Photo by Travis Shinn
LAMB OF GOD will hit the road this summer for a 2023 headline tour featuring special guests ICE NINE KILLS, SUICIDE SILENCE, THE ACACIA STRAIN, FROZEN SOUL and more across select dates. Produced by Live Nation, the eight-city trek kicks off on August 10 at The Wellmont in Montclair making stops across the U.S. in St. Louis, Oklahoma, Las Vegas, Riverside and more.
Tickets will be available starting with artist presale beginning Tuesday, May 2. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, May 5 at 10 a.m. local time at LiveNation.com. VIP Merch and Early Entry packages will be available beginning Tuesday, May 2.
Aug. 10 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont %
Aug. 14 – St. Louis, MO – The Factory %
Aug. 18 – Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete Street Amphitheater @%
Aug. 21 – Oklahoma City, OK – Criterion %$
Aug. 25 – Las Vegas, NV – Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort %#
Aug. 27 – Riverside, CA – Riverside Municipal Auditorium %#
Aug. 30 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Ampitheater @% *
Sep. 11 – Pikeville, KY – Appalachian Wireless Arena ^ *
% With support from THE ACACIA STRAIN
@ With support from ICE NINE KILLS
$ With support from FROZEN SOUL
# With support from SUICIDE SILENCE
^ With support from THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, AFTER THE BURIAL and ALPHA WOLF
* Not a Live Nation date
In a recent interview with Heavy New York, LAMB OF GOD bassist John Campbell was asked if there are any plans for him and his bandmates to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their third album, “As The Palaces Burn”, which came out in May 2003 via Prosthetic Records. He responded: “As far as the anniversary of that, these are just mile markers that, more often than, the marketing department and the record labels wanna celebrate. It’s crazy for me to look back: holy shit; that was how long ago? Fuck! So, yes, we’ll certainly take a moment to applaud that as the date comes around. If we play a show, maybe we’ll do something special.”
Campbell also talked about how LAMB OF GOD‘s songwriting has evolved since “As The Palaces Burn”, saying: “I would say it was a lot more collaborative at that point in that we would have a part — someone would bring in a part — and we would all learn the part and then we would sit there and play the part over and over again; it was just drilled into everybody’s head. And then add parts to that, or however that’s gonna go. And that was also before it was easy to have a home recording studio where you could just have your laptop and plug your guitar in and start tracking. So that has definitely changed our approach in writing. We can definitely send stuff around and be able to listen to it in our own time to kind of work out extra stuff that we’re gonna do or whatever we might wanna do. But as far as the goal of the writing, that’s remained the same. From the beginning, we just wanted to be a metal band that would show up, you would watch, your jaw would hit the floor, and all the songs we played blazingly fast and tight. And that’s kind of still been the focus.”
