After a support slot for ICED EARTH and ANNIHILATOR, Finnish warlords TURISAS will be on the road again in March and April 2008.

"The tour with Iced Earth and Annihilator in October was great; we made a lot of new friends and fans, and both bands were great guys to be on the road with. The reactions were awesome, even if there was a lot of people in the crowd who had never heard of us before. However, we could easily understand that some of our fans weren't prepared to pay the tickets on some 30 euro for seeing us play for 30 minutes - that's 1 euro a minute if you were not too bothered about the other two bands! This is why we are now returning to play full headline sets in Europe for a reasonable ticket price. We are all very excited about getting back on the road and doing our first headlining European tour. To Holmgard and Beyond!" (Warlord Nygard)

Tour dates:

March

1 - Northampton, UK at Soundhouse
2 - Sheffield, UK at Corporation
3 - Aberdeen, UK at Moshulu
4 - Edinburgh, UK at Studio 24
5 - Liverpool, UK at Academy 2
6 - Norwich, UK at Waterfront
7 - Peterborough, UK at Park
8 - Leeds, UK at Cockpit
10 - Exeter, UK at Cavern
11 - Cardiff Clwb, UK at Ifor Bach
12 - Southampton, UK at The Brook
13 - London, UK at Electric Ballroom
14 - Brighton, UK at Concorde 2
15 - Haarlem, Netherlands at Patronaat
16 - Nijmegen, Netherlands at Doornroosje
18 - Hamburg, Germany at Marx
19 - Karlsruhe, Germany at Substage
20 - Munich, Germany at Metropolis
21 - Winterthur, Switzerland at Salzhaus
22 - Bochum, Germany at Matrix
23 - Berlin, Germany at Kato
25 - Vienna, Austria at Planet Music
26 - Bratislava, Slovakia at Randal
27 - Prague, Czech Republic at Rock Café
28 - Lichtenfels, Germany at Ragnarök Festival
29 - Osnabrueck, Germany at Tomahawk Festival
31 - Malmö, Sweden at KB

April

1 - Gothenburg, Germany at Musikens Hus
2 - Copenhagen, Denmark at The Rock
3 - Oslo, Norway at John Dee
4 - Stockholm, Sweden at Klubben