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Deadland Ritual Featuring Geezer Butler Announce Brace of UK Dates.

26/3/2019

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Deadland Ritual, bassist Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), vocalist Franky Perez (Apocalyptica, Scars on Broadway), drummer Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver) and guitarist Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) have added two further UK dates to their European tour in June 2019. The band will play in Glasgow and London, either side of their Download Festival appearance. 
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Deadland Ritual, bassist Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), vocalist Franky Perez (Apocalyptica, Scars on Broadway), drummer Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver) and guitarist Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) have added two further UK dates to their European tour in June 2019. The band will play in Glasgow and London, either side of their Download Festival appearance. 
 
Deadland Ritual promises the live shows will be something special, mixing the original material with deeper cuts from their collective past. “Not the typical songs you would expect,” according to Matt Sorum.

The full European tour schedule runs as follows:

 Tues 4thJune 2019                                     Amager Bio, Copenhagen DENMARK
Wed 5thJune 2019                                     Rockefeller, Oslo NORWAY
Thurs 6thJune 2019                                   Sweden Rock Festival, Sölvesborg SWEDEN
Mon 10thJune 2019                                  Kesselhaus, Berlin GERMANY
Tue 11thJune 2019                                     Markthalle, Hamburg GERMANY
Thurs 13thJune 2019                                 O2 Academy Islington, London UK
Fri 14thJune 2019                                       Download Festival, Donnington UK
Sat 15thJune 2019                                      Garage, Glasgow UK
Mon 17thJune 2019                                  013, Tilburg THE NETHERLANDS
Tues 18thJune 2019                                   Trianon, Paris FRANCE 
Wed 19thJune 2019                                   Z7, Pratteln SWITZERLAND 
21stto 22ndJune 2019                               Azkena Festival, Vitoria SPAIN
21stto 23rdJune 2019                               Hellfest Festival, Clisson FRANCE 
 
Tickets for UK headline shows in London and Glasgow go onsale on Friday 29th March 2019 at 9am HERE.
 
To purchase tickets and for further updates visit:   www.deadlandritual.com
 
Late 2018 saw the band release their debut single, 'Down In Flames' via Sonik Riot Recordings / AWAL powered by Kobalt. Produced by Greg Fidelman, the song, which can be heard below, features the lush and powerful vocals of Perez, alongside Stevens’ signature thundering guitar conjugating with the hard-driving tribal rhythm section of Butler and Sorum. 
 
Sorum’s longtime friendships with Stevens and Perez helped to form the initial core of the lineup, but it was a pivotal moment when Butler agreed to join. Butler admits there was a lot to think about when he got the invitation. “I had to get used to the idea of starting from scratch again, which is good,” he says. “But I really liked the music I was hearing. It’s not your typical hard rock or metal stuff.” 
 
For Stevens, it was a revelation the first time he found himself recording with Butler. “There's a lot of times in the studio as a guitar player, you get a guitar sound and you're trying to make it work, tweaking it,” Stevens says. "There was none of that bullshit. It just fit against his bass sound and it was really exciting to me. I get to hear my guitar against a bass guitarist that I've idolised forever."
 
Drawing inspiration from the ritual symbolism of desert badlands paired with Sorum’s love of the idea of a ‘ritualistic forgotten space,’ the name Deadland Ritual felt appropriate for the darker tone of the music the group was making.  “Obviously we’ve been through some stuff,” Perez says. “If you’re being honest artistically, all the turmoil of love, loss, happiness and pain in life makes its way into the music.”
 

The initial recordings are only the beginning of what fans can expect in the coming months. The band is focused on quality vs. quantity and letting the muse carry them in the appropriate direction. With festival appearances booked and headline dates now announced, they’ll use the time leading up to that trek to continue writing and recording.
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