SAXON And ICED EARTH To Team Up For European Co-Headlining Tour

November 25, 2008

SAXON and ICED EARTH will team up for a European co-headlining tour in February 2009. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Feb. 01 - F - Paris - Bataclan
Feb. 02 - B - Brussels - AB
Feb. 03 - NL - Tilburg - 013
Feb. 04 - D - Cologne - Essigfabrik
Feb. 06 - LUX - Luxembourg - Den Atelier
Feb. 07 - D - Herford - X
Feb. 08 - D - Hamburg - Docks
Feb. 10 - NO - Oslo - Rockefeller
Feb. 11 - SE - Stockholm - Annex
Feb. 12 - DK - Copenhagen - Pumpehuset
Feb. 13 - D - Berlin - Huxleys
Feb. 15 - PL - Warsaw - Spodac
Feb. 16 - CZ - Zlin - [to be announced]
Feb. 17 - A - Vienna - Gasometer
Feb. 19 - HU - Budapest - Petofi Hall
Feb. 20 - SI - Ljubljana - Mediapark
Feb. 21 - HR - Zagreb - Boogaloo
Feb. 22 - I - Milan - Rolling Stone
Feb. 24 - CH - Zurich - Volkshaus
Feb. 25 - F - Strassbourg - La Laiterie
Feb. 27 - E - Bilbao - Rockstar Live
Feb. 28 - E - Madrid - La Riviera
Mar. 01 - E - Barcelona - Razzmatazz

SAXON will release its new new studio album, "Into The Labyrinth" in Europe on January 12, 2009 (Germany: January 9; USA: January 13) via SPV Records. The CD was recorded at the Twilight Hall in Krefeld, Germany, under the direction of Charlie Bauerfeind. SAXON laid down 13 new songs at BLIND GUARDIAN's studio, starting with monumental opener "Battalions Of Steel" through "Demon Sweeney Todd" and "Valley Of The Kings", which both cover historic events, to the final slide guitar blues track "Coming Home" (fans are already familiar with the electric version of this track from SAXON's "Killing Ground" album).

Check out audio samples of the entire album at SPV.de.

ICED EARTH's new full-length studio album, "The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked Part II)", sold 6,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release.

"The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked Part II)" continues where ICED EARTH's 2007 release, "Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part I)" left off. "The Crucible of Man" features the return of frontman Matt Barlow who was mainman/guitarist Jon Schaffer's original voice of choice to introduce the "Something Wicked" saga back in 1998 as a trio of songs which concluded their album, "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

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