California veteran rock trio SMILE EMPTY SOUL has announced an extensive headlining tour, The Merican Chemicals Tour, set to kick off next month. Support on the run will come from ACIDIC.

Said guitarist/vocalist Sean Danielsen, "Our upcoming 'Merican Chemicals Tour is gonna be great! We're hitting pretty much every area of the country, and we'll be playing these songs from our new record Chemicals that we're so excited about."

Tour dates:

October

1 - Joplin, MO - Guitars Rock and Country Bar
3 - Battle Creek, MI - Planet Rock
4 - Flint, MI - The Machine Shop
5 - Dayton, OH - McGuffy's
7 - Pittsburgh, PA - Hard Rock Café
8 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
9 - Trenton, NJ - Championship Bar
10 - Quincy, MA - South Shore Music Hall
11 - Frederick, MD - Cafe 611
12 - Arlington, VA - Chili Cook Off
14 - Charlotte, NC - Amos Southend
15 - Fayetteville, NC - Drunk Horse Pub
17 - Charleston, SC - Rehab
18 - Columbus, GA - Chaos on the Rocks, WRCG 106.9
25 - New Orleans, LA - Hangar 13
26 - Shreveport, LA - Riverside Warehouse
30 - Dallas, TX - Tree's

November

1 - Austin, TX - Dirty Dog Bar
2 - Houston, TX - Scout Bar
8 - Johnson City, TN - Bonnie Kate Theater
9 - Parkersburg, WV - Six Pence Pub
10 - Kokomo, IN - Center Stage
15 - Bloomington, IL - Castle Theater
16 - Springfield, IL - Catch 22
17 - Sauget, IL - Pop's
23 - Waterloo, IA - Spicolli's
24 - Des Moines, IA - House Of Bricks
27 - Overland Park, KS - The Roxy

December

3 - Salt Lake City, UT - Liquid Joes
5 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon
6 - Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
7 - Bellingham, WA - The Underground
8 - Richland, WA - Jokers
10 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
12 - Sacramento, CA - The Boardwalk
13 - Hollywood, CA - The Whisky

The band recently posted a teaser video for it's upcoming sixth studio album, Chemicals. Check out the short video, featuring a clip of the brand new song ‘False Alarm’.

Chemicals will hit stores October 1st, on the band's new imprint Two Disciples Entertainment, which, in conjunction with Pavement Entertainment, will see the band controlling all aspects of marketing and promotion for the new record and impending tours.

Sean Danielsen: "We've been on a different label with every release in our career, and we were tired of not being the priority. We started our own label with a business partner who's been a great friend to us over the last ten years, and found distribution through some other long-time friends of ours. Now we're running the campaign ourselves and we're totally in control, doing what we feel needs to be done."

According to the vocalist, fans can expect the same emotional rock the band has delivered since its inception in 1998, but with an evolved edge, sharpened from over a decade on the road. "Chemicals still has our signature sound," he adds, "but it has its own feel apart from our other work. It's a very raw album for today's standards."

And with regards to the album title, "Chemicals made so much sense to us because of the day and age we live in. We're all eating, drinking, and breathing chemicals on a daily basis and there's no escape."

Chemicals tracklisting:

‘Black And Blue’

‘False Alarm’

‘Chemicals’

‘Balance’

‘Swim’

‘New Low’

‘Real’

‘Sitting Ducks’

‘Mechanical Rationality’

‘Landslide’

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