Metal Blade Records has issued the following press release:

Los Angeles based black metal contingent, LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH, will be joining up with Polish legends, and now label mates, BEHEMOTH for three west coast shows during the Evangelia Amerika tour in 2010. Lightning Swords Of Death vocalist, Autarch, comments on the Behemoth dates: "Regarding our dates with Behemoth, attendees can expect to find themselves victim to the horror of true and agonizing ritual abuse." All of the bands on this lineup exemplify the epitome of their collective genres' strengths and will be a dark and impressive sight to behold.

Dates are as follows:

January

15 - Tuscon, AZ - The Rock
16 - West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues
17 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's

Lightning Swords Of Death's Metal Blade Records debut album will rear its head sometime during the spring of 2010. In anticipation of this album's release, the band will be touring the western and southern US during March of 2010 with none other than KREATOR, KATAKLYSM, EVILE and LAZARUS A.D.

Autarch also comments on this tour: "We are quite honored to join mighty Kreator in this campaign. We will at last be provided with a larger audience to infect for our ultimate purpose and each soul we possess shall become a black immovable brick in the temple of Lightning Swords of Death."

March

16 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater (just added)
18 - Corazon - Seattle, WA
19 - Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC
20 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
21 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
23 - House of Blues - West Hollywood, CA
24 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
25 - The Rock - Tucson, AZ
27 - Emo's Alternative Lounging - Austin, TX
28 - Meridian - Houston, TX
30 - The Club at Firestone - Orlando, FL
31 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA

Be prepared, Lightning Swords Of Death will be one of the bands to watch in 2010!

"Contrary to popular imagination, one does not have to be from Norway to make a decently blasphemous metal record...a chaotically grim speed-fest with riffs alternating pace between a lurching crawl and a frenetic tornado. The Norwegian influence is definitely more predominant here, though thankfully it has the precision and grit that most classic black metal albums consciously left out." Metal-Rules.com

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