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The assembly of extreme music all-stars in Death To All have unveiled footage, previously unreleased that documents the band's ceebrated 2022 performance at Graspop Metal Meeting - offering testament to the continued, enduring legacy of Death architect, Chuck Schuldiner.
Consisting of guitarist Max Phelps (Exist, Cynic), drummer Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, Testament, Dethklok), bassist Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Sadus) and Bobby Koelble (DEATH), the band are set to begin their Scream of Perseverance Tour next month along with special guests, Cryptopsy.
Serving as an ever-evolving, wholly reverent tribute to the life, legacy and music of Schuldiner, the tour will offer an ambitious, comprehensive showcase of the Death catalog. On the latest run, Death to All will perform three sets on select dates throughout the tour, including Scream Bloody Gore in its entirety plus old school DEATH classics from Leprosy and Spiritual Healing.
Death to All will also perform The Sound Of Perseverance in its entirety, plus new school DEATH classics from Human, Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic. Lastly, From First To Last will feature the Greatest classics from every DEATH album overall.
Ahead of the retrospective celebration of all things Death, Death to All have shared a preview of the mastery to come with the reveal of previously unreleased footage from the band's memorable showing at Graspop 2022. The clip features the live performance of one of Death's most enduring selections, "Crystal Mountain" from the 1995 classic, Symbolic.
Illuminating the history behind the definitive track drummer Gene Hoglan recounted the story of how the song actually came to be. "To the best of my recollection, Chuck wrote “Crystal Mountain” about his neighbors.
Chuck was always a chill neighbor, and his neighborhood in the Symbolic-era consisted of just a few homes, all spread out with a nice little acreage between each, with no fences. However, some new folks happened to move in next door. Very puritanical, extremely evangelistic and horribly judgmental, and they rather immediately took umbrage with Chuck. Perhaps due to his long hair, or the metal we’d be cranking from his garage as we rehearsed, who knows?
So they decided to build an enormous fence on the property line. A gigantic eyesore, thoroughly blockading the view down the very lush and pretty street where Chuck lived. Only... they had misread their property line blueprints and mistakenly built this fence about a foot over the property line, therefore directly on Chuck’s property, with just enough room to give Chuck the working space to paint the most hilariously blasphemous and atrocious stuff on the side of the fence which faced their house. But after all, the fence was on his property, therefore becoming his fence, right? And, if only those neighbors were not jerks…
Man, did they ever lose it. God, we were dying."
The Scream of Perseverance Tour begins next month with special guest Cryptopsy. See the list of dates, cities and specified sets below.
Sat/May 18 - Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Metal Fest **
Sun/May 19 - Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Metal Fest *
Tue/May 21 - Columbus, OH - The King Of Clubs ***
Wed/May 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of Living Arts ***
Thu/May 23 - New York City, NY - Gramercy Theatre *
Fri/May 24 - New York City, NY - Gramercy Theatre **
Sat/May 25 - Boston, MA - The Middle East *
Sun/May 26 - Boston, MA - The Middle East **
Tue/May 28 - Montreal, QC - Le National *
Wed/May 29 - Montreal, QC - Le National **
Thu/May 30 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre *
Fri/May 31 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre **
Sat/Jun 01 - London, ON - London Music Hall ***
Sun/Jun 02 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick ***
Tue/Jun 04 - St. Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall *
Wed/Jun 05 - St. Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall **
Fri/Jun 07 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada ***
Sat/Jun 08 - Denver, CO - Oriental Theater *
Sun/Jun 09 - Denver, CO - Oriental Theater *
Tue/Jun 11- Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall ***
Thu/Jun 13 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre *
Fri/Jun 14 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre **
Sat/Jun 15 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile *
Sun/Jun 16 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile **
Tue/Jun 18 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre *
Wed/Jun 19 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre **
Fri/Jun 21- Berkeley, CA - Cornerstone *
Sat/Jun 22 - Berkeley, CA - Cornerstone **
Sun/Jun 23 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst ***
Tue/Jun 25 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick *
Wed/Jun 26 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick **
Thu/Jun 27 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater *
Fri/Jun 28 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater **
Sat/Jun 29 - Phoenix, AZ - The Nile Theater ***
Death To All's “The Scream Of Perseverance Tour”
3 unique sets including:
