With the release of their forthcoming full-length, The Wild Hunt, drawing near, Swedish black metallers WATAIN are now ready to announce their first North American tour in support of the album. Featuring IN SOLITUDE and TRIBULATION as support, this month-long headlining trek (aptly named The Wild Hunt North America) showcases some of Sweden's finest metal from coast to coast. See below for all upcoming dates.

Watain comments: "Starting the first full tour for The Wild Hunt in North America seems quite appropriate, considering how many severe experiences and sleepless nights that country has bestowed upon us while riding through its strange wilderness...A thousand years and a thousand deaths have passed since we last visited the States, so prepare yourself to face something very, very old and very, very hungry. Deformed from both victory and defeat, distorted by a constant influx of powers residing beyond the borders of this world, we now return to join forces with our ever loyal US supporters. With us we will have two acts that have the capacity of transforming the audience into one big open wound before we go on stage, ready then to receive the lethal yet illuminating venom of Watain."

Tour dates include:

October

8 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
9 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
10 – Worcester, MA – Palladium Upstairs
11 – Montreal, QC – Foufounes Electriques
12 – Toronto, ON – Opera House
14 – Detroit, MI – The Magic Stick
15 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
16 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
18 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
19 – Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue
21 – Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
22 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw
23 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
25 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Metro
26 – Los Angeles, CA – VEX
27 – Phoenix, AZ – Rocky Point Cantina
28 – Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad
30 – Austin, TX – Red 7

November

1 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Hell
2 – Charlotte, NC – The Casbah
3 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage

Watain’s The Wild Hunt, their fifth full-length album, will be released on August 19th in Europe and August 20th in North America, through the band’s own label His Master’s Noise and Century Media Records.

The Wild Hunt will be released worldwide in the following formats:

Standard CD Jewelcase (and digital download):

'Night Vision'

'De Profundis'

'Black Flames March'

'All That May Bleed'

'The Child Must Die'

'They Rode On'

'Sleepless Evil'

'The Wild Hunt'

'Outlaw'

'Ignem Veni Mittere'

'Holocaust Dawn'

Limited Edition CD Mediabook with additional artwork:

'Night Vision'

'De Profundis'

'Black Flames March'

'All That May Bleed'

'The Child Must Die'

'They Rode On'

'Sleepless Evil'

'The Wild Hunt'

'Outlaw'

'Ignem Veni Mittere'

'Holocaust Dawn'

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2LP, 180 gr black vinyl in special gatefold cover:

Side A

'Night Vision'

'De Profundis'

'Black Flames March'

'All That May Bleed'

Side B

'The Child Must Die'

'They Rode On'

Side C

'Sleepless Evil'

'The Wild Hunt'

'Outlaw'

Side D

'Ignem Veni Mittere'

'Holocaust Dawn'

Limited Edition Box Set contains:

- 2LP, 180gr black vinyl in special Gatefold cover
- Limited Edition CD Mediabook with additional artwork
- Altar cloth (100cm x 100cm) *
- Poster (120cm x 60cm) *
- Metal pin *
- Postcards *
- 'When Stars No More Shine' 7” single * (The first Watain song ever written, in two versions from 1998 and 2013)*

* exclusively available in the box set

This version is limited to 1,000 copies worldwide, available through normal retail channels.

2,000 copies the Limited Edition Box Set will contain the 2LP in gold vinyl, only available through www.cmdistro.com – the pre-order start will be announced soon.

2,000 copies of the ultimate Limited Edition Box Set will contain the 2LP in red vinyl, a signed postcard and a very special second 'XI' 7” single (Music and lyrics by Jon Nödtveidt and Set Teitan, performed by Watain) that won’t be available anywhere else, exclusively available to pre-order now at the band’s own shop Wolfwear.net.

‘All That May Bleed’ lyric video: