SABATON Announce 2016 Co-Headline UK Tour With ALESTORM; Support From BLOODBOUND
May 27, 2015, 8 years ago
Swedish power metal heroes Sabaton are coming back to the UK in 2016 and this time they're bringing Scotland's favourite heavy metal pirates, Alestorm.
Sabaton bassist Pär Sundström comments: "We felt that the last UK tour was not enough and since then we have been thinking of what we can do and talking to our friends in Alestorm we came up with the idea of this tour. When we hit the UK both bands will play a full set! And it‘s in good venues where we can bring more of our stage set than we could in the past. This will be awesome!"
They will also be supported by fellow Swedes, Bloodbound.
Tour dates:
February
27 - Manchester, England - Academy
28 - Birmingham, England - o2 Academy
29 - Southampton, England - o2 Guildhall
March
3 - Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
4 - Belfast, Ireland - Limelight 1
6 - Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street
7 - Cardiff, Wales - Tramshed
8 - Bristol, England - Motion
10 - London, England - The Forum
Known for the boundless energy of their soul-soaring live performances saturated with fist-pumping anthems that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit, Sabaton return to the western hemisphere next month as direct support to Finland-based symphonic metal storytellers Nightwish. Openers are Dutch symphonic metallers Delain.
Sabaton have also announced a new and very special kind of festival. So, there is the Sabaton Open Air/Rockstad:Falun festival in the band's hometown Falun, the Sabaton Cruise on the Baltic Sea and now there is also Sabaton Open Air/Noch ein Bier Fest in Germany.
For a long time, Sabaton have had the plans for doing a special and totally unique event in Germany and that will become reality now. In July they will organize Sabaton Open Air/Noch Ein Bier Fest, a headline concert where people will surely get a unique show. For this concert they have chosen the stunning Amphitheatre in Gelsenkirchen (famous from Rock Hard Festival) and as support on this show Sabaton will bring some bands they know that their fans have requested: their old touring colleagues in Powerwolf and Korpiklaani as well as their former bandmates Civil War.
Pär Sundström comments: “In 2008 we organized ‘One more beer party’ in Essen in Germany as a release party for Art Of War. Since then the idea has existed of doing something similar. Now, seven years later, all pieces have fallen into position and we are ready. There will be a lot of ‘Noch ein Bier’ that night!”
Find Sabaton's complete live itinerary at this location.
