BW&BK; has received the following update:

Legendary LA based metal band BITCH (led by front woman Betsy Bitch) will do a short tour of three countries in Europe this spring… culminating in their featured appearance at Germany’s Keep It True Festival on April 29th. LA’s ANGER AS ART will support as both warm-up act on a few dates, and as Betsy’s backing band in Bitch. (Anger As Art will NOT perform at Keep It True)

“Planning this tour has been bitter-sweet” says Betsy. “We lost our drummer/founding member Robby Settles to leukemia last year, and it took the wind out of our sails. We already had KIT booked before Robby passed, and other members were less than enthused about going over to play the show. When I spoke with our bassist Steve Gaines, he had just played Keep It True with ABATTOIR in 2009, and was adamant that it was an opportunity that shouldn’t be missed. Steve offered that if we couldn’t find anyone to fill in that Anger As Art would be honored to perform as Bitch. The rest is history.”

Says Steve Gaines: “Bitch was a huge influence on me, and I have been honored to be a member for the past five years. Needless to say, this has been a very hard time with Robby’s passing. However, I can say that there are no better guys to ‘be’ Bitch than AAA. We all used to see each other at Bitch shows in LA back in the 80’s, and respect Betsy and their heritage – and that is what we plan to do. Give metal fans in Europe Bitch in full effect.”

Also on the tour package will be Netherlands Metal band PERSISTENSE.

Dates are as follows:

April

22 - Little Devil - Tilburg, Holland
23 - The Rambler - Eindhoven, Holland
24 - De Vinger - Den Haag, Holland
25 - Metro - Waarschoot, Belgium
27 - De Rots - Antwerp, Belgium
29 - Keep It True Festival - Germany

Metal Blade Records is planning on a reissue of Bitch’s classic LP Be My Slave sometime in 2011. Bitch was the first band ever to be signed by Metal Blade Records, ultimately releasing five albums in the 1980’s: Damnation Alley, Be My Slave, The Bitch Is Back, Betsy, and A Rose By Any Other Name.

Anger As Art’s most recent release (Nov. 2009) is Disfigure, and the band also released a concert DVD in May 2010 Live Dissent – both through Old School Metal Records. Anger As Art are currently writing for their 4th full length album entitled Hubris, Inc. to be released later in 2011.