LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ MSO PR) The Grammy-nominated group AS I LAY DYING will premiere a new song "Cauterize"! This Sunday, the song will debut on www.AsILayDying.comfor free starting at midnight PST for 24 hoursonly. It will then be available for download on iTunes and online everywhere the next day. AS I LAY DYING are currently holed up in the Blasting Room with renowned rock producer Bill Stevenson, who'salso thedrummerfor
Descendents (and has played with
Black Flag); and mixer Colin Richardson. The group-NICK HIPA (guitar), TIM LAMBESIS (vocals), JORDAN MANCINO (drums), PHIL SGROSSO (guitar) and JOSH GILBERT (bass)-are putting the finishing touches on their new album AWAKENED, due out
September 25 on Metal Blade.
AWAKENED marks the follow-up the Decas EP (2011) which reached # 2 on the iTunes Rock Chart. The group's last LP, 2010's immensely successful The Powerless Rise debuted on the Billboard Top 200 at #10. The Powerless Risealso reached #2 on Billboard's Independent Albums Chart and #3 on Billboard's Hard
Music Albums Chart.
AS I LAY DYING will join the fifth annual Rockstar
Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, the world's largest touring heavy music festival, which kicks off June 30 in San Bernardino, CA. The main stage will be the strongest ever with the headlining slot occupied by multi-platinum Iowa legends Slipknot, with legendary metal acts Slayer, and
Motorhead supporting. AS I LAY DYING will join the main stage in rotation, alongside The
Devil Wears Prada and Asking Alexandria; see all dates below. During the Mayhem Festival, AS I LAY DYING will be offering a limited edition laminate which serves as the way to pre-order a copy of AWAKENED from the band directly at their merch booth onsite. Each laminate will have a unique code which fans can enter at www.metalblade.com/awakened for the CD to be shipped directly to their doorstep. Fans must redeem the code by November 1st, 2012 (available in the continental U.S. only). Redemptions received by
September 12 will ship by
September 18. The laminate will only be available for purchaseat the band's merch booth on the Mayhem Festival (purchase price includes the laminate, CD, and shipping).
Following are the current tour dates for AS I LAY DYING:
AS I LAY DYING
Rockstar
Energy Drink Mayhem Festival w/ Slipknot, Slayer,
Whitechapel + more
6/30 San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheater
7/1 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheater
7/2 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre *headline show/non-mayhem
7/3 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheater
7/4 Nampa, ID Idaho Center Amphitheater
7/6 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavillion
7/7 Albuquerque, NM Hard Rock Casino Presents The Pavilion
7/8 Englewood, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
7/10 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center
7/11 Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
7/12 Willmar, MN Sonshine Festival *headline show/non-mayhem
7/13 Tampa, FL 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater
7/14 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre
7/15 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch
Music Center
7/16 Des Moines,IA Wooly's *headline show/non-mayhem
7/18 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheater
7/19 Wichita, KS The Scene-ary *headline show/non-mayhem
7/20 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
7/21 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
7/22 Clarkston, MI DTE
Energy Music Theatre
7/23 Bloomington, IL The Castle Theatre *headline show/non-mayhem
7/24 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend
Music Center
7/25 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom
Music Center
7/26 Rochester,NY Club At Water Street *headline show/non-mayhem
7/27 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
7/28 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
7/29 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
7/30 Richmond, VA Canal Club *headline show/non-mayhem
7/31 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
8/1 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
8/3 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
8/4 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain
8/5 Hartford, CT The Comcast Theatre
8/8 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center, NJ *supporting Slipknot
8/9 Gilford, NH Meadowbrook US Celluar Pavillion *supporting Slipknot
