Grammy-nominated Lancaster, Pennsylvania five-piece AUGUST BURNS RED will head back out on the road this summer.
Having just wrapped a successful winter 2022 run supporting KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, the band will embark on a headline "Through The Thorns" trek starting on July 15 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The six-week tour will end on August 27 in Long Island, New York. Support on the trek will come from WE CAME AS ROMANS, HOLLOW FRONT and VOID OF VISION.
"We are so excited to hit the road with this awesome package filled with our friends in WE CAME AS ROMANS, and two great new bands: HOLLOW FRONT and VOID OF VISION," says AUGUST BURNS RED. "We will be hitting up some places we haven't played in a VERY long time, as well as some familiar favorites. We hope to see you soon!"
A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Tuesday, March 29 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Thursday, March 31 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "ABRBBM2022" to access tickets before the general public. General on-sale will be Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. Check back here on Tuesday for ticketing links to individual shows.
Tour dates:
Jul. 15 - Harrisburg, PA - HMAC
Jul. 16 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
Jul. 17 - Providence, RI - The Strand Ballroom
Jul. 19 - Rochester, NY - Anthology
Jul. 20 - Hartford, CT - The Webster
Jul. 22 - Baltimore, MD - Ram’s Head Live
Jul. 23 - Norfolk, VA - Norva
Jul. 24 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
Jul. 25 - Knoxville, TN - The Mill & Mine
Jul. 26 - Columbia, SC - The Senate
Jul. 28 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City
Jul. 29 - New Orleans, LA - Republic
Jul. 30 - Austin, TX - Emos
Jul. 31 - Corpus Christi, TX - Brewster Street Icehouse
Aug. 02 - Tucson, AZ - Encore
Aug. 03 - San Diego, CA - Soma
Aug. 04 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst
Aug. 05 - Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades
Aug. 06 - Portland, OR - Roseland
Aug. 08 - Seattle, WA - Showbox Market
Aug. 09 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
Aug. 10 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory
Aug. 12 - Great Falls, MT - The Newberry
Aug. 13 - Billings, MT - Zoo Montana
Aug. 14 - Fargo, ND - Fargo Brewing Outdoors
Aug. 16 - Minneapolis, MN - Fillmore
Aug. 18 - Lincoln, NE - Bourbon St
Aug. 19 - Des Moines, IA - Val Air
Aug. 20 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
Aug. 21 - Bloomington, IL - Castle Theater
Aug. 23 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Piere’s
Aug. 24 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts
Aug. 25 - Louisville, KY - Mercury Ballroom
Aug. 27 - Long Island, NY - Paramount
Last year, AUGUST BURNS RED released "Leveler: 10th Anniversary Edition". The band re-recorded its fourth album, which was originally made available on June 21, 2011, with special guests, brand new guitar solos, alternate tunings, and more.
In 2020, AUGUST BURNS RED guitarist JB Brubaker told Billboard that he and his bandmates have grown more comfortable with the "metalcore" tag in recent years.
"The word metalcore became a little bit taboo for us in like, 2013," he said. "There was just this enormous boom of bands playing metalcore and it was just so watered-down and predictable and boring. And at this point now in 2020, I feel like so much of that heap of bands that were active seven years ago, so many of them have come and gone now that I'm not as embarrassed by the term 'metalcore' anymore. Because I feel like the bands who are left standing from that boom, it's sort of like the cream rose to the top. And while I much prefer just calling AUGUST BURNS RED a metal band, I get why people would call us a metalcore band. I mean, we play a ton of breakdowns. So if you want to get quite literal about it, the 'core' is obvious."
