Welsh death metal sensation Venom Prison have become the latest band to reschedule all concert dates due to the ongoing pandemic and government restriction on live events. Originally, the band was scheduled to kick off their UK and European tour at the end of January 2021 in support of their recent release Primeval. For a little while it looked like these shows might actually go ahead as planned but with a second nationwide lockdown still in place and no confirmed end date, the whole tour has now been moved to October next year.
Texas death metallers Creeping Death and Manchester hardcore outfit Leeched return as support for the full tour. All tickets already purchased will remain valid for the shows next year, with further information and more entries still available on Venom Prison’s official website. The tour is organised and promoted by the established German hardcore, metal and punk promoter Avocado Booking.
Due to Covid-19, we have had to reschedule our UK/European 2021 headline tour with @CreepingDeathtx & @Leechedmhc. Tickets are still available & any previously purchased tickets will remain valid.
Ticket link:https://t.co/x5u7siIDln
New rescheduled dates in the poster below. pic.twitter.com/ikrDPjtGi8
— Venom Prison (@Venomprison) November 11, 2020
With all succesfully dates rescheduled, Venom Prison are now set to kickstart the tour in Germany next Autumn before moving on to Poland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. The Welsh heavyweighs will bring their relentless energy to the UK on 19 October with a show in Birmingham followed by exclusive gigs in Leeds, Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, and Nottingham. The tour will end with concerts in the iconic London’s Underworld and Southampton’s Joiners on 25 and 26 October 2021.
With the ongoing uncertainty of 2020 there is no guarantee that any shows will go as planned next year, but most bands are pushing their gigs for Autumn just to be safe. The 2021 concert season is already looking extremely promising so we can only wait and hope that the situation will slowly go back to normal and live gigs can resume as soon as possible. In a promising recent statement, LiveNation’s CEO Michel Rapino predicted concerts to return to full scale in Summer 2021 in time for the already busy festival period.
Last month, Venom Prison released Primevil through Prosthetic Records, feauturing few brand new songs and re-recordings of tracks from their earlier EPs Defy the Tyrant and Primal Chaos from 2015. After yet another critically acclaimed record, the band features on Distorted Sound Magazine who originally gave Primevil 8/10 and now join in praising Venom Prison for “when it comes to putting one’s individual stamp on the extreme music scene in such a short space of time, there are few bands that have managed to do this so successfully – and unapologetically in terms of artistic shit-kicking fury”
All UK shows’ dates and location can be seen below, with tickets available here:
19/10/2021 – The Castle & Falcon – Birmingham
20/10 – The Key Club – Leeds
21/10 – The Fleece – Bristol
22/10 – Garage 2 – Glasgow
23/10 – Rebellion – Manchester
24/10 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
25/10 – Underworld – London
26/10 – Joiners – Southampton
