Los Angeles based black metal contingent LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH will be joining up with Polish legends, and now label mates, BEHEMOTH for their entire Evangelia Amerika tour in 2010.

They take the place of Sweden's SHINING, who had to drop off of these dates due to work visa issues.

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.

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."

Lightning Swords Of Death tour dates:

January (with Behemoth, Septicflesh)

7 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of the Living Arts
8 - West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
9 - Raleigh, NC - Volume 11 Tavern (+ Graves Of Valor)
10 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (+ Graves Of Valor)
11 - St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
13 - Austin, TX - Emo's
15 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock
16 - West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues
17 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
18 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater (+ Those Who Lie Beneath)
19 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon (+ Those Who Lie Beneath)
21 - Calgary, AB - The Republik
22 - Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
23 - Regina, SK - The Exchange
24 - Winnipeg, MB - West End Cultural Center
25 - St. Paul, MN - Station 4 (+ Demonicon)
26 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
27 - Cleveland, OH - Peabody's Down Under
28 - Millvale, PA - Mr. Small's Theatre
29 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium (+ DevilDriver, Suffocation, Goatwhore, Thy Will Be Done)

March (with Kreator, Kataklysm, Evile, Lazarus A.D.)

16 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater (no Kataklysm)
18 - Seattle, WA - Corazon
19 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater
20 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
21 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
23 - West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues
24 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
25 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock
27 - Austin, TX - Emo's
28 - Houston, TX - Meridian
30 - Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone
31 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade