AVENGED SEVENFOLD, STONE SOUR, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD To Join Forces For 'Nightmare After Christmas'

November 12, 2010

AVENGED SEVENFOLD, STONE SOUR and HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD will join forces for "The Nightmare After Christmas" tour in January/February. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:

Jan. 20 - Reading, PA - Sovereign Center
Jan. 22 - Lowell, MA - Tsongas Center
Jan. 23 - Baltimore, MD - 1st Mariner Arena
Jan. 25 - Huntington, WV - Big Sandy Arena
Jan. 26 - Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Coliseum
Jan. 28 - Lexington, KY - Rupp Arena
Jan. 29 - Cincinnati, OH - US Bank Arena
Jan. 30 - Evansville, IN - Roberts Stadium
Feb. 01 - Moline, IL - iWireless Center
Feb. 02 - La Crosse, WI - La Crosse Center
Feb. 04 - Battlecreek, MI - Kellogg Arena
Feb. 05 - Detroit, MI - [to be announced]
Feb. 07 - Sioux City, IA - Tyson Center
Feb. 08 - Grand Island, NE - Heartland Events Center
Feb. 11 - Boise, ID - Taco Bell Arena
Feb. 12 - Kennewick, WA - Toyota Center
Feb. 14 - Eugene, OR - [to be announced]
Feb. 16 - San Jose, CA - San Jose Events Center

"Nightmare", the fifth album from AVENGED SEVENFOLD, sold 162,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at the top of The Billboard 200 chart.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD's self-titled fourth album opened with 94,000 units back in November 2007, nearly three times what its 2005 effort, "City of Evil", sold in its biggest week on the chart.

The official video for "Nightmare", the album's first single and title track, premiered on MTV2, MTV.com, and MTV2.com on July 17 and became the second most popular video on YouTube, racking up more than 1,280,865 views in its first week. The "lyric" video that premiered via YouTube has racked up three million views.

"Nightmare" was completed after the death of drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, who passed away last December following an overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol.

The band recruited DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy to play on the new album and all the band's 2010 tour dates.

Portnoy made his concert debut with the band on July 25 as they played live for the first time since Sullivan's death at the Heavy MTL festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

STONE SOUR's November 7, 2010 concert at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England was professionally filmed/recorded for an upcoming DVD, according to a tweet from the band's lead singer, Corey Taylor.

STONE SOUR's "Digital (Did You Tell)" video, which made its online debut last week, was directed by Paul R. Brown, who previously worked with the band on the "30/30-150", "Say You'll Haunt Me" and "Hesistate" clips as well as on videos from SLIPKNOT, MÖTLEY CRÜE, KORN, GODSMACK and AVENGED SEVENFOLD, among others. Asked about the track's lyrical content, Taylor said, "It's basically about the isolation of the digital age where more and more people are afraid to come out of their bubble, more and more people are afraid to come out of their cocoon. They'd rather sit in front of an electric screen and pour their hate or pour their emotions anonymously into the world."

"Digital (Did You Tell)" comes off STONE SOUR's third album, "Audio Secrecy", which was released on September 7 and debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard album chart, selling 46,000 copies in its first week of release.

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