Canadian blackened doom metallers WOODS OF YPRES are on the road in North America after kicking off a headlining tour last week. The month-long Pain & Piss tour will see the band trekking around the US and Canada following the recent re-release of the band's latest album, Woods 4: The Green Album.

Watch the band's first tour update video below:

Frontman David Gold comments: "Writing to you from a murder motel in Western Pennsylvania where we're pounding Polish vodka and editing tour videos until 4am EST... We're back on the road again already this year, further supporting the release of W4: The Green Album in North America! The Pain & Piss Tour (because that's what tour really is, for us, referencing the chorus of our song 'Wet Leather') will have us playing 34 shows in 37 days, covering Eastern US, Western Canada, and a counter-clockwise doom-loop of the coast of the good ol' US of A.

"The new setlist includes a little of almost everything! W4: The Green Album songs, some classic Woods Of Ypres black metal from 2002's Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat, half of the summer black metal from 2004's Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth and even a track from our fresh new Woods IV.5 "home" 7-inch vinyl release! The only album we're not playing songs from is the cold and bleak WIII: Deepest Roots & Darkest Blues, which is simply out of season and hard to incorporate into a summer tour of the hot and hotter US (but catch those northern cold songs again on tours this fall and winter, already in the works!). "As soon as we get off the road in June, we go back into full-time writing mode and then into the studio this August to record the next Woods Of Ypres full-length: Woods 5. More details soon!"

Guitarist Joel Violette adds: "Hey everyone, how's it going? We're going strong here on day 7 of our 38-day North American tour. The dates with Novembers Doom, Gwynbleidd, and GDZ this weekend were awesome, and it was an honour to share the stage with those guys! Now tonight we're hard at work carving up the first v-log from this tour. Tomorrow we hit the Motor City, hard! See you on tour!"

See Woods Of Ypres live on the Pain & Piss tour at the following shows:

May

11 - Detroit, MI - The Magic Stick
12 - Chicago, IL - Reggies
13 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
14 - St. Paul, Minnesota - Station 4
15 - Winnipeg, MB - The Death Trap
16 - Regina, Saskatchewan - The Club
17 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Walker's Event Centre
18 - Edmonton, AB - The Mead Hall
19 - Calgary, AB - The Distillery
20 - Kelowna, BC - Dave's Sports Bar
21 - Vancouver - The Rickshaw Theatre
23 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
24 - Portland, OR - Rotture
25 - San Francisco, CA - The Hemlock Tavern
26 - Chico, CA - Lost on Main
27 - Rosemead, CA - Que's Bar
28 - Escondido, CA - JT's Limelight
29 - Las Vegas, NV - Meathead's
30 - Albuquerque, NM - Burt's Tiki Lounge
31 - Clovis, NM - Kaotik

June

1 - Odessa, TX - The Pine Box
2 - San Marcos, TX - The Triple Crown
3 - San Antonio, TX - Zombie's
4 - Houston, TX - Cain's Ashes
5 - New Orleans, LA - Siberia
6 - Panama City, FL - C-Level Bar
7 - Birmingham, AL - The Firehouse
8 - Charlotte, NC - The Milestone
9 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter