Dethklok And BABYMETAL Announce 2023 North American Tour

Dethklok is teaming up with BABYMETAL for a co-headlining tour this fall with support from Jason Richardson.

Dubbed the “BABYKLOK tour” the tour starts August 30th in Houston, Texas and will make stops at the Blue Ridge Rock Festival on September 10th in Alton, Virginia; the Louder Than Life festival on September 23rd in Louisville, Kentucky; and the Aftershock festival on October 7th in Sacramento, California. The outing wraps up with a show in Los Angeles, California on October 11th.

A BABYMETAL pre-sale starts today at 1 PM local time via Ticketmaster with the code THEOTHERONE. A Live Nation pre-sale starts Wednesday (April 12th) at 10 AM local time with the code VINYL. General ticket sales start Friday, April 14th. Check out all the dates below.

Dethklok’s highly anticipated movie Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar is set for release later this year, along with an accompanying original soundtrack and new studio album, Dethalbum IV, arriving around the same time.

According to a press release, the movie picks up after Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem special and finds frontman Nathan Explosion “traumatized in a BRUTAL professional and romantic flat-spin, all while he is tasked with fulfilling the prophecy and confronting the ultimate songwriting challenge to save the planet.”

Meanwhile, BABYMETAL recently released their new album THE OTHER ONE.

Ashley Perez Hollingsworth

Ashley Perez is a freelance music journalist based in Chicago. Her work has appeared on AXS, Chicago Innerview, New City, The Millions, and Illinois Entertainer. She also runs her own music blog at Radio Not Found. Some of her favorite bands include Nirvana, The Cure, Muse, Creeper, and Green Day.

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