M:PIRE OF EVIL Guitarist Mantas On The Road To Recovery; Rejoining European Tour With ONSLAUGHT On October 19th
October 14, 2013, 10 years ago
M:PIRE OF EVIL, featuring ex-VENOM members Tony Dolan (DEMOLITION MAN) and Jeff Dunn (MANTAS) together with drummer Marc Jackson (JXN) recently announced that Dunn would miss the first two shows of their current European tour with ONSLAUGHT due to a back injury. Dolan has checked in with the following update:
"Mantas will be joining us from Straubing, Germany (October 19th) onwards. He sends his sincere gratitude and thanx for all you wishes and for those who have missed him live. Patience..."
M:Pire Of Evil has been performing an abbreviated set each night with the assistance of a stand-in guitarist on a few songs, as well as Dolan and Jackson knocking out a couple tracks as a duo.
Remaining dates on the tour are as follows:
October
16 – Ludwigsburg, Germany – Rockfabrik17 – Osnabruck, Germany – Bastard Club
19 – Straubing, Germany – Messehalle
20 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Dynamo
21 – Siegen, Germany – Vortex Club
22 – Bochum, Germany – Matrix
24 – Oslo, Norway – John Dee
25 – Kristiansand, Norway – Kick
26 – Sandnes/Staveanger, Norway – Kulturhus
29 – Tampere, Finland – Klubbi
30 – Riga, Latvia – Melna Piektdiena
31 – Vilnius, Lithuania – New York
The band's new album Crucified, featuring re-recorded Venom tracks from the Dolan years, is out now. Check out the artwork below.
The complete Crucified tracklist is as follows:
'Temples Of Ice'
'Parasite'
'Kissing The Beast'
'Blackened Are The Priests'
'Carnivorous'
'Black Legions'
'Need To Kill'
'Wolverine'
'Crucified'
'Demone'
'Taking It All'
Check out an exclusive interview with Dolan about Crucified here.
