Arena
ourselves on how to approach the next couple of years as OCT 23 NEWCASTLE Arena NOV 21 LONDON Wembley Arena
a band. I’ve picked up a post-punk hardcore side-project OCT 25 GLASGOW Hydro Arena NOV 27 GLASGOW SEC
called Masterpiece Machine with Jonah [Falco] and Mike OCT 28 LONDON O2 Arena NOV 28 LEEDS Arena
[Haliechuk] from Fucked Up. It’s really out of my wheelhouse OCT 31 BIRMINGHAM Arena
and we’ll have two songs out by the summer. I’ve also just W.A.S.P.
finished tracking a song with Body Count and it’s pretty PEARL JAM OCT 1 BRISTOL SWX
surreal hearing me and Ice T on a song together.” PIXIES OCT 2 LONDON Kentish Town Forum
WHITE REAPER OCT 3 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
This Lamb Of God/Kreator tour is insane! How much does JUL 10 LONDON Hyde Park OCT 4 NEWCASTLE Academy
this tour mean to you? OCT 5 GLASGOW Academy
“It’s one thing taking a band out on their first big tour, which POLARIS OCT 7 BELFAST Limelight
is what Lamb Of God did for us years ago; it’s another thing to ALPHA WOLF, CURRENTS, VARIALS OCT 8 DUBLIN Academy
ask us to do something again. We’re hoping it won’t feel like MAY 3 BRISTOL The Fleece OCT 9 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
a grind because we’ve been grinding European tours since MAY 4 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy2 OCT 10 WOLVERHAMPTON KK’s Steel Mill
2015. We should’ve said no to this tour so we could work on our MAY 5 GLASGOW G2 OCT 11 LEEDS Stylus
album but it’s too important to turn down. This tour doesn’t MAY 6 LONDON O2 Islington Academy OCT 13 NORWICH UEA
need us to be a raging success but if you mashed Lamb Of God OCT 14 CARDIFF Tramshed
and Kreator together, it’d probably sound like Power Trip.” RADAR FESTIVAL OCT 15 COVENTRY Empire
DIRTY LOOPS, HAKEN, PLINI,
What’s new in Power Trip merch? HUMANITY’S LAST BREATH, TOSKA, WHITESNAKE
“One very hotly debated item on the last tour was our CONJURER, HACKTIVIST, VOYAGER, FOREIGNER, EUROPE
sweatpants. Our merch company accidentally ordered UNPROCESSED, PALM READER, MAY 31 LONDON O2 Arena
straight-legged, no elastic sweatpants and we were gonna JAKUB ZYTECKI + MORE JUN 1 CARDIFF Motorpoint
send them back but we had to try them. There’s three JUL31-AUG 1 GUILDFORD Casino JUN 3 BIRMINGHAM Arena
reactions to them: people who hate them because they look JUN 4 GLASGOW SSE Hydro
like raver/nu metal pants; high fashion-minded people RAMBLIN’ MAN FAIR JUN 6 NEWCASTLE Utilita Arena
thinking baggy clothes are in fashion; and those with no CLUTCH, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, RIVAL JUN 8 MANCHESTER Arena
fashion sense whatsoever who love gamer sweatpants they SONGS, MONSTER TRUCK, GRAND
can wear in and out of the house.” MAGUS, HAWKWIND, BLACK STAR WILLIAM DUVALL
RIDERS, PHIL CAMPBELL & THE MAR 29 LIVERPOOL Arts Loft
Why do we keep seeing Power Trip merch across the globe? BASTARD SONS, BLUES PILLS + MORE MAR 31 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy 3
“A friend spotted a Power Trip long-sleeve cut into a crop top JULY 17-19 MAIDSTONE Mote Park APR 01 LONDON 100 Club
cape being sold in some really nice boutique in Hamburg for
€80! Then one company clearly ripped off our designs to RAMMSTEIN WINTERFYLLETH
make money off it, so I asked them to collaborate with us for JUN 14 CARDIFF Principality Stadium MORK POWERTRIP: PRESS
charity. Now they’re gonna do Power Trip stamped leather JUN 17 BELFAST Boucher Playing Fields MAY 22 LONDON Boston Music Room
wallets and give the money to charity.” JUN 20 COVENTRY Ricoh Arena MAY 23 MANCHESTER Rebellion
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