As expected, the rumored Meshuggah, Baroness, and Decapitated tour is the real deal! I’m trying to be a big boy and report this news with excitement, but no date even comes remotely close to me. I has a sad.

Here are the dates, you lucky savages:

4/29/12  House of Blues – Houston, TX
4/30/12  House of Blues – Dallas, TX
5/01/12  Emo’s – Austin, TX
5/03/12  Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
5/04/12  House of Blues – Anaheim, CA
5/05/12  House of Blues – Hollywood, CA
5/06/12  The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
5/08/12  Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA
5/09/12  Showbox Sodo – Seattle, WA
5/11/12  Odgen Theatre – Denver, CO
5/13/12  First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
5/15/12  House of Blues – Chicago, IL
5/16/12  St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI
5/17/12  Sound Academy – Toronto, ON – CANADA
5/18/12  Theatre of the Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
5/19/12  Palladium – Worcester, MA
5/20/12  Olympia de Montreal – Montreal, QUE – CANADA
5/22/12  The Fillmore – Silver Springs, MD
5/23/12  Terminal 5 – New York, NY

If you can make it out, do it; this tour is bound to be a killer. Meshuggah’s new album Koloss is sure to be amazing as well, and that is due out March 27th on Nuclear Blast.

- JR

Earlier this week, Meshuggah had a live chat with fans that was pretty much free reign on the questions, from dealing with their new album Koloss to frontman Jens Kidman’s face. It was all fun, but very little in the way of new and useful information was made available. What we did get to find out though is that Meshuggah are planning to tour North America with Decapitated and Baroness this spring. Woah!

The pairing of Meshuggah and Decapitated makes perfect sense, but Baroness sort of stick out as oddballs in the lineup, but surely there’s a cross-section of fans there in terms of the shared progressive leaning of the bands on the bill; I know I’d love to see all three of these bands on the same bill. It’ll keep the night varied a bit at least!

There are no tour dates for this trek yet, but you can probably expect those to be announced in the next month or so. As always, we’ll let you know when there’s more to tell!

- JR