'Comatose' Spring Tour Poster
On April 2nd, two time GRAMMY®-nominated band Skillet will launch the second leg of their "COMATOSE" tour in follow up to their 2008 run where 60% of the shows sold out, placing the tour in Pollstar's Concert Pulse Top 50 Tours. Completing the bill and joining Skillet in 32+ cities will be labelmates and fellow rockers Disciple and Decyfer Down (full tour listing below).
Skillet has spent the last few months in Los Angeles recording their next studio project with producer Howard Benson (Three Days Grace, Daughtry, Flyleaf, P.O.D.), and with the "Comatose" album approaching Gold status and having just received GMA Dove Award nominations for Group of the Year, Rock Album of the Year and Long Form Video of the Year (for the critically acclaimed live CD/DVD project, "Comatose Comes Alive") they are ready to hit the road. Following the spring tour Skillet will be headlining several summer festivals, including Creation, Agape, Red Letter Rock, Ictchus, Alive, Atlantafest, Summerfest, Sonshine, Hills Alive, Soulfest, Kingdombound, Newsong, and Disney's Night of Joy, all leading up to the new release.
"We're pumped up and ready for this tour to get started," remarked Skillet frontman John Cooper. "I personally have wanted a tour with Disciple for several years now and I think it's going to be an awesome tour package. We have been working incredibly hard on this new record, so we are also looking forward to playing some new material for everyone!"
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SKILLET:
www.skillet.com
DISCIPLE:
www.disciplerocks.com
Decipher means "to interpret," and the moniker Decyfer Down fit perfectly, as the band aims to interpret truth based on God's Word while stripping it down from religious traditions and terms. With four No.1 hits on R&R's Christian Rock Chart and CRW's Chart from their debut album End of Grey released in 2006, the band also had a top 10 song at WARQ in Columbia, SC, a mainstream Alternative Rock station. "Fight Like This" was also the band's fourth consecutive No.1 Christian Rock single, and was heard by millions in a special promo promoting an Ultimate Fighting Championship title fight. Also from their debut album, "Break Free" was played during some of the most watched sports games of the year and heard by over 9 million sports fanatics through website and television views. Now, after two years, Decyfer Down is ready to release their sophomore album amply titled CRASH on May 5. Produced by Paul Ebersold (3 Doors Down, Saliva, Sister Hazel, Skillet) the band's first single, "Crash" recently peaked at No. 1 on Christian Rock Radio, and their second single "Fading" is following the lead charting in the Top 20.
www.decyferdown.com
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COMATOSE SPRING 2009 TOUR DATES (for updated tour info go to http://www.skillet.com ):
4/3 – Windsor, ON
4/5 – Greensburg (Pittsburgh), PA
4/9 – Jackson, TN
4/11 – Arlington (Dallas), TX
4/16 – Knoxville, TN
4/18 – Nashville, TN
4/25 – Kansas City, MO
4/30 – Oklahoma City, OK
5/2 – Mequon (Milwaukee), WI
5/5 – Wichita, KS
5/8 – Wichita Falls, TX
5/10 – Monroe, LA
5/14 – Montgomery, AL
5/16 – Fayetteville, NC
5/20 – Vero Beach, FL
5/22 – Jacksonville, FL
5/24 – Greenville, SC
*All dates subject to change
