Profanatica announces 2024 Headlining US Tour Dates
USBM legends Profanatica will embark on an East Coast US headlining tour in early 2024, with support from Nunslaughter and Tombs! The trek will kick off on February 13 in Providence, RI and will conclude on March 3 in Brooklyn, NY. The full itinerary can be found below, while tickets can be found here.
The band will also be appearing on the 2024 edition of Milwaukee Metal Fest on Friday, May 17. The event lineup and tickets can be found here. Profanatica is supporting its new full-length, Crux Simplex, which was released on September 22, 2023 via Season of Mist. The record can be streamed, downloaded, and ordered here.
Profanatica 2024 US Tour Dates w/ Nunslaughter and Tombs:
2/13/24: Providence, RI @ Alchemy
2/14/24: Bensalem, PA @ Broken Goblet
2/15/24: Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
2/16/24: Chesapeake, VA @ Riff House
2/18/24: Piedmont, SC @ Tribbles
2/21/24: Pompano Beach, FL @ Pipers
2/22/24: Cape Coral, FL @ Nice Guys
2/23/24: Stuart, FL @ East Ocean Pub
2/24/24: Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
2/25/24: Louisville, KY @ Portal
2/26/24: Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
2/27/24: Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground
2/28/24: Ottawa, ON @ Brass Monkey
2/29/24: Quebec City, QC @ L’Anti
3/1/24: Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
3/2/24: Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
3/3/24: Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel
Profanatica are at the vanguard of the first wave of American black metal. Founded and led by infamous master of black perversion, Paul Ledney (drums/vocals), they have purveyed primeval blasphemy for nigh on thirty-three years.
Ledney formed the band from the ashes of the first Incantation lineup when he split and took with him all of the members sans John McEntee. That early trio of ex-Incantation members reeled off three ground-breaking demos of some of the most extreme and blasphemic metal of its time in rapid succession. The band flyers that permeated the tape-trading circuit were no less shocking and featured the trio bloody and naked and in the throes of what was most certainly a primeval summoning of some kind. In short order, they had inked a deal with the fledgling Osmose Productions for what became one of that label’s first releases (Osmose release #5); a legendary split with Colombia’s Masacre.
Something so volatile could only last briefly, and after another brief recording session, the band collapsed under the weight of its own extremity. But the recordings made in this two year window went on to see dozens of reissues in the coming decades, in a testament to how formidable and formative they are to the black metal scene worldwide.
After almost fifteen years spent with his equally polarizing solo project, Havohej, Ledney reignited the flames of Profanatica in 2006. Reemerging with a new deal from Hells Headbangers, Ledney and his new band released The Enemy of Virtue, a collection of that vaunted early material, and a new full length, Profanatitas de Domonatia. A triumphant return, Profanatitas de Domonatia picked up right where these Kings of US Black Metal left off, delivering a savage stream of chainsaw guitars and relentless battery upon which they desecrated everything sacred.
This set in motion another frenetic burst of work for Profanatica. The next decade saw them unleash four new full-length albums of blasphemous perversions, sacrilegious incantations, and furious black metal. In addition, the band issued six mini-albums and EPs, a full DVD of early footage, and began touring internationally in Europe and in Central and South America. For the first time, Profanatica were appearing near or at the top of the bill at festivals like Maryland Death Fest, Messe Des Mortes, Hells Headbash, Prague Death Mass (Czech Republic), Chaos Descends (Germany), Black Sun (Spain), Tyrant Fest (France), SWR Fest (Portugal), and many more.
In fall 2018, Profanatica joined forces with Season of Mist and undertook their biggest tour to date supporting Watain and Rotting Christ across Europe. And a year later, the trio vomited forth a most vulgar strain of black metal ejaculate with their SoM debut album, Rotting Incarnation of God.
The band embarked on an extensive twelve-country European headline tour in the album’s wake. Shortly after returning home that winter, the world ground to a halt in 2020. Save a live-streaming concert production for the legendary Rock al Parque in conjunction with Batushka, little was heard from Profanatica.
That is until spring 2023, when Profanatica emerged from their den of iniquity on a European headline tour to promote a new album. Crux Simplex is a ten-track offensive of sin and sacrilege, a nasty affront that bastardizes the first 10 stations of the cross. As per their legacy, Profanatica deals in bestial, first-wave black metal barbarity, and their eighth album unveils ungodly levels of bile and blasphemy.
Lineup:
Mayhemic Slaughter of the Heavens – Drums / Vocals
Destroyer of Holy Hymen – Guitar
The True Perversion of the Heavenly Father – Bass
