Kerry King Winter 2025 tour with Alien Weaponry and Municipal Waste
Following his recent tour with Lamb of God and Mastodon and his first European headline tour earlier this year, Kerry King and his new band – drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), bassist Kyle Sanders (HELLYEAH), guitarist Phil Demmel (Machine Head), and vocalist Mark Osegueda (Death Angel) – will hit the road for the twenty-eight date “North American Headline Tour 2025.” The tour is in support of King’s debut solo album, From Hell I Rise (RPM). With Municipal Waste as Special Guest and Alien Weaponry supporting, the tour is set to launch in San Francisco on January 15, 2025, and wrap at House of Blues in Las Vegas on February 22. Tickets are on sale now, and can be purchased here. The complete itinerary is below.
Also announced is the release of King’s brand new music video for the album track, “Where I Reign.” Shot in black and white, the “Where I Reign” video was directed by Jim Louvau, who also directed King’s videos for the album cuts “Residue” and “Toxic.” “I wanted to capture the fury and the energy of the band in a live setting,” said Louvau, “an intensity that is matched from a visual standpoint that matches the intensity of the song and the energy that the band brings each and every night on tour, and I think we were able to do that. There are some still photos in the video that also show motion and energy, and I was really just trying to bring that energy to life in a live setting that is different from the other two videos that were done in the studio and were a little more in a controlled environment. So this video was definitely the guys’ being themselves and just showcasing what the band provides in a live setting.” Check out the “Where I Reign” music video here.
“Getting back on the road for the first time in five years wasn’t exactly like riding a bike, that’s for sure,” King acknowledged. “I’ve never had that much time off, but the first tours with my new band – in the UK and Europe, and then in America with Lamb of God and Mastodon – were all total blasts. We’ll be headlining on this next tour, so we’re playing a longer set than we did with Lamb of God and Mastodon. We’ve got a little bit of a learning curve, so will start rehearsing the first week of November. And we might put an extra Slayer song into the set and learn a cover song or two.”
Following the Tribeca Film Festival debut of their documentary, Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara, New Zealand’s global metal frontrunners, Alien Weaponry are slated to join the legendary Kerry King as well as special guests Municipal Waste on King’s bombastic “North American Headline Tour 2025!”
Alien Weaponry won over fans and critics alike with their latest album, Tangaroa. The album coalesces the band’s growing maturation with an undisturbed songwriting process, resulting in their most inspired, honest, and informed material yet. In addition to lyrics written in te reo Māori, many Tangaroa tracks feature traditional instruments, called taonga puoro, providing the tracks their own warrior-like attitude. While Alien Weaponry sourced inspiration from their culture and environmental surroundings while writing most of Tangaroa, the band also looked inward – drawing vision for other portions of the album from within.
Since releasing their acclaimed debut Tū’ (2018), Alien Weaponry‘s kinetic presence and sound — combining elements of thrash and groove metal with lyrics in the native indigenous language, te reo Māori — has attracted throngs of fans and media supporters across the globe. In the last few years alone, Alien Weaponry has had the privilege of performing with the likes of Guns N’ Roses, Gojira, Slayer, Black Label Society, and now Kerry King!
Kerry King’s 2025 North American Headline Tour Dates w/ Alien Weaponry and Municipal Waste:
1/15/24: The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
1/17/24: Spokane Live Casino, Spokane, WA
1/18/24: Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
1/19/24: Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
1/20/24: Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC
1/22/24: The Palace Theatre, Calgary, AB
1/23/24: Midway Music Hall, Edmonton, AB
1/25/24: Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
1/26/24: The Fillmore, Minneapolis, MN
1/28/24: The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
1/30/24: The Majestic Theater, Detroit, MI
1/31/24: House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
2/1/24: Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
2/2/24: L’Olympia, Montreal, QC
2/4/24: Royale, Boston, MA
2/5/24: Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2/7/24: Irving Plaza, New York, NY
2/8/24:Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore, MD
2/10/24: Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
2/11/24: Jannus Live, St. Petersburg, FL
2/13/24: House of Blues, Houston, TX
2/14/24: Emo’s, Austin, TX
2/15/24: The Studio at the Factory, Dallas, TX
2/17/24: Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
2/18/24: Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM
2/19/24: The Nile Theater, Phoenix, AZ
2/21/24: House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
2/22/24: The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
